Best Way to Craft +5 Spell Staff?

Hey,

i just want to craft a nice spell staff for some fun builds.
I think i want to aim for:
- +3 Lightning Spell Skill Gems
- +2 Spell Skill Gems

and some other good prefix. I actually got the following base, by spamming 'lightning dmg to spells' essence.



Two Questions:
- Is there a way to force the +2 Spell Skill Gems?
- What would be the best Option to craft such a +5 Staff?

Thanks for your experience!

There is no way to force the +2 to all spell skill gems from what I can tell.

I think the cheapest way of getting the +2 mod is alterations and augments.

Then you can imprint + regal, prefixes cannot be changed, Harvest reforge guarantee lightning to get added lightning damage to spells (getting the level mod from this is theoretically possible but extremely unlikely), annul a prefix if necessary, then fill suffixes including cannot roll attack modifiers and Harvest augment lightning, which has a 1/3 chance to get the +3 mod instead of the +1-2 mod.

That does not work on an influenced item however.

If you want a specific third prefix like the essence one, you will need to get a fractured version of the +2 mod first.

There is one guy that makes this staff(shaper) by week 2 every league. There has to be some trick to it.

[Update]



1. I Alt spammed until i got +2 to all Spell Skill gems
2. I made an imprint
3. I Augment to hit something good and got Spell Crit / Chance for Power Charge

Now i am not sure how to Continue, but i found an "Augment Cold" in Harcest.

My actual Idea:
- I could make another imprint
- hope to Regal another Suffix
- block for example "added cold" prefix
- Slam "Augment Cold" and hope to hit +3 to all Cold Gems
(No Cold Shaper Mods, so the chance is 1/3)
- ...to be continued...

What do you think?

"

DunklerKoenig wrote:

[Update]

1. I Alt spammed until i got +2 to all Spell Skill gems
2. I made an imprint
3. I Augment to hit something good and got Spell Crit / Chance for Power Charge

Now i am not sure how to Continue, but i found an "Augment Cold" in Harcest.

My actual Idea:
- I could make another imprint
- hope to Regal another Suffix
- block for example "added cold" prefix
- Slam "Augment Cold" and hope to hit +3 to all Cold Gems
(No Cold Shaper Mods, so the chance is 1/3)
- ...to be continued...

What do you think?

Specific augments do not work on influenced items. The only ones that work are influence ones.

You could regal + annul, then craft multimod + prefixes cannot be changed + suffixes cannot be changed and reforge guarantee lightning and it would "only" cost an average of 696 exalts plus imprint costs. Or in other words, it is not realistic, and even then that would probably not be the most efficient method of crafting it.

+5 lightning staves with Shaper influence start around 200 exalts in standard. The only one in the league listed at 60 ex is corrupted with a bad implicit. There is only one +5 cold staff with Shaper influence listed below a mirror and none in the league.

Crafting that is not trivial even with the most efficient approach.

Unless you are actually trying to create a mirror-worthy item, I recommend giving up on combining Shaper influence and +5.

"

DER_PSYCHOPATH wrote:

Specific augments do not work on influenced items. The only ones that work are influence ones.

Ouch, i missed that one..

"

DER_PSYCHOPATH wrote:

Unless you are actually trying to create a mirror-worthy item, I recommend giving up on combining Shaper influence and +5.

yeah maybe you´re right.. without Shaper mod and a lower itemlevel, it should be much easier. And until now it was quite cheap, i give this way a try tomorrow.


But since it is just for fun, maybe i keep it and try some Imprint + Harvest Regal for a lucky shot.

Thanks for your help!

After running the numbers..you can get +5 done for about 167 exalts. Remaining costs to finish the craft are relatively cheap unless you are after a specific veiled modifier and/or several high tier suffixes.

"

BrettLee wrote:

After running the numbers..you can get +5 done for about 167 exalts. Remaining costs to finish the craft are relatively cheap unless you are after a specific veiled modifier and/or several high tier suffixes.

Care to share the way to do this?

"

DunklerKoenig wrote:

After some Imprints and Harvest Regals i hit this one:



+3 phys is not what i was looking for, but its something. (cold or lightning would have been very nice)
And the flat Mana feels bad as a third Prefix, maybe non caster to caster would be a way to solve this.

But before i continue crafting, i should take a look which builds would be possible ^^

Update

I managed to clean it up, now i need to fill up the last prefix, to reroll the suffixes