Sap - Path of Exile

Ailments usually come from a specific kind of damage. Fire damage can ‘Ignite’, which deals further fire damage over time. Cold damage can ‘Chill’, slowing you down, or ‘Freeze’, causing you to stop moving entirely. Lightning damage can ‘Shock’, causing you to take a lot of extra damage from any source. Some enemies can also ‘Poison’ you or inflict ‘Bleeding’, both of which deal damage over time. If you move while you’re bleeding, the bleeding will deal extra damage.

Icon Name Associated with Effect
PoE Sap Sap Lightning Sapped enemies deal up to 20% less Damage, based on the lightning damage of the hit. The base duration is 4 Seconds.

Sapped Enemies deal up to 20% less Damage, based on the Lightning Damage of the Hit, for 4 seconds.

1. Sap Gems

Name Category Requires Stats
Hydrosphere Hydrosphere Active skill gem Level 34
  • Pulses every 0.4 seconds while Frozen, Shocked, Brittle or Sapped
  • 100% of Physical Damage Converted to Cold Damage while Sphere is Frozen or Brittle
Elemental Hit Elemental Hit Active skill gem Level 12 80% more Area Radius against Enemies affected by an Ailment of the chosen Element. It included ignite or scorch (Fire damage), chill, freeze or brittle (Cold damage), shock or sap (Lightning damage).

2. Sap Items

Item Category Lvl. Stats Note
Exhausting Spirit Shield Exhausting Spirit Shield Shield 30 On block, this shield will apply a sap to the attacking enemy causing them to deal 6% less damage for 4 seconds. Base items
Subsuming Spirit Shield Subsuming Spirit Shield Shield 50 On block, this shield will apply a sap to the attacking enemy causing them to deal 6% less damage for 4 seconds. Base items
Transfer-attuned Spirit Shield Transfer-attuned Spirit Shield Shield 70 On block, this shield will apply a sap to the attacking enemy causing them to deal 6% less damage for 4 seconds. Base items
Algor Mortis Algor Mortis Gloves 50 (20-30)% chance to Sap Enemies in Chilling Areas
 Unique
Thundersight Thundersight Helmet 59 Give the player the chance to sap: 25% chance to Sap Enemies
 Unique
Leadership’s Price Leadership’s Price Amulet 68 You have Scorching Conflux, Brittle Conflux and Sapping Conflux while your two highest Attributes are equal
 Unique

Sapping Conflux: causes all damage types to apply sap.

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3. Sap Passive skills

Name Category Stats
Secrets of Suffering Keystone passives

Upon taking it, the character will be unable to Ignite, Chill, Freeze or Shock enemies, but will inflict Scorch, Brittle, and Sapped upon a critical strike.

  • Alternating Sceptre Alternating Sceptre is a sceptre base type. The Secrets of Suffering modifier has the same effect as the keystone, Secrets of Suffering. Taking the keystone in addition to equipping this item will impart no additional benefit.
  • The Interrogation The Interrogation is a unique Small Cluster Jewel Small Cluster Jewel. It adds the keystone Secrets of Suffering to your passive tree.
  • Replica Malachai’s Artifice Replica Malachai’s Artifice is a unique Unset Ring. The Secrets of Suffering mod has the same effect as the keystone, Secrets of Suffering. Taking the keystone in addition to equipping this item will impart no additional benefit on socketed gems.

Sap Passive skills

4. Sap Oil

This a list of anointments that can be applied to rings.

Oil #1 Oil #2 Outcome
Amber Oil Amber Oil Indigo Oil Indigo Oil Your Arc Towers have 20% chance to inflict Sap

5. Sap Calculation

  • GGG has added an Ailment Threshold to monsters. In the great majority of cases, the Ailment Threshold matches the monster’s Maximum Life. It primarily differs for especially high-life monsters (such as The Shaper), where the threshold is reduced to allow ailments to be applied with hits that wouldn’t ordinarily reach the required Life thresholds.
  • The alternate ailments Sap, Scorch and Brittle have a slightly different calculation as they have lower caps on their magnitudes.

Right now, only GGG knows the formulas used to calculate the effect of sap ailment.

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