Forgotten Uniques: Yaomac's Accord | Path of Exile

Yaomac's Accord was added to Path of Exile during patch 3.14 Ultimatum league but it didn't go into the core game until patch 3.19. In patch 3.23, Shepard of Souls, the keystone-like modifier that this unique grants, was changed in a significant way. Yaomac's Accord is an all-in vaal skill enabler, requiring a very specific build and gear setup.
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0:00 Introduction
0:27 Yaomac's Accord
1:12 Vaal Skill Mechanics
2:55 Increased Vaal Skill Damage
3:22 Soul Gain Prevention Duration
6:54 Shepherd of Souls
10:13 Soul Gain
11:35 Gain Charges on Vaal Skill usage
12:20 Why isn't it used?

[@dreamcore_gg]

3.25 in late July Aware 💀

[@LarpingAsALarper]

Good thing we have a lot of forgotten items to fill this time.

[@billplates5255]

Sadge

[@otz6408]

I just had 3 different advertisements ask me if im ready. And i am! Unfortunately for them im only ready for Poe :3

[@bred9526]

late july is sea time sadge

[@AintNoJustice]

Ive never even heard of this unique

[@Cyclopsided]

Yeah, I have NEVER seen this because I don't farm trialmaster stuff

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

I have, but I've never liked how Vaal builds work so I've never been tempted to use it.

[@yourcommentisbad]

I've been farming trialmaster the past week for the shield (the other~10% drop) and have seen this sceptre at least 8 times. Then I check youtube and this video pops up. To quote Trialmaster, "Am I being punished?!"

[@dreamcore_gg]

Oh god

[@travisterrio2198]

This item is really cool and came out during a league I didn't play, so I didn't even know it existed. thanks for the video

[@mr_macpop]

I’ve been looking forward to the next video in your series and it’s again very informative and well structured. Thx for the deep dives. Please keep up the great work.

[@paulb5571]

I would like to see one on the Winterheart unique amulet. I feel like it had an extremely niche build that it fit in, which has since been almost entirely lost. The methods to literally freeze oneself and stay a viable combatant are so extremely few and clunky that the amulet is mostly used for it's large cold resistance modifier than it is for the unique regeneration while frozen condition. The only use I ever saw for it was to be able to continue moving using the Unstoppable Juggernaut Ascendancy. This would be combined with Izaro's Dilemma(now drop disabled), Berek's Pass(armour while frozen), the Brass Dome(to prevent critical damage), and Reckless Defence to ensure you were critically hit. The critical would freeze you, giving you a large damage boost from the Dilemma, armour from Berek's Pass, and life regeneration from Winterheart. It was rarely used because of the massive number of components it needed to work, followed by the items needed to make use of it once it did work.

[@D2ezbmu]

love this series bud. keep it up

[@vioectrolysis]

This series is so cool, I want to make a build with this scepter now. Thank you for the video!

[@dreamcore_gg]

That's the purpose of these videos, to inspire!

[@inigocenozhuarte6362]

Thanks for the video sir! Love this serie ❤️❤️

[@c-tothefourth4879]

This series is teaching me so much about in depth mechanics and ways to solve problems.

[@dreamcore_gg]

Glad to hear it!

[@PartTimeExile]

Dreamcore explaining things even i can understand. If i was as well versed as you in my vids i would be in a different dimension. Thanks for the vids bro.

[@darktower74]

Love these. I like how there is either a spoken caveat or implied one for each set of gear

[@m20horz]

Always wondered what would it take to spam a vaal skill. Great video as always.

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

The easier, albeit MUCH more expensive, option is Hateforge gloves.

[@GrimReapiN]

Hey thanks for doing these videos. I love to play PoB more than PoE, so when you post a video it gives me at least 4 hours of enjoyment. This unique seems pretty interesting, and the fact that it was recently changed means there's things to be discovered. Off to PoB for me. I never got the chance to play the Vaal skill meta back before they changed how soul gain prevention works. Maybe this will be a good one!

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

If you want to make a Vaal skill build, then the easier, albeit MUCH more expensive, option is Hateforge gloves.

[@23rubenferreira]

I really love this unique!

[@Tuzder]

Love this series - what about the iron mass ?

[@SmartKidsRiddles]

amazing series could you do the wolf summoner claw from harvest next ? i bet people have no idea they can play wolf summoner

[@JohnThems]

Been thinking about this one earlier. It looks like it has potential, but it looks like a huge pain in the ass to theorycraft. The build would also probably have a lot of socket pressure. That being said, what Vaal skills would you make a build with Yaomac's? Going by the new and old design, I think you want to have at least 2 or 3 Vaal skills to cycle around to spam.

[@dreamcore_gg]

The old Shepherd of Souls promoted using multiple Vaal skills and punished you for using non-Vaal damage abilities, but the new one is just fine using a single Vaal skill imo. BV, Firestorm, Storm Call are all good choices, Reap could be interesting too

[@n8doggy733]

Doon Cuebiyari, Vaal Sceptre. would love to see a vid on this ❤

[@raphasage]

I did not know that soul eater have sinergy with vaal skills! Might produce a interesting build

[@QBestVisuals]

I would love to see an episode on Hateforge and its fall from grace

[@sandere9563]

Hateforge only works with Vaal attack skills though.

