Green Steel quick guide

How to create Green Steel Blanks
First off, you need access to the Vale of Twilight adventure pack (meaning you have directly purchased it within the DDO Store, or are actively a VIP)

To make the base (a Green Steel blank) you need to do the 5 prerequisite quests to enter the Shroud.

They are:
 * '''Let Sleeping Dust Lie
 * '''Rainbow in the Dark
 * '''Ritual Sacrifice
 * '''Running with the Devils
 * '''The Coalescence Chamber

From each of the above mentioned quests the player receives both Shavarath Stone of _______ and often a random Raw Ingredient for greensteel crafting. Some of these Raw Ingredients can also be found by looting chests from rare encounters in the Vale of Twilight.

All five prereq quests must be run in order to access the first altar (the Altar of Fecundity) where the Green Steel blank is created. The player will receive an in-game Mail from the Twelve to lead to the next part of the chain. Once the player has completed their first tutorial on how to use the Altar, they will then be able to craft the manufactured ingredients they will need to craft a Green Steel blank.

To create a Shavarath Signet Stone (which is required by all Green Steel blanks) combine the five differently colored Shavarath Stones within the Altar of Fecundity.

Signet stone, in hand, the player can now decide which Green Steel item they would first like to make: an accessory item, or a Weapon. they can then figure out how many of each Raw Ingredient, that come from the Vale questing and rare killing, they will need.

It is common that a player will not initially have enough Raw Ingredients to create their first Green Steel blank the first time they have access to the Altar.

Upgrading Green Steel Blanks
To upgrade a Green Steel blank to something more useful than a time consuming paper-weight, the player must run the following raid:


 * '''The Thirteenth Eclipse - aka The Shroud

Upgrading a Green Steel item functions in the same way as creating the blank. Raw ingredients are gathered from the chests within the Shroud and are combined at the appropriate Altars within the Shroud. The Green Steel item is upgraded by imbued shards of power that are created by manufacturing raw ingredients from the proper tier. The general formula for Green Steel is as follows:

At the appropriate Altar:


 * Gather enough raw materials from chests &rarr; A Manufactured Ingredient
 * Gather enough Manufactured Ingredients + proper power source + proper Shard of Power &rarr; An Imbued Shard
 * Imbued shard + Green Steel item + proper power source &rarr; Upgraded Green Steel

Common Knowledge about Green Steel

 * Green Steel weapons are considered Evil for means of bypassing damage reduction.


 * Only one Green Steel accessory may be equipped at a time without penalty prior to being cleansed by a Essence of Cleansing acquired on the 20th completion of the Shroud. Weapons are not not bound by this rule and can be wielded freely.


 * Green Steel Accessories have a minimum level of 11 to be equipped; Green Steel Weapons have a minimum level of 12. As such, they are quite useful to those who undergo a True Reincarnation on their character.


 * The most common Green Steel weapon most people craft first is usually a Mineral II weapon for its Metalline + Good properties for getting through most bosses Damage reduction.


 * Some of the Manufactured Ingredients to create a Green Steel Blank have multiple recipes: Use whichever you have enough raw ingredients for.


 * Green Steel can only be upgraded while the player is not on timer for the Shroud (aside from creating Green Steel blanks (and, if the player has access to the The Devils of Shavarath adventure pack, the Altar of Subjugation) since all the upgrading altars are within the raid instance. Another exception is when a guild has a high enough level to acquire altars on their Guild Airship. This requires you to be a guild member or be invited by a guild member to their airship.