Corrupted

This page is about item corruption. For other uses, see Corruption.

Corrupted

Tooltip

Certain items can be found Corrupted or made Corrupted using a Vaal Orb, changing their properties unpredictably. Most methods of item crafting and modification cannot be used on Corrupted items. There is no penalty for using Corrupted items.

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Examples of corruption outcomes such as a corruption enchantment modifier or an additional item socket.

Corrupted is a special modifier and item tag. The process of making something corrupted is referred to as corruption.

Mechanics

Items and craftable objects with the Corrupted tag cannot be altered further through regular crafting methods, and cannot be reversed.

Runes and soul cores can still be placed into a corrupted item's sockets.

Sources of corrupted items

• Using a Vaal Orb on items, strongboxes, or other eligible objects will cause them to become corrupted and may also result in one of several unpredictable outcomes, dependent on base type or item class and item level.
• In Jiquani's Sanctum in Act 3, there's a Corruption Altar ("Paquate's Mechanism") that lets you apply a Vaal Orb effect on an item, once per character.
• Corrupted strongboxes may contain corrupted items.
• Item rewards offered in the Trial of Chaos are typically corrupted.

Corruption enchantment modifiers

Main page: List of item corruption enchantment modifiers

Corruption enchantments or Vaal enchantments are special enchantment modifiers from a pool dependent on the item's item class and item level. They are displayed separately from other enchantments. They do not replace existing enchantments. Similarly, adding enchantments such as by socketing runes or soul cores will not replace existing corruption enchantments.

Corruption outcomes

When an item is corrupted, or drops corrupted, one of the following outcomes will apply at random. The specific effect within each outcome may use a weight system dependent on item level and item class/base type.

An Omen of Corruption can be used to typically remove the "No change" outcome, increasing the remaining outcomes' relative odds.

Non-unique equipment

• No change.
• Reroll up to three modifiers.
• Adds a special Vaal enchantment to the item.
• Adds an item socket to martial weapons and armour, ignoring socket limits.

Unique equipment

• No change.
• Randomises the numerical values of explicit modifiers (like a Divine Orb), then applies a modifier magnitude multiplier of 0.78x to 1.22x.
• Adds a special Vaal enchantment to the item.
• Adds a item socket to martial weapons and armour, ignoring socket limits.

Gems

• No change.
• Permanently add or subtract one gem level. This is retained when upgrading the gem level using an uncut gem. Max level gems can exceed their normal maximum this way, but cannot go below Level 1.
• Add or remove a socket.
• Add or subtract ?% quality.

Corrupted gems can still be levelled using Uncut Gems of a higher base level.

Flasks and charms

• ±?% to Quality, up to 23%

Jewels

• No change.
• Reroll up to three explicit modifiers.
• Adds a special Vaal enchantment to the item.
• Adds or removes an explicit modifier. This outcome ignores the normal limit of 2 prefixes and 2 suffixes.

Waystones

• No change.
• Reroll up to half of the item's explicit modifiers.
• Increase or lower the Waystone's Tier by 1, randomizing its modifiers.
  • Note: this is the only way to obtain a Waystone (Tier 16), by corrupting a Waystone (Tier 15).
• Makes the waystone rare, with 6 random affixes.

Special outcomes

It is currently unknown if certain unique items can be obtained as a result of corrupting certain item types.

Version history

Version	Changes
0.1.0	Introduced to the game.

See also

• Mirrored