How Steelmage helped me make an AMAZING wand for my build!

Zizaran is taught Gravecrafting by ‪@Steelmage‬ in order to make a GG wand for his Archmage build in Path of Exile Necropolis 3.24 League.
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[@infinitecrayons]

Steel: "It's not super complicated"... *sees the video is 52 minutes long* :O

[@an0mndr]

Compared to some of the other crafts, mana is actually pretty simple.

[@JackalsGOD]

@@an0mndr I cba watching whole vid, why do they want mana mod on his wand ? edit: is it because they stack mana on their build ? I never played archmage stuff

[@nkxseal8398]

@@JackalsGOD Ya the Archmage ice nova frostbolts build uses Mind over Matter which takes a percentage of damage from mana and archmage gem increases damage based on how much unreserved mana you have.

[@JackalsGOD]

@@nkxseal8398 thanks bro this is what I saw reading archmage I'll def try this out when price will drop !

[@an0mndr]

@@JackalsGOD yes for archmage builds mana is both survivability AND damage, so you want it EVERYWHERE

[@lllOnSlAuGhTlll]

i respect steel for understanding this 😀

[@harbill140]

all those setups for those wands! man this league...

[@younggenin2957]

Just did this exact craft and got 4 wands so good that I don’t know which to choose.

[@cheesestiks9]

I personally really like the league mechanic crafting and have made a lot of nice items for myself relatively cheap

[@utmastuh]

The amount of time spent getting the right corpses and managing your graveyard could be spent doing content that will drop better gear. Now I see why most people hate crafting leagues. GGG needs to stop taking us away from the gameplay to have terrible RNG systems

[@IncredibleLyrics]

@@utmastuh its good to have these types of leagues every once in a while.

[@gabrielpasqualini8413]

@@utmastuh There is no way I'm getting a triple fractured t1 es evasion %/ hybrid es evasion % and flat es evasion without doing grave crafting bro, like absolutely no way lol

[@maxlu2456]

They really should just let you craft and do like a slider bar with the mods you’d like and the higher the tier you slide to, the more corpse it consumes. Digging it and putting it in a layout is really stupid.

[@ConnorGrummer]

I think the positionality is somewhat valuable. They should just let you talk to Aramor and he puts up an interface that lets you click slots and put stuff in rather than running around the damn graveyard.

[@paweltak2514]

They did the same mistake in harvest...

[@Blazh5864]

@@paweltak2514 And Jonathan love it.

[@williamboyes279]

So what your saying is just walk up to an NPC and walk away with a mega S tier item? Yeah no

[@maxlu2456]

@@williamboyes279 so the only difference you’d want to see is that you spent an hour plotting the corpses cause that’s the only difference I can see with a redesign

[@Odyssey636]

one hour craft. but seriously as a new player this league mech is fine. i do fine even tho i dont make perfect items

[@sanctumknight3945]

Just did my first big craft after saving up in ssf. If they streamline it (much rarer, much more powerful corpses but a far smaller graveyard) then I’d be more than happy to see this go core.

[@oneof13forestpeople97]

I love the mechanic, its nice mapping and gathering corpses then boom great reward, hopefully haha

[@williamhelliker7671]

I watched this all, was very helpful thanks. Was it too cost inhibitive to use more, ‘less attack roll? Because I would have thought that you want that to try to counter the attack speed effects much harder or was it a losing battle due to the 3500% speed roll?

[@williamhelliker7671]

realised proj. speed is not an attack modifier. boo.

[@keldon1137]

That spot near the building that dosent highlight when howering still works for adjacent/column/row buffs, sites calculate properly, in game representation with highlight is just wrong.

