Which Ring/Ammy Bases are bad?

I'm looking to start doing the 2 Chaos recipe but I'm not sure which Ring/Ammy bases should be the highest priority for the recipe.

So which ones have the worst base?

useless bases:

coral amulet
paua ring

moonstone rings aren't very useful either

yeah moonstone rings, when one drops its like a paua ring or an iron ring, I sort of sigh a little.

However, from another point of view, if you were to build an idealised gear set with perfect stats you'd either use coral rings, moonstone rings or diamond rings, anything else would be a waste of extra hp or crit potential when it would be so easy to overcap your res on other slots or with a 45% suffix on the coral/moonstone.

I wouldnt do chaos recipe blind in all honesty, Id id them and get 1 back rather than 2, you just never know what youre selling. One day I scrolled a bunch of unid rings I was keeping and found some epic stuff worth several exalts each, decided never again. Maybe if youre uber selective with the base items you keep unid then sure, paua rings and coral amulets are the way to go, quilted jackets, lordly plates etc, you can probably take the risk down a lot.

the optimal choice is diamond ring or prismatic ring if you can not cap youre resists with other gear slots.

coral/moonstone are generally not optimal even though life and es can be stacked without limit.

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Nephalim wrote:

the optimal choice is diamond ring or prismatic ring if you can not cap youre resists with other gear slots.

coral/moonstone are generally not optimal even though life and es can be stacked without limit.

generally not optimal only because generally people dont have optimal gear in other slots. In an optimal gear situation a yellow res ring has no place. Any life based character I have Im looking for 2 coral rings with top tier life prefix, I may not get away with that at first but eventually thats what Im gonna be using. The only exception that makes sense imo is the diamond ring if you are crit based. Id argue there is no situation outside the diamond ring where a coral or moonstone ISNT the optimal ring unless we are talking uniques, a res ring is just a placeholder or a swap for an ele weakness map perhaps, even then its a sub optimal swap.

I think the train of though that sets out to use prismatic rings is flawed, youre just throwing hp down the drain for a stat that can be capped elsewhere.

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ipwngaming wrote:

I'm looking to start doing the 2 Chaos recipe but I'm not sure which Ring/Ammy bases should be the highest priority for the recipe.

So which ones have the worst base?

iron rings too low
paua rings too low
moonstone rings way to low
amethyst rings too low, better to get a chaos roll on a 30% resist ring because chaos rolls can be double the roll of the ring

diamond rings. 30 crit chance is rather small and not really needed for most crit chars that will have 800% crit anyway.

coral amulets so bad it is comical.

mono attribute amulets can also be used


honorable mention to coral ring (life is nice but it is not scalable and 30 life often falters to the attractiveness of 30% resistances , but the ring is saved by nature that if you max out resist than hp never hurts.

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Snorkle_uk wrote:

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Nephalim wrote:

the optimal choice is diamond ring or prismatic ring if you can not cap youre resists with other gear slots.

coral/moonstone are generally not optimal even though life and es can be stacked without limit.

generally not optimal only because generally people dont have optimal gear in other slots. In an optimal gear situation a yellow res ring has no place. Any life based character I have Im looking for 2 coral rings with top tier life prefix, I may not get away with that at first but eventually thats what Im gonna be using. The only exception that makes sense imo is the diamond ring if you are crit based. Id argue there is no situation outside the diamond ring where a coral or moonstone ISNT the optimal ring unless we are talking uniques, a res ring is just a placeholder or a swap for an ele weakness map perhaps, even then its a sub optimal swap.

I think the train of though that sets out to use prismatic rings is flawed, youre just throwing hp down the drain for a stat that can be capped elsewhere.

you dont have enough knowledge about end game gearing to make that kind of assessment. Many high tier builds will opt for certain key uniques that have little or no resistances which need to be made up elsewhere.

The obvious example is low life wander with crown and LA builds using koams and bloodance.

@snorkle_uk if you run all those insane uniques, you need as much Resists on rings as anyhow possible.

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Nephalim wrote:

useless bases:

coral amulet
paua ring

pshh one day theyll buff coral, then this will be even more epic! *i hope*