Dragon Crafting

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How do I use crafting abilities?[edit]

For a Dragon, crafting abilities work similar to adventure abilities. Once you have joined the Dragon Crafter school (from the Skalkaar training quests) you will receive the Tier I crafting abilities.

Every 20 levels of craft you receive the next tier of crafting abilities (20, 40, 60, 80, 100).

To use a craft ability you first need to drag it to a hotkey bar:

  • Open the Character window (the default shortcut is "c")
  • Click on the "Abilities" tab and select the "Craft" button
  • Find the desired crafting ability and drag it to a slot on the hotkey bar.

The above option works very well with the Gathering abilities like Quarrying, Mining and Essence Harvesting.

It is possible to use a different approach for the processing abilities like Smelting, Stoneworking, Gemworking, Essence Shaping.

  • Drag a formula you (plan to) use a lot to a hotkey bar.
  • Use the right mouse button on the hotkey and select "Edit Hotkey".
  • The Add Action Type must be changed from "Action" to "Use Ability".
  • The Action Details has a blue bar saying "Drag Ability Here", do so in a simular fashion you would normally drag the ability to the hotkey.
  • The Hotkey Actions tabel will now show 2 items.
  1. Open Window - ProductSelectionWindow
  1. Use Ability - "Ability Name"

If you follow the above correctly the requested formula dragged to the hotkey bar will open and at the same time activate the required ability.

The Example setup from 1 to 10

  1. Dragon Quarrying
  2. Dragon Mining
  3. Dragon Essence Harvesting
  4. Stone Brick formula + Dragon Stoneworking
  5. Metal Bar formula + Dragon Smelting
  6. Cut Gem formula + Dragon Gemworking
  7. Essence Orb formula + Dragon Essence Shaping
  8. Tainted Essence Orb formula + Dragon Essence Shaping
  9. Blank Spell Shard formula + Dragon Spellcraft
  10. Dragon Scalecraft


Now, just select the ability to use it. When a crafting ability is active, you'll see it in your effects window.

As you create items you will need to switch between different craft abilities depending on what you are making:

Ability Uses
Mining
  • Gathering metal ores
Quarrying
  • Gathering stone slabs, uncut gems, unfocused crystals and clay
Stoneworking
  • Crafting slabs into bricks
Smelting
  • Crafting ore into bars
Spellcraft
  • Crafting bricks into spell shards
  • Crafting spell shards into spells
Scalecraft
  • Crafting bars and bricks into scales
  • Crafting bars and gems into claws
Essence Harvesting
  • Gathering essence
Dragon Essence Shaping
  • Crafting orbs
Dragon Transmutation
  • Modifying a resource to one of the higher tier
Dragon Ingenuity
  • Crafting random items (i.e. Snowballs, Withered Bane)
  • Gathering confectioner resources (garnishes, fish)
  • Gathering animal hides
Dragon Gemworking
  • Crafting cut gems
Crystalshaping
  • Crafting focused crystals
Lairshaping
  • Crafting lairshaping resources
  • Applying lairshaping resources to lair rooms

Lairshaping and Crystalshaping are part of the Dragon Lairshaper school.

How do I increase my craft skills?[edit]

Craft skills are broken down into base skill and current skill:

Base Skill = A base skill is the skill that a player has before any techniques items, buffs, potions etc are applied. A base skill will not normally change unless a player has a death penalty or they have moved training points or they have gained a level.

Current Skill = A current skill is the base skill plus any current techniqued item bonuses, enhances, buffs, potions, consumable items, shop bonuses applied. Current skill can never be lower that a players base skill.


Trainer Locations[edit]

Name Coordinates Nearest Town
Artisan Jemenoth , Grand Master Dragon Crafter 42066 / 16630 Skalkaar
Queriatia 22439 / 29090 Dralk
Resiata 24020 / 21657 Chiconis (Map)

Quests[edit]

Every 10 levels there are crafting quests available for the majority of the crafting types, which give XP as a reward and a +10 bonus to the base skill. The crafting quests are available from the crafting trainers in both Dralk and Chiconis.

There are no crafting quests for Transmutation, Salvaging or Ingenuity.

For crystalshaping and lairshaping there are craft quests that alternate between the two that give a +10 bonus to each skill and XP.

There are 10 different quest sets; 4 are started in Chiconis, 5 are in Dralk, and 1 can be found in Tazoon. The Tazoon quests aren't technically skills, but they do depend on crafting level.

Skill Trainer Coordinates City
Dimensional Pocket Jynasix 23704/25090 Chiconis
Dragon Scalecraft Miemonus 22615/28987 Dralk
Essence Harvesting Caspuras 22361/28940 Dralk
Essence Shaping Zepartus 24047/21707 Chiconis
Gemworking Heraxius 22037/28910 Dralk
Mining Evenitas the Miner 22456/29079 Dralk
Quarrying Kreig 24254/21871 Chiconis
Smelting Althanas the Great 24175/21700 Chiconis
Spellcraft Juquenas the Spellcrafter 24269/22021 Chiconis
Stoneworking Saphias 22050/29050 Dralk

Abilities and spells[edit]

Another way to increase you current craft skill is to use buffs and enhances. A dragon can use Dragon's Gift, Ancestral Determination I and Drulkars Focus abilities as well as Promote Vitality I and True Grit I spells to get a craft skill boost. Please note that Dragon's Gift does not help any crafting skills.

Scales, stats, and other bonuses[edit]

Making a set of techniqued Dragon Scales or dragon claws can make crafting a significant amount easier with (relatively) little effort. A fully-teched set of Tier 5 scales can increase your crafting skill by well over 200.

Statistics also grant minor crafting bonuses. please read Category:Crafting Skill for details.

The final means of getting more crafting skill is to use tiered crafting machines. These grant additional crafting skill, depending on the level of the machine in use.

Machine bonuses[edit]

Machines on player owned plots/lairs give a bonus to related skills. The bonus is available for crafting purposes and is only shown in the creation window, not in the character skills window. If you are a few points less from being able to scribe a formula you can use the shops to scribe as long as you follow the simple rule of using the creation window.

Example: You want to scribe Expert Mining Pick (800 Metalworking) required. You are at 753 Metalworking. Simply act like your going to make an item that uses Metalworking, i.e. Journeyman Mining Pick, while standing next to an Expert Anvil. Be careful not to have a tool in your hand which may limit your skill. When the Creation Window opens, you will notice an increase in skills by below mentioned bonuses, boosting you to over 800 at this point. Leave the window opened, open your inventory and scribe the Expert Mining Pick formula.

Bipedal (Plot) bonuses[edit]

Machine type Skill bonus
Beginner +40
Journeyman +80
Expert +120

Dragon (Lair) bonuses[edit]

Machine type Skill bonus
Tier 1 +40
Tier 2 +60
Tier 3 +80
Tier 4 +100
Tier 5 +120
Tier 6 +140
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