[@financialdecimation]

i just threw them in randomly, nothing in order, and it seemed to work for me

[@jscott1407]

Hey might be a dumb question but does added lightning damage to spells scale ice nova of frost bolts? Hit triple fracture (mana, cast speed, added lightning to spells) went a little too high on fracture percentage ig which was 260ish %

[@kylebusc3624]

It does add DMG but it's not a good mod to have if you're playing archmage. You already have a ton of flat added DMG to spells so that mod ends up being like 2-3% more dmg

[@Feanturo]

Craft of exile and sudos graveyard tool make this mechanic bearable, now only buying the corpses is the tedious part.

[@guihermeborracha7412]

Teach us how to make a 6L bow for explosive arrow using the graveyard.

[@paragrin8385]

I just made an I86 grove bow then went from there. ziz tried early on to do that and failed twice i think.

[@jplemley8110]

Just make that with essence of dread

[@user-bz7gp1yy5x]

Trying this craft recently, wanna try to craft +2 amulet with life, trying to figure it out with craft of exile if i can craft nice suffixes too, spend couple of hours decide to do just pref and fracture, make a graveyard with this toll that make a graveyard based on craft of exile optimazer, add some fracture and split copies, couple of hours of preps and bying corpses, finally i can craft... And i receive amulet with fracture regen and life, second with +1 and life, i get only 2 explicits, when craft of exile show that i receive 5 explicits all time with +1 corpse (as i do), why do i get only 2 mods on both amulets? Pls help, i don't understand

[@KazekanAgiel]

Split would never give you 5 explicit mods on a single item because the item that you're making is getting split. That's the whole point of split - to take a *single item* and split the mods. Are you conflating split and the "% chance to craft additional item" coffins? They're two completely different things.

[@GrimChu69]

Do they go over why you use some scarcer mods that you also use increased for?

[@MunkeyBrewster]

Reminds me of harvest, lots of optimization and improvement to gain after lots of time put in

[@JeffreyGreenland]

Except for Harvest, you only had to do once, instead of every single craft...

[@alexanderjanak4239]

how i crafted my 1220pdps despot axe. put t1 affixes in craft of exile. hit generate graveyard bought coffins, put coffins into dirt press craft and got 6x tier1 affixes. i dont know why it has to be this complicated lol. rows collums and what not wtf...

[@utmastuh]

Ive had zero luck at grave crafting so i stopped getting corpses other than ones i can sell for more than a chaos

[@eladschwartz777]

Thanks for this! Is there a leveling guide?

[@angryjalapeno]

This is craziness.

[@HarryRoss99]

Excited for next league!

[@GamesUnratedlol]

You have a pastebin for the wand output, but its not the pastebin for the wand you actually craft?

[@brewer98]

pastebin shows the wand he wants to get, not 100% guaranteed result, can take multiple graveyard crafts to get it

[@SJ-TV]

great league mechanic :)

[@fok8810]

😂( my brain is melting)

[@alexk485]

Huge!!

[@dspursuer]

does corpse ilvl matter?

[@c64flash]

What a game

[@williamhelliker7671]

played around on craft of exile. should have gone for Item level 81 to exclude T1 cast speed and projectile speed. but doesn't block T1 mana mods. Also 1100 tier rating is wrong, accepting a few lower tier mods would be better, there is even a sweet spot where +300 to +450 tier rating allows caster speed tier 2 & 3. but only projectile speed tier 2. if you can accept 4%to 8% less cast speed you make 60:40 cast: projectile speed weighting. where as IL84, Teir +1100 is a 20:80%.

[@tphuynh85]

Watching these 2 just talk while eating breakfast 😂

[@anthonybailey757]

I've just been throwing random stuff into the graves I'm just YOLO I've gotten some good things so far

[@Meitti]

So far I've managed to get 3 really good items by just spamming stats I want all over the place and putting the column and adjacent buffs in the ground first. The chance of getting something good is just really low, 3 good outcomes out of 50+ is not good odds, on the flipside the items were actually really good. Got Tier 1 Life and Resist mods during Campaign on lvl 50 boots.

[@MinisculeBug]

It's original Harvest all over again.

