Want to math it out then?
A rare affix exalt with the right base versus a rare LP 3 unique?
Obviously CoF messes with the percentile but we can go along with the baseline at least.
Lets go with the basic premise that you solely want a T7 affix on an item.
Roughly every 20th exalted becomes a T7 in the first place, so you’ll need to drop that many for a single chance.
Now the next step. Getting the right item type, and solely for the example we’ll make it so they drop with the same chance as well as bases for those item types too.
Let’s go with… gloves in that case simply, just for the sake of the example, not too many bases… not too many.
First off, we have a total of 23 item types available, which means you’ll need quite a few exalted to drop a single T7 for your type:
20x23 to be exact, which are 460 exalted drops to have the chance at a single T7 glove.
Now we also add the base types to it, which are 15.
460x15 so a total of 4830 exalted drops for a single exalted with a T7 mod on your needed base.
Now lets expand it towards the affixes, generally you’ll get 3 affixes on an exalted item, so it’s a 15% chance to loose a ‘roll’ (4 affix and 2 affix ones exist too, the later is more rare).
In this example we’ll go with a ‘common’ one to make it more in your favor as we don’t need to add a multiplier to the whole thing beyond. Let’s take ‘Melee attack speed’. simply.
We have 22 available affixes which we’ll need to ‘halve’ since we have 2 slots that can be taken. Hence 11… but 15% chance to not roll something at all, hence 11x1,15= 12,65… we’ll go with 12 simply. That’s a very easy to acquire base by the way in comparison to others like body armor to take it into perspective.
So we have 4830x12 which is 57960 exalted drops to get a single one which is the exact right one for you!
Now we’re not even done yet though! We want it to be ‘the one right’ one after all, don’t we? How many items will you roughly go through before the exact 4 mods are on there with all being at least T5? 10? 20 tries unless lucky? Let’s go with a middle ground, 15 simply. After all the ‘wrong’ T5 mods can be on it, FP can run out, the wrong affix taken off, no proper outcome delivered with glyphs of chaos.
Which means 57960x15 for a grand total of 869400 exalted drops needed to get a single outcome of what you’re speaking about.
If we take it that a common 300 corruption monolith of mediocre quality drops around 15 of those then you’ll need to run:
869400/15 hence 57960 monoliths to get that exact outcome without extreme luck or lack of hence.
Yes… it’s really a lot easier to acquire I can see!
How could I miss it? It all too clearly is so far far superior!
In that time I’ll have several thousand tries for a LP 3 unique which I can slap something on and go my way until I achieve the very rare and unlikely result of the item you’re telling me is so so much easier to get.