Niami DenMother — April 30th, 2007, 02:11 PM
Forgive me if this is somewhere and I missed it.
I'm often seeing requests in /craft that indicate confusion from crafter and quester alike when trying to make items for quests, and am hoping these small pointers will help save some frustrating/costly mistakes.
Gems must be cut to the resistance version not the attribute version
Continental style (where applicable) must match the continent where the quest starts
Know your attuning dusts!
1. Gems must be cut to resistance: A "trilliant cut quartz jewel", for example, uses the "quartz jewel" refine recipe (artificer), cut first to trilliant, then to resistance. Cutting to attribute instead would give you a "____ trilliant cut quartz jewel" that will not work for the quests. This is THE most common confusion that I see from newer artisans that are trying to help with quest gems.
2. Continental style must match the continent where the quest starts. For any normal item that has a continental version of the recipe, you must match the continent to the quest. If a quest on Qalia requires copper gauntlets, for example, the blacksmith involved in the crafting must use the Qalian style version of the recipe. (Non-Qalian native crafters will have to do continental style quests in order to obtain the proper recipe, if they haven't already done so, which can be confusing in and of itself). Make sure quester and crafter alike know which style is needed before crafting begins to save some frustration with items that won't be accepted by the quest. (The only place where there are exceptions to this is for certain class quests where you are provided specific quest recipes. In that case, some, not all, classes get a generic temporary recipe to make an item that is not continent-specific)
3. Know your T1/T2 attuning dusts! If someone wants a "charlatan's stave" for example, you not only need to know the continental style, but you need a way to figure out "oh, charlatan's is tier 1, which means they need an attuning dust of intelligence, AND it will be a weakened wood stave recipe for ____ continent". It isn't obvious (until someone points it out to you!), but tier 1 and tier 2 recipes create uniquely-named items when dusted, and you can figure out from there which tier recipe and which dust is needed. Taken from Thorsen's VERY handy crafting guide:
Attribute: Tier 1 Name, Tier 2 Name
• Intelligence: Charlatan’s Grifter’s
• Wisdom: Mystic’s Oracle’s
• Strength: Sentry’s Protector’s
• Dexterity: Brigand’s Brute’s
• Vitality: Votary’s Fanatics
• Constitution: Drifter’s Wayfarer’s
4. Even if you have the right item, your journal might not update! This is a known feature. receiving items in email, such as from the exchange, doesn't always update your quest log. The NPC, however, doesn't have that problem and will accept the proper items regardless of if the journal updates. If you want to be sure you've got the right item, you can relog, or sell the item to a vendor then immediately buy it back or other such stuff (dying works, too, but isn't a personal favorite of mine ;D) and get the journal to update that way.
As I said, just a mini-guide, but hopefully it will help solve some confusion.
~Mum