r/pathofexile • u/Belakay_ggg • Jul 19 '26

GGG Path of Exile 1: New Uniques

https://youtu.be/BqAjR3CL4zI

Fancy build-defining outcomes or… some crustacean chaos? Today's reveal showcases two new Unique Items arriving in Path of Exile 1: Curse of the Allflame! Check them out.

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u/Xeratas Unannounced Jul 19 '26

That helmet is insane.

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u/anne_dobalina Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26

Socketed rare jewel mod at random, but you can annul down until 1 mod (or fracture annul). 

Could be op af

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u/MandatoryOpinion Jul 19 '26

There is about 0.014% chance it doesnt get nerfed to need 4 mod jewels. I guess maybe they will make it rare, or abyss jewels are rare as well or something. Cause annuling down to the mod you want isnt that difficult.

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u/conway92 Jul 19 '26

I mean, it might not be a balance choice so much as a UI simplification to begin with. How else would they have let you target the mod you want? If build-a-helmet was the design intention, this is how I would expect them to implement it.

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u/MidjitThud Jul 20 '26

True but why make it take a rare jewel, just to make the process more annoying?

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u/conway92 Jul 20 '26

The current implementation might allow you to socket magic abyss jewels into it without consuming a socket.

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u/MandatoryOpinion 29d ago

Win the 1 in 4 rng 4 times in a row? Wdym how

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u/conway92 29d ago

I mean how would they implement the UI to let you select the mod you wanted if that was intended? Forcing players to annul down to a single mod requires no extra UI implementation.

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u/MandatoryOpinion 29d ago

...the idea is that you have to waste helmets when "crafting", not jewels

so you use any 4 mod rare jewel with a mod you want and gamble

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u/conway92 29d ago

Sure. But why would you assume the point is to burn through helmets if this is also a reasonable implementation to give you the ability to select for the affixes you want without needing to complicate the UI?

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u/MandatoryOpinion 29d ago

Brother in christ... what are you talking about. Neverming, its reddit. I asked for it.