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.

Sources

The most common methods to farm the Headhunter or Headhunter-related divination cards are:

No.	Method	To Obtain	Tips
1	Running certain maps which have a chance to drop Headhunter-related cards	Headhunter-related cards	Divination Scarabs improve the drop rate
2	Opening in any map or area	Headhunter-related cards
3	Running any map with the Nemesis league Zana mod active (Nemesis may not be required in 3.14)	Headhunter	Reliquary Scarabs improve the drop rate
4	Using on average 13,000[confirmation needed because of 3.14 change] and on a Leather Belt within a map with the Nemesis league Zana mod active (Nemesis may not be required in 3.14)	Headhunter
5	Using on average 430[confirmation needed because of 3.14 change] on a Unique Leather Belt within a map with the Nemesis league Zana mod active (Nemesis may not be required in 3.14)	Headhunter	Item level 40 is best

Mechanics

Upon killing a rare monster, the player gains all of its monster modifiers for the next 60 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

An example showing the active mods stolen from slain enemies. Displayed mods: Frenzy Charges, Power Charges, Headhunter Buff, "Accuracy and Crits" Aura, Endurance Charges, "Energy Shield" Aura, "Medium Physical Damage" Aura, Tailwind, Inspiration Charges

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.

Icon	Mod Name	Effects
	Headhunter Buff Active	Always displays while the Headhunter is granting the player extra mods. A countdown timer indicates the duration remaining for the extra mods.

Icon	Mod Name	Effects	Image
	Max Inspiration Charges	Skills deal (5-7)% more Elemental Damage per Inspiration Charge Skills have (6-8)% increased Critical Strike Chance per Inspiration Charge Players can only stack upto a maximum of 5 Inspiration Charges, there is no known way to increase this limit
	Max Power Charges	40% increased Critical Strike Chance per Power Charge By default players can stack upto 3 Power Charges, skill tree passive nodes need to be activated to unlock more
	Max Endurance Charges	+4% to all Elemental Resistances per Endurance Charge 4% additional Physical Damage Reduction per Endurance Charge By default players can stack upto 3 Endurance Charges, skill tree passive nodes need to be activated to unlock more
	Max Frenzy Charges	4% increased Attack Speed per Frenzy Charge 4% increased Cast Speed per Frenzy Charge 4% more Damage per Frenzy Charge By default players can stack upto 3 Frenzy Charges, skill tree passive nodes need to be activated to unlock more
	Tailwind	Grants 10% increased movement and action speed.
	Soul Eater	5% increased attack speed per Soul Eater stack 5% increased cast speed per Soul Eater stack 1% increased character size per Soul Eater stack Players gain 1 Soul Eater stack per slain enemy while the buff is active Players can gain upto a maximum of 50 Soul Eater stacks, increasing the player size substantially
	Proximity Shield	Players cannot be hit by direct damage from enemies outside the shield.
	Energy Shield Aura	Grants additional energy shield and increased energy shield recharge.
	Resists Aura	Grants additional elemental resistances.
	Speed Aura	Increases movement speed, attack speed and cast speed.
	Life Regen Aura	Causes nearby enemies to take more physical damage.
	Medium Physical Damage Aura	Causes nearby enemies to take more physical damage. Increases the character size
	Large Physical Damage Aura	Causes nearby enemies to take substantially more physical damage. Substantially increases the character size
	Accuracy and Crits Aura	Grants accuracy and critical strike chance.
	Faster Run	Grants faster run speed and action speed.
	Grasping Vines	Grasping Vines slow your enemies when you take a hit.
	Lightning Retaliation	Lightning bolts strike at nearby enemies when you take damage.
	Physical Projectile Retaliation	Physical projectiles strike at nearby enemies when you take damage.
	Lightning Clone Retaliation	A lightning clone of the player detonates itself into enemies when you take damage.
	Elemental Thorns	Fires a projectile which deals damage of each element when you take elemental damage.
	Physical Thorns	Fires a projectile which deals Physical Damage when you take elemental damage.
	Fire Projectile	Fires a projectile which deals Fire Damage when you take elemental damage.
	Fire Totem	Fire totems automatically appear around the player which deal Fire Damage to enemies that hit the barriers.
	Summon Skeletons	Skeletons automatically appear around the player which attack nearby enemies.

Corrupting

Warning: Before corrupting your Headhunter, remember to add s or s on it first, and to reroll its stats using and , as its stats cannot be modified after it is corrupted.

Extremely wealthy players may risk their Headhunter and corrupt it using . It is possible to:

• Brick it by turning it into a Rare Belt
• 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:

• (8–10)% increased Area of Effect
• +(20–25)% to Critical Strike Multiplier during any Flask Effect
• (8–12)% increased Attack Speed during any Flask Effect
• (8–12)% increased Cast Speed during any Flask Effect
• (35–40)% increased Critical Strike Chance during any Flask Effect
• (12–15)% increased Skill Effect Duration
• (8–10)% increased maximum Energy Shield
• (6–8)% increased maximum Life
• (8–12)% increased Movement Speed during any Flask Effect
• (20–30)% increased Rarity of Items found
• (3–5)% increased Quantity of Items found
• Wrath has (15–20)% increased Aura Effect
• Anger has (15–20)% increased Aura Effect
• Hatred has (15–20)% increased Aura Effect
• Determination has (15–20)% increased Aura Effect
• Discipline has (15–20)% increased Aura Effect
• Grace has (15–20)% increased Aura Effect
• (4–6)% increased Intelligence
• (4–6)% increased Dexterity
• (4–6)% increased Strength
• +(14–16)% to all Elemental Resistances

Alternate artwork

	Race season 7 prize for reaching 1000 RP.
	Relic version from the Timeworn Reliquary

Version history

Version	Changes
3.14.0	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.
3.7.0	Decreased the droprate of Headhunter
2.3.1	Fixed a bug where and did not correctly steal mods from Volatile Blood monsters.
1.1.5	Fixed a rare crash with the Headhunter unique.
1.0.4	Fixed an interaction between the Headhunter unique item and the Proximity Shield Nemesis mod, where the Proximity Shield did not expire.
1.0.2b	Fixed an instance crash related to Headhunter interacting with some Nemesis mods.
1.0.0	Introduced to the game.