[@balanarsro000]

Looks loss like I did on day 1 lol Ziz use the sites to help with the layout, then just start planting the corpses when you have all of them, its way easier, I can do a entire craft checking the stash + buying all corpses on half an hour or less usually

[@chancepaxton4679]

Proj speed is actually really good on Nova builds. That wand is god tier.

[@daedalus6433]

The league mechanic boils down to using Craft of Exile and optimizing for 40-50 graves lol

[@harshit233]

I am a chemistry major doing my master's in the same, we have a subject called Quantum Chemistry, I thought, it was very difficult until, I tried this league mechanic ;9

[@philip_k_82]

Should have done it on a sceptre, no proj speed

[@Zizaran]

No cast speed implicit either

[@atulanand9292]

People saying all the "45 mins for setting up blablabla" should try crafting this without league mechanic. Might change your perspective a bit. Everything isn't chaos reforge amethyst ring go brrr.

[@Heelydon77]

Its 45 min for setting up while being guided and having pre-planned out placements, corpses available, handed additional corpses and explanations on placement. It would be WAY longer trying to do this without being guided through it and trying to understand how to not make simple mistakes that would brick your entire thing. So while other methods aren't easy either, this is absolutely overly complicated and not created with the average player in mind.

[@benja9029]

@@Heelydon77 it doesn't take 45 mins to craft your t1 resist amethyst rings hahaha this video is about trying to fish for 2 t1 GG fractured mods so idk why an average player would be attempting this stuff and expects it to be as simple as essence crafting

[@atulanand9292]

@@Heelydon77 I think you're missing the point about this craft being mad improbable otherwise. The average should never dream of crafting something like this. Hard pill to swallow but then you don't need to craft something like this for anything. This is just style points. The average player should be attempting the average graveyard craft and that won't take nearly as much time once you understand the basics of the system. (Place expensive corpse > BUFFFF, block bad things, raise tiers and shit like that.)

[@an0mndr]

Yea actually I never thought this was too bad for crafting an item, but especially now with the influence fractures, it only FEELS more tedious, because you're not incrementally working towards the item, making small changes to it. You set everything up and then basically hope the item is complete outta the box. I'm sure if you actually added up the time trying to fracture your own base (with only one fractured mod and no influence or just no fracture), plus the time trying to get the rest of the mods you want, then veiled Orbing and possibly having to reset, you can definitely take wayyyy longer to make an item that's even close to as powerful as necropolis can poop out.

[@ExpedientFalcon]

This video made me hate the league crafting even more, but I appreciate the video nonetheless.

[@gwam83]

Two players with increbile detailed knownledge of PoE, still takes over 50 mins to do a single craft with this crappy league mechanic.

[@MarceloYuri]

Wish I couldn't agree with you. While I found it fun for some stuff, 'crappy' is truly the way to describe it.

[@Rexolf101]

Yeah nothing else in this game takes a long time to craft everything else just gets crafted in 1 button press

[@camere1]

You aren't required to min max it to perfection. You can get pretty good outcomes without using the adjacent and row graves and just chuck in stuff you want

[@paradoxdriver4094]

over 50 minutes to do a mirror tier crafting project making an item that Steel said would otherwise be "uncraftable". Crappy league mechanic.

[@capitatv]

Crappy? When Crucible existed? 😂

[@piotr7805]

I literally have negative understanding why they decided to implement the mechanic as running between graves, not as a separate window where you can see clearly and manage easily. I think the best way to describe corpse crafting is an interesting, but extremely unrefined idea, wish they gave it another shot with some polish - though we know that's not how PoE leagues work. Glad to see you managed to craft something meaningful with it and cheers to Steelmage! : )

[@naomi.kautzky]

is the amazing wand in the room with us ?

[@rhetorictheentertainer1072]

My god I'm 25 mins in and realy have stoped giving a shit and I'm watching this at work to kill time.(not a negative on ziz and steel just the crafting) Very what is my purpose? "U trade or corpses" ...."oh my god" .... yea welcome to to the grave buddy

[@domurcringe]

Crafting with this league mechanic just feels so inaccessible to me. Its just way too complicated

[@Karvir]

Man, I miss harvest league...

