Crafting Guide: Endgame Necrotic Armour

This guide will take you through the process of crafting a high Energy Shield and Evasion Necrotic Body Armour. The method used in this can be applied to lower-tier crafts all the way up to near perfect Chests.

Step 1: The Base

For our starting point, we're looking for the following stats:

• Base: Necrotic Body Armour
• Item Level: 86+
• Base Percentile: 100%
• Links: Six Links (if you're not planning to use Tailoring Orbs)

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Optional Starting Point for Higher End Versions

• Fracture: A decent starting Fracture (such as Spell Suppression, Resistance or Tier 1/2 flat or % increased Evasion Rating and Energy Shield)
• Overquality: for more high-end versions, aim for 25-30% Quality. If you do this method, try to buy a Chest that hasn't been Split, but if you can't find one, you can buy a Split base. Assuming your base isn't Split
• • Get the base to 100% Base Percentile with Sacred Orbs
  • Add six modifiers and (optionally) Six Link the Chest (this can be lost during the Tailoring Orb section). Compare the price of 1500 Orbs of Fusing with the Crafting Bench vs The Black Mórrigan + Cracic Sandspitter Beastcraft combo
  • Split the Chest into 3 Bases with The Black Mórrigan + Fenumal Plagued Arachnid in the Menagerie
  • Optional: you can aim for a good Fracture target by reforging Defence/Dense Fossil until you get two good modifiers on a 4 mod base, such as Tier 1 Flat/#% ES/Evasion and T1/2 Spell Suppression or a Tier 1 Resistance.

Step 2: Getting the Prefixes

In order to get high Energy Shield and Evasion Rating, we're going to use Dense Fossils that increase the weight of Defence-tagged modifiers, such as Evasion Rating and Energy Shield, and excluding and Life-tagged modifiers, such as # to Maximum Life, Life Regeneration and hybrid Life modifiers. Dense Fossils can be expensive, but this is by far the best method. Load up some Dense Fossils in Primitive Resonators and start hitting the Chest until you get good Prefixes.

Once you hit a good amount of Energy Shield and Evasion Rating, you can move onto the next step where we focus on the Suffixes

Step 3: Getting the Suffixes

In the next step, we're going to aim for good Suffixes using Eldritch Currency.

First, you need to make your Eater Influence dominant. In order to do this, if your Chest has no Influence, use a single Eldritch Ichor on the Armour - this will make Eater of Words Dominant. If your Chest already has Eater and Exarch Influence, make certain that your Eater of Worlds modifier is of a higher tier than your Exarch. The order of this is: Lesser, Greater, Grand, Exceptional, Exquisite, Perfect. For example, if your Chest has a Greater Exarch and Eater Modifier, you can use a Lesser Eldritch Ember to make the Exarch mod Lesser and keep the Eater mod Greater, which will mean Eater of Worlds is Dominance

We do all of this to ensure that the Eldritch Orb of Annulment can only remove Suffix modifiers. All of the Energy Shield and Evasion modifiers we got in the first step are Prefixes and we need to keep them safe.

Once you've confirmed your Chest has Eater of Worlds dominant, if you have any bad Suffixes on the Chset, you can remove them with an Eldritch Orb of Annulment. Then, take your Chest to the Crafting Bench.

At the Crafting Bench, we want to block a modifier that we don't want to Exalt on. By bench on # to Dexterity and Intelligence, we can not add either Dexterity or Intelligence to the Chest with Exalted Orbs.

You can also use a regex with the Crafting Bench that will highlight the crafts we'll be using most: "y and int|ve cra"

First, bench on Dexterity and Intelligence (assuming you don't need either of these), then slam the Chest with Exalted Orbs. If the first modifier isn't one you want, first Remove Crafted Modifiers, then Eldritch Annul, then re-apply the Dexterity and Intelligence bench craft and Exalt again. Repeat this until you get a good Suffix modifier

Next, you'll need to Exalt on a second Suffix. Keep the Dexterity and Intelligence Bench Craft on the Chest and Exalt it again. If you get something good, great - you're pretty much done! If you don't, you can now decide to try to Annul off the bad modifier. Remember to always first remove the Bench Craft before using your Eldritch Annul to avoid Annuling off the Bench mod (which can be easily removed for 1 Scouring Orb). Repeat this process until you have two Suffixes that you're happy with.

From here, you can add a final Bench Crafted modifier to finish the Suffixes on your Chest. Having this open Suffix makes your Chest more flexible and is usually better than Exalting on a third random modifier.

Step 4 (Optional): Tailoring Orb

If you want to push your Necrotic Armour's Evasion and Energy Shield up, you can use Tailoring Orbs. This will add an Enchantment to your Chest and we're looking for 8% increased Explicit Defence Modifier Magnitudes. This is a 1 in 4 chance, but can take many more than 4 if you get unlucky and is usually reserved for higher-end crafts.

Another point of note: some Tailoring Orb Enchantments have additional lines such as "has only 3 Sockets" which can ruin your 6-link, meaning you'll need to re-Link your Chest if you hit one of these before the Enchantment we want.

Step 5: Implicits

In the next step, we're going to use Eldritch Embers and Ichors to get the Implicits we want. For basic versions of this Chest, just use Lesser/Greater versions until you hit the modifier you want. For higher end versions, you might want to use Orbs of Conflict to get your implicits to the Exquisite/Perfect range. Just a note: if you do use Orbs of Conflict, make sure that the modifier you're trying to improve is a LOWER tier than the other. The odds to improve a modifier is supposedly based on which modifier is lower tier.

That's it! You're done!

You can check out some of my other crafting guides here:

• Kinetic Fusillade/Kinetic Blast Wand Craft
• Breach Tree ES/Evasion Body Armour
• My Kinetic Fusillade Warden Guide