Crafting

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

A DDO Crafting Primer
Crafting, as implemented in DDO, is a combination of collecting Ingredient Items, then using them in the various Eldritch Stones in the Marketplace, The Twelve, Meridia, and inside The Shroud Raid. There are no skills, or level-up, or practicing requirements as in other games, simply gathering the ingredients and knowing the recipes. But for most of the crafting, access to Meridia, Tier 1 The Twelve favor, and all 5 Pre-Raid quests completed are required for the majority of the crafting.

Crafting that is available to all characters
The most basic level of crafting is available to all characters with access to the Marketplace or The Twelve. Next to the Marketplace Bank, and right outside the Twelve's Tower is found the Stone of Change. The Stone of Change is used to upgrade existing items (those not part of the Green Steel "Raid" Loot, as described below). Currently there are only 3 recipes enabled for the Stone of Change, but the developers have stated that this will change in the future.

The currently enabled Stone of Change recipes allow you to Bind & Attune your items, so it no longer takes permanent damage, or increase the durability and hardness of an item, or convert Dragon shards. These are simple upgrades, and for the full recipes see Stone of Change - Tier 1 - Recipes

Getting ready for the "Raid Loot" crafting
The "Raid Loot" crafting, also referred to as the Green Steel Items, requires a number of steps for preparation, and they are as follows:
 * 1) Travel to The Twelve, and speak to the NPC's within to be given the quest to find Meridia.
 * 2) Exit the Tower of The Twelve, and go up to the upper North-East corner of the map to find the entrance to The Vale of Twilight (The Vale).
 * 3) Explore The Vale until you locate Meridia, the town within The Vale.
 * 4) Once in Meridia, speak to all the NPC's to forward your quest, bind, rest, and repair.
 * 5) Once you have a party, explore The Vale to locate the 5 quests within the Vale, and complete them. At the chest at the end of each quest, each party member will receive a Shavarath Stone of ____ (Battle/Foresight/Might/Strategy/Victory).  Make sure you keep these Shavarath Stone items
 * The Coalescence Chamber
 * Let Sleeping Dust Lie
 * Rainbow in the Dark
 * Ritual Sacrifice
 * Running with the Devils
 * 6) Once you have completed all 5 quests, you should have your Tier 1 The Twelve Favor. Go back to The Twelve and get your favor reward, access to the Eldritch Device in Meridia.
 * 7) Travel back to Meridia, speak to the Grandmaster to advance your quest and grant you Raid Access.
 * 8) Now, go to the NPC outside the Eldritch Chamber in the center of Meridia, and complete her quest.
 * 9) Once completed, you now have access to the Altar of Fecundity in Meridia, and you can now begin crafting.
 * 10) Take all 5 of the Shavarath Stone of ____, and place them in the Altar of Fecundity. Mix Magically to get a Shavarath Signet Stone - This Stone is a key ingredient to make your Green Steel Item

Ok, Now What?
Once you have completed the above steps to gain access to The Shroud Raid, as well as to the Altar of Fecundity, you can now being your crafting. The crafting system is somewhat simple from here forward. In chests, you will loot Tier 1 Ingredients for the various altars. In The Vale and the Pre-Raid Quests, you will find the Tier 1 Ingredients to be used on the Altar of Fecundity in Meridia. Upgrading these items, and combining them with the Shavarath Signet Stone and a Power Cell will allow you to make Green Steel Items. These Green Steel Items are "blanks" that you can upgrade in The Shroud. All Green Steel Weapons are +5 Weapons that count as Evil for bypassing DR. You may need to run some Rare Encounters in The Vale or re-run some of the Pre-Raid quests to collect more Tier 1 Ingredients, but eventually you will gather enough Ingredients to mix them to make the Tier 2 Ingredients that you need.

Once you have made a Green Steel Item, you are ready to upgrade it within the Raid. However, the Raid has a similar mechanic, that the Raid chests have Tier 1 Ingredients to be used at the 3 Altars within The Shroud. And there are 3 different Eldritch Devices, each using their own Tier 1/2 Ingredients. The Altars are found after Part 1, Part 3, and Part 5 of the Raid. So you will need to run the Raid several times in order to gather the required Tier 1 Ingredients for each Altar in order to start upgrading your Green Steel Item

VERY IMPORTANT: The 3 Altars each have their own recipes, but it is important to understand that you must upgrade your Green Steel Item at each altar, in order. However, if you want the effects listed for the Altar of Subjugation or Altar of Devastation, then you must use the same recipe for each upgrade. For example, if you want to get the "+50 Spell Points, +2 Charisma Skills, True Resurrection 1/day" effect from Positive/Escalation/Ethereal recipe at the Altar of Subjugation, then you must also use the Positive/Escalation/Ethereal recipe at the Altar of Invasion. If you used Positive/Opposition/Material at the Altar of Subjugation, you will get "Lesser Regeneration", not "Improved Regeneration & True Resurrection 1/day"

Stormreach - Stone of Change
Stone of Change - Tier 1 - Recipes

Meridia - Altar of Fecundity
Altar of Fecundity - Tier 1 - Ingredients Recipes Altar of Fecundity - Tier 2 - Green Steel Recipes

The Shroud, Part 1: The Gauntlet - Altar of Invasion
Altar of Invasion - Tier 1 - Ingredients Recipes Altar of Invasion - Tier 2 - Green Steel Item Recipes

The Shroud, Part 3: The Puzzles - Altar of Subjugation
Altar of Subjugation - Tier 1 - Ingredients Recipes Altar of Subjugation - Tier 2 - Green Steel Item Recipes

The Shroud, Part 5: The Boss - Altar of Devastation
Altar of Devastation - Tier 1 - Ingredients Recipes Altar of Devastation - Tier 2 - Green Steel Item Recipes