all right hi s here with another path of Exel University today we're going to cover early gearing I will have some examples Etc later on and uh this lesson is going to be about exploring gearing options and outlining options you have when you're approaching maps and uh whether you're playing ssf or semi ssf in a trade League obviously making your own gear can be really fun and feel really rewarding as opposed to just buying finished gear off other people and especially early in the league a lot of the stuff you need might not be available so caring a trade is generally the same as an ssf but you do have the option to just grind out currency or buy currency of other players I do have multiple videos on farming currency especially I have a video on how to get currency without trading with leveraging things like Expedition and sanctum um but there are other creators that are like softcore blasters that will be better for you to watch when you are a softcore player and you really want to figure out like how am I making 20 divines an hour like there's a lot of creators like that uh when gearing a character you don't need to start by aiming for your final gear immediately and that's actually something that can actually retract from the enjoyment of the game I used to do that where I would Farm on one character till I had perfect gear on another one but having like that like consistent progression between multiple characters actually feels really really good so uh you don't always need to worry about the fact that you need perfect gear when you're starting out it's nice to have that actual progression but um gearing generally takes days to weeks for most people and it's very normal to like Leap Frog gear and have multiple pieces of gear that you're going through and uh working towards the Ang goal like that and yeah Leap Frog gearing that's the act of crafting upgrades while not removing your old gear so you have like multiple bases that you craft on so in case that you break the item that you're crafting you you have a backup like you're not going back to white boots um but yeah you might even have um like multiple choices so you could even try a orbing them and we'll talk about this stuff later but being said being completely self-sufficient in gearing means that you will basically have access to most things you need this is so good at a League start now I don't play trade League a lot but if I remember at least in the last two or three leagues I believe there's been some instances or even days where the trade has been down which is a bit of a disaster when you don't know any basic crafting um but yeah and then the efficiency of time spend is also a large factor and my 10 hours of progress is going to be very different from your 10 hours especially when you're starting out in the end crafting is just a lot of small gambles and it's also about taking like calculated risks and stuff like some things will be easier than others so what is crafting in path of EXL it's modifying an item with currency or crafting Benes there are some things that'll have guaranteed outcomes and there are some things that can delete the item and there are some things that are just pure gambling the crafting bench is always a guaranteed result this is always going to be the weakest thing in strength but you know what you're getting and it'll have like a role something might be like between 50 and 55 Health Etc um some crafts have 80% of the strength of the non-craft counterpart so that could be very very useful for example elon's Mana cost I think you only get one or two more minus manacost to skills with having the unveiled one as opposed to um crafting the one on a ring and uh yeah learn to love your crafting bench crafts you're going to be using one of these on pretty much every single slot and one thing that a lot of people don't know about The Crafting bench is that you can use it on a white item it does not need to be a blue item with a open suffix a blue item can have one prefix and one suffix and a rare item can have three prefixes and three suffixes and you don't need to have an uh open suffix on a white item they're basically you can craft either a prefix or a F so this is how I resist cap as early as act two in the game um currencies always have a random outcome but you can sometimes Force what that random outcome is with metam mods um some might already know how you can force plus one socker to gems on a bow with canot roll attack mods we'll cover more of that later we are not going to be covering currency super in- depth and basic things like what a chaos orb does this is expecting that you already know what that is and I do have previous path of EXL universities that do cover like the super super Basics like path of XL 101 so you really want to pick up a lot of the things you need um for example I will basically try to have like a um well there's sort of a diminishing returns on boots in a way right like for example if I while leveling find a boot that's like 25 movement speed 64 life uh 32 fire risks 16 cold risks and an open suffix for lightning I'm probably very unlikely to um find a better boot while leveling right so I'll maybe care less about picking up boots but if I have let's say that my gloves they have 3.6 life regen and enemies that attack you take seven physical damage I'm probably going to pick up every single glove I find hoping to get a new pair of gloves um so keep that in mind a little bit with what you're doing but uh yeah like the bases as well like you are going to pick up every ring every belt because selling those will give you alterations and stuff as well but when you're choosing what base to craft on like if you have a cold R ring and you know that you're going to struggle without a new cold R ring try to make sure that that is what you're using at orb of alchem on um and you generally get 20 to 40 items per slot dropping during your leveling Journey that are rare uh depends a little bit if you stay in one