Legendary Items Crafting Guide

Crafting Legendaries has the potential to create some of the most powerful items in the game. With the right bases it's possible to make items that are exceptionally rare and can take a build to the next level. In this guide we cover all you need to know about crafting Legendaries with Legendary Potential, including what they are, how to find the components to make them and finally how to craft one.

What is a Legendary

A Legendary is a Unique item that has one or more additional affixes added to it. Up to four total affixes can be added if the unique has enough potential (two prefixes, two suffixes). Each affix can range from tier 1 up to tier 7, meaning the right affix(es) can add an incredible amount of power to an already powerful unique!

Almost any kind of Unique can become a Legendary with the right components (There are three guaranteed drops in the story that cannot, but they all have endgame variants that can). However, not every Unique that drops on the ground is able to be crafted into one. In the next section we'll cover the criteria necessary to turn a Unique into a Legendary.

Legendary Components

There are two ways to make a Legendary:

• A Unique with at least one Legendary Potential.
• An Exalted item of the same type as the unique that also has two prefixes and two suffixes.

or

• A Unique that has Weaver's Will

For our purposes, we are interested in the items with Legendary Potential because these Legendaries are made through crafting. For more information on Weaver's Will, check out our Weaver's Will Guide.

Some things to know about the Unique:

• The Legendary Potential of the Unique determines how many affixes will be added to the Legendary from the Exalted item and this number ranges from 1-4. A Unique with 1 Legendary Potential will only take one affix, whereas one with 4 will take all four affixes.
• The roll ranges of the affixes already on the Unique will remain on the Legendary. Since they do not reroll, getting a Unique with high rolls is desirable (later you can reroll both the implicits and affixes using the Gauntlet of Strife Woven Echo, but this requires a copy of the Unique with the same or higher Legendary Potential).

Some things to know about the Exalted:

• By 'same type' we mean the base is the same. Example: If your Unique with Legendary Potential is a pair of gloves, then you also need an Exalted pair of gloves. If it's a one handed axe, then you also need a one handed axe for your Exalted.
• Outside of the number of affixes on the Exalted, it won't matter what kind they are or how many tiers they have. You can technically craft with one Tier 6 and three Tier 1 affixes if you want.
• It can have a sealed affix. However the sealed affix cannot be transferred to the Legendary.
• You can choose one affix to guarantee it transfers onto the Legendary (requires at least Temporal Sanctum tier 2). After that, each affix has an equal chance of being transferred to the Legendary.
• If you put an affix on the Legendary that is class specific, the Legendary becomes class specific.
• Forging Potential does not matter. The Exalted can have 0 Forging Potential and still be used.

Crafting Process

In order to make a Legendary you need to complete the Temporal Sanctum dungeon. To do this you need a Temporal Sanctum Key which drops randomly in the world and has a high chance of dropping from Timeline Bosses in the Monolith of Fate. Make sure to run tier 2 or higher if you want to guarantee an affix!

After killing Julra and walking into the next room you're presented with the Eternity Cache, a large monolithic structure that you can interact with.

In order to start the process of crafting your Legendary, you need to start in the Divine Era (use Temporal Shift if necessary) and Open the Eternity Cache. Once opened, put your Unique with Legendary Potential and your Exalted with four affixes into the Cache. Press 'Seal Cache' and switch eras using Temporal Shift. Now open the cache one more time to find your Legendary inside.

This process can be completed once per dungeon run. If you want to make another Legendary you need to obtain another Temporal Sanctum Key and run the dungeon again.

Component Farming

While making a Legendary is relatively straightforward, acquiring the Unique and Exalted items you need can prove challenging. Below is a list of tips and strategies to guide you in your search of making truly epic Legendaries:

For Uniques:

• The likelihood of finding an item with Legendary Potential is determined by four factors:
  • Every Unique in the game has a Legendary Potential level. A higher level means the item is less likely to have Legendary Potential.
  • Zones with higher area levels are more likely to drop Uniques with Legendary Potential
  • Corruption also has a small effect on Legendary Potential.
  • If you've chosen the Circle of Fortune Faction, rank 8 doubles the Legendary Potential chance of dropped Uniques.
• Boss specific Uniques can be farmed easily by farming that boss. Increase Corruption and Item Rarity to improve your odds.
• For world drops, either farm a specific Timeline that has echo rewards for that unique type, or use a Rune of Ascendance.
• If you're Circle of Fortune, use Prophecies to target Uniques with the item type of the one you're after. (If you're Merchant's Guild, you can simply purchase these with gold.)
• The Weaver Tree from The Woven Faction offers multiple ways to juice drop rates of Uniques, including by targeting specific items through the use of imprinting nodes.
• We do not recommend farming the Lightless Arbor dungeon since this method is better served for farming Crafting Materials and Exalteds.
• If you have a Unique with no Legendary Potential, you can use the Nemesis System to attempt to reforge it with Legendary Potential (more in the next section)
• If you have at least one Legendary Potential but are trying to gain more, you can gamble it with the Farsight Turtle Woven Echo. Note that if the gamble fails, the Unique loses all Legendary Potential, so only try this is you're willing to risk it all!

For Exalteds:

• In order to get tier 7s to drop you need to be in at least area level 90
• For general hunting (not targeting a specific type) echo reward nodes are a solid option, especially with higher corruption.
• The Circle of Fortune offers Prophecies that target Exalted items with the tem type of the one you're after. (If you're Merchant's Guild, you can simply purchase these with gold.)
• Similar to Uniques, The Weaver Tree from The Woven Faction offers multiple ways to juice drop rates of Exalted items, including by targeting specific ones through the use of imprinting nodes.
• The Lightless Arbor dungeon is a great way to get a lot of Exalted items at once if you have the gold necessary to juice the vault.
• The Soulfire Bastion dungeon provides an opportunity to target belts, boots and gloves which don't have Timeline reward echoes. However, The Circle of Fortune and Merchant's Guild both offer much more efficient ways of targeting these items.
• If you have an incredible Exalted that you want to use as a Legendary, but either don't want to lose the Exalted item or want more than one shot at getting the right affixes on your Legendary you can use Rune of Creation to make a duplicate of the item. Note: this only works if the original item has some Forging Potential so be careful with your crafting!

Nemesis Crafting

An alternative method to making Legendaries is through using the Nemesis System. At high levels, if you find a Nemesis with an Egg of the Forgotten, you can place a Unique with no Legendary Potential from your inventory or stash into the egg. After Empowering the Nemesis, there's a chance that the Nemesis adds either Legendary Potential or a Legendary affix to the Unique. You can Empower the Nemesis up to two times to juice the Unique, but you have no control over the outcome, so this is effectively a gamble!

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Summary

• A Legendary is a Unique with 1 or more additional affixes on it.
• To create a Legendary from a Unique, it must have Legendary Potential or Weaver's Will. This guide discusses Legendary Potential.
• Uniques with Legendary Potential are combined with Exalted items that have four unsealed affixes (it can have a sealed affix, but it won't count).
• Crafting a Legendary this way occurs at the end of the Temporal Sanctum dungeon.
• There are a number of strategies to use when farming for Uniques or Exalteds for Legendaries.

Credits

Written by McFluffin.
Reviewed by Aristotelian, Terek.