The Prefixes Cannot Be Changed craft in Path of Exile is a powerful meta-crafting modifier, often referred to as a metamod. This craft allows players to lock the prefix modifiers on an item, providing significant control over the crafting process by protecting desirable prefixes while using other crafting methods. This guide covers the details, mechanics, and strategic uses of the Prefixes Cannot Be Changed modifier.
PoE Prefixes Cannot Be Changed
Metamods do not grant stats or bonuses, but rather affect other mods, and may override regular crafting rules. For example, Prefixes Cannot Be Changed will prevent an Orb of Annulment from removing a desirable prefix modifier. It will not, however, prevent adding a new modifier, such as through an Exalted Orb or Chaos Orb, as it only applies to existing modifiers. Note that some currencies and crafting methods cannot be used on items with metamods, such as essences, or ignore metamods, such as Awakener’s Orbs.
For example, if Prefixes Cannot Be Changed is crafted on the item, when using a Chaos Orb, existing prefix(es) are kept. If the item has 1 open prefix (ie. only 2 prefixes and 1 additional space) and the Prefixes Cannot Be Changed is the only suffix, the Orbs may add 1 prefix as well as 0 to 3 suffixes to the item, or add 0 prefix and add 1 to 3 suffixes to the item. Players can still kept the open prefix by crafting multi-mod (Can have up to 3 Crafted Modifiers) and fill the open prefix with temp crafted mod, as well Prefixes Cannot Be Changed on the item, and then use the aforementioned Orb. Note that each use of Orb and crafted mods are expensive in this way.
Prefixes/Suffixes Cannot Be Changed is the only way to keep the drop only mod (or any other mod want to keep) on the item after using Chaos Orb on it.
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