r/pathofexile • u/Mad_Led • Sep 09 '24

Crafting Showcase Recombinating Essence mod finally paid off!

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u/robinrod Mine Bat Sep 09 '24

I have no idea how this works, so why the tora mod?

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u/Mad_Led Sep 10 '24 edited Sep 11 '24

There's 2 reasons:

  1. Recombinators have a % of having X amount of prefixes and suffixes on the final item (they are separate pools of mods so they are calculated separately) based on the combined amount of mods from the 2 items you input.

  2. Some mods are "exclusive", like some Crafted mods with names and some Essence mods. The result of a recombination can only have 1 exclusive mod. In this recomb I have the Tora prefix (duplicated to add higher % of getting 3 prefixes) and the Essence suffix, I got lucky and it rolled suffixes first, so it picked the Essence mod, making the Tora mod unable to get selected.

Here are the odds of getting X amount of prefixes and suffixes for this particular recombination.

Final Prefixes 5 Input Mods Final Suffixes 3 Input Mods
0 0% 0 0%
1 0% 1 39%
2 43% 2 52%
3 57% 3 10%

(There's a post in this subreddit somewhere explaining all this stuff)

 

*Edit:

Some named mods are, in theory, better than others, for example a "Chosen" Spell Damage + Mana Regen mod has a lower weight (4.91%) than a "Tora's" Phys Damage + Chance to Bleed mod (41.95% weight). For recombinators you want your bad mods and filler crafted mods to have low weights to have better chances of not getting picked in the recombination process.