[@hevans900]

Damn these videos are good.

[@gamefuler]

so how does it work when your soul cost now costs more than the original capacity of the skill? can I still gain souls up to that charge or do I have to wait for the soul usage to dissipate so I can cast the next Vaal skill? For example if the original cost is 30 with 1 spell capacity and now my cost is >30 souls, do I have to wait or can I just gain more souls?

[@akimezra7178]

This is an inspiring series, but i would suggest adding examples to the usage of all those uniques, as someone who barely looks at vaal skills, id like to see how this "plays" or at least in theory, hear what is a good skill choise for such a build, maybe ill get lucky in ruthless and find it lol

[@chandlergordon8878]

wow cool item. i have never seen or heard of it in years of playing. i've also never noticed triumvirate authority but it's cool to think there is a damage build that could work off a single ring and a single one-handed weapon. seems like it would be potentially really good for an MF build, maybe even bossing an MF since vaal skills can supply single target damage

[@mike322__]

9:45 I feel like this would be more intuitive with graphs instead of data points. Compare with and without certain modifiers or combos of items

[@MandruDuce]

I played Str Stacking Vaal Eq 2 leagues ago. That is a skill that can have more duration than the soul gain prevention. Had Soul Ripper automated. It never popped once during soul gain prevention. I don't think it can. Just like you cant activate a life flask while on full life.

[@Endymion0021]

I kinda liked the old version, the 50% consumed souls converted to other Vaal skills, it allowed for more skills in the rotation, which I realy prefer to play with, being a one button spamer never felt good to me and the new version kinda wants that to be the case

[@hgrenm]

i love these videos

[@marc-andreblais5818]

would there be a way to use writhing jar to get easy charges?

[@dreamcore_gg]

Unfortunately the worms from Writhing Jar don't grant souls on kill

[@bayublack92]

The best video series in POE history ❤

[@imasquash9421]

FYI, soul ripper cannot be used during soul gain prevention

[@dreamcore_gg]

Interesting, that's great info thank you

[@nater8410]

Main problem with this weapon is numbers i think. It offer to little if you compare it to any crafted weapon or you can use exarh staff to triple your dmg so there is no point going for this unique vaal weapon.

[@dreamcore_gg]

It could definitely do with a bit more damage, but the reason to use it is there(Shepherd of Souls) so that you can spam vaal skill(s) with the right setup in place

[@MasterBot98]

I tried making a vaal skill build, and found that all vaal spells just kinda suck. The best vaal spell imo is storm call (if you can have enough reduced prevention duration), and even it's kind of mediocre. The only good option I found is VLS, but I never made a melee build, so project is halted for the time being.

[@davisdawson5047]

i made a weird infinity vaal build before, it was vaal ancestral warchief with str stack replica alberon. DPS wasn't even a fifth of a normal one with the same cost but it was hilarious with the high speed leap slaming totems.

[@esvbanARPGs]

I tried to use the item then abandoned it after it didn't work with hateforge. The %less soul cost doesn't work with rage cost.

[@Trypan]

God Ive missed the gw2 ost. Should get back into it again.

[@dreamcore_gg]

I've had the game since launch, enjoyed it on and off ever since but most recently has been by longest absense from the game. I haven't playing it since the end of EoD. The upcoming expansion looks fun though, might have to boot it up again if we get another league like Necropolis

[@Trypan]

@@dreamcore_gg yep, quit myself just before EoD. Should get back in lol

[@TheTookiplatypus]

i like the idea of this skill but it needs something extra, an item specific corruption implicit pool like glimpse of chaos has.

[@dreamcore_gg]

That would be a fun addition

[@MrJaldal]

Iam very very sry for Sirgog, but u own the crown now! Bow down to the new PoE content overlord!

[@shuvo8908]

maybe show the 4 builds that uses it as an example

[@dreamcore_gg]

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[@shuvo8908]

@@dreamcore_gg thank you but I was going to say it would have been informative in the video. Just a suggestion.

[@DaJodad]

Having farmed a few thousand ultimatums at this point, you'd be surprised how few of these i have seen. I wonder if you will do a video on gamblesprint. It's an awful item that i have seen only 4 of.

[@dreamcore_gg]

Gamblesprint might be one of the most bizarre items in the game

[@DaJodad]

@@dreamcore_gg I have no idea what they were thinking with gamblesprint beyond it being a meme item. If you take lots of hits your speed averages out higher than what a normal set of boots give you, but if the last hit from a group was a huge negative role, it feels awful. On a build with avoidance and evade it doesn't work either as you could be waiting for a good roll to happen. The rest of it's stats are subpar as well so it's not like it makes up for it. Sone ways they could improve it while keeping the idea is to change range from 0% to 100% and put some other stats that change under other conditions but are potentially powerful.

