Headhunter

Headhunter is a unique, released in the Nemesis league. If players can consistently kill rare enemies, the Headhunter is the best-in-slot belt for clearing Maps, Heists, Grand Heists, Blighted maps, Harbinger encounters and Delirium encounters. Other belts might be more suitable for bossing. Due to its powerful effects and low drop rate, the Headhunter is usually one of the most expensive items in each league, traded amongst players for many dozens of. It is also commonly used as a status symbol.

There is no item in the game that provides the same effects, however the jewel provides a less powerful version of the Headhunter effect, with its ability to steal one mod from slain enemies as opposed to stealing all mods.

Mechanics
Upon killing a monster, the player gains all of its monster modifiers for the next 20 seconds. You also gain the mods if a Minion, Trap, Mine or Totem kills a rare monster; this is an exception to the usual definition of "you".

The following mods can not be gained by the player:

Effects
Common mods that players can gain from killing rare enemies are listed in the table below. It is possible to gain all of these mods at once, if players can consistently kill rare enemies, therefore, it is possible to activate extreme defensiveness and huge damage boosts. Players will commonly gain mods that grant them a proximity shield, mods that multiply player's energy shield upto 10 times, and mods that grant improve damage and critical strike chance.

While the Headhunter has stolen mods from a slain enemy, it will display the activated mods next to the player's auras. The monster modifiers that Headhunter has stolen sometimes use alternate names, eg "Life Regen Aura" for the aura, and so on. The table below uses the name displayed on the buff bar.

'''Note: It is not possible to gain any "negative" mods from enemies such as curses or hexes. Mods gained will always have a positive effect either to improve the player's defense or offensive capability.'''

Corrupting
Extremely wealthy players may risk their Headhunter and corrupt it using. It is possible to:
 * Brick it by turning it into a
 * Add an implicit
 * No effect other than adding the corrupted property
 * Other effects like transforming into another item

Implicits
The purpose of corrupting a Headhunter is to obtain rare Vaal Implicits. The full list of obtainable implicits for Headhunter are:

Version history

 * Many unique items that were league-specific have now also been added to the core drop pool.
 * (In content reveal video) No longer a Nemesis league-specific item. Now added to the core loot drop table.


 * Decreased the droprate of Headhunter


 * Fixed a bug where and  did not correctly steal mods from Volatile Blood monsters.


 * Fixed a rare crash with the Headhunter unique.


 * Fixed an interaction between the Headhunter unique item and the Proximity Shield Nemesis mod, where the Proximity Shield did not expire.


 * Fixed an instance crash related to Headhunter interacting with some Nemesis mods.


 * Introduced to the game.
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