Easy Bow/Spear/Quarterstaff Craft | Step By Step Crafting Guidey

Summary

• Core Strategy: Use Greater Essences of Aberration to guarantee physical damage, combined with Omen modifiers to influence suffixes or prefixes, followed by Greater Exalts to finalize stats.
• Market Awareness: Profit margins fluctuate based on market saturation. Always calculate the cost of bases and materials against the current market price of the finished item before committing resources.
• Weapon Differences: Bows and spears share a similar crafting path utilizing Amu-namu modifiers, while quarterstaffs require a different approach focusing on prefix desecration due to suboptimal suffix options.
• Key Materials: Greater Essence of Aberration, Omen of Dextral/Sinistral Necromancy, Omen of Ledge, Greater Exalts, Artificer Orbs, and Greater Iron Runes.

Understanding the Crafting Shift

Crafting has been significantly altered in this patch. Previously, players could use multiple greater and perfect essences; now, players are restricted to only one crafted modifier per item at a time. While this reduces the overall power ceiling compared to previous methods, it remains a highly effective strategy for early-to-mid-game weapon progression.

Bow and Spear Crafting

The process for bows and spears is nearly identical due to the availability of the Amu-namu modifier, which can be manipulated to guarantee high-tier stats.

1. Base Selection: Purchase a martial weapon base. While high-end bases (e.g., Gemini) are preferred, cheaper alternatives are viable depending on current market prices. Ensure the base has favorable roll ranges.
2. Guarantee Physical Damage: Apply a Greater Essence of Aberration to the item. This guarantees a physical damage modifier, which is essential because flat physical damage scales effectively with percentage-based physical damage mods.
3. Suffix Influence:
   • Activate an Omen of Dextral Necromancy and an Omen of Ledge.
   • Use Preserve Jawbone on the item.
   • The combination of these omens guarantees an Amu-namu modifier on the suffix. This is highly valuable because it forces an attack speed roll (typically Tier 3 or better).
4. Finalizing Stats:
   • “Slam” the item with two Greater Exalts to add additional modifiers.
   • Take the item to the Well of Souls to unveil the remaining stats.
5. Completion: Add Artificer Orbs and Greater Iron Runes to optimize the final physical damage scaling.

Quarterstaff Crafting

Quarterstaffs require a slight variation because their available Amu-namu modifiers are generally poor, making the bow/spear method less effective.

1. Prefix Desecration: Apply the Greater Essence of Aberration for physical damage, then use an Omen of Sinistral Necromancy along with Preserve Jawbone on the prefix rather than the suffix.
2. Mod Selection: Desecrate the prefix first. If the resulting modifier is high-quality (e.g., a strong physical damage roll), proceed with further crafting.
3. Incremental Investment: If the initial desecration is strong, utilize Greater Exalts to further improve the item. If the desecration roll is weak, avoid further investment to save currency.
4. Optimization: Similar to other weapons, finish the craft by applying Artificer Orbs and Greater Iron Runes to reach the target DPS and critical strike modifiers.

Economic Strategy

• Profit vs. Self-Use: Evaluate the total cost of the base and materials against the market value of the finished product. If the market value is lower than the cost of inputs, it is more economical to purchase the final item directly.
• Market Saturation: When many players replicate the same craft simultaneously, margins decrease. Adapt by shifting to different items or bases when the market becomes oversaturated.