Crafting

In this order

Gathering before crafting, crafting before the weapon path. Start at the end and you buy expensive.

• The five professions — pick two

  Blacksmithing, armor smithing, handicrafting, alchemy, cooking. What they do, what they earn, and why you should not learn all five.

• Gathering — collect while you are walking anyway

  Three ranks, each with a concrete benefit. And why gathering underpins every profession.

• The route to a crafted weapon

  From orichalcum to the Noble Dragon Lord. How the tiers build on each other and which step is the genuinely hard one.