Skills & Crafting

Skills

19

Combat masteries

11

Alchemy recipes

19

Ingredients used

39

across all recipes

Alchemy skill span

20–100

lowest → highest recipe

Skills

The data holds 6 further skill slots the game leaves unused (named ????). They are not listed because you cannot train them.

The skills worth going out of your way for

Most skills train themselves as you play. These five change what you can do:

• Enchanting — the gate on every enchant you will ever make. Your skill sets the highest stat tier you are allowed to apply: about one more tier for every six points of skill, up to tier 17 at 100%. It rises every time you disenchant or enchant something, so it trains itself — but until you train it, the panel refuses you. See Enchanting.
• Alchemy — double-click an Alchemy Bowl to brew from the recipe book below.
• Mining — equip a Pick Axe and strike an ore vein. What you dig up is smelted at the anvil into the bars and coal of Manufacturing, and it is also what Tom asks for at his forge. Veins and what each one gives are further down.
• Fishing — buy a Fishing Rod and the Fishing Manual at the General Shop, double-click the rod and click the water. The more dangerous the map, the better the catch: see Fishing.
• Farming — plant seeds on farmland and work them with a Hoe: three harvests per seed, for food, Alchemy and gold. See Farming.

How skills grow

Every successful use adds progress. Up to 50%, each point costs 4 successful uses; above 50%, each point costs as many uses as the percent you are reaching — 51 uses for 51%, 100 for the last one. That is 200 uses to reach 50% and 3,975 to go from 0 to 100%.

Most skills also stop at a cap set by one of your stats, and never train past it: Fishing and most weapon skills at twice your DEX, Farming and Alchemy at twice your INT, Mining at twice your STR, Magic at twice your MAG. The bonus STR and MAG from the Merien talent count toward the cap; angels give no attributes, so they do not move it.

Skill manuals

Marigold at the General Shop sells a manual for 14 skills, and Tom at the Blacksmith sells 2 more. Reading one raises that skill straight to the level it teaches — 20% for all of them. A manual never lowers a skill, and it is not used up if your skill is already there.

Magic Resist Manual · 500 goldPretend Corpse Manual · 100 goldAlchemy Manual · 100 goldFishing Manual · 100 goldFarming Manual · 100 goldHand Attack Manual · 100 goldShort Sword Manual · 100 goldLong Sword Manual · 100 goldFencing Manual · 100 goldAxe Manual · 100 goldHammer Attack Manual · 100 goldBow & Arrow Manual · 100 goldShield Manual · 100 goldStaff Attack Manual · 100 goldMining Manual · 100 goldManufacturing Manual · 100 gold

Alchemy — the recipe book

All 19 recipes, ordered by the Alchemy they require. Brew by double-clicking an Alchemy Bowl with the ingredients in your bag.

The crafting panels show the whole recipe book. Recipes you cannot make yet appear greyed out, with the skill they ask for next to the skill you have, so you always know what you are training towards. Click the craft button several times and the crafts queue up, to 999 — or press Craft All to queue everything your materials allow in one go. The button shows how many are left, Craft All turns into Stop while the queue runs, and the queue also stops when you run out of materials, pick another recipe or close the panel.

Mining

Equip a Pick Axe and strike an ore vein. Each swing finds something with a chance equal to your Mining minus the vein's difficulty — never less than 1% — and the find drops at your feet, or goes straight into your bag if you tick Minerals in the Hunting panel. Every find also gives experience: 1500 from a vein of levels 1 to 4 and 3000 from one of levels 5 and 6. A vein gives out after a set number of finds, and new veins keep appearing on the map. With Mining at 0% you cannot mine at all.

Veins come in six levels. A map spawns veins of every level up to its own, so a level-6 map has all six. Levels 5 and 6 look different from the rest and are the only ones that give gems and Crystal; Gold Nugget and Mithral only come out of level-4 veins.

Manufacturing

Manufacturing turns bars and coal into weapons and armour at the Smiths Anvil: keep one in your bag and double-click it to open the recipe panel. Without it you cannot make anything. Tom sells it at the Blacksmith, under Miscellaneous, for 1,500 gold.

Tom also sells the Manufacturing Manual: it raises your Manufacturing to 20%, and the first recipes open at 20%.

Smelting bars and coal

Everything starts by smelting raw ore into bars and coal. Their purity comes from your Manufacturing, not from the ore: each one lands somewhere between half your skill and your full skill — at 80%, between 40 and 80. And purity is what decides how good anything you make with them comes out.

Purity bands: how bars stack

Bars and coal you make only stack with others in the same band of 10: 0–9, 10–19 and so on up to 90–99, with 100 on its own. When two piles of the same band merge, the pile takes their average purity, weighted by count, so a 90 is never silently swallowed by a pile of 20. Splitting a pile keeps its purity, and a bar made at an anvil never stacks with one that was not.

Choosing which pile goes in

In the anvil panel, every bar and coal in the recipe shows the purity of the pile that will be used — your best pile by default. Click the ingredient to cycle through your other piles. Below the list, Est. completion N% is exactly what will come out: it is the same number the server uses. For bars and coal the panel shows Est. purity N% instead, the middle of the roll described above.

Completion: how good it comes out

Every weapon or armour you make carries a Completion between 0% and 200%, shown when you hover over it. It comes from the average purity of the bars and coal in the recipe, weighted by how much each one matters — raw ore, leather and monster parts do not count. That average is measured against the recipe's difficulty: matching it gives 100%, a perfect 100 purity gives 200%, and falling short slides toward 0%.

At or above the difficulty, Completion climbs evenly from 100% to 200% as the purity goes from the recipe's difficulty up to a perfect 100: halfway between the two gives 150%. Below the difficulty, Completion falls in step with the purity: half the difficulty gives 50%.

Purity above your own Manufacturing counts half. Good bars from a friend still help, but in the hands of a smith at 60%, a 100-purity bar works as an 80.

Completion also sets durability, in the same proportion: at 50% the item has half its base durability and at 200% double — never below 1 and never above double.

What Completion does

• Weapons get flat damage, on the same scale as Tom's Masterwork and Perfect weapons: +1 at 133% Completion, +2 at 166% and +3 at 200%.
• Above 100%, a weapon also raises the lowest damage a hit can roll — up to +5 at 200% — and adds accuracy to your Super Attacks. Below 100% it works the other way round: the highest damage a hit can roll drops by up to 5, and your Super Attacks lose accuracy.
• Armour gets Defense Ratio: a manufactured piece adds up to half its own Defense Ratio at 200% Completion, and loses it the same way below 100%. Physical Absorption is not affected: a 200% piece absorbs exactly as much as a normal one.
• Tom will not take it. Tom's Forge does not accept manufactured weapons or armour, neither to raise their quality nor to forge a property onto them: their quality already comes from the anvil.

Selling what you make

A shop pays for a manufactured weapon or armour what it would pay for its materials, times its Completion — or its usual price, if that is higher. Above 100% your bars turn a profit; below 100% you lose some. The Blacksmith still sells many of these items for less than their materials cost, and that is intended: the shop copy is plain, and yours is only worth more when it comes out well.

Anvil recipes

All 89 weapon and armour recipes, ordered by the Manufacturing they require. Materials highlighted in gold count toward Completion; the rest are used up but do not affect quality. The men's (M) and women's (W) version of a piece share an identical recipe, so Hauberk (W) comes out exactly as good as Hauberk (M).

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