Esoteric Alteration

Esoteric Alteration is a Legendary Gem in Diablo III. It can only be socketed into Amulets and Rings, and drops from Greater Rift Guardians.

Stats

Esoteric Alteration
Legendary Gem

Properties:

• Gain 10% non-Physical damage reduction.
  • Upgrade: +0.5% damage reduction per Rank.
  • Max: 60% damage reduction at Rank 100.
• While below half Life, your resistances to Cold, Fire, Lightning, Poison, and Arcane are increased by 75% (Requires Rank 25)

Chuanyang of Xiansai designed a gem which would transport magical energies from their target to the workshop of his greatest competitor, Chau Thanh. He created several copies of this gem before he mysteriously disappeared.

Notes

• The damage reduced is any Elemental Damage type except Physical.
• Damage reduction is multiplicative to other similar modifiers; resistance bonus stacks directly to other similar enhancements.

Tips

• As most Physical attacks are melee, this gem may be especially useful to ranged classes, who are generally not engaging in close combat either way.

Trivia

This section contains facts and trivia relevant to this article.

• This is one of the five gems (the others being Molten Wildebeest's Gizzard, Mutilation Guard, Invigorating Gemstone and Moratorium) that offer defensive, rather than offensive, bonuses.

History

• This gem was Season Two-exclusive, but once this season ended, started to drop for normal characters as well.