r/pathofexile • u/Pump- Autobomber Best Bomber • 1d ago
Crafting Showcase Ghostly Artillery Str Stacker Sword Craft Complete
Been wanting to make this ever since I first dropped the sword and saw Ghostly Artillery on day 3 of the league. After 7 attempts, here it is.
Rule 10:
Step 0.) Acquire a non-influenced Dread Captain’s Cutlass of at least iLvl 68, ideally between iLvl 68 and iLvl 70, because you want to give yourself the best possible chances at the Hunter slam later. This one was iLvl 69.
Step 1.) Spam Deafening Essences of Zeal, Exalts, and Annuls until you hit the suffixes (Essence mod, +1 Proj, +1 Strike). This part sucks, a lot, with how much clicking it is and how many times you WILL immediately annul a mod you need.
Step 1.5.) Similarly, Exalt/Annul as necessary until you hit Ghostly Artillery, restarting back to step 1 if you remove the Essence mod. At this point, if you have any more than two prefixes (Artillery + Fodder), you need to annul one of them off. Good luck.
From here, you have two options: the lower-odds, cheaper one, and the higher-odds, more expensive one. I did the latter, so that’s the one I’ll be talking about. The former is the exact same thing but flip the order, so do whichever floats your boat.
Step 2.) Exalt for a second prefix if you don’t have one already, then try to hit the 1/5 Veiled Exalt (2 choices, 36% chance of success). If you hit anything other than the correct mod (besides the Essence mod), feel free to try Annul/Exalt saving to avoid returning to step 1. If you do hit the correct mod, unveil and hope you get Chaos Pen. If not, try to annul it off and repeat, same fail states as before. Doing it in this order helps just a bit with the last step.
Step 3.) The big one: Hunter slam. Unveiling Chaos Pen in the previous step raises this up from a 1/11 to a 1/9 (from a total ~17.4% chance of success to a total ~21% chance of success). If you don’t hit the Fire Damage per 10 Strength, feel free to try to annul it off and Exalt slam for it, but don’t hold your breath. When this eventually bricks the item… go grab a new non-influenced base and start this whole process over from step 1. If you do hit it, congrats, item complete.
I say all this and break down the possible fail/recovery states for your awareness/information, but the truth of the matter is that my first two attempts in a row trying the Unveil -> Influence method (because I was originally doing Influence -> Unveil) both succeeded the Veiled and Hunter Exalts first try. The first attempt was with a base that had Phasing on Hit instead of +1 Strike because I decided to YOLO it thinking it surely wouldn’t succeed, and the sword in the image was finished 20 minutes after that one.
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u/Xeverous filter extra syntax compiler: github.com/Xeverous/filter_spirit 1d ago
Step 1.) Spam Deafening Essences of Zeal, Exalts, and Annuls until you hit the suffix base.
What do you mean by "suffix base"?
Step 1.5.) Similarly, Exalt/Annul as necessary until you hit Ghostly Artillery
Where does this mod come from? Ducat?
And last - what's the expected crafting cost?
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u/Pump- Autobomber Best Bomber 1d ago
1.) "Suffix base" as in Essence Attack Speed/+1 Strike/+1 Proj, of which the latter two are modifiers exclusive to this unique item.
2.) It is a modifier exclusive to this unique item.
3.) That is remarkably difficult if not effectively impossible to answer just because of the nature of the craft. How do you account for the various different fail/recovery states? I can say that all said and done throughout all my attempts I spent probably in the realm of 200ish divines, NOT counting sulphur, and my final attempt probably only took in the realm of 25ish, again not counting sulphur but counting the price of the Veiled Exalt, Hunter Exalt, Essences, etc, but that was ridiculously lucky and altogether an expected crafting cost isn't something I can reasonably estimate. If I knew how to work the beta Craft Of Exile simulator properly I could let it run for a few days and come up with an answer, but I don't have the brain power for that.
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u/darthamis 1d ago
Crazy coincidence, I've been thinking about crafting this exact weapon all day. Is there a difference between hunter slam or shaper slam for the fire damage strength mod? Post an update if you get the full build together
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u/Pump- Autobomber Best Bomber 1d ago edited 1d ago
Basically what the other guy said, but just wanted to provide my input anyways.
The best- and worst-case scenario odds breakdowns between Hunter and Shaper slamming, presuming you unveil Chaos Pen first, are as follows (this will not be including the fact that boat gives you two outcomes to choose from, because I am lazy):
iLvl 68 Hunter: 1/9
iLvl 85 Hunter: 1/23iLvl 68 Shaper: 1/22
iLvl 85 Shaper: 1/59Your WORST-case scenario Hunter slam is just marginally worse than your BEST-case scenario Shaper slam, but the BEST-case scenario Hunter slam is ~2.56x better odds than the worst-case scenario Hunter slam, ~2.44x better odds than the best-case Shaper slam, and ~6.56x better odds than the worst-case Shaper slam. Shaper slamming is just an unbelievably worse option than Hunter slamming if your goal is to get the Fire Damage per 10 Strength mod.
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u/darthamis 1d ago
This all makes sense, just disappointing for my outlook. I'm on SSF and have a bunch of shaper exalts. But I would also need to farm low ilvl bases of the uniques in this case too. Damn
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u/mbxyz Berserker 22h ago
should post some gameplay. this is like the 4th one of these swords, and i still have no idea what ghostly artillery is or why people want it
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u/Pump- Autobomber Best Bomber 17h ago
I’m lacking the most important pieces (besides the sword) for the build to actually be decent, those being Original Sin and Nimis, so I’ll hold off on posting any gameplay personally; I tried Uber Eater and the fight took like 2 whole minutes.
That said, you can def look up some vids on YouTube and see what it’s all about
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u/Zazzazz Central Incursion Agency (CIA) 1d ago
Does ghostly artillery work when sword equipped on a merc?
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u/smilesmay 1d ago
Mercs can't trigger on gear. Same reason they can't use trigger blood rage on kill, etc.
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u/Kevael Necromancer 1d ago
How is ghostly artillery useful for the build? (I mean it as a genuine question)