Crafting & Item Quality¶
What you craft carries your name — and your skill. Every station craft is stamped with who made it, their profession level, and a quality grade that improves as they level.
The Forged-By stamp¶
Weapons, armor, tools, and gemstones crafted at stations carry a stamp showing the crafter, their profession level, the grade, and the craft date.
Grades climb with profession level:
| Level | Grade |
|---|---|
| 1–24 | Crude |
| 25–49 | Rough |
| 50–74 | Sturdy |
| 75–99 | Fine |
| 100–124 | Superior |
| 125–149 | Exquisite |
| 150–174 | Masterwork |
| 175–199 | Pristine |
| 200 | Flawless |
Gear stats scale with the crafter's Blacksmithing level. Gem crafts scale with Gemforging, and gemstone success rates gain +1% per 20 profession levels (+10% at level 200).
Buy from good crafters
Because the stamp records who made an item and stats scale off their level, gear from a high-level blacksmith is genuinely better than the same recipe made by a beginner. It's worth checking the stamp before you buy.
Refining bonus ingots¶
Every refinery craft rolls for extra ingots, and the odds scale hard with Blacksmithing level:
- Level 1 — about a 52% chance of +1
- Level 25 — +1 guaranteed
- Level 50 — +1 guaranteed, plus a coin flip for +2
- Level 100 — +2 guaranteed, plus a coin flip for +3
- Level 200 — +4 guaranteed, plus a coin flip for +5
When a bonus lands you get a chat line describing the lucky pour. Ingots are never stamped, so they stay clean and stackable.
Cooking¶
Food is only as good as the cook. A dish's strength and duration are calculated from the cook's Cooking level at the moment it's made and then stored in the item, so a meal from a master chef is exactly as strong in a beginner's hands.
Ingredient quality stacks on top of that: cook with starred produce and the dish inherits it. Full detail in Cooking.
Gemforging enchant stones¶
One gem item covers an entire enchant family — the level (I, II, III…) is rolled at craft time from your Gemforging level and shown on the gem's lore. Socketing it applies the real enchantment.
- Below level 75, the highest tier you can roll rises steadily with your level.
- Above 75, the odds curve increasingly favours high rolls, all the way to level 200.
- Gemforging EXP from a craft scales with the rolled level, your own level, and how good the roll was — a perfect roll is worth 50% more EXP.
Mystery recipes¶
Forge and armory recipes with randomised outputs display as clean "Random Epic Helmet"-style entries rather than spoiling the exact roll you'd get.
Each masked recipe still shows you:
- the base stats for that item type and rarity,
- the roll summary — how many stats, their power ranges, enchant sockets, and gem quality,
- a live ingredient checklist, green when you have the item and red when you don't.
Nothing about crafting itself changes — only the display.