One important thing to keep in mind is that not EVERY piece is worth crafting, even more so if it is a commonly crafted item. Prices for these kinds of items tend to be lower than their components. However, the more specific and niche an item gets, the more expensive it ends up being to outright buy. Always check prices first!
To piggyback on this, generally speaking if you need chaos res and one other mod, its always worth crafting as t1 chaos res is very rare unless its forced, and it adds some 5x to the value of the rare, so spamming essence of envy on fractured t1 suppression until you hit t3-1 life and an empty prefix/suffx or w/e you need, always worth it since chaos res SS life gear is overpriced as shit
Hi, I took the liberty of adding your video to the guides section on Craft of Exile as I think its pretty useful information for the majority of the player base. Thanks for the video!
Honestly one of the best guides out there, you took all this information I knew and have heard before but organized it in a way that made much more sense
Most POE crafting "how to" videos are only understandable to those who already know the subject. This is straightforward and clear and well explained. Thank you so much.
Best guide for crafting. Why? Because you said everything so clearly and clever, you didn't talked too fast and you actually focused on the way you speak which was keeping me up focused and now I finally understood more. Thank you !!!!!!
I had literally given up on POE guides because they all start at the knowledge base of someone who has played every league ever released and it drove me insane. As someone who has only gotten to maps like 3 or 4 times playing sporadically your content is easy to understand. Thanks so much for all your help. I'm currently running your SRS Inquisitor and having an absolute blast.
Amazing tutorial! Can we just have essentially a part 2 expanding on this? I'd love to have fossil crafting, harvest, etc more expensive and higher end crafting in a video like this.
So this video took me from never crafting items, because I was always afraid of wasting currency, to crafting ALL of the rares on my character. It took my character from being pretty meh to doing about 30% more damage and becoming a lot more tanky by capping my chaos resist. Thank you so much for showing these steps in a very clear and concise way. I’ll never play PoE the same ever again because of this video. ❤
True! All my rares are niw made by me, crafting. Made my first hundred divs by crafting items and swlling them. I just turned my 28 div to a possible 200 div item if I get lucky.
Big ducks is the only, the only, creator that provides adequate information to dummies. This is genuinely the first crafting video that I managed to understand. I am still not going to craft anything because I am too dumb for that but this is a great video. At least now I know something about crafting.
I feel the same as you. I understand the concept. I still barely even know what’s a prefix and a suffix so the whole process is time consuming to ensure I’m doing it correctly.
@therotten6152 if you scour it does that prefix stay on the piece of gear? Got some jewels I want to work on and craft of exile had it had approx 1400 tries.
I'm on my first league in poe. And crafting is something that I am really just too scared to get in to. I've watched multiple guides about it already and still have no idea how to even start crafting. But this video is really informative, I watched(listened to) this while driving and I am able to understand how to craft or get the idea atleast. Great guide.
Quick note to the suffixes cannot be changed mod. If your suffixes are full you can use the Wild Bristle Matron beast to force the suffixes metamod on an item and it's always a cheaper price than the full 2 div crafting bench (It's usually between 1 and 1.5 div after the first week of the league).
@@mattb6646 the hole goes deeper, when mixing this with harvest crafting, resonators,beasts, fracturing the item yourself.. etc... you can do it from scratch pretty much to higher than this example.
I'm glad there are brainiacs like you who know this kind of stuff. Keeps the dummies like me entertained lol. There's always a new mechanic right around the corner for me to stumble into! Thanks for this info
@@mattb6646 No, it only works with suffixes cannot be changed mod because that's the only metamod that is also a prefix. Wild bristle matron adds a random metamod so only by having full suffixes you can get what you want deterministically
This is “THAT” video I’ve been wanting an expert to make. This is what’s been holding me back. Well DONE my dude. Truly you’ve earned my support. I’ve asked many to make a video like this “THIS”. You understood the assignment. Thanks dude.
what an excellent video, thank you very much a lot of people needed this because most videos that talk about crafting, well, talk about crafting, and not show a any example or walk players through a process of crafting an item.
Great video! As a casual player I often get scared away by all thecrafting and 'this build only costs you 50 divines' . So thanks a lot for the video an pointing me slowly in the right direction to be able to afford a good build :)
I'm glad I found this video. I am literally just dumbfounded on how to progress in my build. I just got to maps and I am going by a build guide but I am getting smoked with 75% resistances. Maybe one day I will understand this game.
this the kind of video i needed as a beginner. settler is my first league ever and i have craft my helmet for my build at the half with the right rolls, its feels good to know u crafted something at your own. i will go dig deeper in the topic of crafting but that is my beginner strategie for now, thx a lot for that video
Thank you! This was extremely helpful. I just crafted an almost perfect ring for my build the other day and it was out of sheer luck. I think this would have helped me make an even better one, but it still turned out to be worth around 3 or 4 divines after only spending around 10-15 essences.
