Path of Exile Delirium: Top 6 Cluster Jewel Notables

TL;DR

  • Overwhelming Malice provides 30% physical as extra chaos damage on critical strikes
  • Supercharge makes non-crit lightning damage lucky for consistent high rolls
  • Cold to the Core scales cold damage with all three attributes simultaneously
  • Master of Fear offers universal 10% more damage through intimidate and unnerve effects
  • Hollow Palm Technique enables unprecedented unarmed damage scaling with dexterity

Path of Exile’s Delirium League introduces a revolutionary jewel system that expands your passive tree through 281 new notables. These Cluster Jewels socket into specialized clusters located around the tree’s perimeter, offering unprecedented build customization. Understanding which notables provide the most impact can dramatically improve your endgame performance and clear speed.

Strategic placement requires careful planning since each jewel cluster occupies valuable passive points. Optimal positioning depends on your build’s pathing and which notables complement your existing damage scaling methods. Proper jewel placement can often provide more power than several traditional passive nodes combined.

1. Overwhelming Malice

10% chance to gain Unholy Might for 4 seconds on Critical Strike

This notable provides exceptional value for critical strike builds, particularly those utilizing poison mechanics. The 10% chance to gain Unholy Might synergizes perfectly with high-crit characters like Assassins, who can maintain near-permanent uptime through frequent critical hits.

Unholy Might converts 30% of your physical damage into additional chaos damage. This dual scaling benefits both hit damage and poison applications simultaneously. Even non-poison builds gain substantial damage increases, making this notable difficult to ignore for any physical-based crit build.

Common Mistake: Players often underestimate the value of Unholy Might for non-poison builds. The 30% physical as extra chaos functions as a more multiplier that scales with all your existing physical damage increases.

2. Supercharge

Lightning Damage with Non-Critical Strikes is Lucky

Lightning damage inherently suffers from wide variance in damage rolls, creating inconsistent performance. Supercharge addresses this core issue by making all non-critical lightning damage rolls lucky, effectively doubling your damage calculation chances and selecting the superior result.

The “lucky” mechanic means each damage instance rolls twice, keeping the higher value. For a typical 100-1000 lightning damage range, average damage increases from approximately 550 to around 800 per hit. This substantial improvement in consistency makes lightning builds significantly more reliable against tough enemies.

Advanced Tip: Combine Supercharge with Elemental Overload for massive damage scaling without investing in critical strike chance. This combination works exceptionally well with skills that have high base damage but low crit multipliers.

3. Cold to the Core

1% increased Cold Damage per 25 Dexterity

1% increased Cold Damage per 25 Intelligence

1% increased Cold Damage per 25 Strength

This notable functions as a powerful attribute-scaling mechanism for cold damage builds. It provides 1% increased cold damage for every 25 points in any attribute, making it exceptionally versatile across different build archetypes.

Even builds focusing primarily on one attribute benefit significantly due to items like Astramentis that provide substantial all-attribute bonuses. The recent addition of Catalysts from Metamorph league further enhances this scaling potential when applied to attribute-giving gear.

Bow builds particularly excel with Cold to the Core, especially when utilizing influenced bows with cold damage per dexterity modifiers. With modest attribute investments of 300 strength, 300 intelligence, and 1000 dexterity, you gain 64% increased cold damage from this single notable.

4. Master of Fear

Enemies you Curse are Intimidated
Enemies you Curse are Unnerved

Master of Fear delivers exceptional value across virtually any build archetype by applying both intimidate and unnerve to cursed enemies. Intimidate increases attack damage taken by 10%, while unnerve provides the same benefit for spell damage.

These effects function as separate more multipliers, making them exceptionally powerful for damage scaling. The notable works with any curse application method, including blasphemy auras, curse on hit setups, or manual casting.

Optimization Tip: Combine Master of Fear with Bane for a free 10% more damage multiplier that requires no additional investment beyond your standard curse setup.

5. Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

+1% to Critical Strike Chance of Herald Skills
+25% to Critical Strike Multiplier if you dealt a Critical Strike with a Herald Skill Recently

This notable fundamentally transforms Autobomber and Herald-focused builds by solving their core critical strike consistency issues. Previously, players relied on specialized items like Shimmeron or specific ascendancy choices to achieve reliable Herald crits.

The 1% base critical strike chance for Herald skills dramatically improves uptime for Autobomber mechanics.

The conditional 25% critical strike multiplier activates after any Herald skill crit, creating powerful damage windows. This flexibility allows builds to utilize alternative ascendancies or itemization while maintaining critical strike reliability.

6. Hollow Palm Technique

You count as Dual Wielding while you are Unencumbered
60% more Attack Speed while you are Unencumbered
14 to 20 Added Attack Physical Damage per 10 Dexterity while you are Unencumbered

Hollow Palm Technique introduces the innovative unencumbered mechanic, activated when you have no gloves, main hand, or off hand items. While unencumbered, you gain dual wielding benefits including 10% more attack speed, 15% block chance, and 20% more attack physical damage.

The notable provides two separate more multipliers to attack speed (dual wielding and the 60% explicit bonus), creating unprecedented attack rate potential.

The flat physical damage scaling with dexterity produces extraordinary numbers. With only 500 dexterity, you gain 700-1000 flat physical damage, which synergizes exceptionally well with Cyclone’s inherent attack speed multipliers.

Advanced Strategy: Combine with Gladiator’s Arena Challenger for additional more multipliers to attack speed, potentially reaching attack rates previously unimaginable for unarmed builds.

Successfully integrating these Cluster Jewel notables requires understanding passive tree pathing efficiency and opportunity costs. Prioritize jewel sockets that require the fewest travel points while providing access to multiple powerful notables.

When planning your attribute investments, consider how Cold to the Core interacts with other attribute-scaling mechanics. The combined effect often exceeds the sum of individual components when properly optimized.

Common Pitfall: Avoid over-investing in Cluster Jewels at the expense of essential defensive nodes. Balance remains crucial for surviving endgame content.

Action Checklist

  • Identify optimal jewel cluster locations based on your build’s passive tree pathing
  • Acquire Large Cluster Jewels with desired notable combinations
  • Calculate attribute requirements for Cold to the Core scaling
  • Test notable uptime in controlled environments before committing to full build
  • Balance offensive gains from Cluster Jewels with sufficient defensive investments

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