Path of Exile – How To Master The Crafting System
Crafting is the primary means of boosting your gear in Path of Exile. From a single mod to guaranteed Paragon’s prefix or maximum life, it’s a valuable tool for improving your build. The bench is a special station located in your hideout where you can add crafted modifiers to items. This includes mods such as resistances and a powerful suffix.
Getting Started
Craft of exile is a unique action RPG that provides players with the means to create items for their character, allowing them to customize and fine-tune their builds as they advance through Wraeclast. From building a twink gear set to obtaining rare mods that are essential for your build, crafting in path of exile is a crucial aspect of gameplay. While many players will use a combination of orbs and harvest crafts to modify their items, there are more advanced methods available for more experienced players. These techniques can include using veiled chaos orbs to change item modifiers, and metacrafting can be particularly helpful for obtaining high-value mods like life and fire damage. However, these techniques can be expensive and time-consuming.
A key factor in crafting is knowing what modifiers can be applied to an item and which ones are restricted. For example, a magic item can only have up to two affixes, consisting of one prefix and one suffix. On the other hand, a rare item can have up to three prefixes and three suffixes. This is important because different affixes provide different values for an item, such as physical damage or defense.
In addition, it is important to understand what item bases can roll which modifiers. There are a number of different types of item bases, including helmets, body armors, gloves, boots, rings, and amulets. Each of these bases can roll a wide variety of mods, with some being unique to each base type and others being common across all. Choosing the right base is crucial for getting the best value out of your crafting efforts. Fossils are another tool for modifying items. These re-roll an item’s base and apply a random combination of modifiers. While they do not guarantee any particular affixes, fossils are useful for obtaining mods that would be difficult or impossible to get through normal crafting. They can also be used to duplicate items with desirable mods, which can save time and resources. Fossils are obtained by opening a Remnant of Corruption with an Essence.
When using fossils, it is a good idea to pre-craft the item with a catalyst. This can help increase the chances of hitting certain mods, such as life and mana, which are valuable for ring builds. In addition, catalysts can reduce the chance of losing a desired modifier when performing an annulment.
Metacrafting
As you progress through the game, crafting is more than just a way to obtain gear; it’s also a strategic tool for building better items. Using fossils to target specific modifiers, catalysts and annulment orbs to increase or decrease the likelihood of adding or losing mods, beast crafting in the menagerie to swap suffixes and prefixes, and crafting bench modifications to unlock new gem modifiers offer additional ways to improve an item. One of the most powerful crafting techniques is meta-crafting, which allows players to lock in specific modifiers on an item by combining multiple other gem-crafted mods. This can be done on all types of items, from rings and belts to weapons and armor.
Meta-crafting is a high risk/high reward technique that can dramatically increase an item’s power by locking in specific affixes or combinations of affixes. However, the process can be expensive, as it requires a large number of currency items to unlock and combine the necessary mods. Item level plays a major role in how hard or easy it is to obtain certain modifiers through the crafting system. Typically, lower item levels limit the pool of modifiers that can be obtained for an item while higher item levels open up more options.
Another key aspect of meta-crafting is the use of special bench mods to protect certain aspects of an item. These include “Cannot Roll Attack/Caster Modifiers” and “Suffixes Cannot Be Changed”. Using these mods when scouring an item can prevent the loss of desired modifiers, as well as saving money on expensive Orbs of Transmutation or Alteration Orbs.
Other useful meta-crafting techniques include re-rolling items with multiple Orbs of Transmutation, which can be used to isolate a single wanted affix. This method can be particularly useful for helmet, body armour, gloves, boots and amulet bases that can roll many different affixes. Additionally, the Ferric Lynx Alpha and Ferric Wolf Alpha beasts can swap prefixes and suffixes on bows, providing a unique way to customize these weapons. Finally, imprinting a magic item with a Craicic Chimeral can allow for more precise modification of an item.
Harvest Crafting
Creating powerful high-end gear requires more than just mastery. You also need to know how to play the crafting game, especially Harvest crafting. While it can seem intimidating at first, it’s actually a powerful way to create some of the best items in the game – if you know how to do it correctly. In this video from Behind Eyes Gaming, we take a look at how to use the Harvest system to your advantage to craft some of the most powerful gear in the game. While many players are content to simply level their characters with the standard item affixes, others are more eager to push their characters as far as possible using unique and powerful gear. This type of gear is incredibly expensive to produce, though, and for the average player it may be out of their reach without some help. That’s where harvest crafting comes in – by providing an easy and affordable method of creating some of the most powerful items in the game.
In addition to making it more affordable, we’ve also made the mechanic less RNG-heavy. Previously, it was possible to get unlucky and receive no lifeforce for an encounter. We’ve increased the chance of a Lifeforce drop to reduce this risk and also made it less likely that an encounter will not result in a Crafting option being available.
We’ve also rebalanced the Harvest system to remove some filler crafts and some deterministic Crafting options that were incredibly RNG-gated before. This includes the removal of an Annulment-type craft that rerolled the value of specific mods and all of the Fossil-based Divine crafts that change prefixes or suffixes, with the exception of the Fossil reforge, which does not modify the item’s modifier pool. Some Harvest plots contain unique seeds that spawn a powerful Harvest boss for you to fight, which yields a special Sacred Blossom that can be used to unlock some of the most valuable items in the game. Additionally, some Harvest plots now have a chance to spawn an Avatar of the Grove, which can also be fought for its special Lifeforce reward.
Bench Crafting
The Crafting Bench is Path of Exile’s special crafting station. It’s a place where you can add crafted modifiers to your items, giving them that extra bit of oomph. The Bench is fueled by basic currency items like Orbs, and it’s where many players take their first steps into crafting. While the crafting bench isn’t a necessity, it’s an invaluable tool for enhancing your gear as you level up. It allows you to add crafted prefixes and suffixes to items that would otherwise have no room for them. These crafted modifiers obey the same rules as other mods in the game, and they are a great way to boost resistances on your items.
It also allows you to finish items with crafted modifiers that would be impossible to roll without the bench, such as an attack or casting boost. It’s important to note that some crafted modifiers may not appear on an item regardless of the item’s type or crafting base, so make sure you do your research before attempting to finish an item with a specific crafted mod. Lastly, the Bench is where you can assemble items that require multiple components, such as a sword and shield. It’s a great way to save time when it comes to assembling weapons and armor sets.
Conclusion
Workbenches can be found in several places throughout the game. In the Bumblezone, there are several Crafting Benches near the exits of each area, and in the other main zones, there’s one outside the Cobalt Assembly, one outside the Dragonriding Customizations at Theron’s Watch, and a few more scattered around the Waking Shores.
You can use any of the workbenches by dragging an item into them and clicking the “Workbench” button. They’ll then pull in the appropriate resources from your inventory and your cargo hold, and then you can select which type of craft to perform. This can be done with any of the four types of Workbenches, but be aware that the different workbenches have different recipes and resource requirements. So it’s best to use the ones that match your needs the most.
