Torchlight Infinite SS12 Priceless Items Crafting Guide | Master Affix Pool shrinking and locking to forge 6 perfect mods
Category: Torchlight Infinite Posted: Apr 29, 2026 Views: 8
Torchlight Infinite and Path of Exile share a notable similarity: both feature highly complex gear crafting systems. Some of the most valuable items are often not unique items, but rather pieces of gear with perfectly rolled affixes crafted by players.
And during the transitional phase before the endgame, players sometimes need to craft their own gear to shore up damage and survivability. So let's take a look at how players in Season 12 can craft gear with the affixes their characters need.

Gear Quality
Just like in any ARPG, gear in Torchlight Infinite comes in different qualities. Quality indicates the number of affixes on an item, while item level affects the numerical values of those affixes. You can upgrade a normal piece of gear to a higher quality, much like in Path of Exile, as long as you have enough currency.
- Normal Gear: 0 or 1 affix
- Magic Gear: 1–2 affixes
- Rare Gear: 3–5 affixes
- Legendary Gear: 5 to 6 affixes, and comes with a special effect
- Priceless Gear: up to 6 affixes
Since Legendary Gear can generally only be obtained as drops, Priceless items represent the upper limit of what most players can craft. So let's talk about how you can craft Priceless Gear.
Gear Affixes
In typical ARPGs, gear affixes are divided into tiers based on their numerical ranges. In Torchlight Infinite, the highest numerical tier is T0, which is undoubtedly the best affix you should aim for.
When you replace affixes on a Priceless item, you'll find that all affixes are broadly categorized into three types.
- Basic Affix: replaced using Precious Ember in the crafting interface.
- Advanced Affix: replaced using Matchless Ember in the crafting interface.
- Ultimate Affix: replaced using Ultimate Ember in the crafting interface.
Core Rules
Before entering Craft Menu, we need to be clear about two core rules, especially for Priceless items: first, a piece of gear can have at most 2 Advanced Affixes; second, at most 2 Ultimate Affixes. Basic Affixes have no quantity limit.
Given this limitation, you need a strategy to land the affix you want most. Suppose the advanced affix pool contains 7 possible affixes. If you want a specific one, blindly rolling gives you a 1/7 chance.
You can first plug in a random, irrelevant advanced affix to occupy a slot, reducing the pool to 6 candidates. Then go for the one you actually want - your probability rises to 1/6, saving a significant amount of materials and currency.
Fill with Basic Affixes
When your gear is still blank or has plenty of open prefix/suffix slots, you should handle Basic Affixes first. Since Basic Affixes have no cap, you don't need to blindly face a large pool of 8 or 9 possibilities. The right approach is to first put on two random Basic Affixes to fill slots, boosting the chance to roll your desired Basic Affix from 1/9 to 1/7 or even 1/6, making it easy to obtain the stat you want.
Say you want a T1 Spell Damage as a prefix. First casually apply two Basic Affixes, then aim for Spell Damage. You can turn on Auto Craft function, set it to lock T1 Spell Damage, and it will automatically stop when it appears - very convenient.
The same method applies to suffixes. For example, if you're looking for T2 Elemental Damage, first fill with junk affixes to shrink the pool, then craft.
Advanced Affixes
After sorting out Basic Affixes, it's time for the most critical step: Advanced and Ultimate Affixes. At this point, do not casually use Ultimate Ember and Torchlight Infinite Flame Elementium to craft affixes. You must first press and hold the crafting button to observe the number of affix candidates in prefixes and suffixes, and then decide on which side to place the filler affixes.
If the advanced affix pool for prefixes has 8 candidates, and the advanced pool for suffixes has 7, you should clearly put both filler advanced junk affixes onto prefixes. This blocks the prefix advanced pool down to only 6 effective affixes, while the already smaller suffix advanced pool remains less competitive.
Conversely, if you do the opposite and block the 7-affix suffix pool with fillers, the prefix pool still confronts you with a large 1/8 chance - clearly not worth it.
Ultimate Affixes
The logic for Ultimate Affixes is identical. Suppose the ultimate affix pool for prefixes has only 5 candidates, while the suffix ultimate pool has as many as 9. Then you should put both filler Ultimate Affixes onto suffixes, reducing its pool to 8, while the prefix side retains a clean 1/5 chance to hit the best affix.
In short, you need to place your filler affixes on the side with more candidates, so that Advanced and Ultimate affixes - which demand the most resources - are rolled on the side with less competition. The prefix/suffix pool distribution can differ entirely for each gear slot and base type, so make it a habit to check the pool sizes every time before you craft.
The final crafted piece is often a perfect combination of six affixes: prefix: Basic, Advanced, Ultimate; suffix: Basic, Advanced, Ultimate. Of course, depending on the build, you may see variations like two Advanced and one Basic on prefixes, two Ultimate and one Basic on suffixes, and so on. But the foundation for everything is knowing how to target and lock the affixes you need.
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