Green Steel item crafting steps

Overview
Crafting, introduced with Module 6, is a new way to create customized items, using ingredients gathered both in the Vale Explorer Area, the Vale quests, and The Shroud raid. In each of these areas, chests may contain Ingredient items, usually denoted with a Purple Background, and can all be gathered into the Ingredient Bags.

For most of the crafting, access to Meridia, Tier 1 Favor with The Twelve (40 Favor), and completion of all 5 Pre-Raid quests in the Vale are required.

Getting ready for the "Raid Loot" Crafting
The major portion of Crafting in DDO is the new "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, the new Raid area.

You are now flagged for the Raid, and ready to start the real Crafting

Raw Ingredients, Manufactured Ingredients and Crafting Altars
Now that you have access to the Raid, it is time to really start Crafting. Along the way in The Vale and the 5 Pre-Raid Quests, you will have collected some Ingredients. Remember that all the Ingredients you get out of chests are considered Raw Ingredients. They must be combined together, using the recipes, to create a Manufactured Ingredient. Then these Manufactured Ingredients combine together to create an item.

Additionally, there are different Altars to use for different pieces of the Crafting. Underneath Meridia is the Altar of Fecundity. The Altar of Fecundity is used to combine the Ingredients collected in The Vale and the Pre-Raid Quests, as well as the Shavarath Stones, to create your Green Steel Item, or your "blank" to upgrade later. Within the Raid, there are 3 additional Altars, each of which use different Ingredients in a similar manner.

The Basic Crafting Process for the Altar of Fecundity is Raw Ingredients &rarr; Manufactured Ingredients &rarr; Green Steel Item. This means that first you will combine the Raw Ingredients from the Vale, using the Altar of Fecundity - Raw Ingredients Recipes, to create your Manufactured Ingredients. You will then combine the Manufactured Ingredients with your Shavarath Signet Stone using the Altar of Fecundity - Manufactured Ingredient Recipes to create a Green Steel Item.

WARNING: You cannot equip more than one Green Steel Clothing Item at this time (Weapons do not count). Doing so will cause you to take damage every few seconds until you die. If you receive a Raise Dead, or Release your Soul, you will likely die almost immediately after coming back to life. This is due to the Taint of Shavarath on the item, which must be cleansed by Essence of Cleansing. The Essence is only available as a 20th completion reward of the Raid. You can freely dual-wield weapons however, and wear a single clothing item.

Once you run The Shroud and begin to collect the various Raw Ingredients within the Raid, you can then begin to combine these ingredients, per the recipes, to add effects and enhancements to your Green Steel Weapon or Clothing. There are 3 categories of Ingredients within The Shroud, Small, Medium, and Large. The "Small" Ingredients are used at the Altar of Invasion, at the end of Stage 1. The "Medium" Ingredients are used at the Altar of Subjugation, at the end of Stage 3, and the "Large" Ingredients are used at the Altar of Devastation, at the end of Stage 5.

Power Cells
Likewise, each altar requires a Shavarath Energy Cell, which comes in Low, Medium, and High. Just like the Ingredients, Low is for Invasion, Medium is for Subjugation, and High is for Devastation. However, the Medium and High Energy Cells are usually found or purchased "Depleted". In order to charge a Depleted Energy Cell, you must use an item in your inventory to "charge" the Energy Cell. As you examine the items in your inventory, each of them will display a large number in the upper-right-hand-corner, this is referred to as the Plus Value (similar to Base price modifier). In order to Recharge a Depleted Energy Cell, you must combine the Energy Cell with an item whose Plus Value is +6 through +10. WARNING: Item is consumed (destroyed) in this process. This will charge your Shavarath Energy Cell for use.

Shard of Power
You also need the appropriate Shard of Power. There are, again, three levels of these Shards, Shard of Power, Shard of Great Power, and Shard of Supreme Power. Each is used at the appropriate Altar. The Shard of Power is combined, with the Manufactured Ingredients, to create an Imbued Shard of Power. These Shards bind on acquire, so if you want to trade them, you have to do so within chest loot assigning UI, before they get looted.

Finally, you combine your Imbued Shard of Power, a Shavarath Energy Cell and your Green Steel Item to add effects to your item.

Overall Process
Inside the Raid, the Crafting process is as follows:
 * 1) Combine the Raw Ingredients and a Shavarath Energy Cell to create Manufactured Ingredients
 * 2) Combine the Manufactured Ingredients, a Shavarath Energy Cell, and a Shard of Power to create an Imbued Shard of Power
 * 3) Combine the Imbued Shard of Power, a Shavarath Energy Cell, and a Green Steel Item to upgrade your Green Steel Item

Notes on how the upgrades work
A Green Steel Item can be upgraded one time at each Altar, and it will add the properties listed in the appropriate recipe to that item. Most of these abilities will stack, but not all of them. Remember that Enchantment, Resistance, Insight, and Regeneration Bonuses do NOT stack. Exceptional Bonuses will stack, as long as they are not identical. A +1 Charisma (Exceptional Bonus) will stack with a +2 Charisma (Exceptional Bonus) for a total of +3 Charisma. But a +1 Charisma (Exceptional Bonus) will not stack with another +1 Charisma (Exceptional Bonus).

