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Márkusz wrote:

I understand the preparation for life meta, but with the whole context of my sentence I meant to say I think the priorities should be on crafting ES for the following reasons:

The ES meta will likely remain among wealthy players in standard as they already have or will be still able to afford legacy ES gear, as the audience of such desired ring, so the demand will be high.

Once ES based, because of the vaal pact nerf, ES recharge will have the highest demand ever.

Life based gears will be getting new mods, which the current mirror crafts could be missing, and as you said socketing reasons.

Crafting such ring is not _that_ hard, you don't have to eternal before 4 or 5 stats, I can't afford it personally, but maybe you could:
The base cost of a 3-prefix ring is almost constant. Depending what non-crafted prefix mod you want, you only have to roll a single prefix, in case of 44-47 flat ES, which afaik is easy. Roll it on a ring as single stat, then regal any suffix (which will be cleaned). That should be below 1 ex on average, multimod, prefixes cannot be changed, %ES, faster recharge, scour for the 3-prefix base, for 6 ex total cost.
Then you can go for the 4th and 5th mods, I think a 5 mod should be still made without eternals.

Comparing to the cost of regular meta crafting, each try for a 5-mod item costs 4 ex for a regular item, and 8 ex for this type of ring, ignoring the cost of the base of the regular item, which can be really high, but for the ring it is included in each try.

The cost can even be lower than regular meta modding considering that with a regular item you are cleaning the same item over and over, while with this ring, you grab new base for each try, so a 5-mod ring that didn't get 2 T1 suffixes, but otherwise useful lower suffixes could be sold for good money since it has 3 perfect prefixes every time.

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Márkusz wrote:

i84 opal base can make it a lot more expensive if you want to get a new base for each try, so probably the others, or even unset. Also as you said you can't block suffixes for the slams.

Also the comparsion of costs I mentioned going for a 5-mod is not correct, as often you clean at 4 mods when it hits really bad, so it's rather 3 ex for regular and 7 ex for this type, so the difference is bigger, but it should still be doable if you sell the bricks and mediocre slams.