PATH of EXILE: Necropolis is Actually the EASIEST Gear Crafting in the Game - DIY GUIDE

A guide to the Necropolis grave crafting in Path of Exile 3.24 - it's become the most powerful and simplest crafting system - it might look a little complicated but don't be fooled everyone can make a simple recipe and follow it to get 6xT1 near perfect items... Don't miss out ay.
CRAFT OF EXILE: www.craftofexile.com/
ZIGGYD Live on TWITCH: twitch.tv/ziggydlive
Timestamps:
0:00 - Necrocrafting is Amazing
2:09 - The Basics of Necropolis Crafting
3:23 - How to Learn Modifier Tags
5:21 - Modifier Tier Rating & What it Does
7:16 - How to Make a Recipe (with an Example)
17:28 - Does it Work?
18:33 - Selecting a Base
19:37 - Quality Boosting
20:04 - IMPORTANT Item level
21:28 - Six Linking
22:15 - You Don't Need to Hyper Optimize
22:36 - Row & Column Boosting
23:48 - Fun Bonus: Random Crafts
#pathofexile #necropolis

[@ZiggyDGaming]

Bonus comment guide: Buying corpses is the worst part. Some tips: - You can actually self farm most of your corpses, spec the nodes on the tree and shrines and run as much packsize and you'll get 2/3rds of most crafts in a few hours. - Live search corpses you need to avoid the non responsive spam, just set price min and max to fine tune the pings. - OR scroll past the "discount" corpses, they are sold or non-responding as VERY LARGE amounts of corpses are being bought and sold each minute. Save the headache. - Sell your unneeded corpses to cover crafting costs very easily. - Run 2 or so crafts at once using different corpses (1 weapon 1 armor).

[@jogadorjnc]

In my experience, the mod tier corpses are rare enough that they're always your bottleneck, so you can kinda go for full graveyard every time just by filling with the other corpses Also, the corpse sequence button helps figure out how to trim down the craft a ton, from what I've calc'd it seems you get the best result per corpse at around 40 corpses for most builds. But since mod tier corpses are the bottleneck full graveyard is the way (granted, I've been mostly looking at maxed out items)

[@devonhogg234]

Wouldn't ritual also work for this as like shrines, ritual also spawns mobs from the map pool?

[@blackomega34]

@@devonhogg234 I'm running Rituals, it doesn't give you extra corpses, and it makes your maps longer so takes you longer to accumulate corpses.

[@devonhogg234]

@blackomega34 I'm not talking about actually running the rituals, I'm only talking about the packs that naturally spawn in place of the ritual. You just kill those and move on not actually run the ritual Because the packs ritual spawns in are the same mob types as the map meaning they should all have a chance to be affected also. I know the ones in the actual ritual once activated won't provide corpses

[@steadychasingmoneybands6213]

the league is so trash... and they removed left click? im done

[@Dregius1]

Before trimming down from 88/88, I find the "View sequence" button on craftofexile to be super useful for seeing at which point in the craft the calculator starts stacking less impactful modifiers

[@ZiggyDGaming]

Ooo I'll have to look into that!

[@Yesterday3896]

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[@willdevine8266]

Finally the ZiggyD video explaining the league mechanic is out so i can play the game.

[@redrum3r]

in the grand scheme it might be pretty minor, but I really like how you could single corpse craft just to get any base item then take it over to essences or bindings. As a really lazy ssf enjoyer it makes upgrading weapons and such,

[@Fipul30]

Never thought of SSF getting bases... Cause i guess normally it gets annoying sometimes

[@mosqueraaa]

@@Fipul30 ssf players are like the dinosaurs in jurasick park Life finds a way

[@harkonan5913]

its also pretty easy to force all the pre or suffixes on an item to finish crafting in another way

[@Dryxxxa]

Also an easy way to get 30% quality base with high ilvl. Requires some corpses, but those are fairly common.

[@olasarcasm]

honestly I saw the EXEL spredsheet and I just tuned out. I played Harvest, I know what its like. I know I could make a 6 t1 item but what if instead of doing that instead I didn't do any of that at all and just lived my life

[@Darkith11]

When the old school PoE music kicked in at 23:05 I got chills. I miss hearing that song during the log-in screen.

