PoE Pain Attunement — Path of Exile

Pain Attunement is a keystone passive skill in Path of Exile that grants a significant increase in spell damage when the character is on low life. Specifically, it provides a 30% more spell damage multiplier, which can be a powerful boost for builds relying on spells, particularly those that can sustain or safely maintain a low life condition.

PoE Pain Attunement

Mechanics

• 30% More Spell Damage: Pain Attunement provides a straightforward damage boost to spells when the character is on low life. This damage increase is a multiplicative bonus, making it a substantial boost to spell damage output.

Low Life Condition: The low life condition is defined as having 50% or less of your maximum life remaining. Achieving and maintaining low life can be done in several ways:

• Petrified Blood: This skill reserves a portion of your life and prevents a certain percentage of life loss from hits, effectively allowing you to stay on low life without the immediate risk of death.
• Life Reservation: Using Arrogance Support or other means to reserve a large portion of your life pool can bring you into low life territory while still allowing you to function effectively in combat.
• Coward’s Legacy: This unique belt allows you to be counted as on low life regardless of your actual life total, enabling Pain Attunement without the need to reduce your life pool.

Light Radius Reduction: Being on low life drastically reduces your light radius, which can be problematic in dark areas or when visibility is crucial. This can be counteracted using the Energy Shield Mastery that changes light radius to be based on your energy shield instead of life, mitigating the visibility issue.

Interaction with Life Costs: When using skills that cost life, such as Dark Pact or Sacrifice Support, Pain Attunement takes effect based on your life total after the life cost has been paid. This means that if a skill brings you into low life, that same cast benefits from the 30% more spell damage bonus provided by Pain Attunement.

Build Considerations

Pain Attunement is an excellent keystone for spellcasters who can reliably maintain low life without compromising survivability. It is often used in builds that utilize the Petrified Blood skill or significant life reservation strategies. Because the bonus is multiplicative, it stacks powerfully with other sources of increased spell damage, making it a cornerstone of many high-damage spellcasting builds.

• Energy Shield-Based Builds: Pain Attunement can be particularly effective in builds that prioritize energy shield over life. These builds can use life reservation to achieve the low life condition while relying on energy shield for survivability.
• Aura and Curse Builds: Characters that heavily utilize auras and curses can reserve a large portion of their life with Arrogance Support, maintaining low life and maximizing the effectiveness of Pain Attunement.

PoE Pain Attunement Build

Classes:

• Inquisitor: 24%
• Occultist: 19%
• Hierophant: 14%
• Trickster: 14%
• Assassin: 11%
• Pathfinder: 5%
• Saboteur: 3%
• Ascendant: 3%
• Deadeye: 3%
• Gladiator: 1%
• Elementalist: 0.9%
• Slayer: 0.6%
• Warden: 0.5%
• Necromancer: 0.2%
• Chieftain: 0.2%
• Juggernaut: 0.1%
• Champion: 0.0%
• Berserker: 0.0%
• Guardian: 0.0%
• Shadow: 0.0%

Main Skills:

• Hexblast: 39%
• Cyclone: 12%
• Penance Brand of Dissipation: 9%
• Hexblast of Contradiction: 9%
• Lightning Warp: 5%
• Ice Spear of Splitting: 3%
• Shock Nova: 3%
• Ice Nova of Frostbolts: 2%
• Icicle Mine of Fanning: 2%
• Ice Trap: 2%
• Tornado of Elemental Turbulence: 2%
• Spark: 1%
• Lancing Steel of Spraying: 1%

Masteries:

• +25% to Critical Strike Multiplier against Unique Enemies: 57%
• 20% increased Life Reservation Efficiency of Skills: 49%
• 12% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency of Skills: 48%
• Each Mine applies 2% increased Damage taken to Enemies near it, up to 10%: 39%
• 3% increased Damage per Endurance, Frenzy or Power Charge: 36%
• +30 to maximum Life: 26%
• 5% increased Attributes: 26%
• Auras from your Skills have 10% increased Effect on you: 23%
• 8% increased Damage for each of your Aura or Herald Skills affecting you: 22%
• 30% increased Effect of Auras from Mines: 21%
• 10% of Leech is Instant: 17%
• 15% increased maximum Life if there are no Life Modifiers on Equipped Body Armour: 13%
• 50% increased Effect of non-Damaging Ailments you inflict with Critical Strikes: 13%

Summary

• 30% More Spell Damage: Pain Attunement grants a 30% multiplicative increase in spell damage when the character is on low life.
• Low Life Condition: Achieved by reducing life to 50% or less through various means, such as Petrified Blood, life reservation, or unique items like Coward’s Legacy.
• Build Synergy: Works well with energy shield-based builds, aura and curse builds, and any spellcasting setup that can safely maintain low life for a significant damage boost.

Pain Attunement is a powerful keystone for spellcasters in Path of Exile, enabling significant damage potential for those who can master the art of maintaining low life without compromising their survival.

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