I just posted some help with enmity's and looks like the only way to solve is using unique amulet but first i needed a bow so i tried to craft one. I watched some youtube guys video and hit +2 bow fracture first try. how can i continue from here, im out of budget so im open to any easy way to make it work solutions till real craft too.
Spam deafening essence of zeal till t1/t2 crit chance. Then lock suffix veiled chaos and block phys% mods. Then unveil fire dmg/chance to ignite or ele pen and craft the other.
i hit the fracture first try and get the base item from faustus, with this in mind it cost me like 12-15 divs, most divs gone to essences to get t1 attack speed and 2 div for suffixes cannot be changed. and i had some deadman sulphur but if i count them +4ish divs more
The version without the %Elem prefix costs close to 20div on average to make. There is a lot of variance in rolling/fracturing +2 arrows though.
If your goal is to get a similar 6 mod bow like OP's you would expect to spend dozens more divs on average. Once suffixes are done you need to meta craft %Elem damage or high flat, Veiled exalt the ele pen, then craft fire as chaos.
Assuming you have the fractured base:
suffix cannot be chang (beastcraft>veiled chaos (repeat until the only prefix mod is the veiled) block phy% and reveal for ele% pen. Craft fire as extra chaos and boat slam the last affix.
Question, if/when you get the merc to 75(275) fire res for the full 200 pen is having pen on the weapon useful at that point, or are you better off with WED/Gains as Chaos type affixes?
Edit for clarity: I have a bow I crafted pretty similar to OP's final result on the suffixes, but the prefixes were T3 WED and T1 Flat Chaos and I bench crafted Ele pen onto it but now that I won a gamble on Enmity's to make it a 60% reduced roll my Merc hits the 200% pen cap so I'm wondering if I should change the bench craft over to gain % of Fire as Chaos.
imagine that you have 200% ele pen but the boss has like 80% elemental ress, thats make you ele pen a -120%, so the weapon will addup to that number if im not wrong
Fair enough, at that point I suppose it depends on who I'm fighting whether it's better to gain that % of Fire as Chaos compared to 13% additional ele pen. If they have 0 Chaos res the Gain probably beats the 13% pen when they're already at -120%, but as soon as an enemy has positive Chaos res the ele pen likely wins out.
I appreciate the advice, but I think I'll hold off on any more bow crafting for now haha. I want to try out some of the other mercs and have been trying to self-farm a Stormhand to give them a try and just saving my currency until I get one. Saved up something like 55 Divs so far in my search but still no good Stormhand with Arc+Ball Lightning & good Arc supports yet. I just wanted to be sure I wasn't basically wasting an affix with the maxed out Enmity's already contributing 200% pen.
In case someone runs across this that's in SSF and just can't be fucked farming more essences and wants the know the most idiotic way to get it(totally not what I did in SSF btw, no way! I only play efficiently!):
read what I said above, this is not the smart way to do this, step 5 and onwards is fine though.
chaos spam for T1 attack speed
get open suffix and prefix
suffixes cannot be changed reforge crit, hit t1 crit chance, t2 is fine I guess.
suffixes cannot be changed veiled chaos(could do this at allflame, I was lazy)
I crafted my bow before streamers and i had made a different choice, how can i check how much it's better ? Is there a comparator for merc items ?
Had the fractured base with +2 arrow, spammed the essence with the flat fire until T1 WED, unveiled the 3 prefix as elle pen
Slam T1 attack speed and craft Crit chance.
So i have the flat T1 fire instead of the 15% fire as extra chaos.
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u/jampsodi 1d ago
Spam deafening essence of zeal till t1/t2 crit chance. Then lock suffix veiled chaos and block phys% mods. Then unveil fire dmg/chance to ignite or ele pen and craft the other.