Cannith Crafting

Cannith Crafting, introduced in Update 9, allows players to construct completely customized weapons, shields, armor, jewelry, and clothing.

History

 * This system was introduced in a state of live beta and was changed throughout Updates 9 and 10.
 * The beta tag was removed with Update 11.
 * The system was overhauled in Update 32 to align it with the Update 29 random loot changes.
 * Update 50 reduced the power levels that could be crafted from 34 to 30.
 * Update 55 reintroduced level 31 and 32 minimum level shards + it introduced combined prefix shards

Locations
There are three places where you can perform Cannith Crafting activities:
 * The Crafting Hall located in the House Kundarak Enclave.
 * The House Cannith Crafting Hall located in the House Cannith Enclave.
 * The Cannith Crafting Hall amenity on a Guild Airship.

Steps

 * 1) "Disjunct" an item at the Item Deconstruction Device, stripping all effects and leaving the raw item ready to accept crafted effects.
 * 2) Craft a Minimum Level shard at a shard crafting device, which determines the minimum level of the item. This in turn determines the power level of shards applied onto the item (and also applies the basic level-appropriate bonus if weapon/armor).
 * Note: Crafting a Bound shard is significantly cheaper, but creates an item that is Bound to Account; creating an Unbound shard costs significantly more in material, but allows the item to be freely traded/mailed/auctioned/etc. between characters, accounts, players - anywhere. Use a Bound crafting station for Bound shards, or an Unbound station for unbound shards.)
 * 1) Craft shards (Bound or Unbound) of the effects you want to apply to the item at a shard crafting device.
 * 2) Craft the shards onto the item at an item crafting device.

Components

 * is used to remove enchantments from random loot, leaving you with a blank item that is keyed for crafting. Material types and Augment Slots are retained on an item after disjunction.
 * s are used to turn random loot into essences. The item itself is destroyed in the process, however you often gain some platinum in the process.
 * Cannith Essences are NOT increased on weapons, unlike platinum value, which is doubled on weapons.
 * Only items with an Enchantment Level (a + followed by a number in the upper right corner) will yield platinum when being dissolved. Weapons & Armor always have this; Clothing & Jewelry rarely do. However, Masterwork Craftsmanship, Augment Slots, & Feather Falling will all give Clothing & Jewelry an Enchantment Level. The higher the number, the more platinum you'll receive (generally 60 platinum/level).
 * Dissolvers need to be in your character inventory or ingredient bag; deconstructing using dissolvers in the Shared Crafting Bank will not produce platinum.
 * s are found in chests and from disjuncting random loot using Dissolvers. Essences obtained prior to Update 32 can be converted to Cannith Essences at the crafting potion vendor.
 * Collectables are used in all crafting recipes that create shards which are used to put effects onto items. These collectables can be found throughout the game and can be traded or purchased through the Auction Houses. Collectables come in four different category types: Arcane, Lore, Natural, and Cultural. An Arcane device of a given level range has the chance to drop all items in that range. Backpacks/rubble piles have the chance to drop all categories of collectables for a given tier. The tier and the collectible device are the only determination on the collectables received.
 * Recipes for arrows and bolts do not create shards and don't require collectibles.
 * Shards are created by using Cannith Essences and collectables. In addition:
 * s are used for Insightful and unbound shards
 * are needed for Efficient Metamagic effects
 * are used for Eternal Faith, Sacred, and Silver Flame shards
 * can be used to add an extra enchantment slot to items of at least ML 10.
 * Bound shards are, and create items that are, Bound to Account, while unbound shards are unbound and create items that are unbound

Base items (blanks)

 * Random loot: You can use to strip enchantments from items. Most players prefer items from special materials or with augment slots.
 * Craftable Rune Arms
 * Named items: Some named items can be enhanced by Cannith Crafting:

Collectables
All Cannith Crafting recipes that produce effects use collectables. (The exception are those that create ammunition.) There are 113 Cannith Crafting collectables.

