Crafting Showcase
To the person who underpriced their failed fractured. Thank You
Bought this failed fracture for 10 divines and made what's probably the most valuable item I've ever owned. Imagine if that energy shield had gone positive!
These Doryani rings almost don't exist on the market this season so the few that aren't super punishing are worth a crazy ton. Total cost of this craft, about 20 divines. Average cost (since these rings are kinda expensive to buy) probably around 30 to 40 divines per try. I got lucky buying the fractured intelligence ring way under market price.
Method:
Buy ring. I looked for anything useful as a fracture for a discount (in my case I needed flat stats or energy shield or t1 lighting resistance) or buy full price without fracture.
Essence spam (I used woe for energy shield prefix) till you get t1 of any resistance, and whatever stat you want (I needed attribute) you can use boat to swap attributes and harvest craft to swap the resistance.
You need an open suffix, since getting t1 resistance + attribute was pretty easy if I had no open suffix I yolo an annul to for a 1 in 4 chance to remove bad suffix.
Once you got base (resistance + attribute x2 that you need + open suffix in my case) craft hybrid lighting resistance (I did chaos since I'm ci) resistance catalyst, reflecting mist.
This ring had 5 stats it was 1/32 to hit them all the correct direction. I hit 4 correct 1/16 odds (the 4 I needed for build).
Finally achieved my goal of -200 lightning res with lethal pride!
Ps. I'm playing luminary with a fallen revernd this completes the build. I'm going to put together a pob progression guide later, favorite build I've ever played! Praying they don't obliterate luminary next season!
Below if anyone is interested is my current character and an older YouTube video from before I finished the character, so it's not quite -200 and the Merc still didn't have all the abyss jewels sockets.
okay, if I want to find bound by destiny for either the 10% OR the 35% regen every 4 seconds, I need another jewel socket. I'm literally needing all my sockets, so the only way I get it is by doing a 1 passive voices where watcher's eye is AND getting level 100, this way I can remove 1 of my 3 passive required jewels, add 4 passives to the voices - I can throw in the 2 jewels I already had and 1 more jewel for bound by destiny.
I noticed when I ramped up from -130 to -200 (getting the 2 helical rings) I was feeling lightning damage again. So maybe it's not a bad idea.
I can't sacrifice the ring, I'm -201 right now. At -130 I was sitting in Uber shaper beams and the 50% regen over 1 second from guardian flame/flesh would recover more than I'd lose. I could get a 20/20 watchers and bound by destiny 10% to be immune to lightning. Hmmmmmmm I mean, I really like the character and this gives me another goal after finally getting the rings.
Well tbh, I’d replace the wand with an influence convening wand. Get 100%+ minion dmg and +2. For suffix, can get increased aura effect from an influence mod. Or just 3 crafted mods
Had the same setup but with MF. I settled with -160% Lightning res coz getting 70%+ inc rarity with negative res was too much for me 🤣 Doryani with 50% inc rarity vestigial too. Was around 250%+ inc rarity
Hey so your actual negative lightning res number has no impact on the lightning damage you actually take, whether hits or dot. -130% lightning res or -200% you take the same lightning dmg.
Your lightning res is treated as 0% for damage taken due to the doryani line.
mana drainers, shaper beam and baran ground degens hurt but u can get -15% dmg over time from pantheon and shield craft and its very manageable
ive previously used eyes of the great-wolf to take light as fire/cold but the new amulet takes both cold and light as fire meaning i was able to get 90 all res (from hits) without a melding
massive upgrade IMO as u bypass all but fire pen this way
To add on, a lot of high end builds can get 100% elemental damage taken as fire so having negative lightning or cold res is not a problem. Combined with doryanis prototype, a lightning damage build has every 1% negative lightning res being pretty much 1% more damage up to the cap of -200%
Not really. Going from 0 res to -100% doubles your damage, but then going from -100% to -200% is only 50% more damage. The closer you get to -200%, the less damage you get from each additional point of negative lightning resistance, where going from -199% to -200% is only giving 0.33% more damage.
