Masterworking

Masterworking is an endgame crafting system that upgrades items, improving all their affixes. The system was added in Season 4: Loot Reborn. Masterworking was given a complete overhaul in Season 10.

How Masterworking works (Season 11+)

Upgrading Quality

Msterworking is split into three different stages. Players will build the quality of an item and apply a random amount of multiplicative bonus to a basic stat of an item. For weapons it's damage, for armor it's Armor, and jewellery its Resistance.

Items can be masterworked to a maximum Quality threshold, which is 20%. When the 20% max is reached, this phase of Masterworking is complete.

Only the base stat is inceases in this initial phase. This include Armor,

Players now Masterwork the item one more time to reach what is called the Masterworking Capstone, which creates a Greater Affix on your item.

This Greater Affix can be rerolled for a cost. The quality level will not be set back to zero, which has already been locked in.

How has Masterworking changed?

In the old system, you had a 20% chance of getting the affix you wanted, which had to be done multiple times.

The new system is significantly easier to get the affix you want. For example, if you take a one Greater Affix item, you have a 1 in four chance of getting the affix you are looking for. You have a 99% chance of getting it with ten or eleven resets.

The better the quality of the item, the easier it becomes. If you have one Greater Affix it's one out of four, if you have three Greater Affixes it's one out of two.

Masterworking Costs

Initial Phase	Base Stat	Materials Required
Initial Phase 1-20	1/2/3%	50 x Obducite 1x Forgotten Souls 2x Coilining Wards 125,000 Gold
Final Stage	Rerolled Affix	500 x Obducite 3x Forgotten Souls 6x Abstruse Sigil 375,000 Gold
Reroll	Rerolled Affix	1000 x Obducite 1 x Neathiron (World Boss, Astaroth, Bartuc, Belial) Rarely from Elites.

+ Masterworking Seasons 1-9.

Ranking up Affixes Masterworking enables players to upgrade affixes on a Legendary, Unique or Mythic item. Non Ancestral items can be upgraded 8 times but Ancestral items can be upgraded up to 12 times. Most ranks increase all affixes by 5% however, ranks 4, 8 and 12 increase a single random affix by 25%. If lady luck is on your side, this could mean a single affix gets all three of those massive 25% boosts, but those are some astronomical odds. Masterworking from base to level 12 Note all Affixes have been increased even the two Greater Affixes (identified by the star) and the two added Tempered Affixes (identified by the anvil). Masterworking Rank 12 The Necromancer Wand above has been Masterworked 12 times and the Intelligence stat is blue indicating it received one of the large 25% boosts. The Damage is yellow indicating it has had two of the large boosts. If a stat had received all three large boosts the stat would be in orange text. Affixes added by Tempering will also be upgraded as will an Enchanted affix if you have rerolled for one at the Occultist. If you have Masterworked an item you can reroll a Temper and the new Temper will maintain the Masterworked level. Masterworking does not fail. When Masterworking an item it binds it to your account so you are unable to trade it. These Masterworked affixes can also be Enchanted (rerolled) at the Occultist for a different affix that will inherit the same increased Masterworked rank. Masterwroking Material Costs Masterwroking Material Costs Masterwroking Complete Reset Resetting Masterworking If the 25% boosts don't roll on the Affix you were hoping they would you can wipe all Masterworking off the item by Resetting at any point. This will cost crafting materials determined by what level of Masterworking you are resetting. You will not be refunded the materials and gold you spent Masterworking in the first place. The item will return to its original stats. Salvaging Masterworked Items When you Salvage an item at the Blacksmith that has been Masterworked some of the materials used to Masterwork will be refunded to you. Where can you get Masterworking Materials? The unique materials used in Masterworking come from the new endgame content called The Pit. Obducite, Ingolith and Neathiron come from increasingly deeper pit levels. The Party member that spends the Runeshards to open the Pit gets 100% of the Masterworking materials, the rest of the party receives half the amount. Rank Affix Increase Materials Required 1 All 5% 10 x Obducite 10 x Rawhide/Iron Chunk 3 x Veiled Crystal 100,000 Gold 2 All 5% 20 x Obducite 10 x Rawhide/Iron Chunk 3 x Veiled Crystal 150,000 Gold 3 All 5% 30 x Obducite 15 x [[[Rawhide]]/Iron Chunk 4 x Veiled Crystal 200,000 Gold 4 One 25% 40 x Obducite 15 x Rawhide/Iron Chunk 4 x Veiled Crystal 300,000 Gold 5 All 5% 20 x Ingolith 25 x Rawhide/Iron Chunk 6 x Veiled Crystal 400,000 Gold 6 All 5% 40 x Ingolith 30 x Rawhide/Iron Chunk 8 x Veiled Crystal 600,000 Gold 7 All 5% 80 x Ingolith 40 x Rawhide/Iron Chunk 10 x Veiled Crystal 800,000 Gold 8 One 25% 120 x Ingolith 50 x Rawhide/Iron Chunk 15 x Veiled Crystal 800,000 Gold 9 All 5% 50 x Neathiron 20 x Veiled Crystal 10 x Abstruse Sigil/Baleful Fragment/Coiling Ward 3 x Forgotten Soul 2,000,000 Gold 10 All 5% 100 x Neathiron 30 x Veiled Crystal 10 x Abstruse Sigil/Baleful Fragment/Coiling Ward 5 x Forgotten Soul 3,000,000 Gold 11 All 5% 150 x Neathiron 40 x Veiled Crystal 15 x Abstruse Sigil/Baleful Fragment/Coiling Ward 7 x Forgotten Soul 5,000,000 Gold 12 One 25% 250 x Neathiron 50 x Veiled Crystal 20 x Abstruse Sigil/Baleful Fragment/Coiling Ward 10 x Forgotten Soul 2,500,000 Gold Patch Changes to Masterworking Patch 2.0.1, October 8 2024 The Gold cost for Masterworking Ranks 5-12 has been reduced by approximately one third. Masterworking materials now drop from more sources inside Nightmare Dungeons, including: Resplendent chests Normal chests Miscellaneous Interactive Objects, such as ambient corpses Breakable Objects The Butcher Treasure Goblins Local events Non-Ancestral Legendary items can now be Masterworked up to 8 times and have two Tempering Affixes. Material costs for Masterworking at lower Ranks have been adjusted. Non-ancestral items of Item Power 750 can be upgraded to a maximum of 4 times. Patch 1.4.1, May 28, 2024 Masterworking materials can now be directly transmuted instead of requiring the opening of a Materials Cache to receive them. Once Masterworking is unlocked by one character, it is now always accessible on all characters across realms. The Gold cost of Masterworking has been reduced. Examples: Ranks 1-4: Unchanged Rank 5: reduced from 450,000 to 400,000 Rank 8: reduced from 1,000,000 to 800,000 Rank 12: reduced from 10,000,000 to 2,500,000 Developer’s Note: We want to make the main push for Masterworking to be focused on the acquisition of materials, and less focused on needing the Gold. We want to avoid the possibility of having the materials available, but needing to take extra time to collect the Gold.

Patch 1.4.ob, May 19, 2024

• The amount of gold it costs to transmute Masterworking material caches has been significantly reduced.

Patch 1.4.0, May 14, 2024

• Added to the game in Season 4.