There are also Special Properties that can be added at the Subjugation and Devastation Altars, depending on the combination of upgrades that are performed. For example, if you use an "Essence of Positive Energy" at Invasion, and then again at Subjugation, you will get the Aspect of Positive Energy, and True Resurrection 1/day on your item. If you use Positive again at Devastation, you will get Greater Disruption on a Weapon or Greater Disruption Guard on Clothing, but if you used a different Essence, you may get a different effect, or none at all. You will always receive the bonuses listed for the recipes, but not always receive the "Special" Bonuses for the combinations.

Planning for your Crafted Item
The best thing to do is to plan ahead, and research what you want to upgrade. For an example, say you want to craft a pair of Goggles, and go for Spell Points and Charisma Skills. This means that you want to go with Air/Escalation/Ethereal or Positive/Escalation/Ethereal, as both will give you the same base results. Let's also say that you decide that you like the Greater Disruption Guard over Air Guard, so we will go Positive/Escalation/Ethereal at all 3 Altars. So, it's time to look over the lists, and create your list of required Raw Ingredients:

So we first look at Altar of Fecundity - Manufactured Ingredient Recipes and work our way backwards. Green Steel Goggles require Filaments of Toil, Violet Taper, Wondrous Oil, Shavarath Signet Stone, and an Ebberon Power Cell. Some of the Tier 2 Recipes can be made more than one way, so there some items will have varying amounts needed… so we then look at Altar of Fecundity - Raw Ingredients Recipes to create our Ingredient List of:
 * 3x Locust Husk
 * 3x Lammanian Lily Petals
 * 2 or 3x Glistening Pebbles
 * 2 or 3x Green Briar Twig
 * 2x Bitterscrub Fungi
 * 4x Ebberon Energy Cell

Once these are all collected, go to the Altar of Fecundity underneath Meridia, and start combining your Raw Ingredients to create the required Manufactured Ingredients. Then take the Filaments of Toil, Violet Taper, and Wondrous Oil, along with your Shavarath Signet Stone and a Ebberon Energy Cell, put them together, Mix Magically, and you will have your Green Steel Goggles.

Now, it is time to start running the Raid and collecting your Raw Ingredients for the 3 Altars. Positive/Escalation/Ethereal will require the following Ingredients:
 * 2x Small Arrowhead
 * 1x Small Gnawed Bone
 * 2x Small Length of Infernal Chain
 * 3x Small Devil Scale
 * 1x Small Twisted Shrapnel
 * 3x Small Sulfurous Stone
 * 5x Shavarath Low Energy Cell
 * 1x Shard of Power

Use these to create Inferior Focus of Positive Energy, Cloudy Gem of Escalation, and Diluted Ethereal Essence. Take these 3 Manufactured Ingredients, along with a Shard of Power and a Shavarath Low Energy Cell to imbue the Shard of Power with the Positive/Escalation/Ethereal mix. Then finally put the Imbued Shard of Power, a Shavarath Low Energy Cell, and your Green Steel Goggles in the Altar of Invasion, and they should now called Lieutenant Green Steel Goggles of Wizardry VI. Upon examination, it should have Wizardry VI, Charisma Skills - Exceptional Bonus +1, and Positive Energy Affinity.

Now, follow the same ingredient list above, but using Medium ingredients at the Subjugation Altar, and then Large Ingredients at the Devastation Altar to create your Supreme Tyrant Green Steel Goggles of Positive Energy with Wizardry VI, Charisma Skills -Exceptional Bonus +1, +2, and +3 (for +6 total), Elemental Spell Power (+50 SP), Greater Elemental Spell Power (+100 SP), True Resurrection 1/day, and Greater Disruption Guard!

VERY IMPORTANT: Each Altar has it's own recipes and results, and the results will add to your Green Steel Item as you upgrade it, once at each Altar. Different upgrades will simply add their effects to your item, not replace earlier ones, and they will likely interact with each other in interesting ways, providing additional effects on your item.

Also note that, while Green Steel items are Bound on Equip when created, upgrading a Green Steel item at an altar within the Shroud will bind the item to the crafter.

