Caster Equipment Crafting Guide

Previously it was guide for Recoup Chrono crafting.

Now updating it as guide for crafting for most Caster builds.

IMPORTANT!

There's different Staff/Wand bases that can roll one type of Increased Damage.

For example: Gelid Staff can only roll %Cold Damage, but not Lightning, Fire, Chaos or Physical, which makes crafting much more likely to hit mods you need.

List of Weapons:

• Cold: Gelid Staff
• Fire: Ashen Staff, Pyrophyte Staff, Volatile Wand
• Lightning: Voltaic Staff, Paralysing Staff, Galvanic Wand
• Chaos: Withered Wand
• Physical: Reaping Staff, Bone Wand
• All other Wand/Staff Bases can roll any Increased Damage mods.

Crafting from Rare Item, work with almost any Item

Simply speaking, you search good but cheap Rare items that have empty Prefix/Suffix to add Abyss mod, slam Exalt or use Perfect Essence, to potentially get good upgrade for cheap, or resell it for profit.

Example:

1. I search Cold Staff like this Trade Link, that has Cast Speed, Crit Chance, and 1 good Prefix.
2. Then i search for Staff that has 1 good Prefix, 2 empty Prefixes, Cast Speed, Crit Chance and any third Suffix.
3. Important that this Staff doesn't have +# to Levels, otherwise next step is impossible.
4. Then i use Perfect Essence of Sorcery which add +5 to all Spell Levels on Suffix. As long as Suffixes are filled, it will remove one of Suffixes. So in this case it's 33% Chance that it remove that 1 random Suffix and keep Cast Speed and Crit Chance.
5. Then use Preserved Jawbone and hope to get good Prefix.
6. Then i slam Greater Exalt (or Perfect Exalt if Item is super good), and pray it's not Mana :D

Wand/Staff Crafting

1. Obtain Magic Rarity Weapon with +5-6 Cold/Fire/Lightning/Chaos/Physical Levels, ideally 70+ item level (not Requirement level). Either with no Prefix, or good Prefix like %Extra Damage, %Spell Damage, %Cold/Lightning/Fire/Phys/Chaos Damage.
2. If you have weapon only with +5-6 Levels, using Perfect Aug has high chance to add high tier %Extra Damage, %Spell Damage, %Cold/Lightning/Fire/Phys/Chaos Damage, but also has chance to add flat Mana which is brick.
3. Then depending on what kind of build you have, you can use either Cast Speed Essence or Crit Chance Essence.
4. Gamble part, now you use Greater Exalt(Perfect if rich), with Omens of Sinistral and Greater Exaltation. This will slam 2 random Prefixes which has good chance to add 2 good Damage mods, while it has good chance to add Mana which usually is bad mod.
5. Then use Preserved Jawbone to reveal last Suffix. Use Omen of Echoes if you got good mods on previous step. Use Ancient Jawbone if you got actually crazy weapon. Hope to get Cast Speed or Crit Chance depending on what Essence you used on third step, unless you play non crit build, then whatever useful you get there.
6. If that weapon is good enough, if use Omen of Light to annul abyss mod in case you didn't get what you wanted to try again.

Focus Crafting

First option, should be slightly cheaper, but more RNG (Have to slam 3 Exalts)

1. Obtain Magic Rarity Focus with +2 to All Spells with any Prefix.
2. Use Either Cast Speed or Crit Chance Essence.
3. Use Abyss Essence with Omen of Sinistral Crystallisation, this will replace that random Prefix you had with "Mark of the Abyssal Lord" Modifier. When you going to use Preserved Rib, it will replace that modifier with Unrevealed Desecrated Mod.
4. Use Greater Exalt with Omen of Greater Exaltation, then use another Greater Exalt, there's simply no other way but slamming 3 exalts.
5. Reveal Desecrated Mod, use Omen of Echoes if you got good Focus.

Second option, very similar, but slightly less RNG (Have to slam 2 Exalts)

1. Obtain Focus with +2 to All Spells with any Prefix.
2. Use Either Cast Speed or Crit Chance Essence.
3. Use Perfect Essence of Alacrity with Omen of Sinistral Crystallisation, it will remove that random Prefix you had and add 18-20% Manacost Efficiency.
   *It's not as good as having both Crit Chance and Cast Speed on Suffix which you can't get without some luck, but it's guaranteed that you have 3 good Suffixes.
4. Use Preserved Rib, it add Unrevealed Desecrated Mod on Prefix.
5. Reveal that mod with Omen of Echoes, preferably getting Spell or other type of Damage, or atleast high tier of ES mods if you didn't find good tier Damage mod.
6. Slam Greater Exalt with Omen of Greater Exaltation to add 2 random Prefixes.

Energy Shield Armor

Body Armor, Gloves, Helmet

1. Obtain Magic Rarity Armor piece with high level base (best for most ES is Vile Robe), high tier flat Energy Shield and Resist.
2. Use %ES Essence.
3. Use Preserved Rib with Omen of Sinistral Necromancy to guarantee that it add Desecrated Prefix.
4. Pray to get Hybrid %ES mod, or in case with Body Armor also Spirit.
5. Use Greater Exalt with Omen of Greater Exaltation to slam 2 remaining suffixes, and pay to get Resists :D

Boots

1. Obtain Magic Rarity Boots with good high level base, high tier Movespeed and Resist.
2. Use %ES Essence.
3. Use Preserved Rib with Omen of Sinistral Necromancy which guarantee that it add Desecrated Prefix.
4. Reveal optionally with Omen of Echoes and pray to get flat Energy Shield.
5. Use Greater Exalt with Omen of Greater Exaltation to slam 2 remaining Suffixes and pray to get Resists :D

Amulet (Specifically for Recoup)

1. Obtain Magic Rarity Amulet with +3 Spell Levels and any Prefix.
2. Use Life or Mana Essence, doesn't really matter which.
3. Use Essence of Hysteria with Omen of Sinistral Crystallisation, this ensure that it will remove one of two Prefixes you don't care about and add Life Recoup on Suffix.
4. Use Perfect Essence of Enhancement with Omen of Sinistral Crystallisation, this will replace that remaining Prefix you don't care about with 20-30% Global Defense mod.
5. Now you have Amulet with +3 Levels, Life Recoup and Global Defense.
6. Now there's option, either Desecrate Prefix or Suffix with Omen of Sinistral/Dextral Necromancy.
   6.1. If you do Prefix, you better wish to get Spirit, its one of more rare mods, so you might have to use Omen of Light if you really want Spirit.
   6.2. If you do Suffix, best mod is likely Cast Speed, with Resists being second best, this is quite safer route but then you less likely to get Spirit.
7. Then use Greater Exalt with Omen of Greater Exaltation to slam 2 remaining mod.

Ring/Belt

1. Either buy Rare Ring with Mana, High Resists and empty Suffix, desecrate Suffix and hope to reveal Resist. Then slam Prefixes to make sure it has 3 Prefixes, and slam Perfect Essence of Mind and hope it not replace Mana.
2. Or start from Magic Rarity Ring with Mana and Resist.
3. Use any of Resist Essences you need.
4. Desecrate Suffix with Omen of Dextral Necromancy and hope to reveal Resist.
5. Slam 2 Prefixes,
6. Use Perfect Essence of Mind with 66% that it doesn't replace flat Mana.
7. Add Mana quality.

Belt can be crafted same way minus part with Essence and quality.