Crafting

The **Crafting** system in Last Epoch allows players to modify most Equipment Items by adding, removing or changing their Affix Shards. Crafting requires equipment, a crafting item in the modifier slot, and optionally an item in the support item slot.

Unique Equipment, Set Equipment and Legendary Equipment cannot be used in crafting.

## Crafting Interface

The crafting window can be accessed by pressing the default key "F". In order to craft, an item must be put in the item slot, optionally supported by a glyph or a rune.

### Legend

1. Forging Potential indicator
2. Prefix Slots
3. Suffix Slots
4. Forged Item Slot
5. Affix Shard Slot
6. Glyph Slot
7. Rune Slot
8. Crafting Cost indicator
9. Result of Last Crafting

## Crafting Items and Inventory

Crafting Items can be gathered as loot, and they will be displayed with orange text when dropped in the world. When picked up, crafting items will go into the regular Inventory. When right clicked in the inventory, these items will be moved to the Forge: a crafting storage with unlimited space. The crafting items are:

* **Affix Shards**:
	+ Material used for adding or upgrading affixes (modifiers) on equipment.
* **Glyphs**:
	+ Optional material used for influencing the addition/upgrade process of an affix shard.
* **Runes**:
	+ Material used for altering core attributes of an item, or shattering an item.

## Upgrading Equipment

### Adding & Upgrading Affixes

Affix shards are used for adding a new (unsealed) affix to an item, or upgrade the tier of an existing one by 1. The process uses some Forging Potential in the process, and it can be done as long as it is available. Affixes can be upgraded up to tier 5 - higher tiers can only spawn on an item when dropped.

Glyphs can be added alongside an affix shard to influence crafting. These most commonly help preserve resources via more efficient (albeit semi-random) outcomes.

### Critical Success

Every upgrade has a small chance to roll a critical success. When it occurs, the item receives an additional upgrade on any affix for free, while crafting material and Forging Potential are also preserved.

### Sealed Affixes

Sealed affixes are permanently frozen affixes created by a Glyph of Despair or a Rune of Research. These occupy a sealed slot, and cannot be further altered or removed.

### Crafting Level Requirement

Crafting affixes onto equipment may add level requirement to an item. You will not be able to craft equipment that would have a resulting level requirement that is higher than your current Level.

## Recycling Items into Affix Shards

### Rune of Shattering

Using a Rune of Shattering converts the item into assorted affix shards based on the affixes present, yielding them immediately. The amount of shards given is random, but always at least one: it can be as high as one shard for each tier of affix on an item. This means that a maxed out item with four tier 7 affixes could theoretically yield up to 28 affix shards (7 of each type), but it will very likely yield less than that.

Every vendor has 1-4 Runes of Shattering in stock, making them widely available.

### Rune of Removal

Using a Rune of Removal removes a random affix present on the item, yielding shards equivalent to its tier (a tier 4 affix yields 4 shards of said affix) for some Forging Potential. Utilizing Runes of Removal is most useful on magic items, or on those with high Forging Potential.