117% Gem Quality

Ditch the title, it's now "131% Gem Quality"

I have developed all this a little further, I have now made this Sword, which can get to a grand total of 131% gem quality.

The rest of this post is the initial version and it's many edits, in short, you can also get this on a 1h or a shield, though you cannot get the +1 all gems prefix on shields, so a maximum of 6% less possible. Not that any +1 support gems +6% quality synth shields exist right now, but that sword didn't exist yesterday either, and now it does.

Here's a clean pob with the Sword and an example shield:

https://pastebin.com/i0GnjvFU

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The old post:

The Staff, cost like 15 Ex to make

Now I know that's not a new idea and it's possible to get yet another 6% from the second synth implicit, but none exist so the 120% break point cannot be reached (yet, maybe).

In short 23% from gem, 30% from Ashes of the Stars, 64% from lvl 9 Enhance. Makes a total of 117% Gem quality.

Now the first things I thought of were alt quality Assassin's Mark, for example 23% inc dmg taken or another 1.2% flat crit don't sound too bad. Made me think, this could make for a nieche bot that provides boni by stacking interesting alt qualities. Note that all it takes is the staff and the amulet, the rest of the character is completely blank.

Ofc you can throw in an Empower, if I had hit +1 str gems it too would be lvl 9, but I "only" have lvl 8.

Some fun things I came across were alt qual Spectral Helix, bounces 13 or 14 times sound fun. Ofc only Skills that be used with staves can be used with this. Spark with 19 projectiles seems kinda promising too. Or Divergent Berserk for up to 30% more spell dmg, Exsang fires at up to 11 enemies, or Forbidden Rite fires extra proj at up to 20 enemies. Frost Blades with 20 additional projectiles? It's got you covered.

Now, I wanna hear some interesting ideas for gems and/or a build, I intentionally left the second crafted pref open, as I don't know what I'd put there yet.

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EDIT: I totally forgot the pob: https://pastebin.com/eN5Bq3B1

the pob is a bit slow because there are so many gems in there. I wanted to make a clean one, but somehow the pastebins I create are immediately deleted again, no idea why.

The pob is also for the perfect 123%. Oh and you have to activate a gem to see its gain from quality effects.

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EDIT 2: It just hit me like a truck, the quality effects of auras are also multiplied by aura effectiveness......... Though I just looked at a few and the alt qual effects really are gimped. Maybe there is an interesting interaction somwhere, but I don't know where that would be.

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Okay. Smite. 30% inc attack and cast speed, multiplied by aura effectiveness. Thank you very much.

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EDIT 3: I realise now it can potentially be pushed even further. I thought the crafted gem quality was only fo support gems, turns out it isn't. And there is a blade with both +1 socketed support gems and the 6% quality. So now the theoretical maximum should be 131%.

Also you can do this with 1h, you can get just as much quality from there. On shields you cannot get the +1 prefix though.

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Final Edit, I made a clean version with an example for a shield as well.

https://pastebin.com/DcVepZSG