Path of Exile - Budget Jewel Crafting With Fossils

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Published on March 30, 2020 9:51:45 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewYRSrHGAgM

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Path of Exile (2013)

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The 3.10 fossil crafting nerfs were significant for many other gear slots, and they made fossils much cheaper in trade leagues.

However the nerfs actually made fossil crafting stronger for one niche - jewels. Using fossils on traditional jewels (Crimson, Viridian and Cobalt) wasn't a powerful crafting method in 3.9 and earlier, as there were a number of very common, very weak jewel-only mods that diluted the mod pool.

Those mods were removed in 3.10 and so now, while fossils are weaker everywhere else, they are miles better in jewel crafting than they used to be.

Here I throw Frigid + Pristine fossils at Cobalt jewels, aiming for jewels with life and caster-oriented cold damage mods.

7 attempts. One outstanding hit, four misses, two in between that were 'not great but too good to roll over'.

This method can work for many builds with minor modifications. Elemental damage builds should replace the frigid fossil with their element (e.g. Scorched Fossils for a fireball build). ES builds should use Dense fossils instead of Pristine.

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