[@arzanpatel]

This was a phenomenal video Ziggy . You should do more on other crafting methods or something.

[@niuage]

I love Ziggy. Thanks for being so good natured and explaining things so well.

[@ersanyzn4356]

The only video that is very clear to me, watched other content creators video about this topic & left me more confused then anything else. Great video

[@truton1060]

Thank you for this video sir, not just to make it accessible to new players or at least those newer to crafting. But also just the general positivity and enjoyment you bring to the community.

[@suhr12]

Very cool! Thank you so much for the down to earth talkthrough!

[@haromard]

Totally need this vid! Thanks Ziggy!

[@circaen]

This is an awesome video. I dig this because it can totally be done in the background to any mapping strategy. Kill monsters dump corpses into quad tab. Every once in a while check how close you are to your craft. Maybe you need a couple corpses & decide to buy them. It doesnt at all have to be your main goal, it can happen passively for the most part.

[@daanstrik4293]

“Mayby you need a couple corpses and decide to buy them” This right here is why it sucks even as a passive background thing. I’ve seen some streamers with 2000+ corpses and they still have to spend an hour (or several hours if they’re unlucky) buying corpses so they can finish their craft. Unless you decide to sell all your corpses (and thus not interact with the mechanic at all) you’re going to have to deal with the tedium of buying dozens of individual corpses worth a few chaos each. Necropolis is probably the most powerfull mechanic introduced since Harvest (mayby even stronger than that), yet nobody is using it because its so godsdammed annoying. And that annoyance will be the main thing people remember from this league.

[@circaen]

@@daanstrik4293 *no one = you. I have no trouble at all selling corpses so there are for sure people using it.

[@daanstrik4293]

@@circaen No-one is of course an exaggeration. There’s always gonne be people using it (especially when its this powerfull). But compare this to say: the wildwood from last league. See how many guides are released on the topic, how many strategies and discussions and the general excitement around using it. Its a lot less. Every person selling his corpses is somebody avoiding the mechanic to the best of their ability. Every person buying corpses is somebody slogging through the worst of the trading system. If I can play for 2 hours a day the most efficient way to spend that time is crafting up items with the new mechanic for either profit or power. But thats gonne be 2 hours i’ll be bored out of my mind

[@randreatas]

Your video was just perfect! Thank you!

[@RetroHoodie82]

Great work was very helpful thank you✌🏾

[@darktower74]

Good video. For someone with only about 30 hours of game time, this was one of the most articulate and straight-forward explanations I've seen. Keep up the good work!

[@edvaedan9161]

As someone with about 8 hours of playtime this was a different language for me😂. I’m just going to learn a bit of the base game this league

[@thinhso]

Very well explained . Ty ZiggyD

[@thunderhead1969]

appreciate the thorough approach - subbed

[@uzul7742]

Finally someone mentioning corpse levels. Everyone else seems to ignore it when explaining things

[@MrGameGuideChannel]

This video is super useful, thanks!

[@ph0e]

Thanks for the info! For anyone reading this - it's true - the 3.24.0b patch WILDLY buffed grave crafts, go check it out if you aren't already. I just crafted a near-perfect ring for my build on the first try (thanks again!) and am excited to gear myself up using this system.

[@tehf00n]

GGG need to get bulk selling of necropolis out there on the trade site. It's abnormally rough shopping for necropolis stuff. Especially when you are getting them one at a time and you can need several hundred trades to complete.

[@jasonbonadio8870]

Love this, I hope this goes core for sure 🎉🎉

[@Malagant]

Thank you Ziggy, awesome video

[@RisenAshes77]

This video needs more credit. Keep it up please I want more like these!

[@Xeldur]

I do hope they study the effects of this crafting well, and apply what they learn to beastcrafting rework or something.

[@TheTolnoc]

I didn't hate it before, and it's better now, so hey, I'll take it.

[@Jules-77]

Brilliant content & delivery, thank you so much

[@giorgio84]

First i discovered yhis channel from free aura in affliction league. Video was super chill well explained to guy who never did spectre or anything related. Now this awesomeguide. You are awesome. Wish other people were like you and pohx. Zizaran comes third after you two for me. No casting shade or anything. Just personal preference of delivering info to viewers

[@rodneyskilton9791]

Nice to see a rational directed explanation. Thanks.

