The Super Basic Crafting Info

[phillymiket]

Ok thanks +1 for the info.

I'm glad I've been collecting collectibles for a year and a half without turning them in.

How do you rise in level as a crafter?

[Khurse]

Ok thanks +1 for the info.

I'm glad I've been collecting collectibles for a year and a half without turning them in.

How do you rise in level as a crafter?

By crafting

Every recipe gives a base amount of XP, everytime you do that recipe you gain X amount of XP.
I don't know the particulars (how much a fail is if any,vs a success) but can say that recipes several levels above you don't give you XP. So you'll have to start with level appropriate ones before moving onto the betetr recipes.

[cdbd3rd]

What do you bet that the DDO store will start selling the basic collectibles that are used in crafting within 1 year?

I really hope not. It's one of the best ways for lowbies to get plat.

(Not to mention that mule I've been stacking collectables on for 5 years would get neutered.)

[phillymiket]

By crafting

Every recipe gives a base amount of XP, everytime you do that recipe you gain X amount of XP.
I don't know the particulars (how much a fail is if any,vs a success) but can say that recipes several levels above you don't give you XP. So you'll have to start with level appropriate ones before moving onto the betetr recipes.

Ah ok so you could just craft some junk with materials you have an excess of using random junk you would vender anyway and raise your skills to be able to craft useful items.

Probably silly questions but...

Are any classes better able to craft?
Does any skill (UMD maybe) or stat (INT or CHA maybe) give a bonus?
Does crafting level have any form of decay from inactivity in that field?
Are the crafted items the same in all regards to random loot besides being bound? (can you add force or adamentine rituals to the items?)

Sorry for the barrage of questions but I'm really looking forward to this.

As much as BTC stinks (BTA would be much better if you could craft as such at higher levels) it would have some positives such as an item not taking permanent damage and the economy not suffering from a flood of crafted items on the AH.

[Khurse]

PICS!
This shows the ingredients you buy to strip items. One to create a craftable item,one for enhancement bonus,one for suffix effects,one for prefix effects.


This shows the available options when you put an item (+5 Vicious of GEOB wraps) into the system



This shows the available shards to craft (There are greater banes- don't know how I missed them before, no GEOB though) There are dozens if not hundreds of shards. I'm not screens
hotting them all sorry.


This shows the last stage. Combine your shard with a an item. Again hundreds of combinations. Not taking pics of them all.


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[Ravoc-DDO]

Got some questions about this:
- Can you go beyond normal max item levels? For instance, can you make +5 metalline handwraps of stunning +10?
- Does the look of the weapon remain preserved, or does that change as well?
- Does this mean you can put stunning on slashers?
- Can you put weapon effects on armors, much like the marilith chain?

[Altkey]

"Is the stripping of metalline bugged such that the metallic DR-bypassing properties remain on the weapon?"

They weapon is destroyed upon stripping it so there is nothing that remains at all.

[Draccus]

Interesting. So you don't strip off a specific effect and re-apply it to a new weapon. You strip off base components and use those to add any effect you want.

I was thinking I needed to save all my junky items with good suffixes (like a +1 Kama of Evil Outsider Bane) so I could strip the EOB off and add it to a good weapon. But I could technically make a +4 Holy Silver Rapier of EOB from a bunch of Tendon Slice weapons.

Seems far too easy to me...not surprised.

[ArkoHighStar]

Interesting. So you don't strip off a specific effect and re-apply it to a new weapon. You strip off base components and use those to add any effect you want.

I was thinking I needed to save all my junky items with good suffixes (like a +1 Kama of Evil Outsider Bane) so I could strip the EOB off and add it to a good weapon. But I could technically make a +4 Holy Silver Rapier of EOB from a bunch of Tendon Slice weapons.

