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Divine Flesh: A High-Risk, High-Reward Keystone in Path of Exile

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Divine Flesh is a powerful Keystone Passive Skill in Path of Exile that can significantly alter your character's defenses. It comes with significant trade-offs, making it a high-risk, high-reward option. Here's a breakdown of its effects:

Key Aspects:

  • Timeless Jewel: Divine Flesh is not directly found on the passive skill tree. Instead, it requires a specific Glorious Vanity Timeless Jewel with the modifier "Bathed in the blood of (100-8000) sacrificed in the name of Xibaqua." This Jewel alters a nearby Keystone Passive Skill into Divine Flesh, allowing you to allocate it.
  • Energy Shield Bypass: All damage you take ignores your Energy Shield, rendering it useless. This effectively makes Energy Shield builds incompatible with Divine Flesh.
  • Elemental to Chaos Conversion: 50% of the Elemental Damage you take is converted to Chaos Damage. This can be beneficial if you have high Chaos Resistance but weak Elemental Resistances.
  • Chaos Resistance Boost: You gain +5% to your maximum Chaos Resistance. This helps mitigate the converted Elemental Damage.

Benefits:

  • Strong Elemental Mitigation: If your Chaos Resistance is significantly higher than your Elemental Resistances, Divine Flesh effectively reduces your incoming Elemental Damage by 25%. This can be particularly effective against enemies with high Elemental Penetration.
  • Righteous Fire Synergy: The Keystone converts the damage taken over time effect of Righteous Fire to Chaos Damage, allowing you to mitigate it with high Chaos Resistance.

Drawbacks:

  • Energy Shield Investment Wasted: Builds relying on Energy Shield for defense become unusable with Divine Flesh.
  • Chaos Vulnerability: While Chaos Resistance is boosted, you remain vulnerable to pure Chaos Damage sources.
  • Investment Intensive: Achieving high enough Chaos Resistance to make Divine Flesh effective requires specific gear and passive skill choices.

Overall, Divine Flesh is a powerful tool for experienced players seeking to optimize their defenses against specific threats. However, its significant drawbacks and complexity make it unsuitable for most builds.

Here are some additional points to consider:

  • Chaos Inoculation: Divine Flesh does not synergize well with Chaos Inoculation, as both Keystones focus on mitigating different types of damage.
  • Eldritch Battery: This unique body armor can be used alongside Divine Flesh to benefit from both its Energy Shield regeneration and the Keystone's defensive advantages.
  • Amethyst Flasks: These flasks become much more valuable with Divine Flesh, as they mitigate both Chaos and converted Elemental Damage.

I hope this information helps you decide whether Divine Flesh is the right choice for your Path of Exile build. Remember, careful planning and understanding the Keystone's intricacies are crucial to success.


Divine Flesh is a Timeless Jewel-only keystone passive skill.

  • All Damage taken bypasses Energy Shield
  • 50% of Elemental Damage taken as Chaos Damage
  • +5% to maximum Chaos Resistance
  • (Maximum Resistances cannot be raised above 90%)

Faction: Vaal
Glorious Vanity: Xibaqua
Flavour text: Give up your flesh unto the gods, and in vulnerability find strength.

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Divine Flesh is a keystone passive skill that converts 50% of elemental damage taken to chaos damage and grants additional maximum chaos resistance, but causes all damage to bypass energy shield.

While this skill has negative synergy with Chaos Inoculation, it can still be used with Eldritch Battery.

For more information about taking damage as another element, see Damage taken as.

The damage taken over time effect of Righteous Fire Righteous Fire and other non-chaos degenerations will also be converted. As such, Divine Flesh can be a excellent way to reduce the degeneration effect, granted that a player has capped their chaos resistance.

Location

This keystone can only be obtained by placing a Glorious Vanity Glorious Vanity unique Timeless Jewel (only variants that have the modifier Bathed in the blood of (100-8000) sacrificed in the name of Xibaqua) into a socket on the skill tree, or other unique item that grant this keystone. It is not on the default passive tree.

The timeless jewel will convert (in-game wording: conquered) any keystone within the radius of the jewel’s area of effect into Divine Flesh, allowing the player to spend a skill point to allocate it.

Related Uniques

The following unique items are related to Divine Flesh:

  • Glorious Vanity Glorious Vanity
  • Mahuxotl’s Machination Mahuxotl’s Machination
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Alternate Passive

FactionregularNotableKeystoneUnique

Vaal
ChangesTo Random ModsChangesTo Random ModsXibaqua: Divine Flesh
Ahuana: Immortal Ambition
Doryani: Corrupted Soul
Rathpith Globe
Rebuke of the Vaal
Pledge of Hands
Maw of Conquest

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