The Oppressor Elegant Round Shield - Path of Exile

The Oppressor Elegant Round Shield

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The Oppressor

The Oppressor is a unique Elegant Round Shield. Shields. Chance to Block: 25. Armour: 148–170. Evasion Rating: 148–170. Movement Speed: -3%.

Requires Level 70, 85 Str, 85 Dex.

  • 120% increased Block Recovery
  • -10% to amount of Suppressed Spell Damage Prevented
  • +(26–32)% chance to Suppress Spell Damage
  • (200–250)% increased Armour and Evasion
  • +(9–13)% Chance to Block
  • You take 20% of Damage from Blocked Hits
  • (50% of Damage from Suppressed Hits and Ailments they inflict is prevented)

Flavour Text: Every clash leaves one more scar.

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Mechanics

The You take 20% of Damage from Blocked Hits modifier is additive with similar modifiers found on Glancing Blows and Ritual basetypes like Brimstone Treads.

Other than taking damage from the hit, the mechanics of block are unchanged. A blocked hit still cannot apply on-hit effects, such as ailments or curses. The chance to play the block animation is based on the full damage of the hit.

By default, you take 0% of the damage from blocked hits. Glancing Blows makes you take 65% of that damage. The Implicit modifier on Basemetal Treads, Darksteel Treads or Brimstone Treads, and the explicit modifier on The Oppressor, makes you take 20% of the damage of blocked hits. If you have at least one of these, you'll take 85% of the damage of blocked hits. With all three sources, you will take 105% of the blocked hit, or 5% more damage than you would have taken if it was not blocked.

The Oppressor Build Guide

Spell Suppression is designed as the Dexterity character’s best answer to spells. In general, Spell Suppression gives easier access and more reliable spell damage mitigation for Dexterity characters without reliance on specific uniques. It’s also much more reliable than Spell Dodge, but has a lower maximum. There will be a few specialised ways to invest in increasing the spell damage suppressed to reward high investment if you want to further protect yourself from spell hits.

Item acquisition

The Oppressor can drop anywhere. It can be chanced.

Recipes

The Oppressor can be created from the following recipes:

Amount Part Description
5 The Mercenary Random corrupted shield
3 Sambodhi's Wisdom Random armour with 30% quality
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

Trivia

The Oppressor and The Squire were the first unique Elegant Round Shields to be added to the game in version 3.16.0. One day before the release of the version 3.16.0 update, the community team at Grinding Gear Games posted a teaser of the Oppressor on the Path of Exile subreddit, titled Trash to Trash—a play on words of Trash to Treasure. When one redditor made a comment about how seemingly lackluster the Oppressor is, Chris Wilson replied stating that "[The Oppressor] is amazing at doing what it's supposed to do". Although it was never explicitly stated, there is a strong implication that the developers included the Oppressor in the version 3.16.0 update in order to prevent players from deterministically acquiring the Squire. Without the existence of the Oppressor, the Squire would be the only possible outcome of upgrading an Elegant Round Shield to unique rarity using a Tainted Mythic Orb or using an Orb of Chance with the Trash to Treasure prophecy active.