How split beast was supposed to be used other than duping

There had been a lot of drama with duping 6L weapon with the help of split beast, Fenumal Plagued Arachnid. This post is not to discuss the exploit, but to talk about how this beast recipe was used on crafting.

TL;DR : Split beast has many usage on crafting as well. If it is not creating so many "creative use of game mechanic", it is a very lovable spider.

Fenumal Plagued Arachnid
- Beastcrafting Recipe: Split an Item Into Two, With Half the Mods on Each Item
https://pathofexile.fandom.com/wiki/Fenumal_Plagued_Arachnid


1/ Isolating 1 or 2 perfect mod and making the item Magic.
Before the split tag was added, you are allowed to split infinitely. That means as long as the item has 1 perfect mod, you may keep splitting until that mod is isolated. This is like a perfectly safe method to annual, and it can make the item become Magic for other crafting method such as imprint + Augmentation or Regal. Sometimes split beast method is cheaper than alteration spamming.

Example 1, T1 Prefix %increased Spell/Fire/Cold/Lightning damage on Scepter. It takes an average of 7751 alteration + 2205 augmentation to hit it with a 63% confident. With split beast, you only need to do it at most 3 times to make a 6 mod rare item into magic, and maybe a few more times if you need to isolate the mod.


Another example will be isolating Delve mod, Incursion mod, Essence mod, T0 Unveiled mod and legacy mod. All these are pretty much drop only and the rest of the mod are usually guarantee trash. If it drops on a good base, it is worth it to isolate the mod.

Delve mod -

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Legacy Essence Mod


2/ Free up mods on item (still commonly used after split tag)
A rare drops from monster or from alchemy orb will always have at least 4 mods. That means you cannot use Multi mod craft to craft because an item can only have 6 mods. With split beast, you may break the mod pool into half safely (kind of like a safe annual again). Split beast will free up room for multi mod or free up room for Prefix/Suffix cannot be changed + Scour.

Common usage on Delve mod +1 max Spectres, you can make something bad into something awesome

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Or Essence spam and making of +3 bow, you start with essence spam into something like this

Then split beast with a chance to keep +2 Bow and a good T1 suffix together. Then craft "cannot roll attack mod", use Farric Wolf Alpha to add a Prefix (hopefully keep the desired suffix), it will always give you +1 skill gem as Prefix.

One more example of Essence craft minion +3 bow

ye u right nice guide

still wonder why GGG help expoiter abusers and bug abusers? no ban and wont happen ban them...

Pretty sure the intended use was duping.

Isolate mod is not 100% success, with Eternal Orb or Magic Imprint it may somewhat 100% able to try again

It just duping legacy mod and print 6L6W are too profitable so that GGG just axed it (just like Fossil stripped their exclusive mods)

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Isolate mod is not 100% success, with Eternal Orb or Magic Imprint it may somewhat 100% able to try again

Isolate 1 mod is 100% success because there is never a brick stat for the item.

Isolate 2 mod will have a fail stat.
Even then, the chance is still more reasonable compare to Alt + Aug.

For crafting i still feel bad on having the Split tag

Honestly maybe I should try to split a bit. But y the split tag sucks and it is a one way go. I mean you can do it only once. It feels more like a O SHIT "I LOST EVERYTHING UNLESS MAYBE" thing.

Cool guide. Very useful SSF.