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Last Epoch's Crafting system explained
Introduction
Crafting is a fundamental part of Gear Progression in Last Epoch and a large portion of the game's looting system is designed to support it. As a result, getting familiar with the Forge is fundamental for increasing the power level of your Last Epoch characters and progressing further in the end game. In this guide, we will go over the basics of Last Epoch's Crafting, explain how certain Crafting Items work, tell you what some of the terms used in crafting mean and give you some tips and tricks that will help you craft an optimal gear for your characters.
Important Note: Legendary Crafting is not in the scope of this guide. If you want to know more about Legendary Crafting, please refer to our Last Epoch Legendary Crafting and Temporal Sanctum Guide.
Last Epoch Crafting Basics
Last Epoch's Crafting System allows you to improve, modify, and even transform most Equipment pieces by adding, removing, or changing their Affix Shards. Crafting results can be affected by applying special Glyphs and Runes in the crafting process. The Crafting Window can be accessed by clicking the "F" hotkey.
Important Terms Before we go over the Crafting Window, we should explain some of the important terms used in Last Epoch Crafting:
*With the exception of Naturally-occurring Affixes on the Exalted Items. These can roll T6 and even T7. |
The Crafting Window
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What the Crafting System can be used for
Note: Actions from points 3 to 11 are performed with the aid of Runes and Glyphs. Check out the next section of this Guide for a detailed breakdown of how they exactly work. |
Last Epoch Runes and Glyphs Explained
Runes and Glyphs provide Last Epoch's crafting system with a never before seen depth of possibilities. With them, you can affect the outcome of your crafting, stack the odds in your favor, obtain crafting materials, re-roll item modifiers, or even transform or duplicate Last Epoch Items! The number of Runes and Glyphs you currently own can be viewed in the Crafting Materials Panel in your inventory or in the Crafting Window itself.
Below, you will find a complete list of Last Epoch Runes and Glyphs together with in-depth explanations of what they do and how to take full advantage of them:
Glyph of Hope | This commonly used Glyph grants your craft a 25% chance not to consume any Forging Potential of an Item, generally increasing the total number of crafts you can make with a single Item. With this Glyph, you can basically get a "free" craft 25% of the time, which is great if you want to make as good items as possible!
If you're not using other Glyphs, you should always use this one as it will improve your overall crafting results. |
Glyph of Order | Normally when an Affix is upgraded to the next Tier, its value is re-rolled within its range*. This can be a good thing if the roll from the previous Tier was bad, but if the roll was high, re-roll might turn out to be painful. This is where the Glyph of Order comes in, as it allows you to preserve the Roll of the upgraded Affix within its range.
*As you know, Affixes have stat value ranges within the Tiers (3 to 5 Strength or 7% to 11% increased Block Chancefor example). Some Stat Roll ranges are very wide in Last Epoch, so these Glyphs can come in very handy when you're optimizing your crafted equipment. They are more of an end-game thing, so don't waste them for crafting your basic equipment. |
Glyph of Chaos | This Glyph can be used to modify the outcome of a Craft when upgrading an Affix. Mainly, it randomly changes the Upgraded Affix to a Different one that can appear on that Item Type.
This Glyph is a powerful tool that can be used to refine your Items a bit. For example, if you have an Item with 3 great bonuses for your build and 1 useless one, you can use it to re-roll the latter for a chance of obtaining an Affix that is actually useful to you. Because the new Affix is rolled from the pre-existing table, you can predict the results to some extent and determine if it's worth it. Depending on the Tier of Affix you want to re-roll, you'll get a different number of chances (because of how Glyph of Chaos works, T4 Affixes can be re-rolled once, T3 twice, etc.). |
Glyph of Despair | This powerful Glyph gives you a chance to Seal an Affix instead of upgrading it. A Successfully Sealed Affix is moved to the dedicated slot in the item details panel and its properties are frozen (so, you cannot modify that affix in any way anymore). You can have a maximum of one Sealed Affix on an item.
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Rune of Shattering | These handy runes are used to create a random number of Affix Shards from Items. The extraction process destroys the used Item and generated Affix Shards are based on Affixes that were present on it.
If you're looking for a cheap way to obtain Affix Shards from Items, this is it. Thanks to this rune, you can easily stock up on a plethora of Affix Shards. If you're interested in extracting a specific Shard (a rarely occurring Affix or one that you require for your build, for example), however, you'll be better off using the Rune of Removal instead. |
Rune of Removal | Rune of Removal removes a random Affix from an Item, granting you a number of Affix Shards corresponding to it. This Rune is much more reliable when it comes to extracting specific Affix Shards from Items and thus is much more valuable and handy to have than the very random Rune of Shattering.