[@alisongray8950]

That was super helpful! I was resigned to abandoning the whole thing.

[@TheLivexxmusic]

What an AWESOME video. Thanks

[@hiroakihanyu]

clean and quite simple, nice, thx :)

[@MiniPiez]

So I followed your whole video, wanting to craft a new weapon for myself, I was like...I want a weapon like Goratha has or similar, followed your instructions and bam...actually got it the first damn try! You are right about the trading for the corpses tho...its terrible, makes me wish there was an auction house.

[@danieljohnson270]

This is fantastic. I wish I could like it more than once. :)

[@jonathanmobley8033]

GOATed video, thank you so so much.

[@fearstreak7462]

dont forget to grab a "Randomizes numeric values of base defences on an armor 6 times, keeping the best outcome" i would also hope there's a similar coffin for weapon base rolls

[@Bumpfor]

I was searching for such a video 🎉🎉🎉 Thanks for the explanation. I will try this. Btw nice Music. ❤ To bad they removed it.

[@OleksiiM123]

The best part is not “Tries”, but percentages. For example at the start where you said it would take 2 tries, it was saying 99.9%. So it was deterministic. And 20 tries is 5%, so actually it is very low. Plus you can see percentages of every desired affix

[@ZiggyDGaming]

True the total % is a good figure to look at though you'll have to weigh up that level of confidence vs going for a full grave - and keep in mind I wanted to makea guide that was focused on being as accessible to the average player as possible - and encouraging full graveyard crafts aint the way to go for that goal.

[@brentcepticon]

They added graveyard to craftofexile. It's pretty easy with just that. The only difficult part I've found is waiting for caster and gem corpses, but there's also the corpses that increase effect so yea pretty simpin. I'd say Its better to go for exactly what u want. T1 affixes with as close to exactly the amount of corpses. It's gona take awhile to get those corpses, no point in not just putting T1 affixes

[@knaz7468]

Awesome guide! Any way to ensure suppression? Or socket colors for rare combos?

[@MarkThornberg]

thank you for this guide

[@syrrion3]

"You can do a craft in just a few hours!" That sounds very simple indeed! Amazing!

[@softwaremediaguru]

the master of Path of exile ZiggyD is back.

[@sephirothwa]

thank god for Ziggy im just starting league and felt like an idiot everytime i looked at GY

[@lukas1v]

Really great video, I just dont know if I understand iLvl requirements for crafting. Does it means, I cant craft "+2 socketed bow gems" short bow (for EA, bow is ilvl 50), as Craft of Exile shows ilvl 64 minimum for +2? So I will get always only +1, which is ilvl 9?

[@Dryxxxa]

Yes, if the final iLvl of the item is below what is required for the mod tier, it just won't roll. Good thing is, there are corpses that increase item level. For example, I use corpses of iLvl 70+ just to make buying easier, and add a few of those item level corpses to make sure that I can hit all those T1 mods, since they often require iLvl 83 or even higher.

[@varazir]

Great that content creators can then share the setup along with the build guide :) Is is my way of crafting, the standard is way to complex. You need to know the exact base, farm for trillions of hours to get the currency. My average loot currency are around ~3 div per League. I would love to be able to craft with what you have in your stash. The page reads your stash tabs, you specify what you want and it gives you the best outcome.

[@bregoelly9201]

@ZiggyDGaming one thing im still confused and wondering about is , what do the unique corpses do? ive gotten like 20 of them now and im afraid of using them with no result because i don't know what they do or affect. was hoping to see a small section in the video about them.

[@Dryxxxa]

You put 4 of those with different names together, hit craft, get a unique. There's one of them, a jewel, that is affected by all the corpses around it, not sure about the other ones. Imo, the uniques are not that great, and it's mostly useful in SSF, in a trade league it's easier to buy them.

[@Sheriff_K]

Does the craft use all corpses in morgue, or only those connected together through adjacency?

