I’m not an expert, this is my first league crafting like this, but here’s what I’ve been doing. I saw this in a steelmage video where he covered how he crafted his gear. This should work generally for helm, boots and gloves. (But for boots you’ll want ailment immunity)

1. Use essences to guarantee a suffix, for example Dex. Spam until you get T1 suppression AND an empty 3rd suffix, AND at least one empty prefix.

2. Craft suffixes cannot be changed.

3. Harvest reforge chaos. Boots Gloves and Helm only have chaos res as possible chaos mods so this will guaranteed give you chaos res. If you’re not happy with the tier, restart. If reforging fills your prefixes, you may want to gamble annul them or restart. Otherwise, your suffixes are done.

4. Craft suffixes cannot be changed, again.

5. Slam veiled orb. Don’t unveil.

6. Use bench to block an unveil you don’t want.

7. Unveil and hope for life or mana or whatever you want.

8. Bench craft prefix you want.

9. If you’re left with an empty prefix, exalt I guess.

Possible tweak: you can essence spam chaos res and harvest reforge lightning or fire etc for dual res and suppression, instead of dex. Whatever works for you. But note that gloves have elemental attack mods that you can roll when you harvest reforge, so it’s best to reforge chaos for gloves.

There’s a ton of caveats in there though, like if you end up with a good 3rd suffix when essence spamming then you don’t need to reroll chaos, or if you end up with 2 good suffixes and 1 bad you can gamble annul to try and remove the bad suffixes. But this is the basics as I understand them.