I laughed when you said “it could fill your prefixes, it can happen” when talking about using veiled orbs, but only because I was actually crying on the inside from trauma.
This is an amazing guide. I've learned a lot from it. The biggest thing I've learned is that I'm only interested in the lower end of crafting I think. Thanks for the help.
This is an excellent and comprehensive tutorial, and amazingly it’s packed into a concise 30m. Most other vids like this are an hour or more and a pain to watch all the way through. Thanks man!
Excellent video. Thank you very, very much for this. POE crafting is so overwhelming for me as a player that comes back every few years. Things change so quickly that I find myself too scared to try to craft. Specifically the socket color manipulation towards the end of the video blew my mind. I feel dumb for wasting so much of my currency for nothing now!
Fantastic video, this is pretty much the depth of my crafting knowledge but damn if it didn't take me a long time to figure all of this out and its really a good summary. I still don't really profit craft I just enjoy being able to make functional items for my builds so I can keep progressing and basically playing my self imposed SSF style because I just don't like trading much lol
Just started playing PoE. You are my teacher now, I've decided now. this was so organized and you gave people time to grasp what was happening, rather than just speeding through.
One important thing I didnt know for a long time: suf/pre cant be changed means: only existing ones cant be changed! not the suffix slots themselves. if there are only 2 suffix, a 3rd one can still be added. its easy to missunderstand!
great video. Many crafting videos explain what can be done with crafting. but I still was missing an undertanding of how I can combine these technics to reach my goal. Thank you!
Solid video for beginners, thanks for making the game more approachable! On a side note, I wish those fractured bases were more common in SSF lol, literally need to spend hundreds of essences on a base to make proper suffixes/prefixes.
Thank you very much for this video! As a pretty new player this was one of the most digestible videos I've seen and genuinely cleared up a lot of my fear/anxiety about trying to craft!
I really needed a guide on this, since I came back this season to PoE and I used to hate crafting so much. But recently my mindset changed and I want to be the one crafting amazing pieces on my Firetrap/RF Templar. You explain extremely well, I understood every single step you said and I got into the revelation that I just gotta play with all the available crafting options and currencies available. I cannot thank you enough for making this video. I will totally leave you a tip for taking your time explaining all this. By the way, do you accept emails or any kind if private messages to help me craft just two of my first pieces so I can get the hang of it? Only need your written or video steps explaining on how to easily hit the mods I need and to protect the ones I have, since I am still new to all this crafting possibilities. Thabtks again for all this work done!
i was struggling between saving money and buy an axe with 40divines or just upgrade other gier because im dying every to t16 map run. this video really let me know how good players get all the item on pob. one of the most helpful guide of poe ive ever seen. thanks for your great work
Great video, watched it already when it came out. Was the best to understand guide out there for me. Could you maybe make a follow up now that veiled Chaos Orbs are so expensive? Is there even another way now besides Harvest or saving up?
Very good video! I was a bit overwhelmed by crafting, and am just now getting into red Maps and I needed to understand those possibilities and the costs associated with them, but even just going through CraftOfExile without proper knowledge was a bit overwhelming. Thanks BigDuck for the video! PS: My 1st League actually playing (played before but didnt finish the campaign)
Big help! It's my second league and I only dabbled in crafting a few times and only with essences. I didn't even know about eldritch annuls which are sick! Will definitely use that for my crafting :D
hey man, I'm new to this game so the game is already overwhelming with complexity but thank you so much for this guide. Holy crap it was super easy to follow along and get an idea of how to craft.
Thanks for this guide! It's extremly helpful for new players like myself! I have one question: How would you farm those base items you need? Is there a specific keyword I can search for?
Great guide, thanks How thing changes for SSF? I mean, beside the obvious that you can work only on finded item, and you'll probably have less currency.
Amazing guide! You explained things in a very clear way to someone like me that has only played for 3 seasons now and I'm realizing that I've only scraped the surface with my crafts. Thank you sir, please keep making more of these videos. Your wisdom is power! Instantly subbed.
I took the knowledge required to understand this video and simply invested in the stock market. Now I have 40 employees who simply make the gear I need.