Any collectable can be found in an Adventurer's Pack or Rubble. Collectables of each type can be found can be additionally found in:
 * Arcane: Alchemy Table, Cabinet, Crude Altar, Reagents Cabinet, and Scroll rack
 * Cultural: Treasure Bags (dropped by mobs)
 * Lore: Bookshelf, Cabinet
 * Natural: Bones, Crude Altar, Fungus, Fungus Patch, Mold, Moss, and Mushroom:

Minimum Level shards
Minimum Level shards have a crafting difficulty of their level x 10 except for ML 1, which has a crafting difficulty of level 1. Unbound Minimum Level shards have a difficulty of their level x 10 + 50.

Enchantments
Each craftable item has a prefix and a suffix enchantment slot. Where you can place specific shards (prefix vs. suffix) is the same as on randomly-generated loot.
 * A can be used to add a third extra enchantment slot. Extra enchantment slots are not available on items under minimum level 10.
 * The Enhancement bonus on weapons, shields, and armor is applied automatically when the Minimum Level shard is applied. An Implement bonus is applied to a weapon or shield when a prefix or suffix gives the weapon a spellcasting effect (such as Potency). No additional shards are required to add these types of bonus.

Crafting higher level items and more powerful benefits is possible once you've gained enough crafting experience. You can attempt to craft a shard even if you aren't high enough level, but there is a chance for the crafting recipe to fail, costing you the ingredients used to craft. You can craft recipes if you have at least a 1% chance of success.
 * Minimum Level shards simply determine the ML of the item. ML shards have a crafting difficulty of their level x 10, except for ML 1 which has a crafting difficulty of level 1. Unbound Minimum Level shards have a target Crafting Level of their {level x 10} + 50.
 * There are three main groups of Scaling enchantment shards (plus 2 miscellaneous exceptions). Group 1 has a minimum crafting level of 1, Group 2 has a minimum crafting level of 50, and Group 3 has a minimum crafting level of 100 (see table, below).
 * The two scaling exceptions (which have no "insightful" version) are:
 * CL 150 Spell Lore (critical)
 * CL 175 Natural Armor
 * The majority of Non-Scaling enchantments (such as Keen/Impact, Everbright or Fearsome) are Crafting Level 250, which is moderately advanced. These are unavailable as "insightful", and would be CL 400 if unbound.
 * However, three of these non-scaling effects are available at CL 1 (CL 150 unbound), which can be made by any beginning crafter. Those three CL 1 effects are:
 * Deathblock
 * Feather Fall
 * Underwater action


 * Unbound versions of these shards (scaling and non-scaling) add +150 to their crafting level. For effects which can be Insightful (not all can), add +175 to their crafting level for the Insightful version. Shards that are both unbound plus insightful add +325 (150+175) to the base level.

Exclusive effects
Not all effects can be duplicated with Cannith Crafting, and not all Cannith effects can be found on randomly generated items; some are found only via one or the other, although most (if not all) of them can be found on named items. In other words, the following effects may not be strictly exclusive to Cannith Crafting or random loot, but are mutually exclusive between them:


 * The number of effects in the second column has been significantly increased with the new effects added to randomly generated loot in U46.

Other craftable items

 * Arrows and bolts can be created with a combination of Cannith Essences and Siberys Dragonshard Fragments. No collectible components are needed.
 * Tip: Ranged weapons use the enhancement bonus of the bow or ammo, whichever is higher. Therefore, +1 crafted ammo (which is cheapest and easiest to make) is just as effective in, for example, a +3 bow as a +3 arrow would be. (However, +4 or +5 arrows would be better.)
 * The Device Workstation can be used to make traps, grenades, and companion collars. Cannith Essences are used in some grenades, traps, and collar recipes.
 * Some Rune Arms can be crafted on. Rune arms can have three enchantments crafted on them, just like random loot. Disjunction does not change the Minimum Level, charge tier, spell, imbue, and unique enchantments of a rune arm, but its other benefits are removed.
 * Note that the Minimum Level cannot be raised after disjunction.
 * BUG: It seems that when you deconstruct a rune arm, the description shows that the "Minimum Level" has become much lower, but in fact it remains the same. (See Rune Arm Crafting Steps)
 * Runestones can be crafted with a combination of Cannith Essences and Siberys Dragonshard Fragments. No collectible components are needed.

