Confused about omniscience amulet

[anagram]

I thought I'd try a berserker lightning strike. They all seem to wear the Crystalised Omniscience amulet. I bought it, but when I put it on, I can't wear any of my gear because it drops my stats. I tried going out to fight, thinking if I hit something, I'd gain omniscience and be able to wear things again, but that doesn't happen.
I looked at the wiki and there's no info. When I google it, I get articles about what people think it'll do.
I really don't get it, if your stats drop, you can't use any gems or gear. I must be missing something.

[xılǝℲ ★]

Attribute modifiers apply to omniscience. Let's say you have 10 strength as your only addition to omniscience, you'd have 10 omniscience. This means that if you have an item that has an attribute requirement of 2 dex/str/int, you can wear it (10*0.25), but if it is higher than 25% of your total omniscience, you can't wear it.

So if something requires 100 strength, dex or int (whatever the highest stat requirement on the item is), you need at least 400 omniscience (so a total of 400 points between str, dex and int ).

[anagram]

Ok, I can see how picking particular armor types is necessary, but what about gems? Are their requirements also affected?

[xılǝℲ ★]

Originally posted by anagram:

Ok, I can see how picking particular armor types is necessary, but what about gems? Are their requirements also affected?

Yes it affects gems, and no you should be doing what the other players do, which is stacking many +attribute modifiers. Look at the top players on poe.ninja, they all have good stat rolls on most of their gear and even % implicit mods where possible. This should allow you to wear anything you'd need. But to start out you could just divide your omniscience by 4, if the number is higher (or equal) than the max stat requirement on the item, you're good to go.

[anagram]

Ok, thank you, I appreciate your responses.

[xılǝℲ ★]

Originally posted by anagram:

Ok, thank you, I appreciate your responses.

No problem, I agree it is worded quite vaguely and doesn't note its implications. Typical PoE style lol

[D K]

If you go into your misc stats screen, you'll actually see omni-science and it's bonuses listed. This makes it easier to figure out how much more +stats you need on gear/skill tree. Also, pathing to 1 of the 3 attribute wheels and it's mastery ont he skill tree, along with annointing a second one to your non-corrupted amulet will get you MOST of the omniscience you need to equip most gear/gems.

All you need to do then is fine tune resists and pick up extra omni science for bonus damage. 1000 Omniscience should be your goal.