Weapon Crafting in Chrono Odyssey

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Weapon Crafting lets you turn all your gathered resources into powerful weapons that not only make you significantly stronger, but also unlocks better and more stats, while allowing you to set up your build early. Crafting in this game is rather simple: gather, process, craft at the Weapon Forge, then enhance and salvage to keep moving up in power. You can find the Weapon Forge in major towns and settlements. There you can see how much of each material you need, the cost to craft, the required level, equipment score range, attributes and perk lines for the weapon.

Go to the Weapon Forge located in town to craft your class weapons. The processing bench beside it turns all types of ore, plants and raw hides, into leather, ingots, cloth, oils, stone and other materials you'll need to craft weapons, armor and other accessories. Certain crafting steps have a small gold cost, and processing also grants class experience, but not that much.

Side note: You don't need to have the materials on you to craft the items. You can also craft directly from storage, saving you a ton of time, as well as inventory space!

Weapon tiers unlock as your character level rises. Each craft rolls within that tier’s level range and can roll attributes and perk lines based on rarity. Some results can include Jewel sockets, that you can place gems inside of to further boost your stats and make your stronger. Crafted weapons are bind on equip, so you cannot place them on the trading post.

Tier Unlocks:

1. Tier 1 at Lv 1.
2. Tier 2 at Lv 5.
3. Tier 3 at Lv 15.
4. Tier 4 at Lv 25.
5. Tier 5 at Lv 35.
6. Tier 6 at Lv 45.

Variants or stat profiles: Different stat mixes on the same base piece. Common patterns include crit rate and crit damage (burst), attack and haste (tempo/APM), DoT boosting (burn/poison/bleed), mitigation and max HP (pure tank), resource sustain (stamina and mana recovery), and defensive utility (damage reduction, barrier scaling). Pick the variant that supports your role instead of chasing raw equipment score. A properly tuned variant usually outperforms a slightly higher score with the wrong stats.

Weapon Crafting levels fastest when you keep the loop tight: gather, refine, masscraft and salvage. Refining at the Processing bench always grants profession XP for a small gold cost. So make sure to convert mats in bulk whenever you pass through the main city. Then spend those materials on the cheapest weapon patterns your tier allows.

• Tier 1: Levels 1 to 4
• Tier 2: Levels 5 to 14
• Tier 3: Levels 15 to 24
• Tier 4: Levels 25 to 34
• Tier 5: Levels 35 to 40

Use optional materials only when you need extra Equipment Score, otherwise skip them if you are just pushing profession XP.

Make sure to batch your weapon crafts as much as you can. Keep rolls with good attributes/perks and immediately salvage the rest to recover arch shards or oil for later sockets and perk transfers for your new gear upgrades. Also, always upgrade gathering tools as soon as possible! The upgraded tools are insanely better. They drastically reduce how long it takes to gather the item and you'll higher-tier nodes, which directly increases crafts per hour.

1. Buy basic tools, then run around and gather everything trees, stone, cotton and ore.
2. Kill animals as you go and skin them for leather. Leather is processed and used for hilts, among many other things.
3. Refine in bulk. Turn raw mats into leather, ingots, cloth, and oils. This always grants class experience and can require a small gold cost, regardless of what you're crafting.
4. Craft the weapon tier your level allows, then salvage low rolls for arch shards and oil on your weapon.
5. Do early accessories out of the benches and time dungeons to fill gaps. Bounties are great for early accessories and recipe drops.
6. Upgrade to better tools as soon as possible! Faster gathering tightens the loop and opens higher nodes.

Reminder! You can craft straight from storage, so dump everything, refine in town, and keep the loop moving.

Enhancing is the main method of improving and upgrading your weapons. By visiting the Enhancement NPC found in the main town, you enhance your equipment to boost both it's base stats and equipment score. Each successful enhancement increases the weapons level by 1. (for example, +1 to +7), granting higher attack, defense, and other important attributes. Enhancements require Enhancement Shards and a decent amount of gold. Shards come in several colors that match the item rarity: — green for uncommon gear, blue for rare, and purple for epic or higher tiers.

Vendors throughout the world sell a limited supply of shards daily, typically five per NPC per reset. The higher your enhancement level, the more shards and gold the process will cost. Unlike in most other MMORPGs, enhancement attempts during the closed beta did not appear to fail or downgrade gear. Instead, it focused on cost scaling rather than risk. Like I said, it was quite pricey to enhance weapons. The enhancement cap depended on the item tier. The early-game equipment typically stopped at +7, while high-tier (Tier 5) gear can reach +15.

Enhancing is one of the most important progression systems in the game, as your total Equipment Score determines access to certain dungeons and open-world bosses. Always enhancing your primary and secondary weapons will significantly impact your combat and damage more than anything else in the game. Even when you’re not actively wielding your back up weapon. Also, enhanced gear stacks with other progression systems like Perk Transfers, Socketing Gems, and Crafting the high Tier gear. Together, these systems form the foundation of long-term gear improvement in the game.

