Lineage II/Crafting

= Introduction to the Lineage 2 Crafting System =

Up to C3, only dwarves can craft (in C4 there is "Craft Common" for everyone, but thats for fishing). While Bounty Hunters gain only craft level 1 and are limited to rather useless nograde items as well as the 5 most basic material recipes, only the Warsmith really has full access to the craft system.

To be able to craft, one needs to have the corresponding recipe in the recipe book of the dwarf, as well as the necessary ingredients in the inventory.

Recipes
There are 4 kinds of recipes, materials and items, and the two special cases: shots and arrows.


 * Material recipes are the simplest form, they just transform a number of lesser materials into one higher material.
 * Item recipes are much more complicated. To create an item, you need the special key materials for that item, as well as a large number of normal materials, and crystals and gemstones of the corresponding grade.
 * Shot recipes require only crystals and the corresponding ore (soul or spirit) as input.
 * Arrow recipes are just like material recipes, only that the result isn't used for crafts.

Ingredients
These are the kinds of ingredients one needs to craft.


 * Crystals can be won by crystalizing items (weapons, armor, jewelry) of a certain grade; only Warsmiths can crystalize.
 * Key materials (key mats) are specific to a certain item and drop only at specific mobs, one has to collect enough of them before one can create a specific item.
 * Materials (mats) are general and drop at many places, but one needs usually a lot of them in any recipe.
 * Spirit Ore and Soul Ore are only needed for shots and can be bought at the shop.
 * Gemstones are only needed for items, are specific to a certain grade (there are however no no-grade gemstones) and can be bought at the shop.
 * Recipes themselves are ingredients beginning from b-grade upward.

Materials
One of the most important issues in crafting is getting the right ingredients, and materials are the largest part of them. If you do not have some material of a type, you might want to make them from some lower materials. For this you need the right material recipe. As there are 29 material recipes, and the recipe book has only a total of 50 entries, it is a good idea to let your Bounty Hunter handle the 5 material recipes of craft level 1, to get more space in the Warsmith recipe book.

In any case, it is generally much faster to get the higher material as a drop or spoil instead of collecting the lower materials and crafting them.

Too, do not transform any material into higher versions before you really need them, so you have the lower version if required.

The most sought after materials are usually Coarse Bone Powder, High Grade Suede, Crafted Leather, and Stones of Purity.

Items
Items are either weapons, armor, or jewelry. Weapons are much more expensive to craft than the rest, still getting the key materials and recipes for any item can be very time consuming.

Changes with C4
The material "Reinforced Metal Plate" has been renamed to "Durable Metal Plate".

Example Craft
Just as an illustration, imagine you would want to craft the Lance, the better one of the two b-grade polearms. First of all you browse www.lineage2.com for the recipe. There are two versions: one succeeds with 100% and the other succeeds with 60%. Lets assume you decide to take no risk and go for the 100% version.

First thing you have to make sure is if the warsmith in question already has learned the lance 100% recipe, and if he is planning to keep it for a while. This is actually not unlikely, as almost every warrior - except maybe archers - wants to have a polearm, so the lance 100% recipe is quite likely to be kept. Lets assume however that the warsmith does NOT have this recipe in his recipe book. That actually means you have to get the recipe TWICE - once for the warsmith to add it to his recipe book, and another one for the actual crafting.

Second thing you need are the key materials. As it is a top b-grade item, you need 13 of them. To find them, you have to check www.l2wh.com for their drops (or, often much better: spoils).

Then you look up the ingredients you need:


 * 4 Maestro Holder
 * 232 Mithril Alloy
 * 116 Synthetic Cokes
 * 58 High Grade Suede
 * 58 Enria
 * 291 Crystal: B Grade
 * 98 Gemstone B

Maestro Holder are craft only, therefore you have to provide the materials to craft them. Unfortunately they require Varnish of Purity, which are again craft only, so you have to provide the materials for those, too:


 * 4 Maestro Holder
 * 40 Varnish of Purity
 * 120 Coarse Bone Powder
 * 120 Varnish
 * 40 Stone of Purity
 * 40 Mold Lubricant
 * 40 Mold Hardener

If you do not have enough Coarse Bone Powder, you can provide Animal Bones; every Bounty Hunter can do this conversion so the Warsmith himself will very likely not have this recipe.

This game repeats with the following 3 entries Mithril Alloy, Synthetic Cokes and High Grade Suede. Finally, you need the required Enria drops as well as b-grade Crystals and Gemstone B. And finally, you have often to pay the warsmith.