What does corrupted do on an item?

[Lokhagos]

What does corrupted do on an item?

[FleshyBB]

https://www.poe2wiki.net/wiki/Corrupted#Corruption_outcomes

[Lokhagos]

So a corrupted item is good? or even better than a normal one?

[Insanitor]

Corruption modifies an item in unpredicable ways.
What this means is that it may:
- Add an Extra Affix to the item
- Add an Extra Socket to the item
- Replace an Affix with another Affix
- Do nothing and just adds Corruption Affix
- Reroll all the Affix Values
- Reroll every Affix (refered to as a Brick, as it totally changes the item)

However, once an item has been Corrupted, you can no longer make changes to it. This means, you can no longer Increase the Quality, Add new Affixes to it, Remove existing Affixes or Reroll existing Affixes. You can still add Runes to Sockets.

[burner19]

Originally posted by Lokhagos:

So a corrupted item is good? or even better than a normal one?

Its gambling. Can be good or brick item making it crap

[ministrog]

so in poe 2 you can have a 7 affix item? i wonder if you can get more... as in "add an affix" but x 2.

[Eunomiac]

Just want to highlight one thing that's easy to miss in the bullet list of possibilities --- it's quite possible to Corrupt an item and roll "no change", especially on non-unique rares (i.e. yellow items). I was confused as hell when the first few times I Corrupted something, nothing happened :P

[Nitro]

is corruption can removed the "cannot have enrgy shield" on mask of Mask of the Stitched Demon