Dragon Crafter 4: Advanced Techniques

Quest type:	Crafting
From NPC(s):	Kerian the Wise
Required race(s):	Dragon
Required crafting school:	Dragon Crafter (level: 6)
Locations:	New Trismus
Previous quest(s):	Dragon Crafter 2: Learning the Ropes
Next quest(s):	Dragon Crafter 4: Magical Mayhem
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Item(s) required to start, progress or finish the quest:
Loricatus Beetle Carapace

With the knowledge of socketing fresh in your mind, Kerian is sending you out to craft scales techniqued with statistics and skills.

Quest text

Now, let's get you introduced to skill and attribute techniques. You see, scales all give attributes or defense. Strength scales make you stronger and help your claw swipes cut more cleanly. Power helps your spells do more lasting damage on impact. The defensive ones - armor and health - are more self-explanatory, but all of these things have one thing in common: they cannot be techniqued with the power they already hold.

You see, little one, every scale gives a boon to one of your attributes. Techniques can only exist where a boon already does not - there is only so much power that can be bound to a singular scale! So you cannot technique a strength scale with strength or a power scale with power, but you can technique a strength scale with power and a power scale with strength. I hope that makes sense to you.

Likewise, a scale can only hold so many techniques. In the first tier of sandstone, slate, bronze, and iron, a scale can only hold one. As the materials grow stronger, so does their magical affinity, and thus their ability to hold more and more techniques. The strongest of materials we can craft and technique - the fifth tier of marble and mithril - can hold three strong techniques! That is far off, however, and you are only focusing on the first tier.

Now, I want you to try this knowledge out in practice. Go craft me one Bronze-Sandstone Armor Chest Scale. I want you to technique it with dragon breath. Take the formula and technique and go. Techniques require you to use something more than a resource pulled from the ground - they require pieces of living beings to donate their magic. For weaker techniques, only one piece of one creature is used. In this case, that is a carapace of a Loricatus Beetle. In the future, you'll need to hunt more pieces of more creatures per technique, but for now, focus on this simple one.

You have received 1 Formula: Beginner Armor Chest Scale.

You have received 1 Technique: Adventure: Dragon Breath I.

Well done! Return to Kerian to show off your new scale!

Gained Dragon Crafter experience: 1050 ( Quest Reward )

You have received 500 copper.

Let me examine that scale. Hmm... rough around the edges, still. You need to polish down the edges more so the scales don't grind into your own! It looks good overall, though. I could make an assistant of you yet. Keep that scale for your own use; maybe wearing it will help you learn how to refine scales better in the future.

Steps

• Listen to Kerian
• Kill enough Loricatus Beetles to loot one (1) Loricatus Carapace. The Loricatus Beetles roam the beaches next to the Dim Wisps you gathered from earlier.
• Craft a Bronze-Sandstone Armor Chest Scale techniqued with Dragon Breath.
• Return to Kerian with the one crafted Bronze-Sandstone Armor Chest Scale techniqued with Dragon Breath.

Rewards

• Reward: Beginner Armor Chest Scale

• Craft Experience: 1050
• Money: 500c
• Reward: Adventure: Dragon Breath I