[@Lawrdenafil]

Connected

[@joshuajohnston90]

Thanks bro, I'm a little daunted This is my third league. I got 40/40 last league tho. I'm excited to try these crafts. Trying out Subtractem's Frostblink ignite elementalist, fun so far

[@pagox]

Thank you very, very much!

[@CrimsonEnvec]

What we really need is a program and I don't know if craft POE can do this or not. But we need to be able to select the items, select all the things we want on it and then hit generate recipe. And it shows us exactly what we need for the graveyard kind of like a reverse engineering

[@adeirfanwahyudin2215]

Craft of exile

[@fofolacosa123]

Can you select witch buried corspes you use in a craft? For example in the case of randomizing some bad corpses, can you save the buried ones for later?

[@kelpsie]

Usage is based on adjacency. Anything adjacent to the corpse you click Craft on, and anything adjacent to those, etc, is involved in the craft. If you want to leave them for later, just go craft something in a different area of the graveyard without connecting to the stuff you want to save.

[@fofolacosa123]

@@kelpsieExcellent thank you

[@Hukas01]

I like this very much. It’s a more involved craft than say LE or D4, but much less so than currency +harvest/fossils then bench crafting.

[@Killboyy-kx2bo]

What is the limit on graveyard? Im following a build that suggest many items with warlord affixes. Can they be added with graveyard?

[@mechmuzic8290]

No influenced mods pretty sure. Can get special atlas bases like iolite rings through a special corpse tho

[@SUNG0DRA]

He says you can work on multiple corpse projects at the same time, does this mean that crafts can be separated in the graveyard? Like finishing a craft only uses directly connected corpses?

[@ZiggyDGaming]

Each craft only uses linked corpses! so you can separate them with a space. Having 2 going on opposite sides is reasonable for most people.

[@SUNG0DRA]

@@ZiggyDGaming thanks gamer

[@supremecommander2398]

nice explanation 👍 what i still miss - what does the undertaker mean with "patterns do matter" ???

[@Kimmerdinger]

This!!!! I am searching and searching but nothing of use pops up... I hope someone here can either tell us how they matter or that they simply don't.. prefer the latter to be frank. ^^ Cheers, Exile~ edit: I found it!! There are some corpses with the text "corpses in adjacent graves and this corpse have their crafting outcomes randomised when this corpse is buried" So I'm guessing we can use this to get rid of some mods we otherwise wouldn't use.

[@mishli7670]

I heard someone complaining that this league would suffer because there's no way to craft 'really end game items ' such as with influences, synthesized implicits or Even some uncommon bases, like vermilion ring. (As far as I know, there aren't any special corpses for these?) What if there was a rare drop (probably at least as rare as a divine) 'empty coffin' item. That you can put an item in, then bury it, and that item would be used as the base for the crafting? Like fossils, it would probably ignore meta mods Maybe you could bury multiple items and get some mix of the two, like that one orb I've never seen, but probably incomplete, or prone to alterations due to the possessed mods and all that stuff

[@user-pj8sg2jt4j]

Good luck crafting suppression. =)

[@woops100]

Can I limit the number of corpses used? Would like it to find best way to make item in 10 or 20 corpses

[@FFGaming-oo4wg]

One Question, when I go with 900 Tier Rating so only T1 Affixes are possible, what if the item level is not high enough for the T1 Affix or will it get T2 ones instead?

[@Papa_Giuseppe]

Will be t2

[@fearstreak7462]

use coffins with + 1 to item level as you scroll back on the diminishing returns for 88 graves. should tell you the item level before you accept the craft. just add as you need to match the highest item level of the attribute you picked. also they're pretty cheap so you could save some currency grabing even ilvl 80 coffins on the more expensive side

[@witekmarcinow4030]

Would you consider sharing explicit recipes for common items? Like for a phys attrack crit sword, you need these to hit ~90% of the time, and for crit ele bow you need these corpses etc? That would be helpful

[@Ints12345]

Try craftofexile, it has corpse crafting

[@soundtorial4567]

Craft of Exile has a graveyard function now. Its super easy

[@Adoptulous]

Just go into Craft of Exile and learn how your item is made. Give a man a fish and so on

[@theshadowcult]

This is amazing.

