Crafting

Crafting Guide
Crafting, introduced with Module 6, is a way to create and upgrade items through increasingly powerful tiers of item attributes added at each stage through to the final finished stage (in most cases an extra special effect.)

In all cases you begin crafting by using ingredients gathered in quests, raids (and their end rewards) or wilderness rare chests.

The exception to this rule is Cannith Crafting - the only crafting type with which you can contribute your character skills, feats, or level-ups towards in your characters build. Simplified you begin by collecting/looting/creating a base item and then begin upgrading it with ingredients which are (dependant on the crafting type) crafted themselves. E.g.: Alchemical ingredients are crafted by you, shroud ingredients are not so you simply loot them from chests.