u/BlackPandar

I'm trying to craft a shield for my totem build, and after lots of recomb I finally got a decent shield, but I want to make it as good as possible before Shaper slamming (pun intended) it for +1 totem.

There are actually quite a lot of good mods for shield prefix, but the mods that I think would be best are tier 1 life or spell block, are there any good way to get that without spending too much? Right now I have around 40 divs to spare.

The methods that I can think of :

1. Just benchcraft some cool prefix like +2 support or extra chaos, or just 70 life, but it will affect my defense a lot.

2. Make another 1p/3s shield and recombine again, with 30% chance to brick the shield (6 choose 3 is 70% success, so 30% it will get 2 suffixes) and 23% (33% chance for 2 choose 2, so 0.7*0.33) to get 5 t1 mods shield. Extremely time and sanity consuming, but seems like the cheapest way?

3. Slam Foulborn Exalt, if shit, suffix can't be changed annul, if remove block, scour, craft mana and keep slamming two times, if shit, suffix can't be changed and scour. This method is unbrickable but I assume it would be extremely pricey.

4. Harvest add remove life, 50% chance it will remove block, if suffix can't be changed is removed and get shit life, craft scbc again and scour, do it till tier 1 life, then foulborn exalt and pray, if shit just repeat. Also unbrickable, but would also be very expensive, maybe even more than 3.

Maybe there are better ways? I'm not a good crafter so I'm not sure.

Thanks in advance!