One important thing to keep in mind is that not EVERY piece is worth crafting, even more so if it is a commonly crafted item. Prices for these kinds of items tend to be lower than their components. However, the more specific and niche an item gets, the more expensive it ends up being to outright buy.
Always check prices first!
To piggyback on this, generally speaking if you need chaos res and one other mod, its always worth crafting as t1 chaos res is very rare unless its forced, and it adds some 5x to the value of the rare, so spamming essence of envy on fractured t1 suppression until you hit t3-1 life and an empty prefix/suffx or w/e you need, always worth it since chaos res SS life gear is overpriced as shit
Hi, I took the liberty of adding your video to the guides section on Craft of Exile as I think its pretty useful information for the majority of the player base. Thanks for the video!
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I agree. Finally i get it.
Honestly one of the best guides out there, you took all this information I knew and have heard before but organized it in a way that made much more sense
You totally wrong, this is THE BEST crafting guide out there
@therotten6152 yeah crafting is a lot of RNG
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Most POE crafting "how to" videos are only understandable to those who already know the subject. This is straightforward and clear and well explained. Thank you so much.
It was and I still can't craft anything usable on a helper monkey
Best guide for crafting. Why? Because you said everything so clearly and clever, you didn't talked too fast and you actually focused on the way you speak which was keeping me up focused and now I finally understood more. Thank you !!!!!!
No, it’s because he used FTL music in the background, that’s why - obviously! 😁
I had literally given up on POE guides because they all start at the knowledge base of someone who has played every league ever released and it drove me insane. As someone who has only gotten to maps like 3 or 4 times playing sporadically your content is easy to understand. Thanks so much for all your help. I'm currently running your SRS Inquisitor and having an absolute blast.
Amazing tutorial! Can we just have essentially a part 2 expanding on this? I'd love to have fossil crafting, harvest, etc more expensive and higher end crafting in a video like this.
So this video took me from never crafting items, because I was always afraid of wasting currency, to crafting ALL of the rares on my character. It took my character from being pretty meh to doing about 30% more damage and becoming a lot more tanky by capping my chaos resist. Thank you so much for showing these steps in a very clear and concise way. I’ll never play PoE the same ever again because of this video. ❤
True! All my rares are niw made by me, crafting. Made my first hundred divs by crafting items and swlling them. I just turned my 28 div to a possible 200 div item if I get lucky.
Big ducks is the only, the only, creator that provides adequate information to dummies.
This is genuinely the first crafting video that I managed to understand. I am still not going to craft anything because I am too dumb for that but this is a great video. At least now I know something about crafting.
I feel the same as you. I understand the concept. I still barely even know what’s a prefix and a suffix so the whole process is time consuming to ensure I’m doing it correctly.
@therotten6152 if you scour it does that prefix stay on the piece of gear? Got some jewels I want to work on and craft of exile had it had approx 1400 tries.
On the magic item that is
I'm on my first league in poe. And crafting is something that I am really just too scared to get in to. I've watched multiple guides about it already and still have no idea how to even start crafting. But this video is really informative, I watched(listened to) this while driving and I am able to understand how to craft or get the idea atleast. Great guide.
Quick note to the suffixes cannot be changed mod. If your suffixes are full you can use the Wild Bristle Matron beast to force the suffixes metamod on an item and it's always a cheaper price than the full 2 div crafting bench (It's usually between 1 and 1.5 div after the first week of the league).
There's so much in this game it's hard to remember everything lol I'm glad you know that, I didnt
@@mattb6646 the hole goes deeper, when mixing this with harvest crafting, resonators,beasts, fracturing the item yourself.. etc... you can do it from scratch pretty much to higher than this example.
I'm glad there are brainiacs like you who know this kind of stuff. Keeps the dummies like me entertained lol. There's always a new mechanic right around the corner for me to stumble into! Thanks for this info
Is there a prefixes can't be change version of beast?
@@mattb6646 No, it only works with suffixes cannot be changed mod because that's the only metamod that is also a prefix. Wild bristle matron adds a random metamod so only by having full suffixes you can get what you want deterministically
holy shit, first crafting video that makes actual sense to me. i so needed a video like this! thank you!!
This is “THAT” video I’ve been wanting an expert to make. This is what’s been holding me back. Well DONE my dude. Truly you’ve earned my support. I’ve asked many to make a video like this “THIS”. You understood the assignment. Thanks dude.
