Chaos Inoculation
Chaos Inoculation (CI) is a keystone passive skill that grants immunity to chaos damage, but sets maximum life to 1.
Although the character must survive entirely on energy shield instead of life, immunity to chaos damage can be a significant advantage.
Interactions
The chance and duration of both being stunned and receiving an elemental status ailments is based on your base life before CI takes effect. Maximum Life modifiers such as increased maximum Life, reduced maximum Life, etc. apply to the life before CI is applied. Since this base life value is then overwritten by CI, the only advantage life modifiers provide to a CI character is the reduction on stun and status ailment.
Chaos Inoculation no longer grants immunity degeneration effect of Blood Rage while retaining other benefits of the skill as of 2.0.0 with the Blood Rage degeneration damage type changing to physical.
"On Low Life" will never trigger while CI is enabled. Effects such as Pain Attunement and On Low Life mods on gear will not activate. For these effects, you must have 35% or less of your current maximum life. Chaos Inoculation sets your maximum life to 1.
"On Full life" will always trigger because you are always at 100% of 1 life.
Interaction with Life Reduction
Life reductions apply before CI which resets life to 1. For example from Ephemeral EdgeEphemeral Edge
Dusk BladeOne Handed Sword
Physical Damage: 19-54
Elemental Damage: 1-75
Critical Strike Chance: 5.00%
Attacks per Second: 1.30
Weapon Range: 1.1 metresRequires Level 32, 57 Str, 57 Dex40% increased Global Accuracy Rating+10 to Intelligence
50% increased Global Critical Strike Chance
(40-50)% increased maximum Energy Shield
25% reduced maximum Life
Adds 1 to 75 Lightning Damage
Attacks with this Weapon have Added Maximum Lightning Damage equal to 20% of Player's Maximum Energy ShieldIn the rift between future and past,
life passes quickly..
Blood Magic
When linked with Blood Magic, affected skills can't be casted, even if it is an aura which would drain a relative amount of mana/health.
Chaos Resistance Reduction/Penetration
Since CI grants a flat-out immunity to Chaos Damage, effects that reduce or penetrate Chaos Resistance (i.e. Occultist's Void Beacon) have no effect against CI.[1]
CI Builds
It is generally best to wait until you have high ES before taking CI because it's much easier to survive on life at lower levels. Don't be afraid to take life passive skills for survivability while leveling up, since you can remove them later.
Characters with CI are usually more susceptible to stun and status ailments because of their low base life. Rather than taking otherwise useless life nodes as described above, Stun can be mitigated by increasing the Stun Recovery stat with items and passives or by using the unique necklace Eye of ChayulaEye of Chayula
Onyx AmuletRequires Level 20+(10-16) to all Attributes20% reduced maximum Life
30% increased Rarity of Items found
Cannot be StunnedNever blinking, always watching.
This item can be transformed with a Blessing of Chayula. Status ailments can be reduced with high elemental resistances or items such as Dream FragmentsDream Fragments
Sapphire RingRequires Level 24+(20-30)% to Cold Resistance20% increased maximum Mana
50% increased Mana Regeneration Rate
+(30-40)% to Cold Resistance
Cannot be Chilled
Cannot be FrozenDoryani stumbled into a realm of madness
And awoke its Master. or AuxiumAuxium
Crystal BeltRequires Level 79+(60-80) to maximum Energy Shield+(60-70) to maximum Energy Shield
+(45-55) to maximum Mana
Chill Effect and Freeze Duration on you are based on 100% of Energy Shield
(20-25)% increased Elemental Damage with Attack Skills per Power Charge
0.2% of Attack Damage Leeched as Mana per Power ChargeAs long as the soul is unfettered, so is the body.
Chaos Inoculation works well with some other keystone passives, such as:
- Zealot's Oath applies life regeneration to energy shield. Regen effects that are based on maximum life become based on maximum ES. Note that "regeneration" does not include life flasks.
- Ghost Reaver converts life gained from life leech into energy shield
- Vaal Pact can be added to Ghost Reaver for instant leeching. Life flasks have no effect in CI, although any ES regeneration from Zealot's Oath will be disabled.
Version history
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0.10.0 |
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0.9.10e |
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0.9.7d |
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0.9.6 |
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0.9.5h |
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0.9.5 |
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0.9.4 |
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References
- ↑ Dan_GGG (February 11, 2016). "Chaos Penetration vs CI?". Path of Exile Forums. Retrieved February 11, 2016.