Corrupting Beauty & Avenging Storm

[Constentin Lévine]

Blightheart last upgrade, according to the wiki description :

Nearby enemies will become Distracted after killing an enemy with the weapon for 20.0 sec

But it is not really true. In the fact, Corrupting Beauty give an Aura (1.5m base radius) to the wearer that cause Distracted for 20s every 3s (pulse).

Because the attack is from the weapon, that proc in the AoE Avenging Storm each 3s.

As beneficial effect (15s base), that can be extended, and on top the effect is not cleared when switching to another weapon set. 

[thelee]

Pictured: Constentin in their Deadfire game, discovering new cheesy interactions never before seen to exploit Avenging Storm

[dgray62]

I used to believe that Avenging Storm in Deadfire was nerfed compared to POE1, but I was totally wrong about that!

[thelee]

i think i'm going to have to update my guide with an entire dedicated section for all the avenging storm interactions and cheese opportunities that have been discovered over the past few months

[Constentin Lévine]

And about Corrupting Beauty, like Heartbeat (20% damage done by the weapon returned to healing over time), they are not cleared when combat end, and can be extended over and over with SoF. 

The funny part is the effect is still active while unconscious, like Avenging Storm. My dead wizard in the middle of the battlefield have kill some enemies 

[Boeroer]

For anybody not wanting to use consumables or per-rest-abilites to get Avenging Storm: Blightheart can be bound to a Chanter - and Tekehu's Stormspeaker subclass has access to Avenging Storm. With Sure-Handed Ila this is quite the fun combo that doesn't require a lot of fiddling and is something fresh for Tekehu after all that Hemorrhaging, puffing Blinding Smokes and stuff.  

Edit: By the way - shooting you own Many-Lives skeletons will work as well. Easy way to get Corrupting Beauty up right at the start of the battle.

Edited September 16, 2022 by Boeroer

[Constentin Lévine]

24 minutes ago, Boeroer said:

For anybody not wanting to use consumables or per-rest-abilites to get Avenging Storm: Blightheart can be bound to a Chanter - and Tekehu's Stormspeaker subclass has access to Avenging Storm. With Sure-Handed Ila this is quite the fun combo that doesn't require a lot of fiddling and is something fresh for Tekehu after all that Hemorrhaging, puffing Blinding Smokes and stuff.  

Edit: By the way - shooting you own Many-Lives skeletons will work as well. Easy way to get Corrupting Beauty up right at the start of the battle.

On top, with an empowered Aveging Storm while Corrupting Beauty is active, you can swith to Sasha's smitar and then refound phrases every 3s without attacking with weapons! At the condition to stay at enemies range of course.

Edited September 16, 2022 by Constentin Lévine