Crafting/Training

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This article is about training the Crafting skill. For the skill itself, see Crafting.

Acquiring Materials

Although it is possible to receive   Leather and   Dragonhides from fighting various Monsters, it is much faster to buy them from the   Shop.   Leather can be purchased directly from the   Shop for 100  per piece, and   Dragonhides can be purchased for an amount of GP and   Leather depending on the tier. This guide will assume you are purchasing all materials from the store as gathering them via combat will take substantially longer than it would to make the money through other means.

Note that the amount of dragonhides required can be reduced by using the   Monkey &   Pig synergy, or alternatively the   Monkey &   Crow synergy grants +20% chance to double any leather or dragonhide items produced. Both of these synergies effectively increase the profitability of the outlined levelling strategy.

Fastest Experience

Levels 1-20/60: Leather Armour

From   Level 1 to 60, players should make the highest-level   Leather item available. Jewellery materials cannot be feasibly acquired in large enough quantities to offer a real alternative, although players who already have   Gold Bars and gems on hand may choose to mix them in to speed things up slightly. Once you reach   Level 18, you should craft   Leather Chaps all the way until   Level 57. This is the most efficient craft per   Leather. If you have an abundance of GP or   Leather, then just continue making the highest level item until   Level 60.

  Level Item XP Ingredients
1-7   Leather Gloves 13 50  
7-9   Leather Boots 16 20  
9-11   Leather Cowl 18 22  
11-14   Leather Vambraces 22 35  
14-18   Leather Body 25 57  
18-28   Leather Chaps 27 271  
28-33   Hard Leather Boots 32 696  
33-39   Hard Leather Cowl 36 1,284  
39-44   Hard Leather Vambraces 44 1,503  
44-50   Hard Leather Body 50 2,742  
50-60   Hard Leather Chaps 54 9,579  
Total 16,259  

Levels 20-63: Gold Necklaces

From   Level 20 to 63, the fastest experience comes from crafting gold jewellery. Note that gold rings and necklaces provide the same experience rate for a given tier, but gold necklaces will sell for slightly more.

  Level Item XP Ingredients
20-25   Gold Sapphire Necklace 45 75  , 75  
25-50   Gold Ruby Necklace 60 1,159  , 1,159  
50-63   Gold Emerald Necklace 130 2,056  , 2,056  

Levels 60/63-99: D-hide Bodies

From   Level 63 to   Level 71, items made out of   Green Dragonhide are the most efficient XP/level. Since   Green Dragonhide can effectively be purchased from the   Shop for 200  per piece and items made from   Green Dragonhide sell for an amount equal to 200  per piece of dragonhide required, making   Green Dragonhide items is cost neutral as a baseline and will actually turn a small profit thanks to materials saved by the   Mastery effect.

After reaching   Level 71, players will be able to craft   Blue D-hide bodies. While the cost of hides required for each body is greater than the sale price of the body its self, break-even may still be achieved through the use of resource preservation and item doubling bonuses. Assuming no chance to double applies, the break-even point may be reached with a preservation bonus of at least 15% - this can be achieved with a combination of item mastery bonuses (+0.2% per level) and other global Skill Boosts. Taking advantage of Crafting specific and global doubling bonuses will lower the amount of preservation required to reach the break-even point.

From   Level 77 onwards, the player can create   Red D-hide Bodies for a higher XP rate than the previous bodies provide. These bodies require a preservation bonus of at least 28% to avoid making a loss (assuming no chance to double applies). The exact minimal preservation bonus (in percent), taking into account doubling ([math]\displaystyle{ D }[/math] in percent), can be expressed as [math]\displaystyle{ \frac{300 - 8D}{11} }[/math].

  Black Dragonhide cannot be bought at the store and is difficult to obtain in sufficient quantities for training Crafting, which is why   Red D-hide Bodies are preferable all the way to 99.

  Level Item XP Ingredients
60-63   Green D-hide Chaps 99 1,918  
  Green D-hide Shield
63-71   Green D-hide Body 148 9,038  
71-77   Blue D-hide Body 168 11,806  
77-99   Red D-hide Body 187 185,439  

Levels 100-120: Hardwood Armour

  Level Item XP Ingredients
100-102     Elderwood Vambraces 1,700 185,500  
102-104     Elderwood Chaps 3,400 141,375  
    Elderwood Shield
104-110     Elderwood Body 5100 510,450  
110-120     Revenant Body 5460 1,800,450  

Other Methods

Levels 80-84: Gold Diamond Necklaces

Crafting   Gold Diamond Necklaces provides the fastest experience from   Level 80 to 84. This is an extremely expensive method, and   Diamonds should generally be saved for other craftable items such as   Diamond Luck Potions.

  Level Item XP Ingredients
80-84   Gold Diamond Necklace 250 3,862  , 3,862  

Levels 84-99: Black D-hide Bodies

From   Level 84 to 99, the player can return to crafting Dragonhide Bodies. The   Black D-hide Body provides the fastest experience rate up to   Level 99, but   Black Dragonhide cannot be purchased from the   Shop. For this reason, this method is only efficient if the player has previously farmed   Black Dragons.

  Level Item XP Ingredients
84-99   Black D-hide Body 258 117,246  

Levels 99-120: Red D-hide Bodies

At the standard action time of 3 seconds, this would take 16d:22h:35m:24s. Total cost for   Red Dragonhide is 2,927,448   Leather and 512,303,400 . If you buy the   Leather from the   Shop as well, then it would cost 805,048,200  in total.

  Level Item XP Ingredients
99-120   Red D-hide Body 187 1,463,724  

Levels 100-120: Superior Jewellery

  Level Item XP Ingredients
100-102     Iridium Onyx Necklace 326 48,345  , 9,669  
102-105     Iridium Oricha Necklace 380 79,845  , 15,969  
105-108     Iridium Cerulean Necklace 449 90,945  , 18,189  
108-115     Iridium Runestone Necklace 506 314,010  , 62,802  
115-120     Palladium Runestone Necklace 547 372,195  , 74,439  

Boosters

XP

The following things can be used to increase the amount of Crafting XP received.

Action Time

The following things can be used to reduce the amount of time per action in Crafting.


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