Welcome you to our guide on mastering high level crafting in Path of Exile 3.23. This guide focuses on the intricate process of creating "Pain Bane", which is a legendary Synthesized Thicket Bow from choosing the right base item to manipulating implicit and explicit modifiers; offering insights and strategies for veteran players looking forward to expanding their crafting prowess to the edge.

• The Adventure Begins
• The Art of Crafting Implicits
• Rolling the Dice
• The Real Challenge Begins
• Crafting the Explicit Modifiers
• The Ashling Step
• The Final Touches

↖ The Adventure Begins

• Starting Point: Bought a three-implicit synthesized Thicket Bow for 160 divines. Great deal? Absolutely!
• Why Thicket Bow?: Lower attribute requirements, perfect for Blade Vortex characters. Only 179 Dexterity needed – easy with a little boost from gear like Head Hunter and Mageblood.

↖ The Art of Crafting Implicits

• Trade Tools: Bright Harbingers for rerolling implicits, and Cic Chimal to create item imprints (consider them as your crafting saving graces).
• The Procedure: Imprint your item with a Vivid Vulture, roll on it using some of the sweetest implicits you can ever think of, and then pray hard to the RNG gods. Our aim was to have a "Global Critical Strike Multiplier" or "Spell Double Damage".

↖ Rolling the Dice

• It Costs a Bomb: Any one of these rolls will make you part with around six divine.
• Stroke of Good Luck: Finally after many trials and errors with divine orbs, We achieved T1 Global Critical Strike Multiplier.

↖ The Real Challenge Begins

• Tempering Orbs: These dudes are rare and expensive but they are needed to put the "Can have one additional crafted modifier" enchantment.
• The Tedious Task: It took 700-800 orbs before we could win. Not for the faint-hearted!

↖ Crafting the Explicit Modifiers

• Essence Rolling: Start with Wo Essences for that so nice spell damage.
• Annulling the Unwanted: Crafted "Cannot roll Caster modifiers" to preserve our valuable spell damage then annul out all others.
• Exalting the Right Mods: It would be better if we choose "+1 to Socketed Gems" instead of "+1 Level of Socketed Gems" with "Cannot roll Attack modifiers".

↖ The Ashling Step

• A Game of Chance: Create "Prefixes cannot be changed" unveil "Critical Strike Multiplier while a rare or unique is nearby", then cross fingers.
• Blocking Unwanted Mods: PE PP can help block off most common unwanted mods thus increasing chances.

↖ The Final Touches

• Divining for Perfection: Set your mod's values at their maximum possible range.
• Crafting the Final Mods: We already have "+1 crafted modifier" enchantment so adding "Chance to deal double damage" and "+2 to Support Gems".

And so it is – the epic story of our crafting a "Pain Bane" synthesized Thicket Bow. More than 150 copies of these now exist in the game – a testament to the ability of persistence and thoughtfulness in crafting. It was an arduous journey that necessitated patience, strategic thinking, and some luck.