[@dreamcore_gg]

@@DaJodad Yeah it's a very awkward item. Some kind of full avoidance build with a way to self hit at the start of a map? That's about all I've got 😆

[@DaJodad]

@@dreamcore_gg Perfect, self hit Vault if Atziri build using gamblesprint to go a bit faster if you are lucky! Lol

[@emanuelalves3786]

The problem with this item it's the sacrifice of the weapon slot for it, in this league i've saw some vaal LS running with all this interactions, except this mace, unfortunatly this is not an viable item to use in tem actual state of the game

[@Frank_Art]

ty, now i want to do a vaal skill build 😅

[@user-yu9qq3dr6b]

Funny i is this on my fulcrum char on swap to get 5 vaal breaches but wouldn't use as intended lol

[@AJ-ke8si]

rad

[@schnudercheib]

Damn, is my boy Dreamcore a gw2 player?

[@dreamcore_gg]

I've played it since launch on and off, but haven't played it for a long time now(since EoD). Fun game though, upcoming expansion looks fun but I still prefer GW1 overall

[@schnudercheib]

@@dreamcore_gg Very cool! Funnily enough it's very similar to me; very active from beta until right before EOD. Also very based take on gw1. Keep up the excellent poe content my man!

[@wolvie90]

Vaal skills is in such a sad state. I appreciate GGG for trying to make Vaal skills effectively big nuke skills with cooldowns but they rarely ever worth the effort and at times they have actively antisynergy with their original skill.

[@dolphlungrid1033]

"forgotten uniques" proceeds to make videos on all the uniques ive been using for awhile

[@dreamcore_gg]

Off-meta enjoyer spotted!

[@severinschultheiss5213]

Pog

[@Ilyak1986]

Well, as this video shows, the mechanics around trying to maintain enough vaal soul uptime is pretty ridiculous, because not only are you trying to zero out the vaal soul lock, but you're also trying to generate enough of them, and for bossing, you just won't be able to generate enough souls to keep ripping your vaal skills, even on a Pathfinder.

[@dreamcore_gg]

Yeah you're basically going to need to get time out of skill usage, ie. going ignite etc to be able to upkeep for bossing

[@sharpazn]

good old whale storm call

[@juliangrabowsky6418]

I wonder if it is possible to have permanent vaal coldsnap uptime? However without using the ring. It seems very powerfull but not as powerfull as a 6 link.

[@jedrusnowak3317]

This exists? Damn

[@dreamcore_gg]

It is indeed an item

[@bobbobnovic4903]

yaoming tmac

[@Timinax]

I tried to theorycraft a vaal spark build with this and using both of the vaal flasks, pathfinder and the tides of time, but the math was too much.

[@dreamcore_gg]

Yeah there's a lot of moving parts in this type of build and they need to line up just right

[@zypherdoesstuffonline5712]

Now imagine a vaal skill to proc charges and then use discharge

[@Vulgaels]

Wouldn't this be great on Vaal Warchief Flamewood totem? You pop him for super low costs every 8 seconds to smack and do crazy damage. You can even stack charges and go PDR and Transcendent quite easily. I mean 1 worm flask is enough souls to pop the totem on cd of souls

[@dreamcore_gg]

Could be an interesting use case with VAWC, Writhing Jar worms don't grant souls though

[@_Titanium_]

Hey that's not a bad idea, the question is whether it would be better than the non-vaal flamewood build with black zenith.

[@_Titanium_]

Just read up on the wiki. I don't think this would work too well because vaal totem skills use totem duration, not skill effect duration, to scale the vaal cd (TIL). Also if you were going to wait that long you might as well not use yaomacs at all.

[@darkfang25]

80% less + 30% less is 110% less, so wouldnt it be 0 soul cost with both?

[@dreamcore_gg]

Less/more multipliers are not additive, they are multiplicative

[@darkfang25]

@dreamcore_gg Right, so you multiply by 110% no? You don't do 80% then 30% of that or vice versa, it's all one multiplier?

[@dreamcore_gg]

@@darkfang25 It's 80% less and 30% less, so 0.2 * 0.7 = 0.14 (86% less). Less/more modifiers multiply against eachother, increase/decrease modifiers add with eachother.

[@darkfang25]

@dreamcore_gg man I been playing this game for 6 years I still don't know anything lmao. I'm sorry I was just trying to work it out

[@dreamcore_gg]

@@darkfang25 All good, feel free to ask questions, I always answer them if I see them & have time

[@anuj61111]

Mate this series is lovely. But tbf this unique looks boring!

[@user-xc8bh4mv5h]

I’m first

[@shnurr214]

I really like your content but I have to say these forgotten uniques format doesn’t interest me nearly as much as your build or mechanics breakdowns. Maybe it’s just personal taste though, in general love your channel.

[@dreamcore_gg]

That's fair, I wasn't too inspired by Necropolis so I also didn't really keep 'in-sync' with builds/wasn't too enthusiastic about making the build breakdowns this league. Forgotten Uniques is a mini-series to pass the time, but a lot of people enjoy it I think because it's a bit different, still familiar to my normal content with lots of mechanic breakdowns etc.

[@Cat_vs_Jad]

I like them tbh, I'm learning new tech