[0.5] Low Budget Equipment Crafting Guide

Updated for 0.5 (Jun4)

Removed stuff no longer viable, whats left still is

• On May 25, GGG changed how Essences work, now any Currency that add single guaranteed modifier will add it as Crafted modifier with limit to 1, meaning you can have only 1 Essence or Alloy modifier per item
• Which is heavy hit to Weapon Crafting in general and it was expected, because crafting Weapons was extremely easy when you could have 4 Essence modifiers on weapon guaranteed with zero risk, for example on Martial Weapon it was: Flat Physical Damage, Extra Damage, +3/5 Levels and Onslaught
• Later i will update Crafting, but for now for example for Magic Items all you can do is pretty much either: Essence > Abyss > 2 Exalt Slams, or Regal > Perfect Essence > Abyss > Exalt slam

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IMPORTANT!

1. First of all this is very basic low budget crafting that can get you really good gear with 1 or few attempts, that usually will cost a lot less than buying something similar to what you crafted! (Aside of Amulet).
2. Before crafting anything, check price of finished item to find out if crafting even worth it.

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 any Item Type)

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 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 +4 (Wand) or +5-6 (Staff) 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.
   Example of Search such Staff - Link
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 use Greater Essence of Sorcery for Spell Damage
4. Now you have 3 Mod Staff, good Prefix (Extra Damage), + 5-6 Levels and Spell Damage.
5. Add Desecrated Mod with Omen of Sinistral Necromancy to add Prefix, but don't reveal it yet!
6. Gamble part, now you use Greater Exalt(Perfect if rich), with Omen of Greater Exaltation.
   This will slam 2 random Suffixes, and pray its Cast Speed and Crit Chance or atleast one of those mods.
7. If you slammed Crit Chance and Cast Speed, totally worth using Omen of Echoes to reveal last Prefix
8. If both Suffixes you slammed are crap, reveal without Omen of Echoes

Martial Weapon Crafting

1. Obtain Magic Rarity Weapon with good base for Weapon Type you need, with around 140-150% Phys Damage, as high as you can get, as it's not expensive.
2. Suffix doesn't really matter on Low Budget Crafting, unless you manage to find good base for cheap.
3. Use Greater Essence of Abrasion which add Flat Physical Damage.
4. Desecrate Prefix with Omen of Sinistral Necromancy.
5. Slam 2 Greater Exalts.
6. Reveal Prefix, ideally Hybrid %Phys Damage, or best option out of 3 you get.

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.

Energy Shield Armor

Similarly you can craft Life gear by starting with flat Life Magic Base. This is example of most basic crafting, while you can change it depending on what kind of mods you need.

Body Armor, Gloves, Helmet

1. Obtain Magic Rarity Armor with high level base (for example best ES body armor 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

Alternative option to craft ES Gloves with Attack Speed

1. Buy Magic Rarity ES Gloves with 75-80 Level Requirement with Attack Speed and flat ES or %ES.
2. Slam any of Resist Essences.
3. Desecrate Suffix with Omen of Dextral Necromancy.
4. Omen of Greater Exaltation with Perfect Exalt to slam 2 Prefixes, sometimes you will hit another ES mod, or high tier flat Damage.
5. Reveal Desecrated Mod with Omen of Echoes.

I used this way to craft Gloves upgrade for my own build, it costed me under 3 Div per attempt, took few tries to hit high ES Gloves, but before that i got few Gloves with two high tier flat Damage rolls, which sold for over 200 Div. Here's proof.

And even if it will cost me 5 Div per attempt, just from those 2 Gloves i can craft 80 more Gloves, not that it's good idea, but to understand how profitable cheap crafting is.