[@jhuggz193]

DOES GGG HAVE A SUGGESTION BOX? “Please make crafting more complicated” said no one EVER!!!!

[@GarthTarris]

I am the only one that got so bored with the crafting part that when the scammer/pk died got suddenly interested and went searching for more info?

[@kentsp117]

"Its not that complicated" ... 45 minutes later...

[@MrArbaras]

I don't know how you can hate grave crafting after the buffs. It's insanely straightforward and extremely powerful

[@destroyermaker]

"It's not super complicated" *51 minutes later*

[@phailpoet1651]

count the power instead of hitting the craft button and reading lmao.

[@ney2424]

what horror movie is this?

[@marc-andreblais5818]

lets be honest, this is overly complicated for absolutely nothing, this is gonna push people away for sure. like remove categories and item level and the whole mechanic and it will be playable after

[@IRumburakI]

dedleg 🤷‍♂

[@daedaluxe]

My autism is overloading, there's way too fucking much shit on the screen I can't even watch this lmao

[@ravenspromise4925]

if this mechanic scrabbles you, why do you even play PoE ?

[@daedaluxe]

@@ravenspromise4925 I don't play it any more, I played in Season 1-2, I watch Ziz for the Last Epoch gameplay now, just thought I would check in and see what PoE is up to. Do you want the reason I listen to the music on my spotify playlist too?

[@TreesPlease42]

It's Harvest/Synthesis levels of complexity to obscure deterministic crafting so that no one will actually do it

[@penckok1832]

​@ravenspromise4925 you sound insufferable

[@ravenspromise4925]

@@daedaluxe i asked why do you play it not what music you listen to, please re read my comment think you missed a few lines

[@Tabernaster]

Fun video but I'll say, this craft could be optimized waaaay better to increase your chances of hitting what you actually want. It's way too complicated for me to explain in a comment section but don't take what CraftofExile simulates as perfect. You can tweak stuff to increase your odds drastically.

[@synthesis9957]

This is redic

[@tkbaldur]

If zizaran, one of the best players in the game, who's actual job it it is to play poe, has no clue ( no disrespect ) how this is working or how to do it has to get help from one of the other best poe players, steelmage, who himself did not come up with this by himself but with the help of others and alot of research and websites and graveyard planners to actualy make a good craft. How am I suppose to make anything good ? I am not a great player but I have been playing since 2012 and do know crafting but this league has the most dumb crafting in the game and you need to have a bachelers in several branches to understand all this I am sad I am too stupid for this :(

[@mattL---]

I’ve crafted multiple good items that have sold for 10 up to 30 divines. And it’s my 3rd league…it’s not hard once you get a couple crafts under your belt. I don’t even do “additional item” crafts. I did it once and got one good bow that sold for 30. Then I full sent a sadist garb no guide that fractured double t1 Eva+energy. Crafted it up with t1 suppress and also sold for 30. Follow a couple guides and you’ll eventually get it. But there’s still luck involved

[@themadpixel]

45 minutes just to setup crafting :)) what a joke

[@financialdecimation]

took me like 2 minutes

[@financialdecimation]

i just threw them in tho haha

[@zereo6945]

To be fair, it's 45 minutes to setup a guaranteed six T1 mirror tier item (Minus the implicits that is) which changes the context quite a bit lol. Because you would be spending a heck of a lot more than 45 minutes trying to craft anything like that with any other system... Fair tradeoff I say.

[@adalos1953]

except none of the 3 results were worthy of a mirror.

[@penckok1832]

​@@zereo6945and that didn't happen

[@Frozen6002]

the worst part about this league is how annoying it is to use and how scary it is when u dont understand

[@syther6768]

Crafting is the biggest downfall for poe imo This is why casual players will never stick around If they just had a focus more on drops that were viable for strong builds and you could just be satisfied with that itd be a good game still

[@thatepicwizardguy]

1 hour long video of one professional gamer trying to walk another professional gamer through the league mechanic to not mess a craft up... yeah guys, this league is fucking dogshit sorry not sorry. this has to be one of the worst conceived league mechanics GGG has EVER done.

