Near-Perfect Armour Gloves
This was honestly a pretty lucky craft on my side. All rolls are maxed out except for the life roll in the hybrid mod.
First step was getting the normal gloves to 30% quality.
Then I used Orb of Annulment + Perfect Augment to force +2 to Melee Skills.
I hit T1 flat armour, +2 melee, and a random trash third mod. After that I divined the item to hit 160 flat armour so that, if needed, I would have a 66% chance to fracture a decent mod (fourth unrevealed desecrated mod).
The fracture didn’t hit +2 melee - it hit the 160 armour instead. Not bad though, and this actually helped later.
From there I had to do what you unfortunately always have to do in situations like this: chaos spam, exalt slam, and annul.
Whittling wasn’t really viable here - too expensive and the weighting isn’t great (attack mods have higher tiers than armour mods, also its possible to whittle to suffix, and AS has low weighting as well).
I spent around 3000 chaos in total. I stopped whenever I hit +2 melee or attack speed.
Eventually, on one of the attack speed rolls, I managed to hit:
- T1 hybrid life
- T1 % armour
So I ended up with 4 mods: all prefixes filled with armour + T1 attack speed as a suffix.
The plan from there was:
- Add a random suffix
- Use Omen of Dexteral Crystallization to slam Essence of Horror
This step is a 50/50 since you can delete the relatively hard to hit attack speed.
I got lucky and kept it, and hit T1 % Armour to Elemental Damage.
After that, I decided to use the Well to get +2 Melee Skills back.
20 Omens of Light later it finally hit.
Then I divined the item for maximum armour. This part was fairly easy since the hardest mod to divine was already fractured at max value.
Finally, I used two Hinekora’s Locks to add 3 socket (the first attempt failed, so I had to re-divine before trying again).
Overall, I’m extremely happy with this craft. As far as I can tell, this is the only pair like this currently on the market.
For comparison:
60% increased socketed items + max armour gives 1348 armour on gloves. Mine sit about 120 armour lower, but they also have:
- 16% attack speed (better than 12% from rune + 60% socketed)
- Max armour to elemental damage conversion
Definitely worth the gamble.
If you want, I can also make a shorter, more punchy Reddit-style version or a more technical “crafting breakdown” format.
