Int stacker down to 14ex ~ How to cut costs

I am fairly happy with this character performance for the cost. 14ex I feel is a pretty doable budget for most players as its currency you could make from a few aislings + some incursion temples. That being said, I am still curious if we can take it an entire level cheaper so I am interested in reconstructing the entire gear setup once again except on an even stricter budget than what we have here to see how low we can go on cost. Ultimately I would like to have a fairly complete guide that people can work off the bare minimum of gearing all the way to the maximum. So I believe its necessary to test cheaper variants and showcase those variants so everyone has a good idea what to expect going into it based on X budget.

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********************* Gear Budget ******* *2x Perfect Roll Fertile mind(4c+5c) = 9c *Small -12 all Res Thread of Hope = 30c *2x Large cluster Ilvl 50-67 8 passive 5c each = 10c *30 serrated fossils at 5.5c each = 165c *30 one socket chaotic resonators at 2 to 1c = 15c -Feed the fury triple hit in 18 resonators -Fuel the fight triple hit in 12 resonators *Shield with lightning damage fracture 15c *1 dense fossil, hit okay ES and settled (cost 2c + 4c benchcraft) = 6c Expected cost of hitting one decent ES mod is a 4 dense fossils and I was planning to just benchcraft the other ES mod so it wouldn't have been too much more on this craft. *Bought wand with flat lightning damage mod + attack speed = 31c *Benchcrafted crit chance(4c each) 6 times = 24c+5scours *Bought Lvl 21 Power siphon = 3c -Lvl21 adds a projectile same as anomalous does but at a fraction of the cost *Bought 6L ilvl 75 vaal regalia 20c *17 dense fossils to hit 450ES + t2 Lightning Res and 2 open suffixes = 25c *1 Crusader orb for 50/50 to hit %int = 118c(.8ex at this time)

• hit recover energy shield on kill, going to try again with different chest *Buy 2xBody armour with 400es+ and t2+int 20c+19c = 39c *use 4 anul orbs to clear bad suffixes bricking one chest piece, saving other at 7c each - 28c *crusader slam at .8ex(118c) for 1/3 ish chance to hit %int because chest is ilvl86 = 118c
• hit ES recovery rate, we go again, time for chest 3 *Buy a set of ethereal div cards(3c each, set is 7) = 21c set will give 6L vaal regalia *Buy 8 books of regression vendor recipe(1 scour + 1 wisdom) to delevel other char to 79 = 8scours
• turn in div card set for ilvl79 6L vaal regalia

• 13 fossils(20c) +1 anul(7c) +1beast(15c) = 37c *crusader slam at .8ex(118c) for 1/2 chance to hit %int because chest ilvl79 = 118c -finally hit %int, t1 too which is cool *bench craft %attributes =4c *Buy power siphon +2 proj on non t1 base = 12c *15 essences of shrieking(5c each) = 75c Expected cost is about 1/13 to hit either good %ES or Flat ES, then I bench craft the other *HunterSlam(2ex) guaranteed to hit % int on ilvl 75-79 helmet = 2ex *Synthesis amulet base 13-15% increased int = 40c *2 bless orbs + 1scour + 4 intrinsic catalyst = 3c *2 shrieking essences, hit multi + open prefix called it good = 10c *benchcraft %max es = 2c *call of the brotherhood with %int corruption = 30c *bought %increased int synthesis belt = 1ex *1 scour + 4 intrinsic catalysts = 2c *6 shrieking spite(5c each) + anul(7c) + farric lynx alpha(15c) = 52c *benchcraft wed(4alch each) *2 = 8alch + 1 scour *100 res boots +t1 int = 10c *cannot be chilled +movespeed =4c *Ring with all t2+ dex/res/int/wed +open prefix = 25c *benchcraft flat lightning = 2alch *Sorc Gloves with attack speed fracture = 3c *13 shrieking essences of spite, settled for accuracy even though I was going for on ES mod = 65c *benchcraft ES = 6alterations *Watchers Eye Precision attack speed = 30c *Blast-Freeze + Eye of the storm medium 14c *Crit med 50c *rare jewel 20c *rare jewel 10c *rare jewel 5c *rare jewel 30c + 1 divine(11c) *rare jewel 30c *split personality accuracy+int 75c *awakened added lightning lvl 5 1ex *Vengeant Cascade anoint 2gold = 94c

Rough Estimate if I don't suck at addition: 2127c OR 14.6ex(if ex is 145c each)

*Costs not included are flasks/lvl 20 gems/Socket coloring -These are all pretty neglible costs and they are things that should be achieved just playing the character, also I just didn't really want to deal with trade rebuying these things.

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Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 2:24 Beginning to go over methods I used to cut costs Boots/Shield/Helm 5:45 Big Ticket Sometimes just aren't worth 7:45 Buy base line items before crafting 9:15 Cut craft costs 13:05 Save money through Good Craft Methods 15:35 Crafting Clusters to Save Currency 18:40 Saving Currency on Jewel Slots going for 3 stats instead of 4 stat jewels, thrift shopping 20:40 Looking over last few items I cut costs on 23:55 Conclusions, thanks for watching!

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