Seems far too easy to me...not surprised.

not necessarily as it appears the items gained from deconstruction vary based on what the prefix/suffix is. So you would want to know what items you need say for holy and then what prefixes grant those items upon deconstruction

[Teufel_Hunden]

Not sure if this has been asked in another thread but:

Armor. Is there any way to use my Drow Hunter Armor and put something on it. Use it as a blank or whatever and it keeps the look?

My Drow Rng/Rog looks boss in it, and even though he's 17, he's still wearing it (haven't got DT yet). Looks do matter to some...

[Khurse]

not necessarily as it appears the items gained from deconstruction vary based on what the prefix/suffix is. So you would want to know what items you need say for holy and then what prefixes grant those items upon deconstruction

Yes. I haven't spent a ton of time researching this, but it seems stuff like pure good/holy/righteous all give varying amounts of "good beams" (I think holy gives the most) I don't think it matters if it's +1 holy or +5 holy. (I assume holyburst gives more)
For example, if You had a +5 Holy Silver khopesh of pure good. You could do ONE of
A) Strip it for a craftable silver khopesh.
B) Strip it for it's +5 enhancement.
C) Strip the holy for "goodbeams"
D) Strip the pure good for "goodbeams"

From what I've seen, Holy gives more "goodbeams" than "pure good" so you'd choose to strip the prefix.
Keeping in mind,whatever option you choose, that's ALL you get.

[Khurse]

Not sure if this has been asked in another thread but:

Armor. Is there any way to use my Drow Hunter Armor and put something on it. Use it as a blank or whatever and it keeps the look?

My Drow Rng/Rog looks boss in it, and even though he's 17, he's still wearing it (haven't got DT yet). Looks do matter to some...

You can not break down or craft on Named items.
If you can find a non named set of armour that looks the same, you will keep the look.
(Weapons look teh same, I haven't tried armour but am assuming they keep the same graphic as well)

[Teufel_Hunden]

You can not break down or craft on Named items.
If you can find a non named set of armour that looks the same, you will keep the look.
(Weapons look teh same, I haven't tried armour but am assuming they keep the same graphic as well)

Bummer. Thanks for answering. I haven't found a purple set like the DHA, only a brown set of the same skin. Pass. But good intel nonetheless

[Ganolyn]

So unless you want a specific metal type on the blank there is no reason to use anything other than a cheap masterwork weapon to craft on? Also, can you put things on items that normally don't come with them like Superior Potency on a cloak or Featherfall on a helmet etc....

[Khurse]

So unless you want a specific metal type on the blank there is no reason to use anything other than a cheap masterwork weapon to craft on? Also, can you put things on items that normally don't come with them like Superior Potency on a cloak or Featherfall on a helmet etc....

Don't know about item properties.
I don't know if masterwork weapons work for crafting, but -if all you're after is a craftable item, a plain +1 Khopesh gives you the same base item as a +5 Holyburst of Greater bane.
Both will be a generic craftable khopesh.

[GeneralDiomedes]

Really glad I have been saving all my collectibles.

[Draccus]

I'll confirm that the metalline property does NOT remain on an item when it's deconstruction. I threw a Metalline Quarterstaff in the deconstruction device and it came out as a plain quarterstaff.

I wish I had some silver weapons to test it on but I didn't transfer any over and the AH is empty. Also, throwing weapons cannot be deconstructed at all.

[IronClan]

Lame, exactly what is turbine worried about with throwing weapons... I swear someone at Turbine had a childhood incident where his sibling or someone stuck a Shuriken in his noggin, and ever since then he gets an irrational hatred of all things throwable...

<pictures scene in Kung Fu Panda when he chucks the Shuriken 3 times before he gets it to stick in the wood>

[AcesWylde]

I wonder if you striped a weapon with a specific race requirement, if the base would keep that race requirement resulting in a lower ML than whatever you put on it?

[Aerendil]

Is it possible to use a greensteel weapon "blank" as a possible blank weapon (for a higher base damage weapon), or must it be a randomly-generated item you strip?