Crafting

[edit] A DDO Crafting Primer

Crafting, introduced with Module 6, is a new way to create and upgrade items, using ingredients gathered in various quests and raids. As currently implemented in DDO, it is all about ingredients and recipes. For other than Cannith Crafting, there are no skills, feats, or level-ups required, just farming for ingredients and then putting them together through the upgrade process to make and upgrade items and weapons. It is basically a "get tokens and customize your reward" system.

Stone of Change Levels 1 -	Cannith Crafting Levels 1 -	Augment Slot Levels 1 -	Trapmaking Levels 4 -	Event Items Levels 1 -	Item Upgrading Levels 6 -

Green Steel Items Levels 11 -	Dragontouched Armor Levels 16 -	Incredible Potential Levels 18 -	Alchemical Crafting Levels 19 -	Epic Crafting Level 20 -

Stone of Change

This is the most basic level of crafting. There are currently three known possible locations for Stone of Change altars. The first is located in the Marketplace to the right of the entrance to the bank, the second is located in front of the tower in the Twelve, the third possible location for a Stone of Change altar is on the airships of guilds that have reached guild level or more typically at guild level through the acquisition of renown. The Stone of Change is used to upgrade existing items (non-"named", randomly-generated items). The Stone of Change is also used for binding the Guild Augment Crystals used in Guild Crafting (see below).

Some of the Stone of Change recipes allow you to do the following:

Combination of Khyber Dragonshards and Siberys Dragonshards to the next tier
Bind and Attune You can Attune an item at a Stone of Change.
Any equippable item can be placed into a Stone of Change with a number of Khyber Dragonshard Fragments to bind the item to the user and prepare it for the later addition of Eldritch Rituals. Binding and attuning an item requires (minimum level of item ^ 2) Khyber Dragonshard Fragments, so a minimum level 12 item would require 144 fragments.
An item that is bound never takes permanent item damage when repaired, but can no longer be traded.
Note that there is a bug for items without a minimum level which makes them require 400 fragments instead of 0.
your items, so that they no longer take permanent damage
Increase the durability and hardness of an item using Adamantine Rituals
Add minor bonuses to your item, by spending collectable items

These are simple upgrades. For the full recipes, see Stone of Change - Recipes.

Cannith Crafting

Crafting Hall in House Kundarak

Introduced in Update 9, this crafting system allows players to construct completely customized weapons, shields, armor, jewelry, and clothing, using various Essences obtained from treasure chests throughout the game or by deconstructing other randomly generated treasures. This is a fairly complex system, and recipes require you to have certain crafting levels in Arcane/Divine/Elemental crafting schools, which you can see on your character sheet.

Augment Slot
Augment Gem vendor Introduced in Update 17, new Augment Slot can now be found at all levels. This is a revamp of old Epic Augments and Guild Crafting allowing slot-at-will type of item modification. Items with Guild Augment Slot ceased to drop, however Guild Augmentation vendors and its mechanic remain unchanged.

Trapmaking
Trapmaking Device Workstation Trapmaking is a Feat granted to Rogues and Artificers at Level 4. It enables them to create their own traps and salvage parts from existing traps. Detailed information can be found at the Trapmaking Feat page.

Special Event Items

Risian Altar

Special Events:

Festivult (Coins and Jester of Festivult) (2006 Winter holidays -)
Risia Ice Games (2010 February -)
Festival of the Traveler (2010 Anniversary -)
Mabar Endless Night Festival (2010 Halloween -)
Treasure of Crystal Cove (2011 Anniversary -)
Cormyrian Midwinter Festival (2013 -)

Item Upgrading

Cauldron of Sora Katra

Many named items from various Adventure Packs can be upgraded or their initial enchantments restored by using ingredients gathered in the same quest module or later in the storyline. Players often call this type of mechanic "Unlocking" or "Upgrading". Some of them can further be upgraded to their epic versions.

For more detailed information, please refer to the following pages:

Effect	Altar	Levels	Adventure Pack
Unraveling Enchantments	Visbane's Folly	Levels 6 - 8	Sentinels of Stormreach
Dampened	Altar of Vulkoor	Levels 7 - 9	The Red Fens
Fusible/Malleable/ Fragmented/Battle-Scarred	Cauldron of Sora Katra	Level 12	Attack on Stormreach
Trace of Madness	Altar of Insanity	Levels 14 - 17	Reign of Madness
Suppressed Power	Dreamforge	Levels 18 - 20	Dreaming Dark
Nearly Finished	Cannith Reforging Station	Levels 18 - 20	Secrets of the Artificers
Upgradeable Item (Stormreaver)	Stormreaver Monument	Levels 14-25	Ruins of Gianthold
Upgradable Item (Black Abbot)	Fountain of Necrotic Might	Levels 15-17	Necropolis Part IV
Attuned to Heroism / Armor Upgrade / Cormyrian Dragon Armor	Mikrom Sum	Level 23	Menace of the Underdark

Green Steel Items

Green Steel Warhammer

The major portion of Crafting in DDO is the Module 6 "Raid Loot" system, which is also referred to as the Green Steel Items. Green Steel Items are "blanks" that are manufactured, then upgraded through a series of crafting steps in The Shroud, which is a level 17 Raid area.

Green Steel Weapons are considered as high-end DPS gear, and you can create as many of them as you want. Green Steel Accessories are amazingly powerful as well, although you cannot equip more than one at a time without a certain cleansing process.

Access to Meridia, Tier 1 Favor with The Twelve (40 favor point), and completion of all 5 Pre-Raid quests in the Vale of Twilight are required.

For more detailed information, see following articles.

Dragontouched Armor

Dragontouched Plate Armor

Another portion of Crafting is the Dragontouched Armor, introduced with Module 8. In Reaver's Refuge high level area, you can collect various "Eldritch Runes". By adding these Runes, you can create Armors, Robes and Docents of your own. Update 7 removed the random-factor on these runes, allowing players to add specific effects to their armor.

Access to Reaver's Refuge, completion of Stealer of Souls quest and its pre-quests are required.

For more detailed information, see Dragontouched Armor.

Incredible Potential

Altar of Subjugation

All rings drop in Tower of Despair raid have an attribute called "Incredible Potential". Completing the raid also grants you tokens called "Shavarath Trophy of War". By collecting 9 of these tokens and adding Imbued Shard of Great Power, you can add various attributes to your rings. Also, these rings make up set bonuses with other named items found in the area.

Access to Amrath, completion of Tower of Despair raid and its pre-quests are required.

For more detailed information, see following articles.

Incredible Potential
Unique item sets

Alchemical Crafting

Alchemical Greataxe

Alchemical weapons and shields are new kind of customizable loot, introduced with Update 11.

For more detailed information, see Alchemical Crafting.

Epic Crafting

Altar of Epic Rituals and Lahar, Epic Vendor

In Update 1, old favorite items that originated in epic-capable quests can be upgraded into powerful Epic versions by collecting rare scrolls, seals, and shards. These Epic rewards can then be further customized with Augment Crystals, permanently adding new effects to your items.

Access to the areas, completion of quests within the areas on Epic setting is required.

For more detailed information, see Epic Crafting.