Scold's Bridle Mind Cage - Path of Exile

Scold's Bridle Mind Cage

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Scold's Bridle

Scold's Bridle is a unique Mind Cage. Helmets. Energy Shield: 73–84.

Requires Level 65, 138 Int.

  • (80–100)% increased Spell Damage
  • 15% reduced Cast Speed
  • +(30–60) to maximum Mana
  • Your Skills deal you 400% of Mana Spent on Upfront Skill Mana Costs as Physical Damage
  • (Upfront Costs are all Costs that are not paid per-second)

Flavour Text: 'The sharper the pain, the sharper the mind. A curious paradox.' - Shavronne of Umbra

Is there any difference between Scold's Bridle and Heartbound Loop's damage taken, and between hiltless "reflected" damage? If so, where exactly?

Yes. The primary difference is that the reflected damage is reflected damage, which carries a whole bunch of rules baggage. Reflected damage cannot trigger on-hit effects, for example. The other two are just hits of regular secondary damage you deal to yourself. They are more different than they are similar.

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Mechanics

Scold's Bridle's unique modifier causes the player to take physical damage whenever mana is spent. This includes mana spent at every stage of a channelled skill. The damage is secondary damage. The amount of damage taken from this effect is affected by physical damage reduction, such as from armour or endurance charges, as well as modifiers to damage taken, such as from Fortify or Oro's Sacrifice.

  • Blood Magic: Life spent instead of mana by skills with Blood Magic does not count toward Scold's Bridle's damage effect.
  • Eldritch Battery: When the Eldritch Battery keystone is allocated, any Energy Shield spent instead of mana does not count towards Scold's Bridle's damage effect.
  • On hit effects: The damage taken is considered a hit, and triggers "on hit" effects, including from Vaal Molten Shell, the Juggernaut passive Unflinching, or Vengeance, even if the damage is reduced to 0, such as while under the effect of Immortal Call. Damage from Scold's Bridle can also trigger spells linked to Cast when Damage Taken Support. However, using a skill that costs no mana will neither deal damage nor trigger on hit effects.
  • Damage shift: The physical damage from Scold's Bridle can be taken as another damage type by using x% of Physical Damage taken as modifiers, such as from Lightning Coil or Cloak of Flame. You can be chilled, frozen, or shocked if you have damage taken as Cold or Lightning. Taking Physical Damage as Fire will not allow the hit to ignite you, as damaging ailments are dependent only on the original damage type and Physical Damage by default does not contribute to Ignite damage. However, it is possible to Ignite yourself by equipping Mokou's Embrace, even if you take only Physical Damage, as the ring allows Physical Damage to Ignite you.
  • Secondary damage: As it is secondary damage, it will also never inflict bleed, because only attacks can inflict said ailment. Damage Conversion modifiers, which can be found on Hrimsorrow, for example, do not affect Scold's Bridle's damage. The damage is neither attack or spell so that it cannot be blocked
  • Critical hits: Damage from Scold's Bridle cannot roll a critical hit, even when using the Assassin's Mark curse or Reckless Defence jewel.

Item acquisition

Scold's Bridle can drop anywhere. It can be chanced. Scold's Bridle belongs to a special group of unique items called league-specific items, which can be obtained from certain divination cards and other sources in addition to their normal acquisition methods.

Recipes

Scold's Bridle can be created from the following recipes:

Amount Part Description
1 Divine Justice Random helmet with an Eternal Labyrinth enchantment
3 Sambodhi's Wisdom Random armour with 30% quality
4 The Blessing of Moosh Random item with a Labyrinth enchantment
9 Fateful Meeting Random two-implicit corrupted level 97 league-specific item
10 Time-Lost Relic Random league-specific item
1 Time-Lost Incubator Random league-specific item
7 Prejudice Random influenced item
6 Costly Curio Random double-influenced item
8 Arrogance of the Vaal Random two-implicit corrupted item
4 Jack in the Box Random item
1 Singular Incubator Random item
1 The Void Random divination card set exchange