Crafting

Start crafting when you get the prompts from the quests during levels 5 to 7 [see Your Main City (Levels 6 to 10)]. Crafting involves gathering materials, or mats, to make your own armor, weapons, accessories, potions, and more. With the items you equip, you have the chance of producing items with additional stat points, such as Magic +5 or Wood Resistance +75. The more added stats on the item than on the ordinary version of the item, the rarer and more valuable it is. Even if you cannot equip it, these items can be sold for a lot of coin and get you rich quickly. To continue making items that give you the best benefits for your level, you have to level up crafting skills.

To level up one crafting skill, you need to make 10 items. For example, to level up the tailor skill I need to craft any combination of 10 breastplates, wrist guards, cloaks, leggings, boots or headgear. It would be nice if I had the right mats to craft armor I could wear, so the items I made would actually be useful. However, if it is just to reach level 2 of each of the crafting skills, it’s not necessary. The better pieces of armor are found from crafting at level 2 and up, anyway. To level up the apothecary skill, I have to make 10 potions from herbs I find outside cities (or buy inside cities if I am feeling lazy).

To find the mats you need, you’ll have to be observant when you’re out in the wilderness doing quests or grinding. There is almost always something for you to farm nearby wherever you are if you just take a moment to look for it. Buying all your mats is very expensive, so if you see something, just farm it and look—you’ve saved yourself 500-1000 coin right there! The level 1 mats are as follows: Resources - Logs, Pig Iron, Sandstone, Rough Coal Herbs - Salvia Root, Golden Herb, Ageratum, Nectar

The rule: If you see it, farm it! Don’t be lazy.

*Don’t brush off crafting! It’s worth the trouble and it saves you money because you can create weapons/armor with special stats without paying hundreds of thousands of coins for them when you are level 50+.

Here a link for an interactive map to locate mats (http://www.pwmap.ru/pwi/). It enables you to check off which mats you want to see on the map and where they are. There is even an option for you to enter in-game map coordinates to see if there are any mats in that spot. Sadly, it is a little outdated. It doesn’t include the expansions for the Tideborn and Earthguard races, so those cities and surrounding areas won’t be on the map. This website also features a location list, locations of high level quests, and more, but I never use those features because the recent updates have made it very easy to auto-path to everything else you need to find. Still, it is very useful for anyone frustrated with gathering mats

(Note: Characters of Tideborn and Earthguard races will be able to use this when they move away from their main cities and go to Archosaur, since their main cities are not on this map.)

This video by PWI Entertainment introduces crafting if it still sounds a little confusing. It also shows what you need to do when speaking to your Elder about starting crafting.