Crafting Orders and Recrafting Guide

Crafting Orders is a system that was first introduced in Dragonflight. To put it simply, it allows players to place an order for a piece of gear, weapon, consumable, or even cosmetics. Other players, crafters, can then see the orders and proceed to fulfil them. While the explanation sounds easy, there is more to it. In the following guide, you can get a better idea of how the Crafting Orders system works, what are the limitations of it, and if it can be of use to you.

Much like with Auction Houses, you need to talk with specific NPCs located in certain areas to access the Crafting Order user interface. Usually these NPC's are located in the main city hubs of the current expansion.

As Silvermoon serves as the main hub for Midnight, it only makes sense that you would find the vendors here. They have their own little area, which can be found in the location displayed below.

There are 2 sides when it comes to Crafting Orders. One side is the placing of various Crafting Orders, and the other one is actually crafting said orders. While anyone can place an order, not anyone can fulfil the Order. You need to have the specific profession, recipes, and skills to actually craft the customer-ordered item.

There are various types of orders that can be placed, below you can find a list giving a quick overview of them.

• Public Orders can be placed by anyone and picked up by anyone
• Personal Orders can be placed by anyone, but only fulfilled by the specific person they were sent to
• Guild Orders can be placed by anyone in the guild, and completed by anyone in the guild ignoring cross-realm limitations, making it the main way to craft items across different realms
• Patron Orders are automatically created by NPCs to guarantee a flow of Work Orders for crafters which help with profession leveling, gold making, and grant special rewards such as Augment runes and skill-increasing optional reagents

Before we get dive in, there are some limitations in place that you should keep in mind before stepping into the world of Crafting Orders. These are there to help keep the balance and to prevent one person grabbing up all the crafting orders.

• As a crafter, you can only complete 4 Public Orders per day
• Guild and Personal Crafting Orders have no daily limits
• After picking up a Order, you have only 30 minutes to complete it
• You can only have one work order active at any given time
• Crafting Orders are server-specific, meaning that you can only see and craft for people on your own server with the exception of guild orders, which are cross-realm
• The player creating the order does not need to provide all the materials; the missing materials can be provided by the Crafter
• For some higher-level crafts, the player creating the order needs to provide specific materials which can not be given by the Crafter. The most common situation where this happens is when crafting high-end gear, as sparks and crests cannot be provided by the Crafter

To place an order, you need to go and talk to a NPC at one of said locations above. Doing so will open an auction-house like interface which allows you to filter for various items which can be crafted. These items can go from bind on pickup end game gear, all the way down to various Battle Pets.

Below, you can see a picture of the Crafting Order window for placing orders, filtered to Inscription gear from the current expansion.

Once you find the item you wish to get crafted, you can click on it, and it will show you the mandatory and optional Reagents needed to craft it. You, as the client, need to provide the crafting Reagents to place the Order. You can also choose the duration for how long your Order will be up. In addition to the above, you need to also provide a Commission for the Crafter, which might influence how quickly your order is done, if at all.

You can also choose between order types. Public Orders can be picked up by any crafter in your realm, Personal Orders will only show up for the specified player, and Guild Orders are available only for guilds. With Public Orders, the creator needs to provide all the materials. For Guild and Personal Orders you do not need to provide all the materials, as the Crafter can fill in the missing materials themselves, and you will also be able to request the item to be of a specific minimum Quality.

Once the Order is placed, you can see it under the My Orders tab. All your active orders will be shown there with some additional information, and you can enter any unclaimed order to cancel it, if needed, in which case all materials and other inputs you provided for the Order will be sent to your mailbox.

On top of the mandatory Reagents needed to craft a item, there are also various Optional Reagents. These Optional Reagents allow you to modify the requested item further, either by adding extra item levels, specific stats, or even special effects which typically count towards your character's two Embellishment limit.

For example, Thalassian Missive of the Fireflash allows to set the secondary stats for your item to Crit and Haste, while Arcanoweave Lining adds an additional Embellishment effect to your item.

These can typically be bought from the Auction House and are created by professions, with the exception of crests to increase item level and sparks / Fused Vitality which are mandatory items to provide for the best combat / profession gear, respectively.

To understand which profession can create what, take a look at the in-depth profession guides linked below.

In order to pick up a crafting order, you need to be near your profession's Crafting Table. These can typically be found next to your trainer in the main expansion hub. If you are having issues locating your trainer, ask any of the guards in the city for the location.

Once you are near a Crafting Table, you can click on it, and it will open up a similar interface as with placing orders. At the bottom of the window, navigate to the Crafting Orders tab. From there, you can see all the Orders that are currently available, and their rewards. You can also filter and sort for items that you wish to see active orders for.

Once you find an order you wish to craft, click on it to open up a detailed view window. In this window, you can see who placed the Order, your cut of the gold, and additional Crafting Details. If you are satisfied with everything, you can click on Start Order to pick it up for yourself, which will reserve a public or personal order for yourself for 30 minutes, preventing other crafters from taking on that specific Order.

After picking up the Order, if you can fulfil its material and Quality requirements, you can click on the Create button in the same window to create the item and then Complete Order to mail it to the person who ordered it and obtain your gold, with other NPC request rewards being sent to mail instead.

Recrafting allows you to take a piece of crafted gear and take another shot at it. It requires the original item and a small fraction of the original tradeable reagents that went into it.

Recrafting lets you add, remove, or change out the Optional Reagents in the gear. Any replaced or removed Optional Reagents will be destroyed in the process. It allows you to raise the quality of the gear further if you can craft it at a higher skill than when it was originally created, but keep in mind that if you are trying to do this by increasing the Quality of the materials used, the original materials will still be weighted in the recraft and might cause your skill to drop unexpectedly if you originally crafted with base materials and try to recraft with the best materials.

Just as with regular Crafting Orders, you can also place Recrafting Orders. These are special kinds of orders which allow you to upgrade an already crafted item to either higher item level, to add some effects, or to change the stats on the item.

Recrafting can be accessed from the same place where you can place your regular Crafting Orders. Just click on the Start Recrafting Order at the top. After that, the Recrafting page opens, allowing you to pick an item you want to recraft.

Once the item is select additional options become available. You can see the materials needed for the recraft, and the possibility to provide Optional Reagents. These Optional Reagents allow you to alter the item to your needs, adding effects or increasing the item level. You can also see the outcome of the recrafting at the top of the page so you know which item you will get.