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In Path of Exile (PoE), the Curse Mastery passive skill offers a variety of powerful enhancements that significantly boost the effectiveness and utility of your curses. These masteries are designed to maximize the impact of your curses on enemies, improve your defenses, and provide additional benefits when applying curses. Here’s a detailed breakdown of each feature and its strategic implications:
Feature: +20% chance to Ignite, Freeze, Shock, and Poison Cursed Enemies.
Reminder Text: Ignite deals Fire Damage over time, based on the base Fire Damage of the Skill, for 4 seconds. Freeze lowers Enemy Action Speed to zero, preventing them from acting. Duration is based on the Cold Damage of the Hit. Shock increases Damage taken by up to 50%, depending on the amount of Lightning Damage in the hit, for 2 seconds. Poison deals Chaos Damage over time, based on the base Physical and Chaos Damage of the Skill. Multiple instances of Poison stack.
Analysis: This feature increases the chance of applying ignite, freeze, shock, and poison to cursed enemies by 20%. It enhances the effectiveness of elemental and chaos damage builds by ensuring that cursed enemies are more likely to suffer from these debilitating ailments, increasing your overall damage and control in combat.
Feature: You take 40% reduced Extra Damage from Critical Strikes by Cursed Enemies.
Analysis: This defensive feature reduces the extra damage you take from critical strikes by 40% when inflicted by cursed enemies. It significantly enhances your survivability against critical hits, making you more resilient in battles where enemies can land powerful critical strikes.
Feature: Non-Cursed Enemies you inflict Non-Aura Curses on are Blinded for 4 seconds.
Reminder Text: Being Blinded causes 20% less Accuracy Rating and Evasion Rating.
Analysis: This feature blinds non-cursed enemies for 4 seconds when you apply a non-aura curse on them. Blinded enemies have reduced accuracy and evasion, making it easier for you to hit them and avoid their attacks. This enhances your overall combat effectiveness and control over the battlefield.
Feature: Your Curses have 20% increased Effect if 50% of Curse Duration expired.
Analysis: This feature increases the effect of your curses by 20% if at least half of their duration has expired. It ensures that curses become more potent over time, maximizing their impact on enemies and providing stronger debuffs as fights progress.
Feature: Enemies you Curse are Hindered, with 15% reduced Movement Speed.
Reminder Text: Hinder reduces movement speed.
Analysis: This feature hinders enemies you curse, reducing their movement speed by 15%. Slowing down enemies enhances your control in combat, making it easier to kite and position yourself advantageously while reducing the threat from fast-moving foes.
Feature: Recover 1% of Life when you Curse a Non-Cursed Enemy. Feature: Recover 1% of Mana when you Curse a Non-Cursed Enemy.
Analysis: These features provide a small but consistent source of life and mana recovery whenever you curse a non-cursed enemy. This boosts your sustain in combat, ensuring that you can maintain your health and mana pools while applying curses to enemies.
The Curse Mastery passive skill in Path of Exile offers a comprehensive set of enhancements that maximize the power and utility of your curses. By increasing the chance to apply ailments to cursed enemies, reducing extra damage from critical strikes by cursed enemies, blinding non-cursed enemies, increasing curse effect with expired duration, hindering cursed enemies, and providing life and mana recovery on cursing non-cursed enemies, these masteries ensure that your curses are highly effective and versatile tools in your arsenal. Mastering these features allows you to build a character that leverages the full potential of curses, making you a formidable force in the dangerous world of Wraeclast.