[@Okeen12]

What a shit league mechanic bruh

[@fistan5447]

Ffs, can we have an everyday guy in charge of league mechanics in GGG? Who the fuck is designing this convoluted piece of crap crafting mechanic. Yeah, we are literally crafting items by putting monsters in a grave XD Fluff fails, mechanic fails. Rewards are good only at very top end. FML.

[@MrZooop]

this is HORRIBLE! i thought this would make me want to craft something. no. this makes me certain i won't be.

[@totallynottrademarked5279]

Still hate this stupid system that invalidated the rest of the game.

[@Goldern]

It does not, you can put random corpse and spam until it gets an item that resembles what you need, if you don’t want to interact with the mechanic, might take some tries tho

[@totallynottrademarked5279]

@@Goldern Dude what kind of nonsense are you blabbering about. Beyond some double influence crafts it 100% is better than any other method. Even if you just use it to double fracture some of the harder mods to get it is still far superior to any other method in the game.

[@GotAdam1]

this crafting has to be the most boring and tedious addition to this game i have experienced and I've been playing for a while now I refuse to do it so I'm missing out on some powerful gear but this is just shit.

[@maggru91]

I watchthe entire video and understood hardly anything, this crafting league is so bad

[@Tsunamiieh]

If a league mechanic need 52 min explanation then the league mechanic is simply a failure imo :D (the crafting part of it, I love the map part, personally).

[@BenjaminPfohl]

Thank you, I hate it

[@naywils]

This mechanic is probably the worst they've ever added, way to much fucking around for it to be worth it. The fact you need a spread sheet to craft an item tells you everything.

[@goldnimso]

this honestly the worst league mechanic ever

[@chrisjeppsson2171]

this league sucks.

[@robertfiorito9888]

I hate this league mechanic. Graveyard crafting is a pain in the ass

[@Jac0nz]

Really don't give a fuck. Don't even pick up corpses now

[@eddiekna]

one of the worst league i played in few years

[@sqwert654]

What a joke of a system. No normal players will bother.

[@LordNerfherder]

This league mechanic is useless. Why? Because loot is even more useless. This league i still have not found a single item i have equipped post campaign. Not a single item. It is all just a grey slurr of currency. This game gives zero dropamines. You slowly get dripfed a little currency which gives you one in a million loots. And the game is balanced around trade. For if you somehow were able to farm the best items, items would all be worthless. Thus they simply screwed ssf and you over so you will NEVER find or get the item you want through drops and farming. Even if you farm a specific mechanic for a thousand hours, you are ublikely to get that perfect roll. Even if you invest thiusands of hours, you still cannot make a neae mirror build ssf. The game is so poorly balanced and trade is the main issue that things are this bad in the game. They made thinga have 1/1000000000 droprates or chance because of trade and did not care that normal players cannot get it. That and the fact that the only good way to reliably farm currency is trading and crafting is terrible design. Hideout warriors easily makes 100 div/hour. Name a farming strategy that does this that involves killing monsters or bosses that isnt an exploit that is removed please.

[@Exterminator19861]

this craft is a mess + long time doing basicly nothing . on top of that you need to suffer acts and maps with forced modifiers no one asked for just to have a chance to craft stuff in hyper late game . Im sorry GGG but thare is a reason so alot of people droped this league - me included . next time atealst dont force new league content in early game with no real benefits exept t16 random modifier that will rip you randomly .

[@nosequenickponerm]

I understand now why there are people that prefer playing D4

[@LVHAXOR316]

This league is horrible

[@Ebonbert82]

such a bad crafting idea lol

[@spamemail485]

this is exile's method. steel just copies everything. build, map strats, crafting methods, everything