Level progression
The maximum crafting level is 400. The amount of experience required to gain a level increases as levels increase. You gain experience by crafting shards and deconstructing items into essences.

Experience gained prior to Update 32 was carried over to the new system.
 * Three schools at level 50 (7,305 * 3 = 21,915) → level 138 in new system
 * Three schools at level 100 (35,230 * 3 = 105,690) → level 203 in new system
 * Three schools at level 150 (81,905 * 3 = 245,715) → level 260 in new system

Leveling tips

 * You have bound and unbound shard options to gain crafting experience. Go back and forth between both devices, sort by experience and choose your best option.
 * Once you reach 50 House Cannith Favor, Minor Crafting Experience Elixirs (10%, 30 minutes) and +10% Crafting Success Boosters are available for in-game plat.
 * The Fabricators Guild Tutorial rewards you with either a Greater Crafting Experience Elixirs (75%, 30 minutes, BtA) or 5 25% Crafting Success Boosters, BtA. Since burning through even 50,000 Cannith Essences can be done within 30 minutes time, it is recommended that you have enough essences before starting a 30 minute crafting spree. You can run the tutorial quest with all of your characters every life and either select the Elixir, or the Success Boosters if you already have an elixir ready to go for a crafting spree. Since both the elixir and the crafting boosters are Bound to Account, you can pass them to your crafter via the shared bank. The tutorial quest can be obtained from Maker in the Kundarak Crafting Hall, Felix d'Cannith in the Harbor, or Vertigo in the Marketplace.
 * Major Crafting Experience Elixirs (100%, 30 minutes), from the DDO Store are recommended if you are going for fast leveling. They are cheap, and can be obtained for the equivalent of 200 favor in DDO points.
 * If you use Major Crafting Experience Elixirs, Major Success Boosters, and wait for a DDO Bonus Day for crafting experience, it is possible to level extremely fast by making only a few bound and unbound Minimum Level Shards of each level.

Tables
With so many effects, many of them scaling from Level 1-34, plus the recipes for those, and each going into different slots (prefix, suffix, & "extra") depending on the item... well, here are some links to tables to better see, at a glance, exactly what's going on...

Costs for ML shards and expendables

 * ML Shards Costs, bound & unbound in essences
 * Ammunition Crafting costs (all necessary ingredients for X effect ammo)
 * Runestone Crafting costs (all necessary ingredients for X effect runestone)

Collectables

 * Collectables by name, listed by Tier (1-6) & rarity (Simple list of items)
 * Collectables by image (linked), listed by Tier (1-6), rarity, & category/source (more complex graphic)
 * Collectables by use in recipes - Have some collectables and don't know what they're for?

Effects and recipes

 * Effects, listed by Item & prefix/suffix/extra slot - Planning your gear, or wondering what you can put in a specific item?
 * Combined prefixes - lvl 400 unbound recipes
 * Scaling Effect1 Values, Lvl 1-30 - How big is an effect at ML #? What are the cutpoints?
 * Max Values for Scaling Effects1 (just the last column of the prev table, "Lvl 30", for end-game considerations)
 * Cannith Crafted Scaling1 Effects vs. Augments How much better is Crafting than slotting a scaling augment?
 * Scaling Effect1 Recipes, bound & unbound all necessary ingredients for X scaling1 effect shard
 * Non-Scaling Effect2 Recipes, bound & unbound all necessary ingredients for X non-scaling2 effect shard
 * Note: Any effect is either "scaling" or "non-scaling" - there are no effects which can be both.
 * Scaling effects vary their values when placed in lower or higher Minimum Level shard items, increasing with higher ML. Examples are Fortification, False Life, and any Skill or Ability bonus.
 * Non-scaling effects do not change with Minimum Level. Examples are Water Breathing, Deathblock, Keen/Impact, and any "Efficient Metamagic" effects (like Empower or Extend) that reduce the cost of using that Metamagic Effect on spells by a fixed amount.