Gear crafting in Archeage might be slightly confusing to someone whos new in the game. So today I will be explaining how the crafting system works and how to craft gear. Crafting gear is an important aspect of the game and while it might not seem to be super important at lower levels theres a reason why it is pretty important to start off while your lower level.
If you notice the screenshot above this is a screenshot of the tailoring window. As you can see I can craft Apprentices Ocean Shoes the very first level of crafting. The best way to describe how the crafting system works is to craft the higher level stuff you need the lower level items. Basically you start off with the Apprentices ocean shoes and from that you can craft the Craftsmans Ocean Shoes.
If you notice the next picture above you see some higher level gear I crafted. This one is the illustrious ocean sleaves and the quality is epic without having to reroll the item. Basically by chance when you are crafting items they can get improved qualities and the improved quality versions can carry over to the next upgrade. But Im sure you must be thinking this seems way to easy for a guide anyone can figure this stuff out without much assistance.
But there is a little catch from when you go from sealed illustrious to the next upgrade if you look at the screenshot above see the salvaged illustrious sash. Basically when you attempt to craft a sealed item you have a chance for the following:
Illustrious Ocean Sash Illustrious Meadow Sash Illustrious Stone Sash Illustrious Lake Sash
The only sash which can be upgraded to the next type would be the ocean sash the other three are just different stat variations of each sash. This means that if you dont manage to get the ocean sash you would be left either selling the other 3 types and trying to get lucky crafting it or the other option is breaking down the piece of gear and creating a salvaged sash. Remember three salvaged Illustrious sashs make one ocean sash which can be used for the upgrade.
And what makes it time consuming this continues on for the next type of gear which is Magnificant Ocean Sash. With each upgrade you will need to either get lucky and craft the ocean version of it or make three to salvage and have another chance to get lucky at an ocean it doesnt garrenty that you will get an ocean like illustrious. This makes the crafting system very time consuming. Especially since to make the higher tier gear you end up needing 50k points in tailoring.
The other problem currently at least ever since alphas been down is the low drop rate on archeum dust. Obtaining this dust is from dismantling gear. Unfortunately you cannot dismantle gear from dungeons. This only leaves quest gear which is a one time thing, the coin purses (very low drop if any), getting lucky with a treasure map, or the archeum trees which are a pain to grow and only give off 3 to 4 dust per harvest which means you will be hauling spring water back to the house every few hours only to get 3 to 4 dust.
Hopefully they plan some kind of fix cause currently this has not been resolved as of yet. But aside from that the crafting system does give better rewards then that of most mmorpg games. And all gear even after its been used and abused is still tradeable in archeage meaning that even after you slot gems in it you can choose to pass it down to someone or sell it.
Crafting gear will be much more important then it was in alpha as well considering that we will have no access to diamond shores which means no access to library or monsters over level 50 when the game is released. This will change everyones strategies slightly when it comes to gear. But I hope this guide will help provide some guidance to how gear works.
