Added a set of Retaliation Passive Masteries:
In Path of Exile (PoE), Retaliation Passive Masteries provide unique modifiers that enhance the effectiveness of retaliation skills, turning defensive maneuvers into powerful offensive opportunities. These masteries are designed to maximize the impact of counter-attacks, making your character more resilient and deadly in combat. Here’s a detailed breakdown of each feature and its strategic implications:
Feature: 80% increased Duration of Ailments inflicted by Retaliation Skills.
Reminder Text: Ailments are Bleeding, Ignited, Scorched, Chilled, Frozen, Brittle, Shocked, Sapped, and Poisoned.
Analysis: This feature significantly extends the duration of ailments inflicted by your retaliation skills. Longer-lasting ailments mean that enemies will suffer from their effects for a greater period, increasing the overall damage dealt and control exerted over them. This is especially useful for builds that rely on stacking ailments to maximize damage over time.
Feature: Retaliation Skills Debilitate Enemies for 3 seconds on Hit.
Reminder Text: Enemies that are Debilitated have 20% less Movement Speed and deal 10% less damage.
Analysis: Debilitating enemies with retaliation skills reduces their movement speed by 20% and their damage output by 10% for 3 seconds. This feature enhances your control over the battlefield, slowing down enemies and reducing the threat they pose. It provides a defensive advantage by mitigating incoming damage and limiting enemy mobility.
Feature: 20% increased Armour for each different Retaliation Skill you've used in the past 10 seconds.
Analysis: This feature boosts your armor by 20% for each unique retaliation skill used in the last 10 seconds. By rotating through different retaliation skills, you can stack significant armor increases, greatly enhancing your physical damage mitigation and survivability in prolonged fights.
Feature: 10% chance when you use a Retaliation Skill for a different Retaliation Skill to become Usable.
Analysis: This feature adds a 10% chance that using one retaliation skill will enable another retaliation skill to become usable immediately. This can create a chain of counter-attacks, allowing you to respond to enemy actions more frequently and with greater versatility, increasing your overall effectiveness in combat.
Feature: 40% reduced Cost of Retaliation Skills.
Analysis: Reducing the cost of retaliation skills by 40% makes them more resource-efficient, allowing you to use them more frequently without depleting your mana or other resources. This ensures that you can maintain a steady stream of counter-attacks, enhancing your ability to retaliate against enemies consistently.
The Retaliation Passive Masteries in Path of Exile offer a comprehensive set of tools to enhance your counter-attack strategies. By increasing the duration of ailments, debilitating enemies, boosting armor, enabling retaliation skill chains, and reducing skill costs, these masteries turn defensive maneuvers into powerful offensive tactics. Mastering these features allows you to effectively counter enemy attacks, control the battlefield, and improve your overall survivability, making your character a formidable force in Wraeclast.