Item · Legendary Soul Shard

Essence of Anguish

Essence of Anguish is a legendary item (Soul Shard) in Diablo III. Power: Every time you deal poison damage to an enemy you increase your cooldown reduction and movement speed by 2.5% while your damage received is increased by 5% for 10 seconds. Max 10 stacks.

Possible variants

These fixed properties roll one of the listed forms.

  • Critical Hit Chance Increased by 7–10% · +10–15% Damage · Arcane skills deal 20–25% more damage. · Lightning skills deal 20–25% more damage. · Fire skills deal 20–25% more damage. · Cold skills deal 20–25% more damage. · Holy skills deal 20–25% more damage. · Physical skills deal 20–25% more damage. · Poison skills deal 20–25% more damage. · Increases Attack Speed by 12–15%

Possible powers

This slot rolls one of 3 powers.

ClassPower
–Your movement speed and cooldown reduction can be increased up to 15 times by dealing poison damage to an enemy.
–When you deal poison damage to an enemy, they receive 50% increased poison damage from all sources for 10 seconds.
–When you kill an enemy, you deal the damage done by the death blow to all enemies within 25 yards. Pets and Followers cannot trigger this effect.

More: Soul Shard

Questions & answers

Can you extract the power of "Essence of Anguish" in Kanai's Cube?
No, this power is not available in Kanai's Cube.

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