Updated Cannith Crafting Guide

[scout1822]

Like the new crafting. Suggest allowing us to break down old shards by putting the old machine right in the middle where the other object is now. I have a lot of old shards and need to break them down. Was not following the threads close enough to realize I needed to break them down before the update. Should not be hard to simply drop the old machine in place of the non useful device currently in the middle ends of the crafting hall. Thanks.

[koluka]

Yes, Eberron-specific collectibles will only appear in Eberron, regardless of other considerations.

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I was hoping someone else would ask. But I guess I will just have to show my ignorance.

How do I know which collectables are eberron-specific? Soarwood is one....

[Zillee]

Disappointed that flexible shards are no longer possible. I was happy to jump through the hoops and time sink of the old crafting system in return for having the reward of creating flexible shards. Now, I'm not seeing anything in the 'improved' system that makes the game time previous spent in raising my crafting levels worth it.

Don't understand why collectibles are being used to the extent they are now in crafting shards. Actually kinda annoyed that I'll have to start farming for collectibles, or trading or whatever.

Only plus seems to be more room in ingredients bags. I must not be seeing the big picture.

[dasong]

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[Nico42]

I have a lot of old shards and need to break them down.

I have a couple of old Shards that I wouldn't mind cashing in as well.

I also enjoyed using Cubicle Ninja's planner "http://cannith.cubicleninja.com/" Hoping something like that comes out again ... for now though I guess we have to use the Wiki

I'm a bit peeved at the moment re new crafting. Spent time and effort getting a toon up to Cannith Craft, and then enjoyed the fact that as I TR'd my other toons my crafting toon I could churn out kit to use up to about L15 this worked quite well. The new crafting though is annoying as crafting seems to be a lot more expensive (albeit simpler)

Example: +2 Con Belt ML2
old 03 Greater Body Essence
12 Lesser Body Essence
04 Khyber
03 Sweet Whitecap
With a Masterful Craftmanship shard ... ML1
New 100 +20 Cannith Essences for
05 Glass Phials
15 Runic Parchments

The ML effects were better, Essence & Ingredients cost was a lot less. My final verdict will be dependent on drop rates of ingredients but given that to date I have a lot more old than new crafting ingredients in my bag the drop rates in the past were definitely not favorable. My observation is that essences are dropping about the same rate ... but essence wise it's a lot more expensive to graft now. So Turbine "I'm NOT happy" and somewhat peeved at the moment

What would have been better as well, IMHO, is if when we crafted say a Constitution Shard that we could install it with a ML2 shard in a belt to get the +2 Con and then say at L4 we could install a ML4 shard to replace the ML2 and get the expanded benefit, without having to recraft the whole item each time.

[Krelar]

I have a couple of old Shards that I wouldn't mind cashing in as well.

I also enjoyed using Cubicle Ninja's planner "http://cannith.cubicleninja.com/" Hoping something like that comes out again ... for now though I guess we have to use the Wiki

We've had a great planner for the new cannith crafting awhile now.

[Nico42]

We've had a great planner for the new cannith crafting awhile now.

Thanks for that ... looks schlick !!! The Farming guide is good to have too ... I've a sneaking suspicions I'll be doing a lot of farming (note to Turbine : Grrrrrrrrrrrrr !)

Am I reading things correct can you get 2 ability shards on a single Item?

[skorpeon]

Thanks for that ... looks schlick !!! The Farming guide is good to have too ... I've a sneaking suspicions I'll be doing a lot of farming (note to Turbine : Grrrrrrrrrrrrr !)

Am I reading things correct can you get 2 ability shards on a single Item?

Yes you can! and you can even add insightful to that if you can get access to vendor in Cannith (mark of Cannith).

watch out for your collectables as these become very valuable. Last might I crafted lvl 26 Con (+12) with false life (+44), I will add insightful con at a later date. (I need to run the vault of the artificer quests to get favor and unlock the vendor). I bought the pack last week with this in mind. I could have done Charisma also but I prefer to have my items consolidated as they can be used by other alts.

I believe you can also get enough favor from running the challenges (using the free daily tokens), I just went the easy option, or will use a combination.

[Ulfo]

We've had a great planner for the new cannith crafting awhile now.

And another great, if not best! 8)

[Ulfo]

Am I reading things correct can you get 2 ability shards on a single Item?

Up to 3 if count insightful. 8)

[Avenir]

Afraid to craft any weapons since I had a lvl 20 longbow with insightful deadly, keen, solar, and a red slot revert to a plain longbow with NOTHING.

[nayozz]

cost of collectibles is too high :/

[Nico42]

cost of collectibles is too high :/

Yep that's my read of it as well.

They did a lot of nice things in there :

• Simplified the process
• Made it easier to craft higher ML items

... and then they gimp'd the whole thing by making the materials too expensive to use.

I Used to be able to CC a TR'd toon to L16 and with the collectibles acquired in one life I'd have enough to do a new set in the next life. But now ... no way ... NOT HAPPY TURBINE.



IMHO they either need to drop the ingredient requirement right back or (and that would be my preference) ... or make it so that you can upgrade / downgrade the ML on an item without having to rebuild Prefix/Suffix shards. My preference would be the latter and if they wanted to I'd be happy to pay more essence (in a sliding scale) for the ML shards. Right now if I wanted to craft Con belts for my toon to L14, just the even numbered MLs of ML2, ML5,ML10, it would take 45 Runic Parchments and 15 Glass Phials (& 470 Cannith Essences) . Under the old system 3 Sweet Whitecap + 1 Powdered Blood + 2 Ruddy Fungus (& about 90 Greater Body). Which was a lot easier to farm

Another alternative would be the ability to extract all the shards off the item in a deconstruction, so that we could reuse the Suffix & Prefix shards

[Crawlstein2]

As far as I can see, even though the option to add Natural Armor or Protection shards occurs on the Creation machine, the Shard crafting machine doesn't have them. This is on the bound side. Is anyone else seeing them?

[xmojo1]

As far as I can see, even though the option to add Natural Armor or Protection shards occurs on the Creation machine, the Shard crafting machine doesn't have them. This is on the bound side. Is anyone else seeing them?

Only just come across this post as I've been wanting to craft gear with Natural Armor/Protection enchantments and couldn't figure out why these particular shards weren't appearing on the list for the shard devices. It's because in the device's Search box I had the Level range set below the levels for these two shards, so they wouldn't have shown up in the search list. As it is, the Natural Armor shard requires a Crafting level of 175 and for the Protection shard it's 225.

[Drakiz]

cost of collectibles is too high :/

Agreed,

I wonder, when they fix the quests, that gives you those special components to old Cannith, that used to work only in Crafting.

They are completly ditched in new cannith crafting, but you can still pick them as rewards.


Regards
Drakiz