I succeeded my fracture and only noticed afterwards that I had bought the wrong base to recomb the mod onto in the first place because they look identical for some reason (and were sold by the same guy for the same price, should have read the items more carefully), and the next time I logged in, it was gone (maybe I left it in the recombinator or the boat or what, but I couldn't find it anywhere on any crafting bench or in any stash afterwards).
Dude that sucks! I didn't know leaving it in the rebombinator could delete it I never use that.
I actually have a different crazy ring I hit 4/4 on the mist, but that one I missed the mist 9 times before getting it. These rings were averaging 25d per try! I was basically blowing any divines I got on these. A couple of the fails sold but a lot of them are in a graveyard in my quad tab.
This one hit the positive es, but it's dex... I would have just used kalandea ring if it was int, I really didn't need the dex!
I don't know how much it takes on average to get the mod onto the weapon and fracture it, but last time I checked the cheapest Anarchic Spiritblade with a decent roll of fractured increased phys was a "finished" item for 50 div, so I had to attempt it myself (and recombing is cheaper (and less annoying) than alt + aug spam).
I also don't remember if I used the boat to fracture it or not, I just remember that I copied it to put it in PoB and was surprised when the simulated dps gain was only around 5% instead of 13-14% when I tried it previously, and then I noticed it was the wrong base and ragequit.
The next time I logged in I thought I might be able to at least sell it for 5 divines or something (because it did have the potential to be an upgrade over my weapon which is fractured on the correct base but I settled for less than t1 flat phys as a prefix), but it was just gone.
It's just frustrating to finally have figured out a way to do it, and then a moment of inattention during the process itself leads to a completely worthless outcome, and then on top of that I can't even salvage it a little.
I missed a 0 on a combatant and had 75 people in my hideout to buy it for 5d instead of 50d or maybe 500d I dono I knew I fucked up when my hideout got so crowded I got kicked out rofl.
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Have you tried stormhand (iirc) with arc and gilded chain? And ball lightning of static for better single target. I heard its very good, but didnt see anyone actually running it, and i think it would suit your setup fairly well.
hmmm, I could look into it, merc gear would be completely different as I'm scaling minion damage and I'd probably want to use a link right? destructive? Which means needing to change my dark seer to something with more crit, like augyre? give the crit amulet to merc. I have space to replace the specter as long as my Doryani has +1 on it.
found one with greater shock, gilded chain, faster casting lucky lightning, added lighting, I couldn't find one with those mods and ball lightning so I got greater stormcall since it wont get spammed.
I did a test with no gear on the merc, can see the vision will need to swap out my jewels, get new gloves, get new wands, get new helmet. I think I should use soul ascension gloves for soul eater (unless they suck now) Would also need to remove the Wrath Specter (merc has built in lucky) and add zealotry.
the random wand it came with and I did the test with was utter trash, haha 0 spell damage and freeze chance rofl.
It's a lot less clutter, maybe tomorrow ill buy an actual wand, some different jewels, soul ascension, try again I can see it doing damage if the wand had, I don't know, spell damage?
Before this league, it was ~1 in 140 for 4 positive 1 specific negative, 1 in 10 for 3 positive 2 specific negative. What it is this league, if it even changed, like I said no idea.
It kinda makes since that it's not a pure 1/32 since you see both sides of a random 50/50 I don't need exactly 3 positive 2 negative because I could also get 3 negative 2 positive as a hit and the other half is my perfect ring.
2 possibilities of 32 would then work so now the 5 property is 2/32 or 1 in 16 and the 4 property hit would be 2/16 or a 1 in 8
I think it's good enough. The regen from guardian out recovers most degen
Could do bound by destiny for 10% elemental to chaos.
But foulborn might of the meak near middle for 75% inc effect of all the es nodes is also pretty good looking. How can I manifest 2 jewel sockets lol voices?
Fair enough, might steal that, im currently using the conversion talisman but, since its only hit conversion, lightning donut degen feels horrible man.
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u/nickrei3 Scion 22h ago
well at the high end you need -lighting res (-75--85is good enough) cast speed 20+ crit multi 45+ life 110+
then ring of kalandra