Overview
This is a step-by-step crafting breakdown for producing high-value Time-Lost jewels, the radius jewels that buff small passives and notables near their socket. Rather than a combat build, it is an economy-and-crafting recipe: the creator walks through the exact orb sequence to turn a cheap base into a jewel worth dozens of divines, and shares the price math so you can decide when to stop and sell.
The method centres on locking in the desirable large radius via fracturing, then sculpting the remaining modifiers with desecration, annulments and chaos spam until you hit one of the premium stats. It is aimed at players comfortable spending currency speculatively, since the craft is a numbers game best run across several bases at once.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Clear, repeatable orb-by-orb recipe with concrete cost and payout figures
- High upside — example craft cost ~9 divines and price-checked at 50–60 divines
- Smaller mod pool after desecration makes chaos-spamming surprisingly efficient
- Includes a sell-or-continue decision framework so you bank profit instead of over-investing
Cons
- Requires buying at least five bases to balance the odds, so upfront spend is real
- Preserved Cranium desecration is pricey (~1.6 divines each at recording)
- Prices on bases tend to spike right after a popular guide releases
- Pure RNG craft — a bad run can eat your investment before you hit a good mod
Key Skills
- Buying the right base — Time-Lost Sapphire, no fractured/corrupted/desecrated, filtered to large radius
- Desecration — Preserved Cranium (or Omen of Dextral Necromancy on four-mod jewels) to reach large radius + two random + one desecrated
- Fracturing Orb — locks the large radius (≈1-in-3 with the desecration present)
- Annulment + Chaos spam — strips to one bad mod, then rerolls toward crit chance, crit damage, or effect on small passives/notables
- Divine Orbs (bonus) — nudge the numeric value of a good roll higher
Gear & Anointments
The “gear” here is currency: Time-Lost Sapphire bases (≈25–40 exalted each at recording, ~half a divine for five), Preserved Cranium for desecration, Fracturing Orbs for the radius lock, Annulment and Chaos Orbs for the finishing rolls, and optional Divine Orbs to perfect values. The big-four target mods are critical hit chance, critical damage bonus, effect on small passives, and effect on notables.
Credits & Source
Method credited to Scorpius. See the source video for the full step-by-step craft with live price checks and footage: PoE2 Time-Lost Jewels — Complete Crafting Breakdown.