Cospri's Will - My Unique Story

I had heard Zeno talking about designing a unique item; this was the 2nd time I'd heard him talking about designing one. He went on to say if he was willing to pay $1,000 GGG would allow him the opportunity to design a unique item, but before his item would even be considered he needed to put the money forward for it.

No problem, later that day (August 11th, 2015) I purchased the ability to design a unique item. At this point I was already designing an item, scribbling down ideas for affixes as they came to me and removing others. My idea evolved heavily from the initial email to where we are today. In fact, none of the current mods were present as I asked to start over almost completely around the time of Talisman being released, but we'll get to that a little later.

Just to put things into perspective, at the time I starting working with Nick to design my item Tempest and Warband Leagues were only halfway being over.

The Shackles of Aspiration was the original name for Cospri's Will, and the mods I proposed were vastly different from what we have today. Thankfully I don't have the emails containing the details of the proposed mods, but needless to say my original suggestion was a complete and total clusterf**k of an item. It featured 12 mods and could best be described as a mad man's Thousand Ribbons. To be perfectly honest at that point I was designing it largely based off the Thousand Ribbons unique. They featured the same number of mods, and both had some beneficial and detrimental to the player.

I liked the idea, but Nick was quick to give me a reality check and school me on what the end item should look like. Thank you, Nick. The example he used was the newly buffed Hyrri's Ire as I had talked specifically about this unique in my email. He went on to explain the theming of the unique, and how each mod fits into the item as a whole.

Dodge, Spell Dodge, and Evasion had specifically been chosen as mods for Hyrri's Ire as it's a Dexterity based chest and these defenses are purely DEX themed. On top of these mods we find an actual DEX mod and Added Cold damage which is also aligned as being DEX themed. For reference Fire is Strength themed and Lightning Intelligence.

It was around this time I realized I had no idea what the hell I'd really gotten myself into. Anyway, Like I said I don't have a list of the various mods being thrown around at this point in time, but the basic gist was to try and cut the number of mods down from 12 to 6-8 and focus in on a particular theme.

Eventually I settled in on a chaos and dodge themed set of mods. The list changed quite frequently as ideas were thrown around and patches/updates came and went. Some example mods include up to 13% Dodge, 13% Spell Dodge, Added Chaos Damage to Attacks, Chaos Res, 0.2% of Chaos Damage Leeched as Mana, Instant Mana Leech, and the list goes on.

Some time passed, and Nick and I focused in on a particular set of mods that look promising; that is, until Talisman and Blasphemy went live.

The Talisman League, or more importantly Patch 2.1.0, brought with it the Duelist Leech nodes. For the 1st time in POE's history Leeching Chaos Damage was a real possibility. No special gimmicks like Warlord's Mark, Hungry Abyss, or Berek's Grip were required to make Leeching Chaos damage possible.

This change is what spurred the almost complete and total rework of Cospri's Will I mentioned earlier. Without needing to focus on Chaos Leech I suddenly found myself free of needing to dedicate mods for that specific purpose.

An example list of mods at this current point in time (prior to my final major rework) include the following:
- X% Chance to Dodge Attacks
- Increased Eva %
- X-Y To Maximum Life
- 0.2% of Chaos Damage Leeched as Life
- X-Y% Chaos Resistance
- Mana Leeches Instantly

Right before the launch of Talisman I emailed Nick and made my case to scrape what we had thus far in terms of mods and start over. Luckily, he obliged. Blasphemy had just been added to the game at this point, and unlike the teaser it had a 35% mana reservation instead of the 25% originally shown. This posed an issue. I felt it was way too much of a reservation cost and thus I found a new direction to take my unique in. After going back and forth with Nick I once again changed my focus; this time for the final time.

I decided to ignore Blasphemy's reservation and tackle the "issue" that is being able to apply multiple curses to enemies, while simultaneously tackling one of the most annoying monster and map mods in the game --- Curse Immunity.

Although the list of mods changed multiple times between then and now the final set of mods was agreed upon. BUT....... there was one little issue, the Curse Immunity mod itself. You see, when you ask to change or bypass a game mechanic that's been around since day one naturally you may be met with some resistance. I want to stress that ultimately it was GGG's right to tell me no, and at many points it looked things were going to go that way. After some internal discussion on their part (in which I had no say whatsoever - as it should be) I was informed that we would move forward with the Curse Immunity change. Tentatively.

Fluff - A VERY, VERY stupid blunder on my part


This section contains spoilers in regards to the final mods.


So, that brings us to where we are today. About 5-6 hours prior to writing this wall of text I received word Cospri's Will would be added in Patch 2.3.0 unless I wanted to make any final changes. I didn't!

Cospri's Will - This is with the max possible rolls. The ranges are listed after the image.


Flavor Text, Naming, and Art


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So yeah, that's the end of things. Once again I'd like to say thank you to GGG for giving me this opportunity, Nick for handling my constant swapping of mods, and sorry once again for leaking information in regards to the Hexproof mod when I had no right to do so.

Q. Is this a Prophecy League exclusive item?
A. No.

Q. Will this have 3D art on release?
A. As far as I'm aware, no.

Q. What item level restriction does this chest have?
A. At the lowest 68. I have yet to see any chests with lower item levels than this, however I will keep an eye on things. It's possibly a map only drop.

Q. If I'm using a Curse on Hit set-up and I hit an enemy that isn't cursed yet will I apply a poison?
A. No. --- see this reddit comment.

Q. Will Cospri's Will be nerfed before Patch 2.3 is released?
A. No, this is the final version that will be going live in Patch 2.3. If my unique receives any changes it likely won't be until after Prophecy has ended.

Q. Will there be a Divination Card for Cospri's Will? If not can I create one for it?
A. If you'd like to create a divination card for Cospri's items you are free to do so. (Changed as May 17th, 2017)

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Why 29% for max Chaos Res?