Dragon Crafting

How do I use crafting abilities?

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?

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

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

Quests

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.

• List of Dragon Crafting Quests

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

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

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

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

Dragon (Lair) bonuses 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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