zone and you keep fing so prioritize what feels good for your build movement speed obviously very huge life and resistance es you do want to be res pretty early like act two act three uh but obviously on softcore you do have the option of just corpse rushing things down ging while leveling it's not really instant and a lot of the time you will just get unlucky um I would say every single time during the campaign I feel like I will get one okay item for most slots and for the slots or two that I'm unlucky on that's what I end up trying to craft more on so I'll use binding orbs I'll use alchemies and I'll save my essences for this you really do want to engage with Essences uh a lot but uh all you want for the campaign is Cap your resistances and get roughly two or 300 life per Act is it 200 now maybe it's 300 uh but either way like that's like a good definition of uh I think it's 300 on Hardcore 200 on softcore is probably like a good guideline honestly 300's nice even on software nobody likes dying I thought it was 100 this explains your death count playing efficiently also means you spend less time so you'll notice that each time you're going through the campaign the difference can be very drastic there like picking up a large item like 200 weapons you don't need or buddy armors that you don't need will fill up your inventory very quickly and you'll end up going back to town a lot more um so those are the things I usually don't um pick up a lot there might be people as well that are watching this and have noticed that when they have like prepared a lot of gear changes on a new character like they're maybe leveling a new character they're really excited to try and to make make it faster they've set out a lot of gear I like at level 20 I'm going to switch to this gear at level 40 I'm going to switch to this gear at level 55 I'm going to switch to this gear and they spent a lot of time in town doing swaps switching gear around that can actually make it even take longer than leveling your first character in the league so honestly very often on a new character like the second or third of the league I will switch to gear level 20 and that's pretty much what I keep until the end of the campaign uh and damage rolls on weapons have a big impact for attack builds like this is so important and this is why I normally don't recommend like an attack based build if you aren't familiar with crafting because all of the power comes from your actual weapon here whereas for a casting build or a build that levels with your gem level like there are some attack builds that does that like explosive Arrow Elemental hit toxic rain other than that you have like EMS like spark uh rolling magma Etc they get such a big upgrade from plus gem levels or just upgrade like the gem leveling up and you're never really trying to get six good modifiers on an item if it's a slight upgrade with the correct sockets just swap it out obviously in po2 we have no sockets that'll be interesting keep checking for crafting bench opportunities uh we'll cover that more later but you will be unlocking different crafting bench things upgrading your life FL as well is very important early on you do want to try to get a bleed removal and a freeze removal and having an instant life flask so that the life recovers instantly when you click it is going to be the the number one thing that stops you from dying repeatedly so um if you don't find a sapphire ring and you need uh to do maril early you'll see people will vendor a blue gem with iron ring and this is how it works um this works on influence gar later in the campaign too and uh if you sell all three with an amulet it'll turn it into Onyx so a blue and a green and a red gem will turn it into a white onyx which can save you scourers and scour obviously very rare during the campaign um vendor recipe here for weapons if you want spell damage you can do a blacksmith wet stone and a blue or a rare belt obviously it's a rare belt it'll be better um but yeah that can be really good there and um we also have um similar recipe with weapons where you use a rusty sash for physical damage there are so many vendor recipes to check out though like browsing through it on the wiki is not a bad idea also very important for new players always use Poe wiki. net this is officially hosted by GGG they pay for all the hosting and it's actively updated by the community the fandm wiki is just a cash grab that is super outdated a lot if not most of the articles are 3 to 6 years outdated so do not use the fandm wiki at all they just pay more for advertisement so that's why it shows up first it is abandoned um gearing in low Maps is a little bit different but um a lot of lot of people here will have like guaranteed Essence per map and things like that um and floss here like rolling your floss a little bit will be pretty important but yeah Essence is a big part of your crafting early and that's because you can get okay Essences like screaming Etc although you cannot get deafening and shrieking in white Maps anymore uh but either way you can get screaming Essences in white Maps whereas uh you get very little Harvest juice in white Maps Expedition as well is really good for gearing early um keep picking up better base uh the wiki is really good for this like looking up Poe helmets and then looking like what are the latest bases like what are the the most iname bases for armor inovation or just pure evation Etc um to get yourself that extra armor or inovation um same with weapons as well although the last one listed is not always the best for example sometimes it's about the last one listed with an axe could be for example a slower axe but has like way higher damage so that's more for things like earthquake um where it's very popular for things like bone shutter and other skills that have been good in the past leagues that you want High attack speed B ulit and Rings you always pick up they're always worth the ID scroll and it's very easy to get an upgrade