Last Epoch #HG

I saw many people confused on how to actually start crafting and progress gearing wise, so i just want to make a quick showcase of an item I crafted a year ago and never got to post. Now seems like the perfect time to help people get a better understanding what you can actually do.

Just as a starting point, my build was a cold minion build (skeletons, cryomancers, ice bone golems) using bone curse and dread shade for buffing/debuffing.

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Starting item is not really that hot, but what makes us pick up this item from the ground is:

• Good Base (59% curse damage implicit)

• 31 forging potential

• T2 minion damage prefix

• T3 physical resistance suffix (already had physical resistance on the relic I had equipped, so makes swapping easier without needing to fix my phys res)

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First start changing modifiers you dont want to have, for this item it would be the spell critical strike chance and necrotic resistance.

Here we use a glyph of chaos to reroll the affix while upgrading it one tier. Basically we have 4 tries to hit a modifier that we can use.

If we reach t5 and we didnt hit anything useful or the rolls costed too much forging potential we throw the item away, having only invested glyphs of chaos, this is zero risk high reward.

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We hit t5 Level of Bone Curse and still have 23 forging potential left.

GREAT!

I already hear you saying how this was just lucky, but we basically have 4 tries to hit SOMETHING valuable, the chances are actually quite high to hit something good, starting from affixes like intelligence, minion damage, level of skeletal mages, level of skeletons, level of bone curse, etc.

This method of crafting as I said is low risk high reward until now and you will find items like the one used as starting point here in the hundreds. At this point its a bit of a numbers game, but its so so effective.

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Here is the first real decision to make. The item still has a lot of forging potential left, so at this point we have 2 options:

• Option1 is going for high risk and trying to seal away the minion damage modifier with a glyph of despair. If it suceeds we can go for one of the Prefixes I listed above and potentially come out with a T20-T22 item

• Option2 is the safer option, which is upgrading the minion damage affix while using a glyph of hope, I need this one to be T5 affix to challenge the item I already had equipped, so if upgrading this one is unlucky we are done again.

For this craft I chose option 2 and upgraded minion damage with Glyph of Hope.

Glyph of Hope are the most important crafting ressource, without them you cannot craft and I prioritize them over everything else as monolith rewards.

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Further upgrading Minion Damage with Glyph of Hope, this time we hit a critical success, which also upgrades Necrotic Resistance. Makes us closer to a T20 item, so we will take it.

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Next we upgrade Physical Resistance with Glpyh of Hope.

The reason why we dont go for T5 Minion Damage yet is because of the chance of critical success. If you hit T5 Minion Damage and then start upgrading Physical Resistance you cannot have a critical success lucky upgrading your Minion Damage.

Always bring all affixes you want to T4 before you start pushing them to T5. Its a bit risk reward and depends on what you already have equipped.

In my case only a T17+ item would have been a real upgrade, so I needed to push my luck, if you are equipped with weaker items going for the safe T5 can maybe already secure you a safe upgrade. So this depends on what you have and want to achieve.

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I was unsatisfied with the Necrotic Resistance modifier, cause I already had this capped and the item had still 20 forging potential left (Glyph of Hope MVP).

So time for another round of Glyph of Chaos, cause realistically we can still finish off the T4 modifiers even if we reroll Necrotic Res. With less forging potential at this step I would proably not go for Glyph of Chaos and upgrade Necrotic Res and see if I can use this item or not once finished.

We hit Elemental Res, which was not perfect, but ok enough for me at this time.

It cost a lot of forging potential tho, only left us with 7 at this point.

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As there is only 7 forging potential left, you now expect to get maximum 1-2 crafts out of it and we still need to upgrade Minion Damage to T5.

So Glyph of Hope and upgrading Minion Damage to T5 it is.

Sadly we use up all forging potential, leaving Physical and Elemental Resistance as T4.

But we just hit a useable T18 item from a not really fancy base item. Sure there was luck involved, but LE crafting is partially luck based and really is a bit of a numbers game. Repeating similar crafting steps like these often results in very good items.

I hope that could clear up crafting for some of you guys out there, if you have quesitions feel free to ask away.