Crafting

Crafting is a mechanic in Path of Exile 2 that involves using currency or certain game mechanics to modify the inherit stats and modifiers of items. Almost all items can be "crafted" to change and enhance the item- the current exceptions being corrupted and mirrored items, which because of their status as "corrupted" or "mirrored" cannot have normal crafting currencies or processes done upon them (Note: it is still possible to add runes and soul cores to their rune sockets).

Mechanics

The process of crafting is the addition or augmentation of modifiers (or the rerolling of the value of those modifiers- see § Randomising numerical values) onto an item through various chance-based or deterministic steps. Certain currencies and crafting items can alter the odds for a specific outcome to occur.

Upgrading rarity

"Upgrading" refers to changing an item's rarity.

Currency	Restrictions	Effects
Orb of Transmutation	Only usable on normal items	Upgrades an item from normal to magic, adding 1 modifier
Orb of Alchemy	Only usable on normal items Cannot be used on flasks/charms/relics	Upgrades an item from normal to rare, adding 4 modifiers
Orb of Chance	Only usable on normal items	Either upgrades an item from normal to unique or destroys it
Regal Orb	Only usable on magic items	Upgrades an item from magic to rare, adding 1 modifier
Regular Essence	Only usable on normal items	Upgrades an item from normal to magic, adding one modifier of a certain modifier tag
Greater Essence	Only usable on magic items	Upgrades an item from magic to rare, adding one modifier of a certain modifier tag
Vaal Orb		Corrupts an item; has a chance to upgrade waystones into rare

Other methods to involving upgrading an item's rarity include:

• Omens:
  • Omen of Sinistral Alchemy causes the next used Orb of Alchemy to add the maximum number of prefix modifiers.
  • Omen of Dextral Alchemy causes the next used Orb of Alchemy to add the maximum number of suffix modifiers.
  • Omen of Sinistral Coronation causes the next used Regal Orb to add a prefix modifier.
  • Omen of Dextral Coronation causes the next used Regal Orb to add a suffix modifier.

Augmenting and removing modifiers

"Augmenting" refers to adding an explicit modifier to an item without changing its rarity. Magic items (this includes almost all flasks, charms, and relics) have a default modifier limit of 2 (1 prefix and 1 suffix) , while almost all rare items have a default modifier limit of 6 (3 prefixes and 3 suffixes)- the exception being rare jewels, which have a limit of 4 (2 prefixes and 2 suffixes).

Currency	Restrictions	Effects
Orb of Augmentation	Only usable on magic items	Adds an explicit modifier to a magic item, up to its modifier limit
Exalted Orb	Only usable on rare items	Adds an explicit modifier to a rare item, up to its modifier limit
Orb of Annulment	Only usable on magic or rare items	Removes an explicit modifier from a magic or rare item without affecting rarity
Chaos Orb	Only usable on magic or rare items	Removes an explicit modifier from a magic or rare item without affecting rarity, then adds an explicit modifier.
Vaal Orb		Corrupts an item; has a chance to reroll up to 3 random modifiers on equipment and jewels; has a chance to add or remove an extra explicit modifier on jewels, bypassing modifier limits

Other methods to augment or remove modifiers on items include:

• Omens:
  • Omen of Greater Exaltation causes the next used Exalted Orb to add two modifiers.
  • Omen of Sinistral Exaltation causes the next used Exalted Orb to add a prefix modifier.
  • Omen of Dextral Exaltation causes the next used Exalted Orb to add a suffix modifier.
  • Omen of Greater Annulment causes the next used Orb of Annulment to remove two modifiers.
  • Omen of Sinistral Annulment causes the next used Orb of Annulment to remove a prefix modifier.
  • Omen of Dextral Annulment causes the next used Orb of Annulment to remove a suffix modifier.
  • Omen of Sinistral Erasure causes the next used Chaos Orb to remove a prefix modifier.
  • Omen of Dextral Erasure causes the next used Chaos Orb to remove a suffix modifier.
  • Omen of Whittling causes the next used Chaos Orb to remove the lowest level modifier.

Randomising numerical values

Certain currencies can adjust the numerical values of stats found on items within a designated range without reforging or changing their current modifiers.

Currency	Restrictions	Effects
Divine Orb		Randomises the values of implicit and explicit modifiers
Vaal Orb		Corrupts an item; has a chance to randomise the values of explicit modifiers, then apply a 1.22-0.78x explicit modifier magnitude multiplier

Modifying quality

Quality affects certain inherent stats of an item. The amount of quality gained on using quality currency depends on the item level of the item or if the item is unique.