[@cracktr0]

Does anyone know which options are available for choosing experimental weapon bases? Oscillating sceptre for example.

[@Macronaso]

It's been a decade and I still haven't learned not to get hype about crafting leagues lol. I am very thankful for the video, I just think it sucks that the main mechanic of this league is us sitting in craft of exile running simulations.

[@theelder4797]

Is it worth saving corpses before you get into maps?

[@darrenyorston]

The crafting itself is fairly intuitive. The graveyard itself needs to be zoomed out more. There also needs to be an ability to see what crafts have been buried. What I am finding problematic is finding the actual corpses. Im only in early yellow maps and Im only finding crafts which increase quality and additional affixes. I have heaps of these but the ones that modify element types, defences and so forth I have rarely seen. I have 1 armour corpse so far and 2 increased chance of fire. I have 1 day 7hrs on this character. I only collected enough corpses during the campaign to craft 1 ring and it was shit.

[@MaxisRichtofen]

it's a good crafting league, they did it pretty well this time around. harvest league was such a failure, no one wanted to figure out and set up hydroponics for 2 hours and set seeds every map

[@maro557]

Tried making my own recipe and the website wont let me select modifiers because apparently graveyard isn't a viable crafting method, I dont know why it isn't working for me

[@fearstreak7462]

weird. i can see that there are necropolis corpses for even influence types, so i'd assume the calculator would factor that in, maybe not for double influence (since as far as i know that's an Awakener orb only craft). off the top of my head idk what would brick the graveyard option.

[@Ertayle69]

I must admit I'm usually into crafting. I find the amount of corpses and time needed absurdly high. I think poe has always been in between "lucky" shots craft, and precise expensive methodic metacrafting. Here I feel like we have the worst of both worlds. ( Compared to harvest for instance where we had both )

[@DerFreiegedanke]

"Actually the EASIEST Gear Crafting in the Game" - proceeds to ramble for 24 minutes.

[@adrianbergesenfedaque1183]

Can you get elder items from this? If not some builds will essentially not benefit at all

[@dervakommtvonhinten517]

is it possible to craft influenced gear?

[@chadd.7816]

Nice video...tried to follow it lol. As a new POE player its frustrating when a game pretty much requires you to use 3rd party sites and resources to be able to play and understand the game. It detours so many people!

[@bobbylonghorn1399]

I missed how you stack more mods to one item. Everytime I bury an item it just does the 1 thing

[@bagboybrown]

You need +800 to modifier tier rating to guarantee T1 on tri-elemental for anyone still playing LA.

[@nikokankkonen5402]

I think for 6 link you have to use 6 of the "max 6 linked sockets" corpses. Atleast for me it couldn't craft when i had fours and fives together.

[@GoodGuyGaming3]

SSF folks should be thrilled. It's such an open system for players to benefit from.

[@lennyghoul]

It takes way too many of the right corpses to make anything actually work.

[@lplusratio1489]

@@lennyghoul exactly, I've filled a 2/3 of quad tab with corpses from one day of mapping, and there's only one crit and resist corpse, and zero speed and gem corpses LOL coffins take so much space it's painful ngl

[@nlgliarmis503]

Yea good luck finding 25 increased chance of speed crafts if you want 30 move speed on boots

[@juts89]

Veiled chaos orbs would go 10x as far in ssf than the entire league mechanic

[@truuuupR]

As a small priv league player - i wish it only took a few hours to make a deterministic craft.

[@fritz5330]

"Crafting is extremely satisfying and very engaging in path of exile"

[@oaksmadoaks3986]

This is still terribly complex to me. I hope in poe2 we get introduced to crafting bit by bit? Hopefully. Cheers!

[@sandi-zli9567]

GGG: We want to attract new players in Poe meanwhile, new players need a doctor's dissertation to understand the fukin crafting let alone other shit in the game

[@LapahnYT]

now I need to know how to get a lot of corpses to drop

[@nlgliarmis503]

It’s a nightmare to trade for these coffins. I need 25 increased chance of speed. Since the update I have found exactly 0. So to do one craft, I have to trade AT LEAST 25 times because no one has them in bulk and there’s no way to search for them in bulk. And this is just for one explicit. This isn’t even considering if I want life or res or spell suppress which I do

[@Jourdan314]

Does the pattern matter at all for this?

