Path of Exile 2 Guide: How to Craft Godlike Weapons

Creating powerful weapons in Path of Exile 2 doesn't require endless currency farming or perfect RNG luck. With the right crafting approach, you can transform basic weapon bases into mirror-tier equipment that dominates endgame content. This comprehensive guide breaks down every crafting method from beginner-friendly techniques to advanced endgame strategies.

Path of Exile 2 Guide: How to Craft Godlike Weapons

Understanding Weapon Bases and Item Levels

Before diving into crafting mechanics, you need to grasp how weapon bases function. Every weapon has three critical components: the base type, item level, and modifier tiers.

The base type determines your weapon's implicit modifiers and base stats. For crossbows, a Flexed Crossbow offers increased bolt speed but slightly lower physical damage compared to other bases. Meanwhile, item level (not required level) controls which modifier tiers can roll on your weapon.

Path of Exile 2 Guide: How to Craft Godlike Weapons

To check item level, hold Alt or press the left stick on controller. This hidden stat is crucial because higher-tier modifiers require specific item levels. For maximum increased physical damage on crossbows, you need item level 82.

Modifier System

Essential Crafting Currency

Your crafting arsenal requires specific orbs and materials. Here's what you'll need for different crafting tiers:

Basic Crafting:

• Orb of Transmutation - Adds one modifier to normal items
• Orb of Augmentation - Adds second modifier to magic items
• Regal Orb - Upgrades magic to rare with additional modifier
• Exalted Orb - Adds modifier to rare items

Advanced Crafting:

• Greater/Perfect tier orbs - Guarantee higher modifier tiers
• Essences - Force specific modifiers while upgrading rarity
• Abyssal materials - Access unique desecrated modifiers

Path of Exile 2 Guide: How to Craft Godlike Weapons

Step 1: Early Game Crafting

When you're just starting out, the basic crafting loop works like this:

• Orb of Transmutation turns a white item into a magic item with one affix.
• Orb of Augmentation adds a second affix.
• Regal Orb upgrades the item into a rare with three mods.

Path of Exile 2 Guide: How to Craft Godlike Weapons

At this stage, the result is usually something serviceable and sometimes even sellable for a few Chaos or Exalts if the rolls happen to be decent. However, this process is essentially gambling with slightly better odds. It works well enough for campaign gear, but it falls short of what is needed for serious endgame crafting.

Step 2: The Abyss Mechanic

Essence of Abyss introduces a unique crafting path by converting modifiers into Marks of Abyssal Lord. This system requires specific materials from Abyssal Depths.

1. Apply Essence of Abyss to remove one modifier
2. Use Preserved Jawbone to activate desecrated state
3. Visit Well of Souls (Act 2 - Lightless Passage)
4. Reveal options and select desired desecrated modifier

Path of Exile 2 Guide: How to Craft Godlike Weapons

Useful Omens for Abyssal Crafting:

• Omen of Abyssal Echoes - Allows one reroll of options
• Omen of Sinistral Necromancy - Targets only suffixes
• Omen of Dextral Necromancy - Targets only prefixes

Step 3: Better Orbs, Better Results

The quality of crafting orbs plays a much bigger role in this league.

• Perfect Orbs of Transmutation and Augmentation give a much higher chance of rolling Tier 1 modifiers.
• Greater Regal Orbs greatly improve the odds of landing strong affixes instead of weak ones.

These orbs are more expensive, with Perfect Regals costing around 20 Exalts, but the payoff is clear. Regular orbs feel like taking a blind chance, while higher-tier versions stack the odds in the player’s favor and make good outcomes far more consistent.

Step 4: Reforging and Recombinators

The Recombinator system allows you to merge two items, selecting desired modifiers from each. This powerful tool requires Broken Circle Artifacts from expedition encounters.

Path of Exile 2 Guide: How to Craft Godlike Weapons

1. Place two items with complementary modifiers
2. Select which affixes you want to preserve
3. Success rates vary (typically 10-15% for perfect combinations)
4. Failed attempts destroy both items

Use recombination on items with one perfect modifier and one unwanted modifier. The 10-15% success rate makes this technique best suited for items you're willing to lose.

Step 5: Essences Reworked

Greater Essences (Tier 3) work on magic items and provide maximum bonuses available for blue items. Perfect Essences (Tier 4) only work on rare items but can exceed normal modifier limits.

Key essences for weapon crafting:

• Essence of Seeking - Adds critical hit chance (1 exalted cost)
• Essence of Haste - Adds up to 25% attack speed (exceeds normal 19% cap)
• Essence of Battle - Adds levels to attack skills (54 exalted cost)

Step 6: Omens and Endgame Crafting

Endgame currency gets wild with Omens:

• Omen of Abyssal Echoes lets you reroll desecrated choices once.
• Others restrict annuls to prefixes or suffixes only.
• Some make your chaos orbs “lucky” (roll twice, pick the best).

This is where the line blurs between crafting and sorcery. Honestly? Most players will never touch these unless they’re pushing into Uber content or flipping items for serious profit. They’re expensive but open up surgical precision in item crafting. I see them as the final seasoning, not the main dish.

Step 7: Finishing Touches

Once your crossbow has the right mix of prefixes and suffixes, slam it with Greater Exalts or Perfect Essences to polish the rolls. If you’re feeling brave, Vaal Orb it for extra sockets or corrupted bonuses. Just be ready to brick your masterpiece. Personally, I don’t risk it until I have backups.