The card is the item. The bench is the action. Walk one craft from Base through Socket and Commit — a bad roll means a new base, not a reset.
One common chest — Life, two resists, socket. Not a recipe.
This example is a chest: Endgame item level, then lock Life.
Champion Cuirass
Body Armour · Normal
Item level 82
Locked implicit
Fixed by the base type — prefix/suffix currency never changes this.
Sockets 0/2
Artificer's Orb adds a socket
Prefixes
Suffixes
Item level 82 is a commonly cited working target for top-end affixes, not a precise universal cutoff.
Still white. A bad craft later is New base — there is no Scouring.
Pick a class — the card is a real named base of that kind. A different class is a new base.
Claw
Dagger
Flail
One-Hand Axe
One-Hand Mace
Spear
One-Hand Sword
Sceptre
Wand
Bow
Crossbow
Staff
Quarterstaff
Two-Hand Axe
Two-Hand Mace
Two-Hand Sword
Body Armour
Helmet
Gloves
Boots
Shield
Buckler
Focus
Quiver
Amulet
Ring
Belt
Jewel
Each card opens the bench on that step, with the written lesson underneath. The interface stays the teacher.
The mental model every crafting decision depends on — there's no Orb of Scouring, item level sets your ceiling, and the base you pick matters more than what you do to it afterward.
A full, all-new roster of 19 Essence types plus Perfect and Corrupted tiers — the most reliable way to guarantee a specific modifier, and the single-slot rule that limits how far you can push it.
The Well of Souls turns Abyssal Bones into a guaranteed second anchor modifier — including exclusive mods tied to three Abyssal Lich bosses. Core content since patch 0.3.0, not a league-limited mechanic.
Fracturing Orb permanently locks a modifier in place, Orb of Sacrifice upgrades Corruption enchantments at a cost, and the Recombinator exists in the game files but is switched off this league — a real trap if you're reading an older guide.
45 Omens across 11 categories turn one currency use or game event into a targeted, guaranteed outcome — plus 5 Omens that official patch notes say were removed, but that some guides still list as active.
A representative endgame crafting sequence end to end, the one genuinely disputed step in it, and the mistakes that trip up even PoE1 veterans who already know each individual tool.
Current as of patch 0.5.4. Hover currency for its in-game tooltip. Some later-step facts are flagged single-source or contested.
