MOD Possibility?

I am wanting to create a crafting mod, that lets you strip Prefix/Suffix from items and then use them as crafting materials on new items.

Let’s be honest, getting your double-rare MI or crafted item is next to impossible. So I’d like to create a crafter/crafting station that makes it a bit easier.

Station/NPC abilities would be:

1 - Remove Suffix/Prefix from item, leaving the “blank” base item.
2 - Strip the Suffix or Prefix from an item, destroying the item, but creating a crafting component for the stripped Suffix/Prefix
3 - Craft Suffix/Prefix crafting components into items with an open corresponding slot. (ie, crafting a Suffix component would require a blank base item, or item without a current Suffix).

Yes, I know that would make crafting perfect Double-Rare items far to simple, so it would be
a) expensive to strip suffix/prefix (exponential based on rarity)
b) expensive to strip an item to base (base on req. level and rarity)
c) require multiple Suffix/Prefix components to craft onto an items, based on req level and rarity.

example: a lvl 90 req lvl rare might require 10 Suffix components (of the same suffix) to craft, while a req lvl 50 rare would only require 5 or 6.

There would also be an Iron/epic material cost as well.

So basically, before I even attempt to do something like this, I’m asking the more experienced modders if something like this is even possible…

Thanks in advance.

Not really possible, no.

You cannot create a new type of crafter, so you’d have to make use of the blacksmith and it’s mechanics.

Continuing from this, the blacksmith cannot apply affixes to an existing item. It takes an input (currency of some type, iron/material/etc) and consumes it to create a new item, the new item can have random affixes, you just cannot really decide to put a prefix, and then save that prefix to constantly reroll a suffix… I mean maybe you could, technically, but you’d require an insane number of recipes to do so.

I suspected as much. And yeah, not really interested in the 10s of 1000s of recipes it would take to cover all base items/prefix and suffix combo (not even counting req lvl variants).

Aww well. Some game I had played in the past has this type of functionality, so I thought it might make a cool mod.

Foiled again… darn you, limitations!

Thanks!