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Reworked in 7.38Reworked in 7.38 Feb 2025
It works differently from how you remember. What it does now is further down.
- ◆Provides +8 Agility
- ◆Passive: Corrosion. On attack, slows the enemy by 16% if the target is ranged and by 6% if the target is melee. Also reduces the target's incoming healing by 16% and their armor by 3. Duration: 3s
- ◆Armor reduction does not stack with its components, Desolator, or Stygian Desolator
- ◆Requires Orb of Frost (250), Orb of Blight (300) and Band of Elvenskin (450). Total cost: 1000
3 buffs and 2 nerfs in total: roughly even.
Cost and recipe
- ▼Total Cost increased from 1000 to 1050
Biggest changes
- ▲Corrosion armor reduction decreased from 3 to 2
- ▲Corrosion Melee Movement Slow increased from 6% to 8%
- ▼Agility bonus decreased from +8 to +7
- ▲Corrosion health restoration reduction increased from 16% to 18%
- ◆Corrosion instead of reducing Healing, Health Regen, Lifesteal, and Spell Lifesteal by 16%, now reduces Health Restoration by 16%
- ▼Corrosion's slow and health restoration reduction no longer stack with Orb of Frost and Eye of Skadi
- ◆Now also modifies incoming healing
- ◆As a result of Health Restoration changes
Most recent change patch 7.41e, Jul 2026
- ▲Corrosion health restoration reduction increased from 16% to 18%
What it does now
- + 7 Agility
- Corrosion PassiveYour attacks reduce the target's armor by -2, slows their movement by -16% (-8% against melee targets), and reduces Health Restoration by 18%. Lasts for 3 seconds.
Built from Band of Elvenskin, Orb of Frost, Orb of Blight.
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