Sandstorm Visage

Sandstorm Visage is a unique .

Mechanics

• Base Spell Critical Strike Chance is equal to that of Main Hand Weapon overrides your spell's base critical strike chance. Sources of additional critical strike chance (e.g. , Assassin's MarkAssassin's MarkCritical, Spell, Curse, Mark
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost: (16-33) Mana
  Cast Time: 0.50 secRequires Level 16Curses a single enemy, making them more vulnerable to Critical Strikes. Killing the cursed enemy will grant life and mana, and a power charge. You can only have one Mark at a time.Cursed enemies have a 100% chance to grant a Power Charge when slain
  Hits against Cursed Enemies have +1.5% to Critical Strike Chance
  Hits against Cursed Enemies have +(30-49)% to Critical Strike Multiplier
  Cursed enemies grant (65-600) Life when Killed
  Cursed enemies grant (25-80) Mana when Killed
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  Cursed Enemies have a (0.25-5)% chance to grant a Power Charge when HitPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket., Brittle) still apply to this new value. This does not affect the critical strike chance of secondary damage dealt by spell skills, such as Herald of Ice's explosions.
• Slayer's Overwhelm notable Base critical strike chance for attacks with weapons is 8% does not interact with Sandstorm Visage: a spell will use the weapon's base critical strike chance even with this notable allocated.
• ActumActum
  Butcher AxeOne Handed Axe
  Physical Damage: (141-164.5) to (261-304.5)
  Critical Strike Chance: 5.00%
  Attacks per Second: 1.30
  Weapon Range: 1.1 metresRequires Level 63, 149 Str, 76 DexHas no Sockets
  (200-250)% increased Physical Damage
  You have no Intelligence
  Critical Strike Chance is (20-30)% for Hits with this WeaponBetter to act without thought
  than to think without action. only grants 5% base critical strike chance.

Notable examples:

• is in most cases a straight upgrade over .
• works well with this helmet, especially with a +1 to maximum Power Charges corruption
• can provide some additional crit chance utility for spells.
• and both allow spells to have 100% chance to crit without further investment.
  • This combination can also be used with ; a player will need total 67% increased critical chance on the spell for a Marylene's with no quality to hit 100% chance to crit, or 93% increased critical strike chance with 20% Critical Quality via .
• can allow for crit poison with spells.
• has strong synergies with a Battlemage Inquisitor.
• Wands tend to have the highest base crit chance if using a rare weapon, specifically a wand.
• Being unarmed sets spell crit to zero. has no effect as it is not a weapon.
• Local critical strike chance implicit modifiers (e.g. from corruption) or the Harvest enchantment that grants 1% increased Critical Strike Chance per 4% Quality may be useful to maximize the efficiency of this modifers.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.22.0	Sanctum Uniques are now obtainable again due to the Forbidden Sanctum being added to the core game.
3.21.0	Items specific to Sanctum league have been temporarily drop disabled as a result of the mechanic not going core.
3.20.1b	Wording changed to: Base Spell Critical Strike Chance is equal to that of Main Hand Weapon
3.20.0	Introduced to the game.