AOC General Crafting Guide
DateTime:9/27/2009 11:20:23 AM

Tips and tricks are those nifty little things that take just "getting something done" and turns it into getting it done quickly and efficiently.  None of us want to spend countless hours trying to craft through a tier or days hunting for the right materials ,so we are going to share with you some of the tricks of the trade in AOC that will make life so much easier. Since the reduction of materials needed to craft in Alchemy, it hasn't been nearly as difficult to find what you need but it still can be a challenge.  Your best bet to gather most items is to kill human mages and healers, who can be found usually in enemy camps within the tier you need.  These guys drop a decent amount of caches that can be used from your inventory providing a plethora of much needed items including the occasional rare items.

The sheer volume of craftable items here is staggering.  The best thing you can do for yourself is to train in mining, prospecting, stonecutting, and weaving and progress these as soon as possible.  Once you have the ability to gather whatever you could possibly need, crafting will be a breeze.  The biggest problem you might run into is the gathering of silks and leathers.  The silks drop from humans and the leather obviously drops from animals, both can be elusive! Rough leather will drop off of "prey" animals.  This was the biggest help in the early days of crafting armor!  Prey runs away if you get too close so you will need ranged combat of any kind to kill these guys but they are very weak and drop in one hit for most players. Gemcutting will be undergoing changes soon, though we aren't sure what exactly this will mean yet.  Currently, crafting gems is largely a guessing game.  When you cut any one gem, you will randomly get any one of several effects on the finished gem.  This can be quite frustrating if you are trying to craft for a specific effect and only have a handful of preciously rare flawless gems.  Gems drop off of any level appropriate human, so farm as much as you can and whenever you can to keep a stockpile.