Understanding “Crafting” or How to Gamble Until RNG Gives Up

These are the general steps of crafting in this game. You won’t use all of them on every item. For cheaper gear, you’ll naturally stop earlier. The point here is not the steps themselves, but the logic behind them.

If you understand this, you understand “crafting” in general. And let’s be honest, “crafting” is mostly just gambling until RNG finally gives up. On high-end items, you should fully expect to dump massive amounts of currency.

Chaos spamming is usually the worst part. Not just because of the cost, but because it’s mentally draining. Thousands of clicks, hours gone, and the constant risk of misclicking and skipping the exact mod you were waiting for.

This guide is aimed at true high-end crafts, where Omens, desecrates, and purple Omens already put you in the territory of thousands of divines. The same logic still applies to simpler items. You just stop earlier.

There are smart, case-by-case tricks you can layer on top of this, like using Omens to guarantee prefixes or suffixes, essence-based approaches, and similar tools. I’m not covering those here on purpose, since they’re situational and would distract from the core idea.

Once this clicks, following other crafts or guides becomes much easier. You’re no longer copying steps. You actually know why people are doing what they’re doing, when to push further, and when it’s simply not worth it.

If this helps even one person understand the logic, it did its job.

Comments

Flying_Mage21 days ago17

So people actually and seriosuly think that THIS is how crafting should be?

Like they see nothing wrong with it?

Scuipici21 days ago10

crafting will never be a mainstream thing in this game. Most players will just sell lucky item drops and buy others from the trade. You may hate this but it is true. GGG fails to make things intuitive, case and point the fucking vaal temple, people watch tutorials on youtube and still don't get it. I don't know what GGG needs to do but they need to hire someone that goes in with an axe and chops and refines their mechanics making it intuitive without dumbing it down or making it easy. If they don't do this, the average player or even pretty good players, will not engage with it.

buttflakes2721 days ago8

This is just for crafting perfect items, there are cheaper methods to craft viable but not perfect items.

PrintDapper567621 days ago5

This why I buy failed crafts from others for my substandard gear. Also, this is why SSF is not the place to craft top tier items. Also, also, this is why ground loot is never going to give you anything good on a regular basis.

Basically GGG doesn't want people to play SSF and find good gear.

FrankCarnax21 days ago3

As a noob, I wouldn't call it "crafting basics" since I don't understand most of it. But it sounds like a good "reminder for expert crafting".

milafosi21 days ago3

Great guide, but you missed a critical step.

https://preview.redd.it/epbjf1wti3jg1.png?width=1179&format=png&auto=webp&s=8aaac50a385378c428797c6918b9a97b49931874

-Zavenoa-21 days ago2

This method essentially applies to any type of weapon, there are other methods for ‘crafting’ other things. It’s still gambling, but it’s more like playing Texas Holdem than Roulette in this example.

This example also misses a very key high stakes gamble, which should be step 1 (expensive exceptional bases aside): bricking a pile of items before you have a base at 30 quality to gamble with.

Welcome to Path of the Vaal 2: Gamble Boogaloo

I’ve made several multi-mirror sales from my ‘crafts’ this league, while all of them have required high stakes gambles, none of them have used a whittle, erasure, or annul omen I can think of. A great many Omen of Light have been used though.

Edit: If you’re wondering, they’re mostly rings, the only thing left with a semblance of determinism.

Edit 2: It is also very possible to craft perfect 6x T1 Boots, Helm, and Chest with “no omen” (no whittle, erasure, or annul) crafting. It requires a lot of chaos spamming and respamming, as well as Abyss Essence and Omen of Light.

Eowyndra21 days ago2

If I lock my best mod with a fracturing orb (e.g. +5 spells) I cannot later sanctify this item and hope to roll it to +6 spell skill levels, right?

dethklok21421 days ago2

Why perf exalts at step 3, if we are annuling them anyway?

tomkc51821 days ago2

I'll just wait for divs to drop and trade, thanks.