Here's what I understand from current threads so far.  A new Crafting discussion forum is available at
http://forums.ddo.com/forumdisplay.php?f=238

Step 1: the prefix, the enhancement + or the suffix off of a weapon or item to get crafting materials.  You get "good beams" from Holy, Holy Burst, Pure Good or Righteousness, for example.
Step 2: turn any weapon that you have into a craftable blank.  The enhancement +, the prefix and the suffix go away, but the weapon or armor's look stay and any metal type stays.  I don't yet know if guild slots or race restriction stays on the weapon if you do this.
Step 3: use your "good beams" ingredients and "water beams" and whatever along with your new craftable blank to make a new weapon using the Cove-style barter window that lists recipies for you.  There are approximately 17.3 bajillion possible recipes.

Yes, that does mean you can craft a +5 Holy Burst Silver Khopesh of Greater Lawful Outsider Bane.  MinII is now dead.

Soul wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2011 at 12:26pm:



Some of us around here think you are so full of shit in terms of your gaming, what the fuck kind of gear do you even have dude.

Sorry about your jealousy problems though. I'm sure with enough time we can iron that out.

popejubal wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2011 at 2:38pm:


Haha, that made me lol irl. I think what I was trying to say was that it's a waste of larges to make minII's anyway. People are usually willing to part with MoPG for a large of two. I think I've spent 5 scales between the two khopeshes rather than 10~ of each large.

popejubal wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2011 at 2:38pm:


Do not attempt to censor the bitching.

popejubal wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2011 at 12:05pm:



Pope, I was just on there and it seems there are Crafting Items that can only be gotten via questing in chests and end-rewards, yes?

Hordo wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2011 at 5:19pm:



I think that the most important things to know are
-that final assembly of an item is easy once you have the components manufactured.  You will be able to make one Hagglebard/mule/crafting peon that can pass BTA ingredients to another character with low crafting skill who will still be able to craft the final BtC item.
-that you can buy pretty much everything that you want for crafting in the DDO store on Llamaland, so ZOMGDOOMWTFBBQ!!!1! tehy r selling raid level gear in teh store!  I'm actually really unhappy about this too even though I have some minor hope that this part won't make it through to Live.
-that you can make some really outstanding gear, but that many raid items have so many effects packed into one slot that you'll probably make more twink items than level 20 godkilling weapons.

popejubal wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2011 at 6:10pm:



when they sell completionist on the store i will be the first one to buy it just to mock all the OCD players grinding 4+ year old content ad nauseum.

edit: I checked out the URL to your character and all I found was an old ass wf fvs with  0 past lifes.

Alekx wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2011 at 10:13pm:



I don't want "good" gear kept out of the store because I want to keep new players from getting what I have.  I want "good" gear kept out of the store because I think it's really shitty to have people buy completions and buy XP and buy guild levels with cash when the whole point of the game is to do all that in the game.

I'm very happy with the gear that I have so far since I know that it's either placeholder gear or "good enough" and I'm slowly getting more gear by playing the game.  If I could buy all the stuff that I want directly from the DDO store, would I?  I really don't know.  I hope that I wouldn't, but I might end up impulse buying a pair of Holy Burst Silver Khopeshes of GLOB and I'm pretty sure that I'd be unhappy about that decision in hindsight.

I'm perfectly okay with people getting Cove epic gear since they played the game to get it.  I just don't like the idea of giving Turbine $$$ to get gear (just like I don't like the idea of a DM's girlfriend getting extra HP or a shiny sword just because the DM hopes for a bj later that night).

Anslet wrote on Apr 3^rd, 2011 at 5:36am:


wait...what you craft is gonna be BTC after crafting it?

Theres a quote from Eladrin out there. It says that you will be able to craft unbound Shards later on, which would require a higher crafting skill than bound ones though.
Since combining a Shard with an item is always 100%, you can trade the unbound Shards with non-crafters or switch it around between toons.


On another note: if you get a blank from a BtA item, it stays BtA after crafting whatever on it.
If I remember right WW had BtA rings, bracers,... sometimes even Silver Weaponary in it's reward list...

From experience on Llama land.

Made +2 enhancement shard, holy shard, life stealing shard and rapier blank on my sorc.

Put them in the shared bank so my rogue could get them out (he had not even stepped into the crafting area at this point) Was able to make a +2 Holy Rapier of Life Stealing without any points at all in any craft skills, it actually increased my crafting level on my rogue from the small amount of xp you get adding shards to the item.

For some reason, if you put a shard in a BTC bag and take it out, sometimes it ends up bound to character, if you put it back in the BTC bag and take it out again it reverts back to BTA. I think this is related to the other bug where you can put BTC items (like shroud pie pieces) into a bag with other BTA items and it changes the pie pieces to BTA. Shards are meant to be BTA though.

Auran wrote on Apr 3^rd, 2011 at 10:50am:


Do the crafted items become bound?