Budget Amulet Anointment List

Players can anoint their amulets in POE2, which allows the addition of passive tree notables. For a full guide to anointing, check out Lolcohol's guide to distilled emotions here.

Distilled Emotions vary a lot in rarity - it's estimated that Distilled Isolation is over 500 times as rare as Distilled Ire.

Sometimes you are happy to settle for second best as long as second best is cheap. Maybe your amulet is likely to be replaced soon.

Or maybe, you are anointing dozens of the same unique amulet such as Fireflower, hoping to get a miracle corruption result.

This is a guide to anointments that are widely useful, and that do not use any of the rare Distilled Emotions.

Reminder: The order of Distilled Emotions matters.

This information is based upon testing from patch 0.1.0.

It still appears mostly accurate as of 0.2.0, but it might have changed slightly.

About 50% of all drops of emotions are Distilled Ire.

The two rarest Distilled Emotions appear to be unable to drop outside higher level content (level 75+ for Suffering, level 80+ for Isolation).

There are four generically good options here:

Sharpened Claw (Ire-Greed-Greed) is one of the most universal options on the entire passive tree. It's also not overly powerful, but it's always better (on attack builds) than not having an anoint.

Eagle Eye (Ire-Greed-Guilt) is also good on attack builds. Remember, long range ranged attacks suffer increasing accuracy penalties. Accuracy may not be an exciting stat, but you have to get it somewhere.

Open Mind (Guilt-Guilt-Ire) is even more universally useful. Because it's so cheap, this is arguably the best choice for putting on a Fireflower that will be modified with 20 Xoph's Catalysts before being Vaaled. If you do hit the '1 in 72' chance for +6 fire skills, your Fireflower will address some of the mana issues that are caused by gaining so many spell levels. And 72 lots of Guilt-Guilt-Ire won't break the bank.

Hunter's Talisman (Paranoia-Paranoia-Paranoia) is the most expensive option on this list but still very affordable. If you have a good belt that only provides one charm slot, this is a solid option to get more.

Most of these are pretty narrow, but might solve a problem on your build or have strong synergies with your character's strengths:

High Alert - Ire Ire Greed. You might consider this if you use Chaos Inoculation; it's otherwise unremarkable.

Insulated Treads (Ire-Ire-Ire) or Strong Chin (Paranoia-Ire-Guilt). These both solve very specific problems. If you are using hybrid Dex/Str gear in the right slot and suffering from stuns or ailments, these may help. They do lock you into continuing to use Dex/Str gear in that slot, however.

Arcane Mixtures (Paranoia-Paranoia-Guilt): This is generically solid on ES builds that spend a lot of mana, although not nearly as good as alternatives that use higher tier Distilled Emotions.

Hard to Kill (Guilt-Greed-Guilt): Generically good on life builds, where both stats are appreciated.

Blinding Flash (Ire-Guilt-Ire): Blind effect is at its best on the Amazon ascendancy. Blind lowers the monster's evasion (equivalent to raising your own Accuracy Rating) and also lowers the monster's accuracy (equivalent to raising your own Evasion Rating). The Amazon can benefit from both.

Pocket Sand (Paranoia-Guilt-Paranoia): Similar to, and typically better than, Blinding Flash. Note that blind effect stacks very well with more of itself due to the evasion formula.

There are limited +10 attribute options with these four Distilled Emotions, but I consider the ones with Envy so much better that I'll highlight those instead. Except for Strength:

Forcewave (Greed-Paranoia-Paranoia): This is one you'd use just for the Strength to equip gear. You are probably better off using an attribute rune, but this is an option to remember. Much better options are available with Distilled Disgust, the 6th most common emotion.

Shedding Skin (Envy-Ire-Paranoia): Will help mitigate freezes, shocks and the like. Solid budget choice, typically much better than Insulated Treads above.

Freedom of Movement (Greed-Greed-Envy): Typically better at mitigating damage than the blind effect nodes above. Only useful if you use overwhelmingly Dex-aligned gear.

Essence Infusion (Envy-Envy-Greed): Intelligence isn't exciting but it's a stat you need to get somewhere, this grants it alongside a reasonably strong rider effect.

Infused Flesh (Greed-Envy-Envy): Life and recovery in one place. You may also consider Resilient Soul (Envy-Guilt-Envy) for similar stats, although Infused Flesh is typically a better overall package.

Heavy Drinker (Envy-Envy-Envy): Every stat on this is good.

Dispatch Foes (Envy-Envy-Paranoia): Don't use this on most builds. But if you are playing a build that does not spam skills but instead fires off one massive skill every now and again - for instance, if you use Hammer of the Gods or Comet - this might be an ideal choice.

Practiced Signs (Greed-Guilt-Envy): Generically good.

Fear of Death (Envy-Paranoia-Guilt): This is extremely strong, but niche. Only of use on minion attack builds, but utterly sublime there.

Determined Precision (Ire-Greed-Envy): The best 10 Dexterity node available with these Emotions.

There's a lot more options when Distilled Disgust is added to the list of emotions, so this list is more picky.

Heavy Weaponry (Paranoia-Disgust-Envy): If you need Strength, this is likely the choice for you.

Blur (Paranoia-Disgust-Ire): Only 10 Dex to the 15 available for the other attributes, but Blur comes with a lot of additional power. Movement speed is a great stat.

Mass Hysteria (Disgust-Disgust-Envy): Attack speed is great. This works whether it's you making attacks or your minions, but if you aren't using minions and make melee attacks, consider the next one instead.

Viciousness (Disgust-Greed-Paranoia): Attack speed is great. Use Mass Hysteria if you must, but if you can use Viciousness instead, do. Remember this is melee only.

Piercing Shot (Disgust-Guilt-Disgust) and Shrapnel (Guilt-Guilt-Disgust): Which of these to use depends upon the rest of your build, both are good but on slightly different builds.

There's hundreds of other options. This list doesn't consider the strengths and weaknesses of your build, just common strengths and weaknesses.

If you play in SSF and want to see a full list of what can be instilled with your presently owned Distilled Emotions, the website Exile Tools has a handy tool for working this out and filtering by keyword.

For more on the best known drop info on Delirium items, here's drop rates for the Simulacrum.