Path of Exile 1 Gameplay Help and Discussion - Crafting high Es shield - Forum

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dudiobugtron wrote:

The best way to understand crafting chances is to identify every rare you see in high level maps.

After you have identified about 1000 of them and see that they are all terrible, it will help you know what you are in for!

I stopped identifying rares altogether and just use the x2 regal recipe. Every rare is a used alch lol perfect example of how expensive it is, and difficult it could be to craft a good item with chaos spam.