Can you share your steps for crafting?
This is what happened.
I was initially browsing some of the saved magic bases that we have in the guild stash to see if there's a good base I can craft from with going from a good magic base to using a Greater Essence of Opulence to get rare boots with MS, defense, and rarity and then go from there.
But then I started calculating what it would cost to do what I wanted to do and I figured it would cost around 200 exalts.
So then I figured, well shit, if it's gonna cost me 200ex to craft in the first place, I wonder if there are any boots on the market that have what he wants that are already 200ex and I'll just buy it outright. Since a lot of crafting techniques are out in the wild, the cost of materials has increased and the cost of finished goods have decreased. This makes it so that profit crafting using recipes from streamers aren't as lucrative as they once were.
However, an interesting effect of that is that there are people who are trying to follow a guide who don't understand what they're doing. They end up with unfinished crafts that aren't that good and they don't know how to fix them, so they dump them on the market. This lead me to come across 5 pairs of boots that I saw on the market for 10 exalts each that were all pretty decent, but they had 2 out of 6 mods that were shit, which made them undesirable.
This is the plan - use the Essence of the Abyss on all of them, and I have a 1 in 3 chance of removing one of the bad modifers. Then, I can desecrate the Mark of the Abyssal Lord and hopefully get something better. If the odds are 33%, if I gamba with 5 items I should get at least one optimal result. So the total cost was 5 base items x 10ex = 50ex, 5x Essence of the Abyss is 70ex, and 5 Preserved Ribs are 5ex, so 125ex total cost.
So, I had 5 boots with 25MS, one decent defense mod, 2 decent cold and fire res mods, and 2 shitty mods. On one of them, I erased a shitty prefix with Essence of the Abyss, and when I desecrated, I hit a decent amount of +evade and +energy shield.
In other words, since Omen of Homogenizing Exaltation and Omen of the Abyssal Echoes are so expensive right now, I thought it might be better if I brute force my way to getting lucky via other cheaper means and multiple tries.
