My Jeweled Foil crafting log (alt:1200 aug:5)

Here's attempt #2!


Got the sort-of-not-bad attack speed roll on the augment - I might have kept this if i got a top phys roll on the regal. The quest continues.

Oops, forgot to save the third try - it was 15% stun threshold! woo!

Fourth try was:



It's very liberating burning all this currency - especially since it's useless hardcore currency. Gotta use it all up before Nemesis anyway!

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Fightgarr wrote:

It's very liberating burning all this currency - especially since it's useless hardcore currency. Gotta use it all up before Nemesis anyway!

That's the spirit! I'm thinking the same thing about exalted my boots/gloves/helm b/c it is just the leftover HC stuff before the new leagues start.

Anyway, good luck!

Try #5 is interesting:



The crit roll was the aug and is only a level 30 suffix. Then for science I regal and get the top accuracy roll... oops. Too bad that I didn't get the accuracy roll on the aug!

Ya, jewled foils can get outright insane. There is one somewhere in the forums with 540 physical dps.

So I just realized that I don't have my goal for this weapon fully defined.

Prefixes we're aiming for are obviously Tyrannical, Emperor's, and Flaring.

But the only suffix I'm sure about is Celebration.

Other options for suffixes are:

- Accuracy (Ranger) - I'm 99% sure I want this one too, but not certain.
- Crit chance (Incision) or multiplier (Destruction) - I'm probably only going to let a CI/Vaal Pact character use this weapon anyway... could do both of these and not the accuracy?
- Other less-likely options are attribute helpers (i.e. Dex/Phantasm, although "of the Apt" would actually help even more!!!) and stun threshold reduction (which I think is my favourite stat in the game).

Thoughts?

AHAH! Identity revealed. Kuduku appreciates your service.

While Kuduku is a most generous god, his crafting advice is impenetrable to us mortals - he keeps insisting that the last suffix should be lightning resist. I don't see how that is a good idea.

I have however realized that crit chance on a weapon is way better than multiplier since it increases BASE crit chance (and is therefore multiplicative with the rest of your crit chance), whereas I'm pretty sure that Multiplier is just additive along with passives and the support gem.

That means that try #5 actually gives me all desirable mods, except the crit chance could be as high as 38%. That would further increase the base crit from 6.2 to 6.9, which is only a further 11% improvement.

Basically what I'm saying is, I think any sane person would keep try #5.

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Fightgarr wrote:

While Kuduku is a most generous god, his crafting advice is impenetrable to us mortals - he keeps insisting that the last suffix should be lightning resist. I don't see how that is a good idea.

I have however realized that crit chance on a weapon is way better than multiplier since it increases BASE crit chance (and is therefore multiplicative with the rest of your crit chance), whereas I'm pretty sure that Multiplier is just additive along with passives and the support gem.

Exactly. That is why 'increased attack speed' and 'critical chance' are mandatory on BIS weapons. The multiplicative effect is too good to pass up on.

OK, so we want crit chance then. That's decided.

Now I'm looking back at try #4 and realizing how close I got - that was the top crit chance roll, again on the "just for lolz" regal. Man!

Anyway, this try #5 is very tempting to keep. It would mean I'm giving up multiplier for accuracy (since I have 1 suffix left for Celebration), and settling for a less-than perfect crit chance roll. Hmmmm.