In need of crafting advice

Hello friends!

By sheer luck (simple phys rrs via horticrafting station) ggg blessed me with this Axe:



I've never come far in SSF until now so I'm kind of stumped how to continue.

From my point of view I have two options:

prefixes can not be changed + veiled chaos orb which should be a one in three chance that the AS gets removed

or a simple influenced exalt (probably elder in this case), though to recover in case of a bad roll it would mean anul or leave as is


Am I on the right track or do you have an idea how I could do it better?

What build are you playing?

If it's anything with overexert, you should remember that your actual dps will be capped by warcry cdr, ergo a very fast weapon might not be a good idea.
That would leave you with inc damage per endurance charge as the only good option from the unveil. You can already craft that and use the weapon as is and that's what I'd personally do.

Your only other option is to lock prefixes and add/remove phys via harvest for a small chance of hitting a high hybrid phys mod. You'd be risking bricking the item, since there's no way to protect the attack speed no matter what you do.

Here's a site that lets you experiment with stuff like this: https://www.craftofexile.com.

Go to the 'emulator' tab, pick the base and manually add the stats you have and then try both methods to see more or less what the odds of bricking it are.

I'm playing a selfmade and probably subpar groundslam jugger bleed build

I'm not using warcries so on that I'd be ok.

Thanks for the tip, I'm aware of the site and looked up what I could possibly hit

According to pob the biggest hits would be
inc phys dot (+10%)
inc damage per endurance (+7.7%)
chance to double damage (+7.7%)

Though, I did forget though that it could also roll prefixes and all of those are bad so you're right it is just not worth the risk

Thanks for your insight! I wasn't sure if there were better paths to take since this game changes so much everytime I come back