Path Of Exile Resource #9 - Daresso's Salute Unique Item Review

Daresso's Salute in Path Of Exile is a unique citrine amulet that when equipped grants the player up to 24 strength and dexterity from the amulet's implicit, up to 40 percent fire resistance, up to 40 percent cold resistance, 10 percent increased movement speed when on full life, +2 to melee weapon and unarmed range, and 60 percent increased melee damage when on full life. The amulet has one downside, it reduces your maximum energy shield by 50 percent. This unique has not changed since it's original introduction into the game in June of 2013.

Item Usefulness Information - This item is a very powerful choice for life based melee characters, due to several characteristics that the unique grants. For example, a life based melee character who specs many skill points into life regeneration or life leech will find it easy to be on full life almost all of the time. If you are on full life frequently while equipping this unique, you gain 10 percent increased movement speed, which is great for players that want to have faster clear speed, and you gain 60 percent increased melee damage, which will significantly increase your melee damage and make killing and farming bosses much easier. The full life that this amulet requires you to be on to be more effective might guide players towards thinking that they should go and spec into Chaos Inoculation on the skill tree and scale energy shield instead of life, since then you will always be on full life if you have energy shield protecting it. However, this unique blocks players from going into Chaos Inoculation since the unique when equipped reduces your maximum energy shield by 50 percent, which is a very large chunk of energy shield. This is why this unique is much better for life based melee characters, on life based melee characters it doesn't bring any downsides and provides you with incredible amounts of damage. The +2 to melee weapon and unarmed range means that the skills that you cast have a higher distance or area of effect to affect anything from the point of origin. Since most melee skills have a relatively short range, this is very effective for expanding the range of the initial melee skill you cast, and will make you attack from a greater distance away, while pushing the area of effect further away from you, which may affect more enemies. The best melee skill to use with this unique equipped is cyclone, since it benefits the most from all of the passives that the unique provides. In the early stages of the game, this unique is great for progressing quickly for melee characters due to granting increased movement speed, as well as giving you much more melee damage, which will make clearing packs of enemies or bosses much easier. In the late stages of the game, this unique is the best in slot for players who use cyclone as their main skill, as well as characters who either spec into leech, life regeneration, or both, in order to fully utilize the passives that the unique grants, but overall grants life based melee characters increased farming and leveling speed.

Informative Links -
http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Daresso%27s_Salute - additional information regarding the Daresso's Salute unique
http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Range - additional information regarding the Range mechanic
http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Chaos_Inoculation - additional information regarding the Chaos Inoculation keystone passive skill