When crafting any weapon, it has a chance to come with a Jewel Socket. The chance for a socket goes up the higher tier weapon you're crafting. These are special slots that allow you to put Gems in that will increase your damage, give you stats or a long list of things. Gems can drop in any dungeon content, bosses, world bosses and world mobs, and can also be salvaged from higher tier gear later. Gems work differently than other MMORPG's:

• All sockets are randomized upon craft and previewable before finalizing the item.
• Each Gem is related to a specific skill in your class. Once socketed, it boosts that skill by +1 level or provide an additional modifier (like more damage, reduced cooldown, higher crit chance, or damage over time and many more options).
• Some high tier weapons allow multiple sockets, and there’s a separate tab at crafting benches (icon looks like a Jewel Socket Imbuing on the minimap) that lets you insert, replace, or remove Gems for a nice chunk of gold.
• The amount of sockets, as well as your Gem rarity both scale with your item tiers and your equipment score.
• Sockets also interacts with your Enchantment and Enhancement tiers, making the higher tiers of gear (T4–T5) are more likely to roll sockets.
• Gems are Bind on Equip once you socket them.

Perks are special passive effects that come attached to weapons and gear, granting extremely unique bonuses such as increased survivability, healing, crowd control, or additional damage. These effects are not tied to your class, meaning you can freely mix and match perks to customize your build and playstyle. Perks can appear on crafted gear, as well as dropped or enhanced gear. The number and strength of perks scale with the items rarity too:

1. Common (Green): 1 basic perk.
2. Rare (Blue): 2 moderate perks.
3. Epic (Purple): 3–4 perks. Sometimes includes rare unique effects.

Perks are randomly rolled when you craft a weapon, this means that two weapons of the same type(for example, two Bows) can feel like two completely different weapons, depending on which perks they've got. Perks are what make your builds flexible, and they let you tailor your weapons towards whatever playstyle you're looking for. Sometimes the Chrono Gate bosses can give you a hard time, and being able to to use some strong defensive perks like Spirit’s Protection, which reduces the damage you take by 25% for 5 seconds, would help tremendously. Other times you may want a perk like Momentum, which gives you 10% attack speed and damage.

For other help with perks, check out the video guide below:

Some of the most powerful perks are obtained inside of the Trials. Players can purchase trial keys, complete short combat rooms and puzzles to earn Trial Tokens. These tokens are exchanged for a piece of trial armor, which contains unique perks. Each piece of trial gear, no matter the quality, shared the same pool of possible perks. Below are some examples of powerful perk effects:

• Wall of Thorns: Summons a barrier that damages all enemies around you.
• Shockwave: Chance to stun enemies whenever you attack them.
• Life Drain: Restores a portion of your Health whenever you deal damage.
• Thorn Armor: Reflects a chunk of damage back to all melee attackers.
• Battle Focus: Significantly increases attack or defense after defeating an enemy.

Although the trial gear will be pretty weak once you get to the higher levels, you can transfer the perks to your stronger gear back at the main city. The process costs a small amount of gold and one Ember Breath per transfer.

Salvaging allows you to break down any of your unwanted weapons, armor and accessories into valuable crafting materials. This system is essential for reusing materials in new crafts or enhancements, and also very helpful in keeping your inventory clean. You’ll find the Salvage NPC located next to the Enchanter and Perk Transfer vendors in the main city. When salvaging, you’ll receive a mix of raw resources such as Leather, Cloth, Ingots, Arch, and Oils. Higher rarity items will often yield more materials and occasionally return enhancement shards or other important special reagents. Crafted items, dungeon drops, and quest rewards can all be salvaged.

Additionally, check out our gearing and upgrading guide to learn more:

You can post crafted weapons on the Trading Post. Items bind when equipped, so make sure to list them before you try them on. Focus on variants in demand for the current meta. For example, precision lines for crit builds and damage over time lines for burn or poison builds. Always check prices before you craft in bulk and avoid sinking shards into a weapon you plan to sell. Shards become very annoying to get your hands on later in the game.

• Upgrade gathering tools early to unlock higher nodes and speed.
• Refine in bulk for steady profession XP, make keep gold on hand for fees.
• Mass-craft the cheapest weapon for your class and tier, keep great rolls, salvage the rest.
• Prioritize weapon perks that synergize with your build. (Crit, Poison, Attack Speed builds).
• Transfer god roll perks to new upgrades as you get armor.
• Keep storage stocked so you can craft directly from it and avoid bag clutter.

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This Guide has been written by Crix, a long time tester for Ashes of Creation, with over 1,000 hours playing the game, and a majority of the time being spent on Mages. He is in the guild Enveus and hosts multiple PvP Tournaments. You can find his Ashes of Creation guides on YouTube and his stream on Twitch.