As a long time player but noob crafter, this was very educating and easy to understand, thank you!!
what an excellent video, thank you very much a lot of people needed this because most videos that talk about crafting, well, talk about crafting, and not show a any example or walk players through a process of crafting an item.
man, thank you I know this is 11 months old been playing since 19 and never got into crafting.
you broke it down very well. thanks, man
Great video! As a casual player I often get scared away by all thecrafting and 'this build only costs you 50 divines' . So thanks a lot for the video an pointing me slowly in the right direction to be able to afford a good build :)
hands down best crafting video I have seen.
I'm glad I found this video. I am literally just dumbfounded on how to progress in my build. I just got to maps and I am going by a build guide but I am getting smoked with 75% resistances. Maybe one day I will understand this game.
this the kind of video i needed as a beginner. settler is my first league ever and i have craft my helmet for my build at the half with the right rolls, its feels good to know u crafted something at your own. i will go dig deeper in the topic of crafting but that is my beginner strategie for now, thx a lot for that video
Thank you! This was extremely helpful. I just crafted an almost perfect ring for my build the other day and it was out of sheer luck. I think this would have helped me make an even better one, but it still turned out to be worth around 3 or 4 divines after only spending around 10-15 essences.
As a new player, this has helped me out a ton and I will be coming back to this over time!
I laughed when you said “it could fill your prefixes, it can happen” when talking about using veiled orbs, but only because I was actually crying on the inside from trauma.
This was exactly what I needed for crafting. The "do this then this," for a specific item didn't teach me much. This helped me a LOT.
BEST explanations yet honestly. Great word usage. Im gonna recommend you to anyone i ever see fixing to get into the game
300 hours into the game and im starting to use crafting much more now. Pretty insane once you learn more stuff. Only took like 4 leagues to get down 😅
Really good video for beginners, should help the new wave of players we inherited from D4 to be able to make their own stuff.
I'm a pretty new player and my head exploded. Thank you.
This is an amazing guide. I've learned a lot from it.
The biggest thing I've learned is that I'm only interested in the lower end of crafting I think. Thanks for the help.
Very good guide that's how i started to make currencies long ago once you get into it's amazing !
Love that FTL music at the background..
This is an excellent and comprehensive tutorial, and amazingly it’s packed into a concise 30m. Most other vids like this are an hour or more and a pain to watch all the way through. Thanks man!
Excellent video. Thank you very, very much for this. POE crafting is so overwhelming for me as a player that comes back every few years. Things change so quickly that I find myself too scared to try to craft.
Specifically the socket color manipulation towards the end of the video blew my mind. I feel dumb for wasting so much of my currency for nothing now!
This has to be one of the best and well explained crafting guide. Thank you, Ducks.
This was relatively easy to follow for someone who has been playing for less than a week 👍
Fantastic video, this is pretty much the depth of my crafting knowledge but damn if it didn't take me a long time to figure all of this out and its really a good summary. I still don't really profit craft I just enjoy being able to make functional items for my builds so I can keep progressing and basically playing my self imposed SSF style because I just don't like trading much lol
Just started playing PoE. You are my teacher now, I've decided now. this was so organized and you gave people time to grasp what was happening, rather than just speeding through.
This makes SO MUCH MORE SENSE NOW! Thanks for this video!
A several part series would be amazing....with follow up reminders with links. VERY WELL DONE!
Really nice guide on how to craft items, and yes it was simple for a beginner like me.
Essence does respect the cannot be changed mods, it makes it so you can't use essence on them at all.
One important thing I didnt know for a long time:
suf/pre cant be changed means: only existing ones cant be changed! not the suffix slots themselves.
if there are only 2 suffix, a 3rd one can still be added. its easy to missunderstand!
great video. Many crafting videos explain what can be done with crafting. but I still was missing an undertanding of how I can combine these technics to reach my goal. Thank you!
Great video….it definitely tells me I am not ready to start crafting just yet it is immensely complicated…..
Solid video for beginners, thanks for making the game more approachable! On a side note, I wish those fractured bases were more common in SSF lol, literally need to spend hundreds of essences on a base to make proper suffixes/prefixes.
After all these years, this is the best crafting guide ive ever seen!
Thank you very much for this video! As a pretty new player this was one of the most digestible videos I've seen and genuinely cleared up a lot of my fear/anxiety about trying to craft!
I'm running through maps for the first time this league and this is very helpful. Thank you
How does the change to veiled orbs affect the metacrafting process?
I really needed a guide on this, since I came back this season to PoE and I used to hate crafting so much. But recently my mindset changed and I want to be the one crafting amazing pieces on my Firetrap/RF Templar.
You explain extremely well, I understood every single step you said and I got into the revelation that I just gotta play with all the available crafting options and currencies available.
I cannot thank you enough for making this video. I will totally leave you a tip for taking your time explaining all this.