These Runes are more expensive and rarer thanRune of Shatteringbut they offer a much more reliable way of extracting Affixes from Equipment. Use them to maximize the probability of obtainingRare and desirable Affix Shards from Items. |
Rune of Refinement | This handy Rune can be used to Reroll the values of all Affixes on an item within their tiers (so stat ranges still apply and cannot be exceeded).
If you've just crafted yourself an item with Affixes that are ideal for your build, but you were unlucky with Tier Range rolls, this rune can help you fix that! |
Rune of Shaping | Some Implicit Modifiers on items can be very powerful, especially if they high-roll. Naturally, you want your crafting bases to be as strong as possible, which means that you should focus on items with high Implicit rolls,but sometimes you get an item with great affixes but a low Implicit roll. This is where the Rune of Shaping comes in. It lets you reroll all Implicit Modifiers on an Item, potentially turning an average crafting base into a very powerful one.
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Rune of Discovery | This fun Rune adds random Tier 1 Affixes to all empty Affix Slots on an item. It has an increased chance of rolling rarer Affixes, which gives it the potential for interesting high-rolls.
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Rune of Ascendance | This crazy Rune changes an item into a Unique or Set item of the same type (Armors, Helmets, Gloves, etc.). Some Set pieces and Uniques are extremely powerful, so this Rune has a crazy high-roll potential. It's also very fun to use.
These Runes offer an alternative fun way of obtaining Uniques, which makes them our favorite. Using them is like buying unidentified Items, but you always win a Set or Unique item! |
Rune of Creation | This is the rarest and the most powerful of all the currently available Runes. It Duplicates an item, setting the Forging Potential of the base and the copy to 0 in the process (so it can be used only once on any Item and can never be used on created copies).
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Last Epoch Affix Shards and Crafting Tips
Crafting offers you a world of opportunities to make your Last Epoch characters stronger and your builds more refined. While the whole system can feel a bit intimidating at first, it's intuitive enough to a point where you should be able to familiarize yourself with it pretty quickly. We have certainly grown to appreciate it and now can't imagine a modern aRPG without a similar system! Thousands of Crafting attempts have also allowed us to gather some experience and we want to share it with you, so here's some advice regarding the whole Crafting System and its components:
- Before you even start crafting, check which Stats are the most useful for your Build, and try to find Item Bases that already have some Affixes that are of use to you. Crafting items from scratch (by starting with an item that has no Affixes) is most often a waste of resources unless you want to gamble with a Rune of Discovery.
- Noteworthy Affixes that are great for pretty much any build are Affixes that increase Skill Levels (these can be added to Helmets, for example). They are, however, very rare so you should think twice before taking them higher than Tier 1. Even T1 Skill-Increasing Affix is very powerful, especially as Tiers 1 to 4 give+1 Skill level and the only difference is in the added secondary benefit. You get additional Levels starting at T5.
- The difference between Tier 4 and Tier 5 Affixes is often huge, so choose which of the you want to take all the way up to 5 carefully. Most of the time, you'll have enough Forging Potential to increase just 1 (maybe 2 if you're very lucky) to 5. Rolling Critical Successes will help with this...
- Runes of Shattering are your best friends. Always try to have a hefty amount of them on you to shatter your looted items on the fly. There are never enough Shards, and thus there are never enough Runes of Shattering! You never know what Affix Shards you might need for your future crafting.
- Don't waste your resources on crafting high-end Affixes on low-level bases. The real challenge begins in the end-game, it's the end game where you need the most powerful items, and so that's when you should start your real crafting endeavors. At lower levels, simply adding T1 affixes to a decent base or even using a Rune of Discovery is often good enough.
- Always calculate and think twice before you take a risk! The end results of Last Epoch Crafting might be quite random, but the end result is heavily affected by your choices. For example, maybe it's not worth it to take an Affix to T4 before attempting to seal it. Maybe using a Rune of Discovery to roll on the last Affix on a good base is a good idea to increase its overall crafting potential. Think in risk vs reward terms and your overall crafting results should improve.
- If you find a good Item Base, but you have no use for it currently, stash it for later!
END NOTE
If you'vefound this guide helpful and informative, don't hesitate to leave a comment below, it will motivate us to continue our work. If you have a question regarding a part of the guide, or if something is unclear, please let us know and we'll do our best to answer it! Also, please note that this is an early version of our guide, and we will be happy to receive constructive criticism, that will help us improve it, so leave your suggestions in the comments section below.
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