Sunday, May 22, 2011

Crafting - The new way

Crafting has recently taken an incredible shift to allow you to "take" the benefits from one item and put them onto another. That's what they say anyway.
The truth?

When you deconstruct an item, you receive an element. Mind, evil, divine, fire or others. It may also give you a vial of red liquid that can be used to add bonuses to items later.

Next, after you have accumulated enough of these elements or essences, you then take them to the next altar to create a crystal. This crystal is then used to combine with the item of your choice to create the new magic item. WARNING!!! This is NOT a one to one trade.

This is a new skill set that you will have to learn, and each level adjusts the percent chance to succeed in creating the crystals.
Also, extracting the essences destroys the original item. Making an item craftable as well destroys all current enchantments.

So when reading the advertisement, just know that yes, you can create great low level items. BUT, this is a skill and you will eat through alot of money, time and items trying to level it up to a point that it is really useful.

Since there is a mailbox in the crafting area, if you are to attempt this, it is advisable to create a mule that will deconstruct items, create the crystals and send them to the final toon. The final crafting onto the item is always 100% success at this time.

The craftable items, deconstructed by you, can have both a prefix enchantment and suffix enchantment. Find a great conversation on it at http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=318331 . This will give you a way to find two enchantments that you can work for.

I hope this explains some of the fine print before you get started. Good Luck!!

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