Idols in PoE 2 0.5: Slot-Dependent Sockets That Are Costly to Undo

01 What Idols actually do

Idols go into a socket on one of five gear types: Helmet, Body Armour, Gloves, Boots, or Sceptre. Sceptre socketing arrived in patch 0.5.0, with entirely new bonuses aimed mostly at minions and allies. The defining mechanic: the same Idol does a different thing in each slot. Carved Tenacity is the clean example. In a Helmet, enemies have no Critical Damage Bonus for 4 seconds after you Blind them. In Gloves, enemies you Critically Hit get 100% reduced Life Regeneration Rate for 4 seconds. In Boots, your speed is Unaffected by Slows while Sprinting. One item, three builds.

The catch: there is no free undo. Overwriting an Idol with another socketable destroys the old one, and the only way to recover a socketed Idol is an Orb of Extraction, which destroys the host item and returns its socketed augments. Treat socketing as binding the Idol to that base.

02 Where they drop, and the new limits

Idols drop from monsters possessed by Azmerian spirits, the Azmeri Wisp encounters you can run into from the campaign onwards. while mapping. Every Idol we could pin a drop level on (Fox, Rabbit, Maxarius, Egrin) lists 65, so the headline Idols are endgame supply, even though wisp encounters themselves start earlier. You can also buy them from other players, and game8 lists Currency Exchange access after Act 3 for the Carved series.

One 0.5 change matters for stash math: the Fox, Rabbit, and Stag Idols are now limited to 1 per character, down from 10. Spare copies of those are trade goods, not gear.

03 Seven Idols worth knowing (verified effects)

Per-slot effects below are checked against fextralife, game8, or poe2db. Where a slot is not listed, we could not confirm an effect for it.

• Carved Tenacity. Helmet: Blinded enemies lose their Critical Damage Bonus for 4 seconds. Gloves: crits cut enemy life regeneration by 100% for 4 seconds. Boots: speed Unaffected by Slows while Sprinting. The boots line is the mapper pick. Live price.
• Carved Majesty. Body Armour: +3 to Spirit per Idol socketed in your equipment. Gloves: Companions gain Onslaught for 4 seconds on hitting your Marked targets. Boots: 1% increased Movement Speed while Sprinting per Persistent Minion. Minion and Companion glue. Live price.
• Carved Cunning. Helmet: enemies on Full Life cannot Evade your Hits. Boots: gain Onslaught for 4 seconds when your Marks activate. First-hit consistency for attack builds. Live price.
• Fox Idol (limit 1). Body Armour: Idols socketed in that armour gain the benefits of their Bonded modifiers. Sceptre: 50% increased Presence Area of Effect. Its own Bonded mod in Body Armour adds +5% to Quality of all Skills. Live price.
• Rabbit Idol (limit 1). Body Armour: 12% increased Rarity of Items found, buffed from 5% in 0.5. Sceptre: 15% increased Spirit. The budget magic-find socket. Live price.
• Idol of Maxarius. Body Armour: +1 Charm Slot. Sceptre: Flasks gain 0.20 charges per second, a line added in 0.5. Live price.
• Idol of Egrin. Helmet: enemies you Curse take 6% increased Damage. Sceptre: 20% increased Curse duration. Curse-build staple. Live price.

04 Socket it or sell it

Destruction is what makes Idols an economy. Every overwritten Idol is destroyed, and freeing one costs the host item via an Orb of Extraction, so demand keeps refreshing 14 days into Runes of Aldur. Extraction cuts both ways: trade-listed gear with a good Idol still socketed is sometimes the cheapest way to buy that Idol. Before you commit one, check what it trades for. We run live price pages for the tradeable Idols, including Idol of Sirrius, Idol of Ralakesh, Idol of Grold, Idol of Eeshta, and Idol of Thruldana, alongside the seven above. Paste your dump tab into the stash valuator to see whether the Idol in tab three is gear or rent money. And if you are sorting league-mechanic loot anyway, the Reward Picker ranks Remnant rewards by trade value.

05 Common mistakes

• Socketing into gear you will replace. Rescuing the Idol means spending an Orb of Extraction and losing the old base. Budget the orb in, or wait until the slot is settled. On a duo split like ours, that usually means waiting until the build's final base is in hand.
• Reading the item, not the slot. The same Idol can be a damage mod in a Helmet and a movement mod in Boots. Check the per-slot line before you click.
• Hoarding limit-1 Idols. You can use one Fox and one Rabbit. Extra copies are inventory pretending to be gear. Sell them.
• Ignoring Bonded modifiers. A Fox Idol in your Body Armour turns on the Bonded benefits of Idols socketed there, which changes which Idol belongs in the chest.

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