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Getting Started: Crafting

Introduction to Crafting:

 

 

Crafting Professions:

Weaponsmithing: Picking up this trade allows you to craft various types of weaponry, from swords to staffs, from daggers to crossbows. Everything needed to kill your opponents!

 

Armorsmithing: If you wish to go the completely opposite route from the weaponsmith, try picking up the armorsmithing craft that allows you to craft various types of armor pieces.

 

Alchemy: Do you enjoy mixing things into vials and seeing how the result affects people? Then you should try your luck at alchemy, allowing you to make various types of potions.

 

Architecture: City-building is an integral part of Age of Conan, and you will need someone skilled in the arts of architecture to draw up the plans needed for the different buildings. (key element to player cities)

 

Gemcutting: Monsters tend to drop rough gems that the gemcutter can turn into powerful enchantments, and these can be placed into other crafted items to make them more potent             

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Maximum professions: 1

Minimum level to begin training: 40

At 40 you need to seek out a trainer of your chosen profession who will set you on your way to proving your worthy.  (Or at the very least get you to do all his/her work for as long as you can take it)

To craft an item:

1. Open up your crafting book.

2. Select the recipe in your book you wish to make and click “create”.

3. If you have the available resources in your inventory, presto, your done.

Note: top tier items may require your guild to be in possession of certain structures within a guild city. For example, an alchemist workshop.

Advancement in Crafting proficiency:

Crafting progression is not done by repetitive crafting of items. Advancement is through completion of quests for your trainer.

Example:

As an example, when you first start out in the alchemy craft your trainer will teach you how to craft what we call crude remedies. One of the first quests requires you to make a set of crude remedies for your trainer, and in return he will show you how to make common remedies. Within the first tier, currently starting at level forty, you will learn how to make crude and common potions.

As you reach level fifty you will be eligible for tier two quests, rewarding you with refined potion recipes. It’s the same with resource gathering: the stonecutter will start gathering sandstone while he’s in tier one, but will quickly move up to adamant and basalt when he complete quests in higher tiers.

 

Resource Gathering:

Scrounging up resources is an integral part to all crafts. Without the proper metals it may be a bit difficult to make that “Crom’s 2-handed Destroyer Axe of Dandelions”. The good news is that each of the associated gathering professions can be learned and advanced and ultimately mastered.

Mining: This profession will allow you to gather resources such as copper, tin, iron and more.

                 -You can also find rare ones like aurichalcum and blue iron.

Prospecting: This profession will allow you to gather resources such as silver, electrum, gold and more.

-You can also find rare ones like illustrium and platinum.

Skinning: This profession will allow you to gather resources such as different types of leather.

-Rare ones like the grained leather and the whorled leather.

Stonecutting: This profession will allow you to gather resources such as sandstone, granite, basalt and more.

-You can also find rare ones like adamant and obsidian.

Weaving: This profession will allow you to gather resources such as cotton, wool, flax and more.

-You can also find rare ones like bloodflax and cottonwisp.

Woodcutting: This profession will allow you to gather resources such as ash, yew, oak and more.

-You can also find rare ones like soulwood and amberwood.

Notes:

· Alchemist and Gemcutters will get most of their items as drops.

· Only crafted items can be customized.

 

 

Making money:

Now your talking… All that hard work better pay off somehow.

                 Tradeposts are located in cities and player cities. These tradeposts provide a means of selling on a market similar to other games,  as well as a bank and email. Provided you make something desirable, you can earn a fair amount of coin. Just leave that rusty armor out in the alley though with the rest of the rubbish.