for a ring there and honestly like if you do find let's say a power ring that's really correct and you don't need the Mana you could Val it and hope that it um changes the implicit that could break the item though and the flow here is very similar like leveling but you'll focus more on keeping curent rolles and having backup items items for future characters especially if you're in hardcore um you will need to pick up a lot of blacksmith Stones armor stones and transmutes to sell to the vendor to get wisdoms and one of the biggest things that we're focusing now in every build right now which is a little bit weird but spell suppression is king um so you'll see most people are super focusing on that gearing at the mid game does start getting a little bit more advanced items you'll see some more rare items like Taste of hate and stuff like that and normally at this point we do have 100 100% uh spell suppression is generally what people want especially before starting to do red Maps um and suppression tattoos are most likely back this league from what it looks unless they've changed it but they haven't said anything about that um and suppression gear is pretty hard to Target farm so we very much try to look out for tier two or above fractured suppression and tier one is item level 85 on everything except body armor and shield needs item level 86 and item is a very big part of crafting and my guides always have like example gear on it so you don't need exactly what's listed but it give you a good example for like you need life resist Etc and you can look into different uniques into your build depending on uh what will be useful for you fixes on flasks um are a little bit different on flask you only have one prefix one suffix on gear um same on Blue gear here like a leather belt you can see a leather belt here with 79 life and 45 lightning rest and the way it works like verile is the life prefix here and off the lightning is the lightning rest suffix and then um the rare will have like an actual name of the item the implicit is the same on all belts unless they're changed with a corruption or unless they're a synthesis item and then here you can see that it's changed to name to a Havoc visor instead of having like a prefix name and a suffix name they can have three rare three suffix sorry three prefix three suffix some high spaces are a little bit different there are some with like a two four spread or 42 spread on rings and amulets and um if you hold alt you will get a advanced mod description now this helmet has six lines but it does actually have a open stat you can see that the um the hypothermia and effect of cold elements are both I actually can't remember if it's prefix or suffix in this instance but this helmet has a open suffix um so this could craft resist on it cuz these are a hybrid mod so it shows up at two lines but um it it doesn't actually take up two spots so you can craft resist on this as I mentioned the crafting bench will show you a lot of stuff and if there's an empty suffix it can then have resist crafted on it so you should always go check by holding alt if you can craft something if you can you should always have something crafted on every slot makes a very very big difference and Essence is so huge for crafting what they do is that they guarantee one stat um and they allow you to get some modifiers that are unavailable on an item a big example here is for people playing explosive AO toxic rain and bow builds like that there is a divination card that gives you a six thing short bow but it's only item level 50 and it's item level 64 to get plus two bow gems on a uh bow however shrieking essence of dread will bypass this giving you plus two bow gems even though the bow can't naturally roll that so Essences are very cool for that fossils as well you could be using this to block a great example of why fossils are super strong is by using Jagged metallic shuttering and corroded uh that combination of four fossils on a convoking wand um will actually let you have a 1 in 18 chance to get a plus two so a plus one uh minion gems plus one spell gems and I think this would roughly cost 35,000 Kos to get on average or maybe it was 300,000 Kos but it is like very very expensive normally but very reasonable to get with fossils so they are very important to um look into and at the end after I've gone through here we can do some examples of craft of Exel of different things actually I can start with that now so and I'll talk a little bit about meta mods and why they're exciting so if I go to craft of EXL and this is a great tool to play around with for a new player we're going to go to a bow here and we're going to go to a short bow because all we care about for explosive arrow is that it has high attack speed um and we want to color it easily so now if I go to essenes and I do shrieking essence of dread now all I'm looking for is attack speed like this is an okay one but we're going to keep going a little bit this one is really good if the enman hits so let's try to hit with the analment and it did hit and now has um plus two bow gems High lightning damage doesn't really matter um life on kill doesn't matter and it has attack speed that's the one we want we're going to click on suffixes here go down to crafted mods we're going to do canot while the tank mods and this is from the unique map care blade and now when I use an exalted orb on this I know that it's guaranteed to get plus one level of socketed gems because this is the only non-attack mod uh prefix that is left everything else is an attack mod so if we didn't have this it would choose some random attack mod so very easy and now we have plus three and then we can craft another suffix um so that's a really good example for essences we can show here how to use the calculator I'm going to show you the convoking oneand example of here you wanted um plus one Minion plus one spell we're going to go to fossils we want uh Max resonator is four and compute best