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Diablo 4 Crafting Guide: Every System in One Place
Diablo 4 has five different systems to help players improve and craft the best gear pieces needed for their build. This hub helps explain each system and avoid to brick good items. All the crafting systems make sense together. This page will serve as the map in directing you to the correct vendor.
Crafting Pipeline in One Look
The order can be important, so make sure you run the steps the way it is advised. Transfiguring too early can cap the item forever. Enchanting is sometimes good to do before you use the Horadric Cube.
What a Finished Item Looks Like
A fully built endgame piece has, all fully masterworked to rank 25:
4 equipment affixes,
1 tempered affix,
1 aspect power,
1 transfiguration affix, and a lucky roll can grant a second transfiguration affix on top.
Greater Affixes
Players will want to target and improve items with Greater Affixes to improve their endgame.
Diablo 4 Greater Affixes Guide: Every Way to Get One, ExplainedEvery system on this hub exists to fill or improve one of those slots, which is a useful check whenever you wonder what an item is still missing.
What Each System Can and Cannot Do
Crafting System | Add a New Affix | Change an Existing Affix | Can it Roll a Greater Affix? (on Ancestral) | Reversible/Can Be Changed? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Enchanting | no | yes | no | yes |
Tempering | yes | no | yes | yes |
Masterworking | no | no, only affects the value of the affixes | no, similar to a GA, you can get a Capstone Bonus applied to one affix. | yes, Capstone can be reset |
Horadric Cube | yes | yes | no | yes |
Transfiguration | yes | no | yes | no (see Transfiguration guide) |
Tempering
Tempering adds one chosen affix to Legendary, Unique, and even Mythic gear. On Ancestral items, the temper can roll into a Greater Affix. Each item has limited temper charges, refillable with Scrolls of Restoration.
Diablo 4 Tempering Guide: Affixes, Limits and GA TempersMasterworking
Masterworking upgrades an item's affixes up to Quality 25. It never adds new ones, and Quality cannot be reset. At rank 25, you receive a capstone bonus to an existing affix. This can be reset for a certain cost.
Diablo 4 Masterworking Guide: What It Does and Does Not DoEnchanting
Enchanting rerolls one existing affix per item. It works on any rarity, including Uniques and Mythics. But it cannot create a Greater Affix.
Diablo 4 Enchanting Guide: Affix Reroll Rules and How It WorksHoradric Cube
The Horadric Cube is the crafting station for everything advanced: adding and removing affixes, rerolls, rune crafting, Transfiguration, and upgrading to Mythic.
Diablo 4 Horadric Cube Guide: Recipes, Tuning Prisms and What to CraftTransfiguration
Transfiguration is the final, high-risk step you will take on your item. It usually locks the item permanently, so it always comes last.
Diablo 4 Transfiguration Guide: Tuning Prisms, Outcomes and RisksMythic Unique Crafting
Mythic crafting turns an unwanted 850+ Unique into a random Mythic of the same slot via the Cube and Pandemonium Fragments. One crafted Mythic equipped at a time; natural Mythic drops are exempt.
Diablo 4 Mythic Unique Crafting Guide: All Three Methods