[@underheavenunderheaven8446]

Original POE music, so cool

[@darthasavage7213]

damn it bro I came here to find out which is column and which is row and you did answer lol but then you said column @23:20

[@temp7361]

So how do i craft cuz it says “needs 4 members of same family” like they need to hav the same name or what someone pls explain that part😩

[@fubar8599]

New player here. So when should we swap to DW?

[@lukeannett]

?!? How do you link corpses for a single item?

[@TheLiquidRemix]

What about all the "Haunted by" corpses?

[@Feanturo]

Spell suppression not having a tag is so sad.

[@sakrai]

I don't know man, it's either farming 80+ corpses (a lot of them very rare and you need multiples of them like gem mods) or doing over 50 trades (which is pure hell and I rather not do). I still haven't been able to try a single craft and it's not looking like I'll be able to anytime soon.

[@abhidey646]

I don't see the issue in farming your own corpses. They drop sporadically as long as you're mapping and it took me an afternoon to put together 60+ corpses for a really good craft. What you put in versus what you get out is heavily skewed in favor of the participant, and crafting god tier items has never been more accessible to the average player than it is now.

[@sakrai]

@@abhidey646 farming them is not an issue, grinding is the whole game. It's just not as easy as people are saying

[@abhidey646]

@@sakrai On the contrary, you have yet to try it but seem convinced that it isn't as easy as it looks. Normally I'd cite expert bias, but I'm neither a crafter nor a great player. It is much easier than it seems and the only 3rd party website I had to consult was the mod table in poedb. I didn't even bother with the calculator or the optimal setup Ziggy alludes to in his video.

[@DocSardo]

As a casual SSF player, I'm sad to hear your last statement "I doubt it will be going core". This sounds like a crafting system that would allow players like me to actually get into red maps and beyond, which is where I typically hit the wall with my builds. I still have Last Epoch, which is friendlier to my playstyle, but I really enjoy the aesthetics of PoE, so it's a shame. Would it be possible for them to add this system to core SSF league after the season without adding it to core trade league? That would be the dream anyway.

[@yurika12]

what are the haunted corpses

[@Love-kq7iy]

So here's the thing. The 50/50 isn't actually quite 50/50. Because it's 50/50 for each mod (where multiple mods meet the same tag). Things like life on hit on suffix on a quiver feels bad man 😢

[@Waiden01]

Thank you for this guide .. but in my opinion if you need external tools to craft, or anything else, there is an issue.

[@fast1nakus]

With how weak it was on release I do think the system was intended to go core, as along term crafting project. But yes, with how it is right now, there is no chance.

[@an0mndr]

Idk what happened but I made a chest earlier that was supposed to be min 5 links. I got 3 sockets with only a 2-link

[@nextgen3ric]

Did you put just the one corpse in? If so, they INCREMENTALLY add one link, up to a maximum. So you would have needed 4 corpses that add links. Apologies if you already considered/knew that, but that's the only thing off the top of my head that would cause that behaviour.

[@an0mndr]

@@nextgen3ric no I had 2 max 4s and 3 max 5s, even the crafting window said minimum 5 links, but only spat out a 3 socket 2 link

[@ZiggyDGaming]

/bug report that one!

[@an0mndr]

@@ZiggyDGaming well I was on console and had shortly before recieved the call that my laptop was ready for pickup tomorrow, and I had to get to sleep so I wasn't too concerned with doing it right away. Is there a spot on the site I should use to do it now?

[@treeorwh2]

Just a thought... Doing a 1/4 graveyard 15 times seem more expensive than doing a full graveyard twice... Or am I being naive somehow?

[@ZiggyDGaming]

You're on to something that there is a value increase in what you've invested the more you invest. But where you balance that depends on how good an item you want to make vs what you need and have. Most people wont need full grave crafts and 40ish corpses should do it and give a solid return for investment.

[@treeorwh2]

@@ZiggyDGaming yeah, I am with you. Thanks for the video, I will definitely give it a try!