selection and this is now going to run through every single calculation and see what is the best that we could possibly get this is really good to like literally look through because this was discovered quite late that this was actually um uh an option and there will be sometimes it will be really good on a chest cluster DS are very strong for DS especially even with just three cuz the prime resonator the four one can be quite expensive but yeah cluster DS especially good for that and amulets as well can be really really interesting here I'll use his moment to drink a little bit it's crunching the numbers yeah coloring is a lot harder this thing all right so here you can see that it's a 1 in 12 with corroded jagon metallion shuttering so very cool obviously yeah it's 213,000 Kos uh on average so isn't that great uh so obviously very very beneficial there Harvest um is less used for gearing now and you normally will start the item with Essences and um and fussels there are some exceptions like some rings and stuff stuff like reforge chaos is really good on a lot of gear still um and it can be really good on cluster Jewels there's some cluster Jewels where reforge attack or a few other things can be really good but it is getting a little bit less used so keep that in mind um it has a little bit less of an identity too we do use Harvest a lot more for like the the augments um and let's see um we could we could give uh an option for what Harvest could be really cool that before Veil Kos orbs were really cool at this but obviously ve Kos orbs have been reworked a little bit so I'm going to create a new item now I'm going to do a um a ring and um what we can see now is if I wanted a really crack ring let's say that I'm just going to hardcode this on the ring let's say that I'm using um chaos orbs or Essences or whatever and I've gotten like really really let's say I'm doing reforge Chaos let's say that this is the ring of goton it's really really nice but sadly I'm a life build and and this is what happened a cool thing with Harvest here for a little bit more advanced crafting you can go down to crafted prefixes here and do suffixes cannot be changed and you can do reforge life the veiled K orb was really spicy for that but I don't really want to talk too much about Veil Kos CU we don't know the drop rate how expensive it's going to be and it doesn't like have the same function it's Ashling slam now so if I do reforge life now it has a relatively good chance that you're going to get okay life there's a uh I think 8% chance or I can't remember the exact chance but there's a relatively low but that's still there chance that it'll fill the item um but I've crafted quite a lot of ranks like this you're seeing like most of the outcomes now are relatively high and you see you do have the chance to hit tier one life so keep that in mind as a cool thing with re re reforge Harvest and will cost you two divines this will be uh something I use a lot for my very very End Game Gear now in 324 ashlin's remove augment craft is now a mastermind drop we have no idea if it's 100% chance or a 5% chance or anything in between um but the remove augment is still strong and um sadly to be completely safe you would want to um if you if you really want a perfect one you could do this you could do suffixes cannot be changed then scour then the suffixes cannot be changed again and then use that for availed prefix now while crafting like this you would want to block something because if I craft Mana with a crafting bench this can no longer unveil as Mana so now I unveil and it's almost guaranteed to hit life and it'll always be that tier so you have some really cool options there with the veil orb and it is a little bit different than before so it is still strong um you can get specific gem levels on helmets and gloves like plus two AOE plus two Pierce sorry plus two uh projectile gems but with Pierce La avoidance on body armor like it has a lot of cool options with that orb move speed and chill Immunity on boots um and unveils in general can be really good eldrich currency these are um really really good for implicits a good example on this like gloves can get suppression from the blue currency from the red currency gloves can get for example a night proliferation and you do also have that on the things this can be used on you could do eldrid chaos orb and things like that to if you've break the prefixes this does not work on weapons Rings amulet belt Etc but it will work on gloves boots chest helmet Etc does not work on Shield um but uh that will add an elder infl implicit modifier one for each color and remember that implicits do not take up AIC Sals and it will remove the normal implicit of an item so if you used fingerless gloves for the uh spell damage that will overwrite that it's very interesting very good to use they have four tiers of currency with six tiers of the modifiers so to get the two highest um you can uh you have to use like the orb that I forgot the name of right now maybe somebody in Shack can remind me is it orb of dominant or is dominance the one that elevates what's the orb of conflict is the one you want thank you thank you so much you guys are great uh out modifiers uh are you know just something that'll do a big change or small change to something that can swap out a gem like the ignite prif I mentioned is huge they're pretty much always worth it um the only other option is influence and it'll be really interesting this leag with the new modifiers from the graveyard crafting um and in general this means you can save a lot of passive points on gear getting up to 12% spell suppression on gloves is so nice and it's just free stats you should use these for external resources like I showed off craft of EXL absolutely a godsend um path of building Community really really good that you can control C control V gear from in game uh not everybody knows this so I'll show this real quick but if I um this is not like a third party mod