Meridia - Altar of Fecundity
Altar of Fecundity - Raw Ingredients Recipes Altar of Fecundity - Manufactured Ingredient Recipes
 * Step #1 - Combine 5 Shavarath Stones (Shavarath Stone of Might [ Ritual Sacrifice ], Battle [ Running with the Devils ] , Strategy [ Let Sleeping Dust Lie ] , Foresight [ Rainbow in the Dark ] , and Victory [ The Coalescence Chamber ] ) together to create a Shavarath Signet Stone
 * Step #2 - Combine 4 "Raw Ingredients" (Bitterscrub Fungus, Chipmunk Funk, Glistening Pebbles, Green Brier Twigs, Lammanian Lily Petals and/or Locust Husk) together with an Ebberon Energy Orb to create a "Manufactured Ingredient"
 * Step #3 - Combine 3 "Manufactured Ingredients" (Ore of Travail, Filament of Toil, Wondrous Balm, Wondrous Oil, Wondrous Jewel, Wondrous Scarab, Red Taper, Yellow Taper, Green Taper, Blue Taper and/or Violet Taper) together with a Shavarath Signet Stone and a Power Source (Ebberon Energy Orb, Medium Splintered Horn or Large Splintered Horn) to create a Green Steel Item

The Shroud Phase 1 - Altar of Invasion
Altar of Invasion - Raw Ingredients Recipes Altar of Invasion - Manufactured Ingredient Recipes Altar of Invasion - Manufactured Ingredient Recipes (Alternate View)
 * Step #1 - Combine 4 "Small Raw Ingredients" (Small Devil Scales, Small Glowing Arrowhead, Small Gnawed Bone, Small Length of Infernal Chain, Small Sulfurous Stones and/or Small Twisted Shrapnel) together with a Shavarath Low Energy Cell to create a "Manufactured Ingredient".
 * Step #2 - Combine 3 "Manufactured Ingredients" (Inferior Focus of Fire/Air/Water/Earth/Positive/Negative Energy, Diluted Material/Ethereal Essence, and Cloudy Gem of Opposition/Domination/Escalation) together with a Shavarath Low Energy Cell and a Shard of Power to create an Imbued Shard of Power
 * Step #3 - Combine Imbued Shard of Power with Shavarath Low Energy Cell and Green Steel Item to upgrade your Green Steel Item

The Shroud Phase 3- Altar of Subjugation
Altar of Subjugation - Raw Ingredients Recipes Altar of Subjugation - Manufactured Ingredient Recipes Altar of Subjugation - Manufactured Ingredient Recipes (Alternate View)
 * Step #1 - Combine Depleted Shavarath Medium Energy Cell with a random weapon, with a listed value of +6 to +10 to create a Shavarath Medium Energy Cell, as needed. WARNING: Item is consumed (destroyed) in this process!
 * Step #2 - Combine 4 "Medium Raw Ingredients" (Medium Devil Scales, Medium Glowing Arrowhead, Medium Gnawed Bone, Medium Length of Infernal Chain, Medium Sulfurous Stones and/or Medium Twisted Shrapnel) together with a Shavarath Medium Energy Cell to create a "Manufactured Ingredient".
 * Step #3 - Combine 3 "Manufactured Ingredients" (Focus of Fire/Air/Water/Earth/Positive/Negative Energy, Material/Ethereal Essence and Gem of Opposition/Domination/Escalation) together with a Shavarath Medium Energy Cell and a Shard of Great Power to create an Imbued Shard of Great Power
 * Step #4 - Combine Imbued Shard of Great Power with Shavarath Medium Energy Cell and Green Steel Item to upgrade your Green Steel Item

The Shroud Phase 5 - Altar of Devastation
Altar of Devastation - Raw Ingredients Recipes Altar of Devastation - Manufactured Ingredient Recipes Altar of Devastation - Manufactured Ingredient Recipes (Alternate View)
 * Step #1 - Combine Depleted Shavarath High Energy Cell with a random weapon, with a listed value of +8 to +10 to create a Shavarath High Energy Cell, as needed. WARNING: Item is consumed (destroyed) in this process!
 * Step #2 - Combine 4 "Large Raw Ingredients" (Large Devil Scales, Large Glowing Arrowhead, Large Gnawed Bone, Large Length of Infernal Chain, Large Sulfurous Stones and/or Large Twisted Shrapnel) together with a Shavarath High Energy Cell to create a "Manufactured Ingredient".
 * Step #3 - Combine 3 "Manufactured Ingredients" (Superior Focus of Fire/Air/Water/Earth/Positive/Negative Energy, Pure Material/Ethereal Essence and Perfect Gem of Opposition/Domination/Escalation) together with a Shavarath High Energy Cell and a Shard of Superme Power to create an Imbued Shard of Supreme Power
 * Step #4 - Combine Imbued Shard of Supreme Power with Shavarath High Energy Cell and Green Steel Item to upgrade your Green Steel Item
 * NOTE: It has been reported and confirmed that you can combine 2 differently Imbued Shards of Supreme Power to make a dual-affinity Shard of Supreme Power, and this can result in new "Additional Effects". It is believed that this can only be performed at the Altar of Devastation.

Shroud/Vale Crafting Helpers

 * Shroud Crafting Calculator by Zaodon
 * Shroud Loot Planner by Tihocan
 * DDO Crafting Helper by TKnor

Other Resources

 * Eldrich Rituals Cookbook thread by Cambo
 * The crafting spreadsheet by InkBlack
 * DDO crafting website by Storm Lords guild on Thelanis