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

Unfortunately there's no really cheap way to craft if you want something good

1. Obtain Amulet with Fractured +3 All Spells, buy or make it yourself by getting 3 Mod Amulet that has +3 All Spells, add Desecrate Mod without revealing it to have 33% Chance to Fracture +3 All Spells.
2. Annul until its Fractured +3 All Spells and any Mod.
3. Chaos Spam for Spirit.
4. Then you have options depending on what kind of Amulet you trying to get:
   
   4.1. ES Amulet.
   - Add Defense Quality with Catalysts then slam Perfect Exalt with Omen of Sinistral Exaltation + Omen of Catalysing Exaltation for decent chance to hit %ES or Flat ES, can do it twice for attempt to hit both ES Mods, but it's risky because it also has good chance to hit %Armor or %Evasion.
   - Desecrate Suffix, reveal whatever you need.
   - Last suffix also will have to be slammed, so you can again use Omen of Catalysing Exaltation for whatever mod you looking for, Fire/Lightning/Cold Quality if you want one of Resists, Mana Quality if you want Mana Regen or Mana Recoup.
   
   4.2. DPS Amulet.
   - Add Caster Quality with Catalysts then slam Perfect Exalt with Omen of Sinistral Exaltation + Omen of Catalysing Exaltation for decent chance to hit %Spell Damage. Repeat with Omen of Dextral Exaltation for good chance to hit Cast Speed on Suffix.
   - Add Defense Quality with Catalysts then slam Perfect Exalt with Omen of Sinistral Exaltation + Omen of Catalysing Exaltation for decent chance to hit %ES or Flat ES.
   - Desecrate Suffix, reveal whatever you need.
   
   4.3. DPS Amulet (With Mana Recoup).
   - Add Caster Quality with Catalysts then slam Perfect Exalt with Omen of Sinistral Exaltation + Omen of Catalysing Exaltation for decent chance to hit %Spell Damage. Repeat with Omen of Dextral Exaltation for good chance to hit Cast Speed on Suffix.
   - Add Mana Quality with Catalysts then slam Perfect Exalt with Omen of Dextral Exaltation + Omen of Catalysing Exaltation for good chance to hit Mana Recoup, note that you also can hit Mana Regeneration Rate which a bit higher chance than Mana Recoup.
   - Desecrate Prefix, reveal whatever you need, in most cases it's ES Mod.
   
   4.4. Or mix of those options, again, depending on what you need.
5. If it bricks or you don't hit good mods, it likely will be cheaper to annul mods away and start over. Unless Amulet looks good enough that it sells for profit.
   

Ring/Belt

Basic Caster Ring with Mana + Triple Res

Might be expensive depending on price of Catalysts

1. Start with Magic Ring that has flat Mana + Resist.
2. Any Resist Essence.
3. Add quality with Catalysts you need Resist for.
4. Greater Exalt with Omens of Greater + Catalyzing + Dextral Exaltation, so for example with Fire Quality it will grant higher chance hitting Fire Resist + All Elemental Resists since it has Fire tag as well.
5. Add Abyss modifier which will be Prefix, use Omen of Echoes.
6. Either just slam Exalt, or add Quality with Catalysts and use Omen of Catalyzing Exaltation, can be Life Quality to get flat Life, Elemental Quality to hit Elemental Damage Increase or added flat Damage to attacks, or Chaos Quality for Increased Chaos Damage.

Belt can be crafted same way as above, minus part with Mana Essence and quality.

Tenebrous Ring (If you looking for super high Resist Ring)

1. Process is simple but very expensive, get Tenebrous Ring, annul until no mods, or until only good mods remain.
2. Optionally you can buy Tenebrous Ring with 1 high resist and attempt Fracturing it.
3. Lightning Catalysts - slam Greater/Prefect Exalt with Omen of Dextral Exaltation + Omen of Catalysing Exaltation, this increase chances of hitting Lightning Resist
4. Repeat 3rd step for Fire and Cold Resists or whatever you missing.
   For All Elemental Resists Mod any Elemental Catalyst work, either Fire, Cold or Lightning.
5. If you manage to get 4 Resist mods, you add Desecrated Suffix and reveal another Resist mod.
6. Then Repeat 3rd step again for whatever you need on that one Prefix, with Mana, Life or Elemental Catalysts if you looking for %Ele or flat Ele Damage, Mana or Life.
7. If you don't hit Resists, then have to YOLO Annul, unless mod you slammed is decent to sell that ring and start over.