Paradoxica Vaal Rapier - Path of Exile

Paradoxica Vaal Rapier

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Paradoxica

Paradoxica is a unique Vaal Rapier. Thrusting One Hand Swords. Physical Damage: 22-87. Critical Strike Chance: 6.5%. Attacks per Second: 1.3. Weapon Range: 14.

Requires Level 66, 212 Dex.

  • +25% to Global Critical Strike Multiplier
  • Attacks with this Weapon deal Double Damage

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Modifiers

Paradoxica has 2 veiled modifiers (non-signature veiled mod): one prefix Chosen and one suffix of the Order.

Damage Scaling

Paradoxica has double damage from the weapon's total flat damage. When combined with large amounts of flat added physical damage from non-weapon sources, it can scale damage competitive with high physical damage one-handed rare swords. Some examples of non-weapon sources of flat added physical are:

  • Bloodthirst support adds 2% of your maximum life as flat added physical damage to weapons.
    • Example: A player with above average life has 6,000 maximum life. (6,000 X .02) = 120 Flat added physical weapon damage.
  • Party - Having an ally with large average flat physical damage weapon use Rallying Cry near you to give you 20% of the weapon's damage.
    • Example: A player with a high damage karui axe that does 700 average physical damage per hit. (700*.2) = 140 average flat added physical damage.
  • Items - See physical damage page for items with high flat added physical damage.
  • Ascendancy - Champion ascendancy passive can gives flat added physical damage per impale on enemies you hit.
  • Attacks - Some attack skills add flat physical damage to weapons.

Ailments

Double damage only applies to hit damage, not base damage - it does not double damage over time.

Item acquisition

Paradoxica has restrictions on where or how it can drop. It cannot be chanced. Drops from interrogated Safehouse leaders in Intervention Safehouses.

Monster restrictions

This item can be acquired from the following monsters:

  • Aisling Laffrey
  • Cameria the Coldblooded
  • Elreon
  • Gravicius
  • Guff "Tiny" Grenn
  • Haku
  • Hillock, the Blacksmith
  • It That Fled
  • Janus Perandus
  • Korell Goya
  • Leo, Wolf of the Pits
  • Riker Maloney
  • Rin Yuushu
  • Thane Jorgin
  • Tora
  • Vagan
  • Vorici

Read List of thrusting one-handed sword modifiers for a list of possible crafted (un)veiled mods. Note that player cannot swap the crafted mod of the legacy item. Player can remove the mod since it is crafted mod, but player CANNOT craft any mod back to this unique item, effectively brick the item. The current version is not a crafted mod thus cannot be bricked by removing the mod.

The following legacy (post 3.6 pre-3.14) crafted veiled mod of this item, have numeric value adjusted:

  • Attacks with this Weapon Penetrate (9-10)% Elemental Resistances (current value: 11-13%)
  • Attacks with this Weapon Penetrate (7-8)% Elemental Resistances (current value: 8-10%)
  • Attacks with this Weapon Penetrate (5-6)% Elemental Resistances (current value: 6-7%)
  • Attacks with this Weapon Penetrate (9-10)% Chaos Resistances (current value: 11-13%)
  • Attacks with this Weapon Penetrate (7-8)% Chaos Resistances (current value: 8-10%)
  • Attacks with this Weapon Penetrate (5-6)% Chaos Resistances (current value: 6-7%)
  • (51-60)% increased Cold Damage, (10-11)% chance to Freeze (current value: 18-20% chance to Freeze)
  • (42-50)% increased Cold Damage, (8-9)% chance to Freeze (current value: 16-17% chance to Freeze)
  • (36-41)% increased Cold Damage, 7% chance to Freeze (current value: 13-15% chance to Freeze)
  • (51-60)% increased Fire Damage, (10-11)% chance to Ignite (current value: 18-20% chance to Ignite)
  • (42-50)% increased Fire Damage, (8-9)% chance to Ignite (current value: 16-17% chance to Ignite)
  • (36-41)% increased Fire Damage, 7% chance to Ignite (current value: 13-15% chance to Ignite)
  • (51-60)% increased Lightning Damage, (10-11)% chance to Shock (current value: 18-20% chance to Shock)
  • (42-50)% increased Lightning Damage, (8-9)% chance to Shock (current value: 16-17% chance to Shock)
  • (36-41)% increased Lightning Damage, 7% chance to Shock (current value: 13-15% chance to Shock)

The other crafted mods are identical to the current numeric value of crafted mods, but may still inferior to the current non-crafted version of (un)veiled mods.

Item skins

The following item skins apply only to Paradoxica:

Item Effect(s)
Vendetta Paradoxica A copy of Paradoxica attacks your enemies alongside you.