Path of Idle: Old Gods Rising Runes & Equipment Guide

The Workshop is the town’s equipment improvement center. It can forge gear to improve core values and its renovation tree unlocks or improves related equipment functions such as sockets and affix handling. Upgrade it when equipment quality is the reason your active line cannot progress; do not pour every material into it while recruitment or Baptism is the real limit.

Equipment can carry base attributes, ordinary affixes, rare or legendary effects, sockets, and set bonuses. A higher-rarity item is not automatically better for a particular skill. Check weapon requirements, damage type, useful attributes, and whether removing a set piece disables a bonus. Forge the item only after it wins that comparison, because early materials are more valuable than a small upgrade on temporary gear.

Runes and rune affixes are real systems, but old numeric lists are risky. Demo 1.0.1.0 scaled percentage rune affixes down; full release 1.0.3 fixed Rare and Legendary Rune Pouches not being craftable; other launch patches continued changing equipment and Mythic behavior. Read the current in-game tooltip and official notes before consuming scarce materials. This guide deliberately does not publish unverified recipe names or invented socket orders.

Inventory automation saves time only after you understand what the filter keeps. Preserve unfamiliar Legendary, Mythic, set, and build-enabling pieces until you have checked their effect. Version 1.0.7 added Warehouse batch take-out and says a full Vault can swap out lower-level equipment. Leave room before long idle sessions and review new drops before tightening auto rules.

Before forging, write down what the active line needs: survival, reliable damage, a skill requirement, or a set breakpoint. Compare the candidate and equipped item against that need, including the effect of any removed set bonus. Test the unmodified candidate first when possible. If the stage outcome does not improve, forging it is unlikely to solve the real limit. Reserve scarce materials for items that are both usable now and difficult to replace. This decision process remains useful even when individual affix values change in a later patch.

Create a temporary review group for unfamiliar set pieces, rare effects, and items that support a damage type or class you are not currently using. Do not judge those pieces only by the level of your strongest team. A second combat line may value a different requirement, socket, or defensive effect. Review the group after recruiting or changing skills, then remove confirmed duplicates. Conservative storage costs some space but avoids the much larger cost of deleting a build-enabling item before its interaction is understood.