Mahuxotl's Machination Steel Kite Shield - Path of Exile

Mechanics

The Corrupted Soul, Divine Flesh, Eternal Youth, Immortal Ambition, and Vaal Pact modifiers have the same effect as the keystones: Corrupted Soul, Divine Flesh, Eternal Youth, Immortal Ambition, and Vaal Pact. Taking the keystones in addition to equipping this item will impart no additional benefit.

Mahuxotl's Machination is the only source so far for Everlasting Sacrifice keyword/keystone passive skill.

This item gives you the following effects:

• Gain 15% of Maximum Life as Extra Maximum Energy Shield
• All Damage taken bypasses Energy Shield
  • 50% of Non-Chaos Damage taken bypasses Energy Shield (redundant)
• 50% of Elemental Damage taken as Chaos Damage
• +5% to maximum Chaos Resistance
• When you reach full Energy Shield, Sacrifice all Energy Shield to gain +5% to all Maximum Resistances for 4 seconds
• Energy Shield starts at zero
• Lose 5% of Energy Shield per second
• Cannot Recharge or Regenerate Energy Shield
• Energy Shield Recharge instead applies to Life
• Life Leech effects are not removed at Full Life
• Life Leech effects Recover Energy Shield instead while on Full Life
• Total Recovery per second from Life Leech is doubled (4% of ES per Leech stack)
• Maximum total Life Recovery per second from Leech is doubled
  • 50% less maximum Total Recovery per Second from Life Leech (net neutral Leech rate cap (10%; 20% with Ghost Reaver))
• Life Regeneration has no effect
  • 50% less Life Regeneration Rate (redundant)

Damage taken as - Mahuxotl's Machination grants Divine Flesh. When combined with Tempered by War, no lightning or cold damage is taken, making it ideal to combine with it. Half of the damage is taken as fire and the other as chaos. This allows the player to completely ignore gearing for Cold or Lightning resistances. See Damage taken as for more information.

Life Recharge - Vaal Discipline will immediately cause Life Recharge to begin and prevent it from being interrupted. Wicked Ward also works; however, it will reduce the Recharge Rate by 40%. Blightwell can triple the Recharge Rate at the cost of some delay before starting Recharge.

Maintaining Everlasting Sacrifice

To maintain full uptime of the +5% to all Maximum Resistances, the player's energy shield must reach full at least every 4 seconds (after which it is sacrificed by the Keystone). Due to the interactions between keystones, it is not possible to regenerate or recharge ES, meaning that instant recovery and leech are the only realistic strategies. The 5% ES degeneration per second must also be overcome if the player cannot fill the entire ES pool in one instance, combining up to 120% of their total ES over 4 seconds.

• ES gained on hit
  • The Watcher's Eye mod - requires Discipline (which is counterintuitive unless you plan to use Energy Blade) and requires rapid hitting skills or skills with multiple projectiles
  • Fenumus' Spinnerets - requires Aspect of the Spider
• The Sorrow of the Divine with instant Life Flasks - requires flask charge generation
  • with Forbidden Taste - same as above, causes a persistent Chaos degen
• ES on Kill (e.g. from Soul Thief, Cinderswallow Urn) - unreliable on single targets
• ES leech - either from overleeching Life or from sources of ES leech - too slow by itself (5% per second counting the degen - 20 seconds, 15% with Ghost Reaver - 6~7 seconds)
• Demon Stitcher - requires auto-cast on left click on an Attack build, requires approximately 6 spell casts in 4 seconds without too much Intelligence or other sources of ES on gear
  • Blood Rage - not enough on its own, requires CDR and/or other sources 1 sec CD
  • Plague Bearer - require clicking, not possible to hold button down, 0.5 sec CD
  • Spellslinger - automatable, requires open Mana to reserve (24% at level 21 without any Reservation Efficiency), 0.6 sec CD
  • Spellslinger + Arrogance Support with Petrified Blood - automatable, requires high level gems or Life Reservation Efficiency Mastery, disables ES overleech (still possible to get ES leech elsewhere), 0.6 sec CD
• Ghost Dance - wants at least 33.4x your ES as Evasion to recover your full ES in one hit (e.g. 33400 Evasion with 1000 ES). Requires getting hit before gaining the Max Res

Reducing the energy shield pool is generally preferred, which provides some use to items like Daresso's Salute or Ming's Heart, or by minimizing increases to ES by redirecting Intelligence bonuses with Solipsism, Faithguard, or Crystallised Omniscience. The only exception would be for Energy Blade builds, which instead want to maximize ES and use % sources of ES recovery instead (stacking Strength and Intelligence, using Shaper's Touch, etc). Note that you would need to cast Energy Blade prior to equipping the shield, as the skill costs Energy Shield to use.

Mahuxotl’s Machination Build Guide

Another new Vaal unique in Ultimatum is Mahuxotl’s Machination, which grants you six keystone passives at once. Combining all of these keystones results in some very unusual outcomes, and the item features an entirely unique new keystone as well.

Mahuxotl’s Machination Screenshots

Item acquisition

Mahuxotl's Machination has restrictions on where or how it can drop. It cannot be chanced. Can be obtained in The Tower of Ordeals.

Monster restrictions

This item can be acquired from the following monsters:

• The Trialmaster

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