How To Craft Items in Path of Exile: A Comprehensive Guide

Crafting in Path of Exile (PoE) is a core mechanic that allows players to enhance their gear with specific properties, enabling them to create powerful builds and progress through the game’s challenging content. It’s not a simple process, but mastering crafting is vital for any serious player. So, how exactly do you craft items in Path of Exile?

The process revolves around using a variety of currencies, such as orbs, fossils, and essences, to modify item stats. Unlike some games, where crafting is about combining ingredients, PoE’s system is more akin to re-rolling and enhancing existing items. You’ll typically start with a base item and then apply modifiers via the available crafting methods. These methods can range from simple alterations to extremely complex and targeted manipulations, based on the player’s resources and chosen path. Crafting is a deep system with a lot of nuance but here’s a breakdown of the basics:

Crafting Basics

• Base Items: You’ll begin with a base item, which can be white, magic, rare, or sometimes even unique. The item level of the base item plays a crucial role in determining which modifiers it can acquire.
• Currency: The backbone of crafting involves using various currency items. Orbs are the most common, each providing different effects. For example, the Orb of Transmutation converts a normal item into a magic one, while an Orb of Alteration re-rolls the modifiers of a magic item. Other currency items allow for further customization, adding prefixes and suffixes, and re-rolling items.
• Crafting Bench: Located in your hideout, the Crafting Bench allows you to apply crafted modifiers to items at the cost of specific currencies. There’s a limit of one crafted modifier unless you use a special recipe to allow for up to three crafted modifiers.
• Essences: These allow you to force a single, specific modifier on an item, and are particularly useful for creating items with specific modifiers.
• Fossils and Resonators: Fossils alter the weighting of modifiers when using currency items, making some modifiers more likely to appear. They are often used in conjunction with resonators, which determine how many fossils can be used at once.
• Item Level: An item’s item level dictates the maximum tier of modifiers that can be applied to it. A higher item level means more potent modifiers are accessible during crafting.

Steps to Crafting

1. Identify your goal: Before you even begin, it’s crucial to decide what kind of item you want to create. Determine which mods and stat values are desired for your build.
2. Obtain a base item: Find a base item with the desired base stats (e.g. armor value on body armors) and item type. It should be the correct base for the item you wish to create, and it should have a sufficient item level to allow for the desired modifier tier.
3. Start with a basic alteration: This often involves converting a white item into a magic item using an Orb of Transmutation. If the magic item is undesirable, use Orbs of Alteration to re-roll the modifiers until you get something promising. Orbs of Augmentation can add an additional mod if you find yourself with a magic item with only a single affix.
4. Progress to rare items: Once you have a good magic item, a Regal Orb can convert it into a rare item, adding an extra modifier.
5. Use crafting bench: The crafting bench allows you to add a single, specific mod of your choice to a rare item using the right recipe. There’s a recipe which allows for multiple crafted mods on the same item at the cost of a suffix slot. This requires an item to be level 8 and a specific recipe found in the Putrid Cloister map.
6. Refine with advanced techniques: As you become more advanced in crafting, you’ll use things like fossils in resonators, metamods, and deterministic crafting methods which allow for more specific and high-value crafting options.

Crafting is a learning process that takes time and patience. Don’t be afraid to experiment with different techniques and currencies to find what works best for you.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Here are some frequently asked questions about crafting in Path of Exile that can further enhance your understanding:

What is the Basic Crafting Method in PoE?

The basic method involves taking a white item, using an Orb of Transmutation to turn it into a magic item (with one or two random mods). Then, you use Orbs of Alteration to re-roll the mods until you find the desired ones. If you have an item with only one mod, you use an Orb of Augmentation to add another one.

Where Can I Find Crafting Recipes in PoE?

Crafting recipes are found throughout Wraeclast and Oriath, including maps. Helena can appraise items which may lead to a recipe. Specific recipes can also be found in certain rooms within the Temple of Atzoatl. Unveiling Veiled items also provides experience towards recipes.

How Many Crafted Modifiers Can An Item Have?

Typically, you can only have one bench-crafted modifier on an item at a time. However, there is a special modifier that can add up to three crafted modifiers. This modifier is called “Can have up to 3 Crafted Modifiers,” commonly known as Multi-Mod, and requires a specific recipe unlocked from the Putrid Cloister Map.

How Do I Use the Crafting Bench?

The Crafting Bench is located in your hideout. To use it, simply interact with it and choose a recipe. Each recipe will consume a specific currency and may also have other conditions. The result will add or change a modifier to your item. You can access the crafting bench through the hideout screen and also by using the hideout button in the bottom right of your screen.

Can I Craft on a Split Item in PoE?

Yes, you can craft on items with the Split modifier. However, the split modifier cannot be removed, and further splitting of the item is not possible. It otherwise crafts like a normal item.

How Do I Make Items Rare in PoE?

To make a magic item rare, you need to use a Regal Orb. This orb adds an additional affix to the item and converts it from magic to rare.

How Do I Quickly Sell Items in PoE?

To quickly sell items, place them in a Premium stash tab that has been set to “Public”. Within the stash tab, you can set the price for individual items. The quickest way to place an item into the stash tab is to CTRL + Left-click the item. To do this while in game, the player must make sure to have the correct stash tab displayed.

Where is the Crafting Station in The Division 2?

The Crafting Station in The Division 2 is located in the White House. This is a different game with different crafting methods and has no connection with Path of Exile.

Where Do I Sell Items in PoE?

The best way to sell items in PoE is to place them in a Premium stash tab that has been set to “Public”. You can then price items individually from within this tab, making them available for trade. You can then use a website like pathofexile.com/trade to look for offers on the items you listed in the premium tab.

How Do I Get Master Crafting Recipes in PoE?

This question refers to another game, Final Fantasy 14. In Path of Exile, you obtain crafting recipes by discovering them from various sources, including specific maps, temple rooms, and unveiling items. There are no “master” crafters in Path of Exile.

How Can I Copy Items from Craft of Exile to Path of Building (PoB)?

In Craft of Exile, click “Copy” on the item, then in PoB, go to “Items” and click “Create Custom,” paste the copied item and click “create.” You can then equip the copied item in your build. This allows the player to simulate the item they are trying to create in game.

Can You Sell Items in Path of Exile?

Yes, you can sell items. If you own a premium stash tab, set it to “Public” and mark items as individually priced. They will then be listed for trade on public websites. If you don’t have a premium stash tab, the selling process is much more difficult, so it’s highly recommended to purchase a premium stash tab.

What Does “Explicit” Mean in Path of Exile?

In PoE, an “explicit” modifier refers to any modifier on an item that has a non-normal rarity, such as magic, rare, or unique. These modifiers can be randomized or fixed. A prefix or suffix is an example of an explicit modifier, while an implicit modifier is a modifier on an item that is not generated randomly when crafting.

What is the Rarest Currency in PoE?

The rarest currency in PoE is the Mirror of Kalandra, used to create an exact duplicate of an item. Other rare currencies include Eternal Orbs, Mirror Shards, Maven’s Orbs, Awakener’s Orbs, and Exalted Orbs.

Does Quality Affect Crafting in PoE?

Yes, increasing the quality of weapons and armor makes linking and socketing with Jeweler’s Orbs and Orbs of Fusing easier. Each 1% quality gives a 1% better chance of obtaining many sockets and links, with a maximum of 20% quality. It also improves the base stats of items, and provides a defensive bonus from the increased armor values.

By understanding these aspects of crafting in Path of Exile, you can begin to build the gear you need for even the most difficult challenges the game can throw at you. Good luck, Exile!