Why is blood ring BIS for some builds?

Hi

It is clear to me why the guides of some builds recommend as BIS some of those crafted items instead of a rare in the same slot.

Caster Amulet (up to 20 fcr)

Blood Gloves (cb)

Hit Power Gloves (kb)

Caster Gloves (maek)

But it is not clear to me why sometimes

Blood Ring is recommend as BIS instead of Rare Ring.

Like here
https://maxroll.gg/d2/guides/blade-assassin
where the "standard variation" uses a

Blood Ring with:

10 fcr 3 ll 5 str 20 life 11@ 25 mf

https://maxroll.gg/d2/d2planner/nph20wo3#1

Is it because, for some builds,

Blood Ring behaves as a 7 affixes ring or as a rare ring with 4+ suffixes?
(as the three fixed affixes are generally desirable affixes in a ring - ll, str and life)

Blood rings are easier to acquire than rare rings and they guarantee a certain number of specific affixes. Its much easier to farm crafting materials and roll crafted rings, than it is to farm rare rings.

Also isnt it possible to get "double rolls" on LL exceeding the max LL of rare rings?

Yes. Up to 11 ll. Same with the other fixed affixes (up to 60 life and up to 25 str)

And was my first guess for them to be used instead of rare rings. But found those examples like the one in the description, that has no "double rolls"...

Vandaali83 wrote: 10 months ago

Also isnt it possible to get "double rolls" on LL exceeding the max LL of rare rings?

I don't agree that they are easier do acquire.
Ok, you can't "dedicated farm" rare rings, but you can gamble one for ~350k-500k (depending on your

Gheed's Fortune and Edge rolls, and considering the ~10% chance of gambled item to be rare). And is easier and guaranteed to farm

Gold than the material for

Recipe: Blood Ring

On the other hand, supposing that you want some of the fixed affixes and is crafting with ilvl 75+ (which guarantee 4 random affixes), yes, you probably have more chance to get a "good ring" from random

Blood Ring than from a random Rare ring.

But my point is that those guides, in special the maxroll's ones, don't care much about how easy is to obtain an item... they are full of perfect rolled items (even rare ones), so I think that the author deliberately chose to use that

Blood Ring instead of a perfect rolled rare ring.

My guess is that he wanted 4+ suffixes in the ring (and rares can have up to 3). The ring in the description has 5 suffixes (ll, life, str, mf, fcr) and 2 prefixes (@, mf).

Knappogue wrote: 10 months ago

Blood rings are easier to acquire than rare rings and they guarantee a certain number of specific affixes. Its much easier to farm crafting materials and roll crafted rings, than it is to farm rare rings.

25str/60life

We already talked about the "double rolls" , but the ring on the guide/description has no "double rolls" , he probably used

Blood Ring to have more than 3 suffixes, as the ring has:
5 suffixes (ll, life, str, mf, fcr) and 2 prefixes (@, mf).

growinganja wrote: 10 months ago

25str/60life

fredkid wrote: 10 months ago

Yes. Up to 11 ll. Same with the other fixed affixes (up to 60 life and up to 25 str)

And was my first guess for them to be used instead of rare rings. But found those examples like the one in the description, that has no "double rolls"...

Vandaali83 wrote: 10 months ago

Also isnt it possible to get "double rolls" on LL exceeding the max LL of rare rings?