Path Of Exile Crafting Guide

The crafting system in Path of Exile is complex and powerful. From simple currency crafting to advanced metamodification, the ways you improve your gear shape your playstyle. Fossil interactions, catalysts, annulment orbs and harvest reforges provide unique ways to improve items with specific modifiers for specialized builds. But even basic currency items can add powerful mods like resistances to an item for relatively little cost.

The Crafting Bench

The crafting bench in craft of exile is a powerful tool that lets players add crafted modifiers to items. This can be a great way to fine-tune resistances or boost item stats. However, utilizing the bench requires a fair amount of experience and knowledge. It also requires a large amount of currency, making it a costly endeavor for those without the necessary resources. The Crafting Bench is found in the player’s hideout and allows them to modify their equipment in various ways. This includes adding crafted modifiers, changing socket links, and altering influenced mods. It also enables players to reforge items and add new components.

There are a variety of ways to access the crafting bench, but each method requires varying amounts of currency. The most common is using a Blacksmith’s Whetstone or Armorer’s Scraps to improve an item’s quality. This will increase its socket link quality, socket fill rate, and mod priority. Alternatively, players can use an Orb of Alteration to reforge a weapon or armour with one to three new random modifiers. The resulting item will be of higher quality than the original. Players can also craft a Fractured Fossil in the bench to add a special implicit modifier.

Lastly, players can also use the bench to add a guaranteed prefix to an item. This is a great way to boost an item’s strength or mana. This can be done by adding a Vorici rank 2 or higher, or by adding two veiled modifiers. In addition to this, the Bench can also add a +1 Lightning damage modifier to a wand base. However, it’s worth mentioning that this is only available through the Betrayal expansion.

Modifiers

A modifier is an effect that can be added to an item or skill. Modifiers can add a variety of effects including increasing the damage or chance to hit, reducing the cost of an ability, changing the cooldown or even adding additional abilities. Modifiers can either be innately applied to an item, granted under specific conditions or randomly generated. There are a large number of modifiers that can be applied to items, but only certain types of items can roll certain mods. The best place to start is by looking at the wiki’s list of possible modifiers for each item base. From there you can figure out which of the many helmet, body armour, gloves, boots, belts, rings, amulets and weapons bases will roll a particular modifier.

In addition to these basetype specific modifiers there are some mods that can be added to items using other types of crafting currency. Fossil crafting can provide specific mods on rare items, Fertile Catalysts and Annulment Orbs can increase the likelihood of obtaining a specific mod or remove one, and Beast Crafting in the Menagerie allows you to isolate certain drop only mods. Another very powerful method for improving items is by using the Eldritch Currencies that can be obtained from the Eater of Worlds and Searing Exarch quests. These currencies present a new immensely powerful way to improve conventional items by allowing players to apply Implicits directly to a weapon, body armor or glove. This can greatly cut the cost of an item as it eliminates the need for Meta mods to lock Prefixes or Suffixes through their dominance mechanic.

A final option for increasing an items strength and power in poe is by reforging it with the Chaos Orb or a Fossil. This will reroll all the affixes on an item except for the ones it already has and can be very useful for increasing the power of items that lacks sockets or links.

Alteration Orbs

There are two types of orbs that change the modifiers on items: Orbs of Alteration and Orbs of Transmutation. Orbs of Alteration reforges a magic item with new random modifiers, while Orbs of Transmutation change an existing set of mods on an item into a different set of mods. These orbs are often used for early leveling to reroll the affixes on a valuable magic item and to upgrade items before a player can find better rare items to replace them.

In addition to the two orbs that modify affixes, there are also a number of other orbs that remove or add certain modifiers on an item. For example, the Blessing Orb rerolls the values of implicit modifiers on items that have them. It can be used on any item, including rare or magic items. It’s an essential tool for min-maxing, especially early on in the game when players can’t afford to wait until they have the items needed to create the best builds.

Orbs of Alteration are fairly inexpensive and easy to obtain. They can be purchased from various vendors in the game, or they can be made using vendor recipes. The easiest way to get one is to sell an identified magical or rare item to a vendor for four orbs of alteration. Nessa(Act 1) in Lioneye’s Watch sells them for this purpose, and they are also sometimes available from the trade marketplace. Orbs of Alteration can also be obtained through the use of Divination Cards, which are obtainable through completing some of the game’s quests. The card can then be exchanged for a stack of Orbs of Alteration from a NPC.

Vaal Orbs

Vaal Orbs are the most mysterious of all the Orbs in the game. They corrupt an item, modifying it in unpredictable ways. The result can be incredibly powerful, but it’s also a gamble that could ruin an otherwise great item. The main use case for vaal orbs is obtaining high-value corruptions on specific items, such as +1 Frenzy Charges on Blood Dance boots. This requires a significant spending budget and a lot of luck.

Vaal orbs are different from other Orbs in that they can only be used on certain types of items. They can be used to corrupt rare or unique skill gems, or to upgrade them to a new level. They can also be used to add a variety of special modifiers. The only downside is that once a gem is corrupted, it cannot be modified by other Poe currency. This includes restoring imprints from Eternal Orbs. You can obtain vaal orbs by killing monsters, destroying chests and destructible containers, or completing Vaal side areas. You can also obtain them by purchasing them from a vendor for sacrifice fragments or other currencies. Vaal orbs can also be obtained by completing the Crucible expansion quest, or through trading with other players.

The game designers created Vaal Orbs to give players a way to get rid of old gems they no longer need or want. This is a good way to keep the economy moving and prevent the supply of unused gems from causing the price to drop. It’s a great idea and I think most players will find it rewarding.

Conclusion

Fossils are re-rolling tools with a twist; they tweak the modifier pool by boosting or blocking certain types of mods from appearing. For example, a Jagged Fossil will boost physical mods and block chaos mods. Additionally, the augmented version of an item will give it a 10x weight multiplier on all mods that share the same tag as the Fossil used in the craft.