Currency	Restrictions	Effects
Armourer's Scrap	Only usable on armours	Improves quality of an armour, causing it to have more base defences.
Blacksmith's Whetstone	Only usable on martial weapons	Improves quality of a martial weapon, causing it to have more base physical damage.
Arcanist's Etcher	Only usable on wands, sceptres, and staves	Improves quality of a caster weapon.
Glassblower's Bauble	Only usable on flasks	Improves quality of a flask, causing it to recover more mana or life per second.
Gemcutter's Prism	Only usable on gems	Improves quality of a gem.
Catalysts	Only usable on rings or amulets	Improves quality of rings and amulets and adds a random quality type, enhancing the magnitude of modifiers with certain modifier tags. The default maximum is 20%.
Vaal Orb		Corrupts an item; has a chance to add or remove up to 10% quality from caster weapons, gems, flasks, and charms, up to a maximum of 23%

Modifying sockets

Skill gems can have up to 5 sockets for support gems or other skill gems in the case of meta gems.

Weapon and armour items have sockets which can be modified to socket runes or soul cores. Certain jewellery base types may also have a socket.

Currency	Restrictions	Effects
Lesser Jeweller's Orb	Only usable on skill gems with 2 sockets	Adds a gem socket to a skill gem, causing it to have 3 sockets
Greater Jeweller's Orb	Only usable on skill gems with 3 sockets	Adds a gem socket to a skill gem, causing it to have 4 sockets
Perfect Jeweller's Orb	Only usable on skill gems with 4 sockets	Adds a gem socket to a skill gem, causing it to have the maximum 5 sockets
Artificer's Orb	Only usable on martial weapon and armour equipment	Adds an item socket up to the item's maximum: 2 for two-handed weapons or body armours, 1 for one-handed weapons and other types of armour
Vaal Orb		Corrupts an item; has a chance to add or remove an item socket to armour and martial weapons, ignoring the socket limit

Enchantments

Certain currencies can add an enchantment to an item which are separate from implicit or explicit modifiers.

Currency	Restrictions	Effects
Rune	Only usable on equipment with sockets	When inserted into an item socket, permanently adds a specific enchantment modifier. These modifiers are typically generic stats. Runes cannot be removed once socketed.
Soul Core	Only usable on equipment with sockets	When inserted into an item socket, permanently adds a specific enchantment modifier. These modifiers are typically rare or unusual stats. Soul Cores cannot be removed once socketed.
Distilled Emotion	Only usable on amulets or waystones	Amulet: instilling a combination of three distilled emotions adds or replaces an enchantment that grants a notable passive skill Waystones: instilling a combination of one to three emotions adds or replaces an enchantment that adds layers of Delirium and reward modifiers on a waystone affecting the map you open.
Vaal Orb		Corrupts an item; has a chance to add a special Vaal enchantment to equipment and jewels

Miscellaneous

The following currencies provide unique crafting effects.

Currency	Restrictions	Effects
Vaal Orb		For a full list of effects, see Corrupted
Mirror of Kalandra		Creates a mirrored copy of an item with reflected artwork. The mirrored copy cannot be modified.

Other miscellaneous crafting methods include:

• Omens:
  • Omen of Corruption causes the next used Vaal Orb will be more unpredictable (typically removing the chance for no change to occur).

Crafting benches and vendors

Crafting benches are interactable objects that provide a variety of different crafting options, and may offer exclusive effects or a greater degree of control with crafting.

• Gwennen - unlocked through Expedition encounters, Gwennen offers specially crafted weapons, quivers, and foci by spending Broken Circle Artifacts and Exotic Coinage.
• Rog - unlocked through Expedition encounters, Rog offers specially crafted armour and shields by spending Order Artifacts and Exotic Coinage.
• Tujen - unlocked through Expedition encounters, Tujen offers specially crafted jewellery by spending Black Scythe Artifacts and Exotic Coinage.
• Salvage Bench - unlocked through Finding the Forge, converts armour or weapons with quality or rune sockets into their respective quality currency. Does not work on flasks, jewellery, or gems. Does not refund socketed currency.
• Reforging Bench - destroys three items of the same base type, providing a similar item back. Can be used to upgrade or randomize certain items like Distilled Emotions (+1 tier), waystones (+1 tier), Essences (random), or Catalysts (random).
• Corruption Altar - found in Jiquani's Sanctum, functions identically to a Vaal Orb. Can only be used once (per difficulty).

Version history

Version	Changes
0.1.0	Introduced to the game.