By the way, do you accept emails or any kind if private messages to help me craft just two of my first pieces so I can get the hang of it? Only need your written or video steps explaining on how to easily hit the mods I need and to protect the ones I have, since I am still new to all this crafting possibilities.
Thabtks again for all this work done!
i was struggling between saving money and buy an axe with 40divines or just upgrade other gier because im dying every to t16 map run.
this video really let me know how good players get all the item on pob. one of the most helpful guide of poe ive ever seen.
thanks for your great work
I have been looking for THIS video for the last two months! Thank you sir!
This is a PERFECT guide. 10/10 and will definitely watch further craft videos.
The info delivery so compact and optimized. Appreciate great content Ducks!🎉
Man, you are sooo good at explaining stuff
This league i am popping of with my divines. now i can look to craft items i need :) thank you for clarify the "basics" of crafting
Great video, watched it already when it came out. Was the best to understand guide out there for me.
Could you maybe make a follow up now that veiled Chaos Orbs are so expensive? Is there even another way now besides Harvest or saving up?
You have become one of my favorite Path of Exile TH-camrs. Thank you for explaining things so us noobs can understand.
Thank you so much I learned a lot in less than 30 minutes, I can't wait to learn about harvest too!
Woah. Every other video I've watched assumes I already knew how all this works, thanks!
I was literally searching for a guide like this lol. Came up just in time. Cheers!
one of the cleanest crafting guides
Great video. Really well articulated and explained. Nice work dude!
Mid game to early end game crafting is where 99% of the player base is. These are the videos that ppl need!
The color socket thing was so helpful
This is great.. I will be looking for other videos and putting some practice in with this information.
A very detail guide for 1 of the end game ways to craft equipment.
Thanks a ton man you made a completely complex system very understandable. I feel more confident to try my own meta craft now
Very concise and thorough guide! Now I would love to know how to craft solid influenced items :)
Very good video! I was a bit overwhelmed by crafting, and am just now getting into red Maps and I needed to understand those possibilities and the costs associated with them, but even just going through CraftOfExile without proper knowledge was a bit overwhelming.
Thanks BigDuck for the video!
PS: My 1st League actually playing (played before but didnt finish the campaign)
looking forward to fossil crafting explanation !
Big help! It's my second league and I only dabbled in crafting a few times and only with essences. I didn't even know about eldritch annuls which are sick! Will definitely use that for my crafting :D
Extremely useful and clear explanation. thank you.
Thank you a lot for this video, really it was clear and I might finally give it a try to craft my own items now :)
hey man, I'm new to this game so the game is already overwhelming with complexity but thank you so much for this guide. Holy crap it was super easy to follow along and get an idea of how to craft.
Finally someone did it, the perfect video
Very informative and understandable, as a new player i say thank you! Looking forward to more content like this as i want to understand crafting!
best resource i've ever found on crafting
Very informative. Straight forward guide. Thanks!
Thanks for this guide! It's extremly helpful for new players like myself!
I have one question: How would you farm those base items you need? Is there a specific keyword I can search for?
Great guide. I haven't played in years, since a little while after the crafting bench came out. Crazy that this is entry level, and I'm still lost 😅
Did you ever end up making the more advanced crafting guide? Looking forward and good job on this video!
This is the best intro to crafting guide out for poe
Thank you so much for this absolutely invaluable information
Super useful guide. Hope a follow up guide is done soon. ^^
Great guide, thanks
How thing changes for SSF?
I mean, beside the obvious that you can work only on finded item, and you'll probably have less currency.
Good video, I already craft my mid items but this would have been great to watch before.
Great explanation, learn a lot
I found this very helpful. Thank you!
this is SO good, thank you!!!
Amazing tutorial. Thank you!
Amazing guide! You explained things in a very clear way to someone like me that has only played for 3 seasons now and I'm realizing that I've only scraped the surface with my crafts. Thank you sir, please keep making more of these videos. Your wisdom is power! Instantly subbed.
Great guide!, Now i understand how to craft the great i want
Nice work on the video!
Thanks for your time and imput its always appreciated
Just what I wanted to see. Thank you
This is complicated as hell, but you did made clear, excelent.
Great video, super explanation. Thx a lot!
I'm only 200 hours into PoE, so this video was just absolutely mind-blowing to me. Thank you.
For low Budget crafting you could mention the Beast Craft of Meta Mods if Suffixes are full. Most of the Time this saves you a Divine in Cost.
I took the knowledge required to understand this video and simply invested in the stock market. Now I have 40 employees who simply make the gear I need.