D2R - Is Crafting Worth It? (Crafting Overview & Examples) 

Crafting may be the best part of Diablo 2. You can potentially roll a God tier item that can't drop from anything in the game.

Thanks for the insight bossman GGMentor!! Sometimes I just go robot mode and tend to forget that the "end-game" farming and strategies rely on making your loot, as well as, finding loot. Actually, going to try give this a shot for a few champs since I've never took the time to follow these types of examples. Have a good/quality week everyone!

Especially with those crafted caster ammys - made a very good one for my paladin this season although of course it can take some time!

Going a full safety set can take a character with absolute crap gear and make them hell ready. The resists coupled with the flat damage taken reductions actually make it *WAY* better than it looks upon first glance -- especially if you get double value rolls (50-70 less damage per hit). Edit -- for a real world math example to demonstrate the actual value: at 1000hp it takes about 10 hits from your generic trash mob (fallen, etc) to kill you, meaning they're dealing about 100 damage per hit. In full safety gear, thats down to 50 damage per hit (or more) which means it takes twice as long to kill you, assuming 100% hit rate. However, we know hit rate wont be that as even in trash resist gear from normals, you'll lower that chance to be hit by 15%, meaning it will take even longer. Now, as +defense rolls are common on the gear as well, you'll be sitting in roughly the 40-50% range when all is said and done when rolled on elite gear (going for double DR, life, and a resist or resist all for most gear). Now, for experimental purposes, assuming 1 swing a second from a trash mob (which isnt that far off) that means that naked at 1000hp it takes 10 seconds to kill you. With the even the low-end double value DR rolls that doubles to 20 seconds. With low end double DR and defense? 40 seconds. That gives almost a whole minute to click a potion, or at the very least the ability to even click one when facing more than one enemy (that may be juiced by auras, etc) -- and thats before we've even started talking about the value adds of block chance, defense skills, dodge, blinds, freeze, etc etc. Oh, and also CTA, BO, OS etc getting your hp to 2k plus. Safety set is slept on pretty hard, *ESPECIALLY* in hardcore.

Thanks for teaching us senpai!

I would argue absolutely yes. There are some items that you need for builds like boots / belts that there are just not decent unique or set item options for.

Great guide! Some of these could definitely need some buffs!

Even after the shenanigans with the Black Friday Sale devaluing all the 2/20 helms, 2/20 amulets will always hold their value. I never leave Flawless Amethyst and Ral runes. Quick clarification to the numbers: Gambling amulets allow for +5 to -5 ilvl from your Character level. When you roll the crafting recipe it averages your cLVL and the iLVL of the amulet. The +2 class skills affix requires a crafted item of ilvl 90, meaning your minimum character level needs to be 93 to ensure your gambling the right level amulet (88+). Terror zones have changed this somewhat because even trash drops +2 clvl items so you can start crafting with TZ amulets at 89 and roll for the +2 with confidence. For a future change I would like to see all gloves being able to roll the +10 to FCR affix and the Caster gloves have an innate +10 FCR. This would allow us to roll some caster gloves for our endgame gloves and finally use something other than Mage/Trangs. Additionally a Currency tab to store all the extra Gems and Runes we need for crafting would encourage more players to do so...

I keep my Perfect Amethysts along with my Ist runes because they are so high in demand. Very good for trading.

crafting is so underrated for early grinding...you can make very viable items directed towards what you are lacking to get you by till the end gear. and then of course

I know you like finding uses for niche stuff so theres 2 crafts i like to use occasionally. Blood helm is a nice easy to get lifesteal for you or your merc, and ive also seen those roll with some insane Attack Rating % mods, and also its rare but early game I will use blood armor for me or my merc to get the +life after demon kill if im playing a class where lifesteal doesnt really work. :)

I crafted a Caster Amulet with 2 Paladin skills, 20 FCR, dual res along with the caster mods. Also crafted another one with 2 Paladin skills, 15 FCR and 15 all res. I got extremely lucky that those were crafted in less than 40 attempts. I'd say crafting is worth it if you're somewhat wealthy. Otherwise, it's better to trade the gems and runes for some gear. Could be worth a shot to craft some at the beginning of next ladder.

Ive always dreamt of rolling a +2 pally, 10% magic resist, with 2 sockets, 41-60life and 17% fhr safety shield. Its 2 prefixes and 2 suffixes that can roll on rare/crafted shields and should theoretically be possible. Slap 2 jah runes in it and become unexpectedly tanky in pvp vs other hammerdins or bone necromancers where you dont need block. You would basically trade -1 hammer with HOZ to kill for +1 hammer and +2-3 spears you could eat and would have a truly one of a kind shield.

I like to kkep all the blue amulets that drop from TZ Baal runs, these have ilvl "over 9000!"

You didn’t mention it but you can also craft substituting a facet for the jewel.

You could make some great 5/40 safety javs. The other unmentioned recipe i have seen in the trophy room is blood helms

I actually dont have to watch this video to know that yes, crafting is totally worth it. I think diablo 2 nailed crafting because crafted items can roll stats that dont naturally spawn on any other version of that item. Rolling a sick pair of CB gloves, or a badass deadly strike armet can feel really good and can also fetch quite a bit of value. Ofcourse everyone goes for the caster ammys and blood rings, but there are a lot of great underrated crafts as well, like the safety shield which is the ONLY item in the entire game that can roll Magic damage resist

My early ladder hustle was always trading 40 p gems for gul or vex or mal depending on the market.

Last amulet i crafted was level 95, with 1 to elemental skills for a druid. Beyond dismal! It would be interested to see stats.

I love crafting BUT, I really think they need to rework some of the crafting items because I never see crafted shields as an example, and crafted rings are extremely rare to see in game. Though I absolutely love crafted amulets as I personally look for the 19% FCR breakpoint in hardcore for my Druid to be 'complete'.

“Life’s like a box Amulets... you never know what’s gonna get”

Second like!

I have a lvl 94 char can I use it to roll 2 20 amys?

Hello, Ginger. Pardon my ignorance, but is there a reason why people gamble for magic rings/amulets? At first, I thought they were looking for base attributes like +2 to Skills etc. But then I found out that these attributes are wiped when the item is crafted. So what is the difference between gambling for these rings rather than farming them as monster drops etc?

Very helpful. I just have one minor question. Maybe soneone here can help me out: Iam currently LV94. Iam trying to craft amulets. Does the "blue amulet" needs +2 (class skills) for crafting or does it not matter? I fear it has something to do with the itemlevel? Iam confused.

Is the raise skeletal mage skill video already out?

I’ll def watch this. Fell off of d2 this season as I got into new world but heard new season next month

Dude can you trade crafted amulets ?

Is it possible to get the same rolls in a rare

I've found crafting to be quite aggravating... I want a caster neck for both my singer barb and sorceress... And after a fortune, I've made a killer druid and necro neck... Which I do no want. And this is my offline account so trading isn't a option.

It is now since rare ammys cant roll 20 fcr anymore lol

TL DR: yes. Crafting is more than worth it.

Who ever has 33 ber runes

the "fixed effects" stats make these items look worthless IMO. I'm not understanding the big deal at all....

No crating is not worth it... because it takes effort😂