Craft smarter in Path of Exile
How each crafting method actually works in the current league, what to target, and which part is worth automating.
Crafting basics
Learn the currency, choose a method, then set up your first craft.
A Beginner's Guide to PoE Crafting Currency
New to crafting in Path of Exile 1? Here's what each core currency orb does, the order to learn them in, and how to turn currency into gear without wasting it.
Divine Orb vs Exalted Orb: What Each Actually Does
Two of Path of Exile's most valuable orbs, constantly mixed up. Here's exactly what a Divine Orb and an Exalted Orb each do, how 3.28 changed their roles, and where each fits in a craft.
Chaos Spam vs Alt-Regal-Exalt: Which Crafting Route to Use
Two of the most common ways to craft a rare in Path of Exile. Here's when chaos spamming wins, when the alteration → regal → exalt ladder is better, where 3.29's new bench rerolls fit, and how to automate either.
Essence Crafting in PoE: Guaranteed Mods, Explained
Essences guarantee one mod every time you use them, which makes them one of the most reliable ways to start a rare. Here's how essence crafting works, when it beats alt-spam, and where automation does and doesn't fit.
Getting Started with Exiled Bench: Your First Automated Craft
New to Exiled Bench? This walkthrough takes you from download to your first hands-free craft: install, prepare the game, activate, calibrate, set a target, Arm and roll.
Is an Auto Crafter or Alt-Spam Macro Bannable in PoE?
What GGG's rules actually say about macros, how the different kinds of third-party tools differ in footprint, and how to reduce your exposure. No promises we can't keep.
Base preparation
Choose the right base and roll a useful starting point.
Choose a Crafting Base: Item Level, Donors and Finished Gear
A donor that can roll one mod is not automatically a good endgame base. Choose item level, defence type, implicit and fracture for the complete craft.
Crafting a +1 Spell Gems Wand in Path of Exile
+1 to Level of all Spell Skill Gems and its element-specific cousins are caster staples. Here's where those mods roll, the leveling shortcut, and how to alt-spam for them on a wand or sceptre.
How to Craft Tailwind Boots in PoE (and Elevate Tailwind)
Tailwind is a Hunter-influenced boots suffix. One route to a magic base is Alteration + Augmentation spam, which you can fully automate. Then imprints and an Orb of Dominance take it to the elevated version.
Recombinator Bases: Alt-Rolling Physical Axes and ES Gear
Physical axes and Energy Shield gear start with many magic donor bases. What to roll, how to organise the hits, and where Exiled Bench helps before manual recombination.
Enduring Composure: Small Armour Cluster Craft
Make a two-passive Enduring Composure armour cluster. Choose the right enchant and item level, automate the magic roll, then decide whether to Regal.
Crafting for Profit: Turning Currency into More Currency
Crafting for resale can earn or lose currency. How to estimate costs, test demand, account for failed crafts and decide whether to scale a batch.
Endgame crafting
Item recipes first, followed by methods and finishing options.
Double-Influenced Tailwind Boots: Onslaught, CDR or Spectres
Choose an Onslaught, cooldown or Raise Spectre donor for Tailwind boots. Follow the elevated Onslaught route through the merge, Elusive and movement speed.
How to Craft an Explode Chest in PoE 3.29 (and Elevated Explode)
The Crusader body-armour mod that makes enemies explode on kill is a clear-speed staple. Here are the realistic ways to land it, the imprint + Orb of Dominance route to elevated explode, and which parts to automate.
Physical Axe Craft: Recombine Three Strong Prefixes
Turn Alt-rolled physical axe donors into a usable weapon: choose ilvl 83 bases, build two-prefix intermediates, recombine and finish the suffixes.
Necrotic Armour: Recombine Prefixes, Finish Suffixes
Craft evasion/ES body armour from magic donors, then finish suppression and attributes with Eater-dominant Eldritch currency. Bases, checkpoints and sources.
Large Attack Cluster: Feed, Fuel and Martial Prowess
Craft an eight-passive bow cluster with Feed the Fury, Fuel the Fight and Martial Prowess. A complete Alt/Regal/Exalt setup with source checks.
Medium Cluster Jewels: Automate Alt, Regal and Exalt
Choose a Chaos DoT medium cluster and automate Wicked Pall → Regal → Exalt for Flow of Life, with real app settings, an importable loadout and sources.
Crafting Influenced Items: Shaper, Elder and Conqueror Mods
Influenced bases unlock some of the strongest mods in Path of Exile. Here's how influence works, how an item gets it (Conqueror's Exalted Orbs, Awakener's Orb, Orb of Dominance), and how to target influence mods precisely.
Fossil Crafting Explained: Targeted Rolling with Resonators
Fossils bias what an item can roll, and since 3.28 they only come from Delve. Here's how fossil crafting works, how to pick fossils, and how to batch the load-socket-apply loop.
Harvest Crafting Explained: Tag Reforges, Lifeforce and What's Left
Harvest no longer has the old 'reforge keeping prefixes' or 'remove' crafts. What it does have (tag-guaranteed reforges, more/less-likely reforges and resistance swaps) is still some of the most targeted crafting in the game.
Eldritch Implicits Explained: Eater of Worlds and Searing Exarch
Eldritch implicits add a second layer of power to armour. Here's how Embers and Ichors work, how dominance decides what Eldritch Chaos, Exalted and Annulment Orbs touch, and where it all fits in a craft.
Vaal Orbs: How Corruption Works and When to Gamble
A Vaal Orb can turn a good item into a great one, or brick it instantly. Here's what corruption can do in PoE 1 (including the 3.29 socket change), the rough odds, and when it's worth the risk.
Metacrafting & beasts
Protect affixes, use imprints and plan expensive next steps.
Metacrafting: Locking Prefixes and Suffixes in Path of Exile
Metacrafting protects one half of an item while you rework the other. Here's how the 'cannot be changed' bench crafts work, the classic sequences, the cheaper alternatives added since, and where automation fits.
PoE Imprints and Elevated Mods: The Craicic Croaker + Orb of Dominance Method
Which beast makes an imprint in 3.29, what an imprint can and can't save, how the Orb of Dominance elevates influenced mods, and the imprint loop that turns elevation into a repeatable craft.
Maps & stash search
Roll maps for your build and check them with search patterns.
Efficient Map Rolling in PoE 3.29: Thresholds, Endings and 8-Mod Maps
Since Mirage, maps drop by tier and ordinary Cartographer's Chisels no longer drop; in 3.29 reflect became Thorns. Here's a threshold-based system for rolling maps in the current league, and how to hand the rolling to a tool.
PoE Regex Guide: Stash Search Patterns for Maps and Gear
Path of Exile's stash search understands a useful subset of regular expressions. Here's the syntax that works, copy-ready patterns for maps and gear, and the mistakes that make a search silently match nothing.
Sockets & links
Compare socketing, linking and colouring routes under the current rules.
PoE 3.29 Sockets: Six Links, Colours, the Bench and Omens
Compare manual rolls, bench recipes and Omens for six sockets and six links, then plan socket colours under the 3.29 rules. Includes Exiled Bench settings.
PoE 3.29 Crafting Changes: Sockets, Cheap Bench Rerolls and What Mirage Removed
Curse of the Allflame rebuilt sockets and put Chaos-Orb rerolls on the bench; Mirage before it removed Cartographer's Chisels and moved fossils to Delve. Here's what changed for crafters.