Crafting

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. 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.