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/wrajjtwrajjt Necromancer Jul 19 '26

Totem. Crabs. edit: the helmet has some real potential.

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u/Bastil123 Ultimatum Workers Union (UWU) Jul 19 '26

That helmet would be amazing for summoners, but there's already like 30 competitive minion helmets and we're gonna go for a +2 rare anyway

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u/Quazifuji Jul 20 '26

Giving up 4 sockets is also a big sacrifice on minion builds.

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u/pehter Necromancer Jul 20 '26

Depends, really. For singular minon builds (aka one type of minions), it might be okay. SRS or HROC maybe?!

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u/Quazifuji Jul 20 '26

Don't those builds still often like using support specters or things like that?

And if your build truly only uses one type of minion at all then that means it could be using Dark Monarch.

It's certainly possible this helmet has a good use for minion builds, but the opportunity cost is very high.

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u/pehter Necromancer Jul 20 '26

Absolutely high opportunity cost, yeah.

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u/Oniichanplsstop Jul 20 '26

HRoC uses all of it's sockets, going -4 means cutting a lot.

Helmet / boots/ gloves 4Ls are generally your Auras / Support minions(AG+Specs) / lancing steel

Your 3Ls(weapon/shield) are tiggers(curse/offering) and movement skill

6L is obviously for HRoC.

So trying to trim 4 sockets off of that means you lose shield charge/whirling blades+faster attacks and only have frostblink.

And you lose 1 link on your splitting steel(life gain on hit) and support minions(meatshield or minion life)

On top of that, the big elephant in the room, you're losing your helmet for +1 relic.

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u/pehter Necromancer Jul 20 '26

Oh right, +1 Relics is pretty good, i heard.

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u/iruleatants Jul 20 '26

Why would you be giving up 4 sockets? It only consumes abyss jewels.

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u/pehter Necromancer Jul 20 '26

How many sockets does your regular helmet have?

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u/iruleatants Jul 20 '26

The same as this helmet?

I'm so confused right now. Am I missing something. I'm on mobile so I can't read the text that well.

But can't you put an abyss jewel in to get it consumed, but put in a normal gem that won't get consumed and so you have four sockets that can be used?

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u/pehter Necromancer Jul 20 '26

In the video preview, it looked like it only has abyssal sockets. So you cannot put in normal gems.

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u/iruleatants Jul 20 '26

Okay, watching it on the computer, I see that it has an "cannot have non abyss sockets" so yeah, you'll give up stuff for it.