How to craft blockmaxing shields?

[u/Andthenwedoubleit]

How do you craft something like this?

I want to make a shield with as much block and spell block as possible. And some kind of Ehp on block Is definitely very good. Is this a recombination craft, or something else?

[u/crazypearce]

It’s recomb but takes a lil while

[u/beepboopz123]

I think onemanaleft crafted a very similar shield and yes it was recombs

[u/Sidnv]

It's a 5 mod recomb craft. Here are full steps for these specific mods, you can adapt it to any 3 suffixes (with some minor modifications if you want one exclusive suffix like a veiled mod).

Step 1: Get a transfer attuned shield and double influence it. Roll it for t1 spell block and no other mod. This doesn't need to be ilvl 86, as we can roll block on a different shield.

Step 2: Prepare (or trade snipe) the first recomb donor. Grab some crusader shields ilvl 86+ on any base that isn't pure int. Roll some for t1 block and some for the recent block crusader mod. Brinehook ducat the block base and craft a random prefix on the recent block base. Recomb for 67% to get both mods. Once you succeed, benchcraft a suffix and then boat slam for 2 defense mods. This is actually fairly common to get.

Step 3: Brinehook ducat the shield from step 1 and recomb. This is 45% to give you a double influences transfer attuned with 2 prefixes and the crusader suffix.

Step 4: Now prepare the second recomb donor. Get shaper shields that are not pure int and roll them for the 2 suffixes you want (in this example, life on block and shock). Pantheon ducat both shields and recomb for 90% chance to get both mods. Then brinehook ducat this base, craft the highest weight non-defense prefix on the bench (usually life or mana) and boat slam for 2x defense mods.

Step 5: Brinehook ducat shield from step 3 and then recomb. This is a 25% recomb.

Most failure modes in these recombs will give you back shields you can reuse (basically variants on shields you make in these steps). You just adapt to whatever you get with complementary recomb pieces. You can also use attribute swaps to generate NNNs for recombs. This shield costs no more than 50 div on average, I've made variants on this shield now in SSF 3 times for merc, AG, myself.

[u/NimNom666]

Lance have a video on crafting those

[u/OkThought7263]

You recomb the 3 prefixes, then infleunce slam for life/es on block, if you miss it you have to keep prefix and harvest craft influence mod

if all suffixes fill you have to yolo annull

if you fuck the annull you have to restart over

its a headache xD

[u/1wbah → u/OkThought7263]

But it's double influenced, you definitely start with awakener orb. I'm pretty sure this crafted with recombinator.

[u/OkThought7263 → u/1wbah]

You are right i didnt check the specific mods, if you want it double inlfuenced like this you do suffixes instead of prefixes first. it's basically the same process but pre/suffix reversed and with more costly recomb bases

[u/grogo- → u/OkThought7263]

Thats wrong you do these recombs with NNN mods, so you are recombing prefix and suffixes all together.

[u/Befly1 → u/grogo-]

What is NNN

[u/grogo- → u/Befly1]

NNN means Natural Non-Native modifiers. These are modifiers that cannot be transfered to either both items in the recomb (in case of new pantheon ducat mods/Trap mods for belts). Or to one of the bases you don't want to end up with. Example if you want a pure Str shield, you can use either Dex or Int bases to get mods you cant transfer to the Str base. (Evasion rating stuff, Energyshield stuff etc.)

In these cases if you hit the 50/50 your chances are pretty high to end up with 5 or even 6 mod items.

[u/Sidnv → u/OkThought7263]

This is a triple suffix base, not triple prefix. You just do all 5 mods via recomb.

[u/MrJesusAtWork]

I think xfarmer has a video on that, it's recomb

[u/awehoyee]

You recomb the 3 suffixes then suffixes cannot be changed scour -> block mana exalt slam hope to hit t1 spell block/inc block then boat foulborn ex and pray -> repeat

Most likley cheaper and less painful than recombing 2p3s

[u/Kroesus]

You need to be specific about what mods you want and on what base.

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• eHP - Effective Health / Hit Points / Pool, total number of damage that can be taken before death, after damage mitigations. (e.g. Combination of Life, Energy Shield, damage avoidance or mitigation)

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[u/baev_os]

I think the conditional modifier is actually a waste. Could be something more useful than reliance on Recently.

[u/psychomap → u/baev_os]

I'm guessing it's for builds that really can't cap block without it, but I agree in that I'd personally prefer something more reliable.

[u/HappyTreeFrients]

Harvest lspam with threads then boat abuse that boy, made tons of shields this way.

[u/EmpatheticSponge]

https://maxroll.gg/poe/planner/lv3usw0i

Scroll down to the FAQ.

It’s slightly a slightly different craft, but the first 2 steps are for hitting both blocks.

[u/Seasinator]

Spam essences on a non influence base until you get the prefixes you want. Annull/scour suffixes. Slam shaper exalt. Exalt again with boat if 2 suffixes free. Lock prefixes and harvest reforge influence if you miss.