if I hold over this item I don't have to do anything special except contrl C on my keyboard um now this is on my copy paste and this will something you can paste into path of building or um craft of excel so keep that in mind and pedb is the best like um aggregate of um database stuff and you have the pee Wiki as I mentioned is there any specific beginner crafting questions that people would like me to cover before we move on to the flask session is it not control altc most of the time that is the advanced one that you need for craft of xile you don't need that for pathil building but yes you are correct what are augments so um wonder if I can show you in game so there's something called Harvest augments that are more expensive they need a um oabi fragment blessing thing I'll show you now if I can find my Hy crafting bench um so if you see here now and I'll scroll down a little bit or let's say I search for fire you can see that this is a fire augment so add a fire modifier and remove another random modifier from a non-influence item so this is used to make en Force plus two amulets or plus two ones Etc whereas you also do have like the reforge fire that is a lot cheaper just costs 50 whereas this one's 15,000 um when are tailoring orbs used very very endgame crafting they can break a six link like um here I have a tailoring orb so for example let's throw this on my item right now and this does have a chance to actually break the item um so I'll use the tailoring arm now and I got 8% explicit defense modifiers now I don't really have anything defense wise on my item that I care about but now I got 8% explicit you normally do this before linking and before crafting the item but I did get a little bit life now and there is a you can look through the mods on PB um they're really popular in weapons and sometimes you have a bigger upside at the uh if you're okay with having a downside like maybe you're okay with only having a three link um like for example the tricksters were doing that a lot lastly where they were okay with only a three link chest because they wanted to make use of the um the trickster integration or the the words are hard the Synergy with the league mechanic having if you have no sockets in your chest the of the Maji can you explain splitting items so here you can see that this item is split I did that before crafting the item so I just threw an Alchemy on it and then I used a bestiary split it is um do I have one left this one here feny plagued arachnid so it'll split an item uh you can also use a fracturing fossil and that will just give you a copy there are no downsides whatsoever to split except that you cannot split it again people can mirror it you can trade it to other people you can craft on it the split item is exactly the same as a normal item except that it cannot be split again which mods would you consider Al spaming for it's mostly plus one spell gems on wand or amulet that I Al spam for uh is there any way to Target Farm beasts uh the skill tree normally has things here like you will find more monsters from the cavern so this would be more split based the the Deep would be more imprint beasts uh obviously you want this one for just the rare ones uh this would be I mean the Wilds doesn't really have any good ones I think if I remember how do you craft synthesis on an item you go to your hor crafting bench and you synthesize an item it is remarkably cheap you just need the um sacred crystallized life force and 5,000 yellow juice however you can also recraft this um I can't remember what the Beast is called right now but from the einhar special memories there endgame feature you can get beasts that'll literally let you reroll um the uh synthesis implicits vulture that's it it's a vulture how do you know what M tiers each Beast needs to spawn most of them spawn at tier one except for both K hamal and split Beast is tier one uh fenus is tier eight no it's TI 10 uh it's tier 10 for fenus and tier 13 is everything um including uh the lion thing how do you avoid using all your currency going for xyc item yeah don't you kind of got to have like a you know this is the best I'm going to get for your currency in the back of your head this went from early to end game quick yeah you're right do one more question how do you craft curse on hit on jewelry so for that you do need uh infl infuenced jewelry so I will create a new item we'll go for a uh ring let's say that we're going to do a topas ring is a warlord um and then I want does warlord have fire I can't remember right now without looking it up but let's say if it has fire then you would reforge I should have done Hunter for despair warlord does have flam uh reforged fire is pretty okay I think fossils might be even better so you could also do um pristine and uh scorched and then it's just RNG but this is usually how I craft them you can also identify them from delve that's a good way to get them early oh wait maybe maybe you're right maybe Caster is better I think you're right oh you're right you're right you're right it's been a while it's been like three leeks since I've um crafted curs Rings thank you so much for pointing that out so with reforge Caster it is uh quite likely as we saw we got v a few times there shouldn't take too long to get a usable flammability ring and like I said you do have guaranteed things to IND delve so here we can just craft life and we have a usable ring little bit of rest yeah definitely reforge casters a a great option thanks so much for reminding me that's awesome I really appreciate that um we'll end on that and then we're going to do flask next but either way um if you have any feedback we do have a uh a feedback form as well that we have in the description of the YouTube video when this is up so we are always looking to improve this and make them better but hopefully you enjoy and learn something from this so thank you so much for watching sub if you like the video but more importantly try to die less than I do