Crafted items discussion.

When it comes to something like

Safety Body, or

Blood Weapon/

Safety Shield regular uniques, rares and RW'd items are (usually, almost always) superior, but in cases of gloves, belts, rings and amulets there's a bit more competition.

Blood Gloves and blood belts for instance can sometimes be BiS for some melee builds, caster amulets with +2 to your skills and high FCR feel great to finally roll, and blood amulets with their FRW, resists and LL on top of +2 to skills can be better than any alternative to some.

With that said:

What crafted items are BiS for you?

Have you ever fully decked yourself out in them?/Have you ever fully decked your merc out in them?

Do you ever even use crafted items? I've run into many people who had no clue Diablo 2 contained a crafting element beyond cubing up gear, runes and gems.

Have you gone bald yet from pulling your hair out after repeatedly failing to craft that gg amulet after however many tries? :p

I only ever did 4 crafts recipes:
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Caster Amulet (BIS: a 2/20 is a necessity for most caster builds),
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Caster Belt (cheap alternative to

Arachnid Mesh early ladder for caster builds),
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Blood Gloves (sometimes useful for melee builds),
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Blood Ring (sometimes useful for melee builds).

There is no point doing every crafting recipes, most sucks, and in the end the only one worth the effort is the

Caster Amulet...

i manily play pure melee chars (barbs, Fury druid, zealer) and i crafted so many blood stuff. Many belts but in the end i think that you d better off with the good ole uniques (ears, dungos, arach or nosferatu), while i d always go for good

Blood Gloves over dracs (ias, CB, dual leech and life win easy over stupid 5% lifetap chance for me) and loh. Blood rings too can be very nice, n-but for me BiS are well crafted

Blood Gloves, no challenge.

Blood Amulet,

Blood Belt,

Caster Boots,

Hit Power Gloves,

Caster Gloves and

Safety Amulet can also be useful some times on some characters.

Can't answer any of your direct questions OP but someone here rolled a near-perfect

Blood Gloves the other day:

forums/this-is-a-lucky-day-t1048798.html

Steccothal wrote: 2 years ago

i manily play pure melee chars (barbs, Fury druid, zealer) and i crafted so many blood stuff. Many belts but in the end i think that you d better off with the good ole uniques (ears, dungos, arach or nosferatu), while i d always go for good

Blood Gloves over dracs (ias, CB, dual leech and life win easy over stupid 5% lifetap chance for me) and loh. Blood rings too can be very nice, n-but for me BiS are well crafted

Blood Gloves, no challenge.

I play a

Frenzy-barb, and the 5% lifetap made me unkillable, even if there were manaburn-mobs and

Frenzy would run out because if it. I ditched them for LoH, because I found The Reaper´s Toll and decrep is way better than lifetap.

Teebling wrote: 2 years ago

Can't answer any of your direct questions OP but someone here rolled a near-perfect

Blood Gloves the other day:

forums/this-is-a-lucky-day-t1048798.html

lol I saw that, their good luck rubbed off on me. If their gloves had replenish and a higher CB they'd be actually perfect. Absolutely nuts what crafting can come up with.

Udyret wrote: 2 years ago

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Safety Amulet can also be useful...

I've never met a person who used or crafted any safety gear, I'd be interested in talking to the kind of person who would use safety crafts, and what obscure builds they're running lol.

Safety Amulet provides block chance, an affix very rarely appearing on non-shield items.

You could just use more dexterity than craft

Safety Amulet. It a weak crafting option.

i mostly use it for leveling only to get closer to 75% block on some melee builds

thanks for the explanations guys, makes sense. I'd assumed most people wouldn't

Sacrifice ias, fcr or frw or anything else that can come on crafted/unique amulets for block chance,

I play a sin so my block chance is tied to

Weapon Block, I never really think about it for other classes who may not use a shield.