Can't enchant body armour? Expert player help!

Hi, all,

I'm at a loss here, I'm hoping anybody has an answer to this mystery...

Link to image with both body armors next to one another: https://imgur.com/a/p5tnA7V
NEW armor on the left
OLD armor on the right

Both have 6 mods.

I can't add the same "life" enchantment to my new armor. In fact, I can't add ANY enchantment to it!
Working bench tells me "item has no space for more mods"

What gives?

Thanks in advance!

rare items can have at most 6 affixes. you cant craft mods beyond that

Is this life mod actually an enchantment? Or is it an explicit? That error message implies that you are trying to do an explicit mod.

If you already have six mods, the six mod limit refers specifically to explicit mods. Trying to add more will generate that error message. You can still add enchantments, and some other types of mods.

https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Modifiers#Terminology

Is the link to the image working? :-/

Makes sense that there can't be more than 6 mods, however, my old armor has 6 mods, PLUS "+69 to Maximum Life" which I added in the work bench.

So how come my old armor can have 6 mods + crafting bench enchantment, and my new armor can't?

That's what I'm trying to figure out.

Thanks, guys!

The +45 armor and +21 maximum energy shield on the right is from the same prefix.

So whilst it looks like it has 6 blue entries, they in fact come from 5 mods, so it has space for the crafted addition.

If you still have the old armor, turn on Advanced Mod Descriptions in the UI options, and press Alt when looking at it - it will show you each mod seperately, and you should see those 2 entries grouped together.

You can also look on craftofexile and see all the valid mods for the armor.

That seed craft is an enhancement, has nothing to do with the implicits or explicits.

So it is strange, I also have a chest with 1 implicit and 6 explicits (3-3 prefix-suffix), on similar armor / energy shield based, and could add the enhancement normally.

My only guess is, maybe wrong item level of the seed, and maybe a wrong failure text?
That chest on the left is i83, the seed craft shall be at least i73.
Is that fulfilled?

Edit: Okay, I might misunderstood on first read, I thought You have issues with the seed enhancement addition to the left one. If the crafting bench drops that error to the left chest, that is okay, as that has 3-3 prefixes and suffixes already. That chest might only get an implicit, or enhancement, nothing else in its current form.

There are actually quite a few mods like the one Adeleax mentioned. There are several mods that are a single mod that do two different things, and are shown as two lines.

Another thing that can happen is that these type of mods can add together into a single line. For example you have a mod that is physical damage alone. You can have a second mod that is physical damage and accuracy. The physical damage from the two mods will add up and be shown as a single line.

Combining the above ideas, 5 lines being displayed might be 4,5, or 6 mods.

So hold ALT to see the details.

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Mike_84 wrote:

That seed craft is an enhancement

Which "that" are you referring to? The chest you linked has the mod shown in the OPs right hand image. I think he wants to put a life mod on the item on the left, similar to the +69 max life mod on the right.

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harddaysnight wrote:

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Mike_84 wrote:

That seed craft is an enhancement

Which "that" are you referring to? The chest you linked has the mod shown in the OPs right hand image. I think he wants to put a life mod on the item on the left, similar to the +69 max life mod on the right.

Yeah, sorry, just edit-et above, as I probably misunderstood OP on first time; my 'that' above meant the one replacing the quality.

I was just mislead by the enhancement words here: " I can't add the same "life" enchantment to my new armor. In fact, I can't add ANY enchantment to it!"

What OP can do in the safest way: Remove a random defence stat via seeds from the left one (which shall only be the first hybrid armour & evasion) then craft life on its place, or even augment a random life on it via seeds. But OP can check it for sure in-game, how the tags are on those stats.

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adeleax wrote:

The +45 armor and +21 maximum energy shield on the right is from the same prefix.

So whilst it looks like it has 6 blue entries, they in fact come from 5 mods, so it has space for the crafted addition.

If you still have the old armor, turn on Advanced Mod Descriptions in the UI options, and press Alt when looking at it - it will show you each mod seperately, and you should see those 2 entries grouped together.

You can also look on craftofexile and see all the valid mods for the armor.

Riiiiight!

Ok, I get it now...

Thanks for the help ;)

I guess I could remove something from the left armor (with Oshabi), and then add life with the craft bench...

I'll give it a thought.
Thanks all for your kind replies!