Cannith Crafting

Cannith Crafting overview
Introduced in Update 9, this new crafting system will allow players to construct completely customized weapons, shields, armor, jewelery, and clothing! This system is being introduced in a state of live beta, and will be changing throughout Updates 9 and 10. source

Main Article: Detailed Crafting Steps 

The general crafting process consists of three steps:

Step 1: Item Deconstruction Step 2: Shard Creation Step 3: Combining Shard and Blank item
 * Items with magical properties can be deconstructed into Essences, or stripped of magical properties to create a blank item. Essences are not bound and can be freely traded; blank items created are not bound either at this point, however blank items created from items which are Bound to Account are still bound to account.
 * Magical effect shards can be crafted from Essences. Each shard represents one weapon, clothing or armor enhancement. Currently, all crafted shards are Bound to Account.
 * Blank items are combined with shards to create the final item. Non-bound blank items become Bound to Character at this point. Bound to Account blank items' bind status remain the same.

All three steps require crafting devices and the deconstruction of items additionally requires vendor-purchased reagents. Players may visit the Crafting Hall in House Kundarak to find crafting devices and reagent vendors.

There are 3 schools of crafting (Arcane/Divine/Elemental). The crafting of shards requires an appropriate crafting level in the school, depending on the type of shard. The crafting level can be increased by gaining crafting XP, awarded for creating (lower level) shards.

What you can and cannot do with Cannith Crafting
"Okay I've got +1 Paralyzing Kama, but I don't have monk, so I'm going to deconstruct it and transfer the Paralyzing effect to my Khopesh."

"Darn, +3 Acid Silver Longsword of Greater Lawful Outsider Bane! It's so close! I'm going to take this and swap Acid for Holy."

The system doesn't work like this.

In order to add enhancements or effects to an existing item, the item has to be stripped of all current bonuses and effects, leaving a "blank" item (the item retains its original material, durability and hardness). Then, the desired enhancements and effects would have to be recreated on the item from raw materials called "essences" which are converted to "shards" using a recipe. A shard contains an enhancement or effect that can be applied to a blank item.

In order to transfer an enhancement or effect to another item, the original item is destroyed leaving some (but usually not all) of the essences needed to create the shard with the desired enhancement or effect.

Look at it this way: crafting essences are like another kind of currency. XP is earned in three "schools" that level independently: Arcane, Divine and Elemental. Crafting XP is earned in any of the three schools by disjoining items into essences, or by crafting shards, related to the appropriate school. You take your unwanted loot (which otherwise could be sold to vendors) to the Crafting Hall and disjoin them for essences, earning XP in the school related to the essences you receive. Then you "spend" the essences to create shards, earning additional XP in the school related to the type of shard.

Returning to the example above, you want to add Holy prefix to your blank weapon. The Holy shard recipe requires level 37 in the Divine school. Once you reach level 27 in that school (10 below the level of the recipe), you can use your ingredients to create the shard with 50% failure chance. Your chance for success increases 5% per level in the relevant school, and at level 37 you succeed 100% of time. You also gain a 5% success bonus for each individual shard recipe each time you successfully create that shard.

So to recreate that +3 Holy Silver Longsword of Greater Lawful Outsider Bane, you would first have to strip the properties from a Silver Longsword, leaving it blank, then create three shards for +3 enhancement, Holy prefix, and Greater Lawful Outsider Bane suffix. Each of these recipes will require a certain number of lesser essences, a smaller number of greater essences, and a small number of Dragonshard fragments. Then the blank weapon would have to be combined with the three shards to create the desired weapon, assuming that the blank has the capacity to accept the total plus value of the enchantments.

In the other example, "transferring" the Paralyzing effect to another weapon requires destroying the kama to release some of the essences needed to create a paralyzing shard, then stripping a khopesh to render it blank, then creating shards for the +1 enhancement and the paralyzing effect and applying them to the blank khopesh (again, assuming that the khopesh has the capacity for both enchantments).

Level Progression
Crafting level currently is capped at 75 in Update 9.1. XP requirement to advance in crafting goes steeper at higher levels.

