Path Of Exile Resource #16 - Victario's Acuity Unique Item Review

Victario's Acuity in Path Of Exile is a unique turquoise amulet that when equipped grants the player up to 40 percent lightning resistance points, up to 10 percent chaos resistance points, 10 percent chance to gain a frenzy charge on kill, 10 percent chance to gain a power charge on kill, 5 percent increased projectile speed per frenzy charge, 5 percent increased projectile damage per power charge, and up to 24 dexterity and intelligence points from the turquoise amulet's implicit modifier. This unique has not changed since it's original introduction into the game in June of 2013.

Item Usefulness Information - This unique is best suited for range based character builds that utilize projectile attacks in their main build setups. This unique can also be useful for spell based character builds, however it is less popular in such builds since most people consider projectile spells to be weaker than their projectile attacks counterpart. The up to 40 percent lightning resistance points granted by the unique is beneficial towards all character classes. The up to 10 percent chaos resistance points is beneficial towards most character classes, although on a much less noticeable scale since currently only a few enemies in the game deal a significant amount of chaos damage. This unique modifier is not useful for characters that utilize Chaos Inoculation in their builds, since Chaos Inoculation grants immunity to chaos damage. The 10 percent chance to gain a frenzy charge on kill, as well as the 10 percent chance to gain a power charge on kill are both incredibly powerful unique modifiers that are hard to come by elsewhere. The unique modifiers provide an easy way of generating frenzy and power charges, an action that many range and spell based character builds need in order to fully maximize their damage potential. The frenzy and power charge generation can be difficult to sustain while fighting bosses that do not spawn or provide minions to kill during the fight. These two unique modifiers have incredible synergy with the next two unique modifiers that the unique grants, which are 5 percent increased projectile speed per frenzy charge, and 5 percent increased projectile damage per power charge. The 5 percent increased projectile speed per frenzy charge is mostly negligible, unless your build specifically needs increased projectile speed to make it comprehensively stronger. The 5 percent increased projectile damage per power charge is incredibly strong for builds that fully utilize power charges in their main build setup. In most cases, spell based character builds are the ones to fully utilize power charges, however most range based character builds that have a high critical strike chance rate can utilize power charges in a multitude of ways, such as through specific gear selection and effective passive skill tree utilization. The up to 24 dexterity and intelligence points granted by the turquoise amulet's implicit modifier is beneficial towards all character classes, since it can help ease attribute requirements on gear and grant a small bonus towards accuracy rating, evasion rating, maximum mana, and maximum energy shield. In the early stages of the game, as well as the late stages of the game, this unique is useful due to it's ability to save you a support gem link or curse aura, such as a power charge on critical strike support gem or a poacher's mark curse aura, greatly increase your general damage output, increase your overall clear speed, and moderately increase your survivability.

Informative Links -
http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Victario%27s_Acuity - additional information regarding the Victario's Acuity unique
http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Chaos_Inoculation - additional information regarding the Chaos Inoculation keystone passive skill