See Level Progression for full details on experience and leveling with the crafting system

Prefix (Parfett's Leading Dissolver)
Anything before the item-type\name

 Details of Prefix Deconstruction Levels

Suffix (Lorinda's Ultimate Remover)
Anything after the item-type\name

 Details of Suffix Deconstruction Levels

Transmuting Essences
By talking to one of the Master Craftsmen and selecting Transmute Essences, you get to a special crafting window, allowing you to Transmute and Sunder Greater Essences.


 * Sundering converts 1 Greater Essence into 5 Lesser Essences of the same type.


 * Transmuting allows you to trade 2 Greater Essences into the next subtype of the same school, using a repeating system:
 * Arcane: Arcane &rarr; Body &rarr; Mind &rarr; Arcane
 * Divine: Divine &rarr; Good &rarr; Chaos &rarr; Evil&rarr; Law&rarr; Divine
 * Elemental: Earth &rarr; Air &rarr; Fire &rarr; Water &rarr; Earth

Crafting schools and effects for Shard creation
See Shard Details for all-in-one table.

* Bugged, wrong ingredients (C) Uses collectable in recipe (S) Uses Siberys Dragonshard Fragments (K) Uses Khyber Dragonshard Fragments

See Crafting Collectables for the list of collectables used

Shards of Potential
Shards of Potential increase the maximum enchantment level an item may receive. Without a Shard, a crafted item may receive enchantments leading to a base price modifier of up to +5; Shards of Potential may increase this maximum up to +12. The increased potential must be implemented one shard at a time.

A +6 Shard of Potential may be used to push the enchantment limit from +5 to +6, then a +7 Shard of Potential to push the enchantment limit from +6 to +7, and so on up to +12. Using a +7 Shard of Potential directly on a +5 craftable item will not work.


 * Any stack of the same essences can be used to make them
 * Any Crafting school (essences do not need to be related to crafting school)

Total Enchantment Modifier and Minimum Level

 * +1 = level 1
 * +2 = level 3
 * +3 = level 5
 * +4 = level 7
 * +5 = level 9
 * +6 = level 11
 * +7 = level 13
 * +8 = level 15
 * +9 = level 17
 * +10 = level 19
 * +11 = level 20
 * +12 = level 20

Things currently not included in crafting
Because of unknown reasons, might be balance or coding

Missing properties

 * Not in system
 * Paralyzing
 * Force
 * Force Burst
 * Vorpal
 * Disruption
 * Smiting
 * Banishing
 * Righteousness?
 * Greater 'any' Bane
 * Shard in system (just not craftable) (75+ level)
 * Attack Bonus +4
 * Metalline
 * Metalline

(List should be updated as more properties are found to be missing.)

See Missing Theory for why they are probably missing.

Bugged properties in crafting

 * (Lesser) Vampirism on handwraps (effect never triggers)
 * (Lesser) Vampirism on ranged & throwing weapons (effect never triggers)
 * Stunning on handwraps (shards cannot be applied)
 * Returning Throwing Weapons - weapons with just an enhancement bonus, or an enhancement bonus and metal (+1 returning shuriken, +3 adamantine returning axe, etc.) CANNOT be disjoined; however, returning weapons with a prefix or suffix and some plain bound to account end rewards can be.

Special Ingredients
These kind of item can only be found in quest end-reward lists of certain area.

In-game but not used at the time of this writing - perhaps used for making unbound items in a future update?

DDO Store items
Please note that as of update 9.1, these store items are available via GEAR & EQUIPMENT &rarr; CRAFTING &rarr; ESSENCES AND MORE.

There are also Ingredient Bags available on the DDO Store.

These items were seen on the Lamannia test server, but are not yet available on the live servers:

Cannith Crafting Q&A
Q: Does TRing reset crafting XP ?

Q: Can you craft stuff above your level ?
 * A: Yes, but it involves a chance to fail and lose ingredients

Q: Where can I find crafting experience boosters, success boosters, and ingredient bags?
 * A: In the DDO-Store try searching for crafting or ingredients.
 * ''(Ingredient bags will hold all of your crafting supplies.)

Q: Can you make level 20+ items ?

Q: Can you make unbound shards ?
 * A: Yes, in update 10 altough the level to make them is almost twofold and the price in essences changed accordingly, and since the cap is still at 75 this will not allow all shards to be crafted unbound.