Masterpieces of Middle Earth
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Guide to Crafting Mastery Items
in Lord of The Rings Online
By Darkgolem
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Crafting in Middle Earth is a complex, usually fun and often profitable
system which has genuine rewards for members of the Free People who
learn to craft, and those who purchase their wares. Some of the
best wares you can make as a crafter in Lord of The Rings Online are
mastery items. Mastery items occur infrequently, but using
special trophies, magical enhancements and high quality tools can
increase the chance of you making a mastery item to well over 50% per
attempt. For selling finished products in the auction house,
being able to create mastery items is an absolute must.
The Basics
Crafting is simple to
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though it has many possible complexities to achieve specific
goals. Basically all professions have 5 tiers of craftsmanship,
these being Apprentice, Journeyman, Expert, Artisan and Grand
Master. Each tier is divided into proficiency and mastery.
Proficiency allows you to make items of that tier and reach proficiency
of the next tier, mastery allows you to make mastery items for that
tier and reach mastery of the next tier.
How Mastery Works.
Mastery items are improved versions of regular items of the same
tier. For example, you might make a set of Heavy Bronze Boots if
you follow the appropriate recipe without getting a critical success,
but if you successfully roll a critical success, you will get
Hardened Bronze Boots. The Hardened Boots are better armor and
provide better statistic bonuses. In addition, these mastery
items often are of tough durability, meaning they take less damage in
combat, reducing repair costs.
Without any other bonuses, one has a 5% chance to gain a critical
success when making an item. You must, as mentioned, have reached
completed mastery level of proficiency in the tier of the item you wish
to make (I.e. both anvils are filled in on your crafting screen).
Gathering Professions
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the case of all the gathering professions except farming, you only have
a 5% chance of gaining a critical success, and this cannot be improved
by using trophies, scrolls (magical enhancement) or better tools.
In each case with these professions, you gain three processed resources
rather than one with a critical mastery affect. For example,
normally making a boiled medium leather recipe gives you a single
boiled medium leather out of two medium hides. A critical success
gains you three boiled medium leathers rather than one. In the case of
all resource professions, including farming, there are no magical
scrolls available to improve your critical chance, and special tools
increase the speed at which you do your resource gathering work rather
than the likelihood of you getting a critical success.
With the gathering profession farming, you can ensure you get a
critical success. In the case of farming, a critical success
means you create a superior crop,
which provides more crops and rarely unique crops such as onion peels
(which are used for making dyes by the scholar profession) To
ensure
you gain a critical success with farming, you must purchase and use
improved soil additives, such as the soil of Rivendell. The
amount and
type of soil is detailed in the recipe for any particular crop, and
always moves your chance for a critical success from 5% to 100%.
Crafting Professions
When cooking, there are no trophies to be used to increase the chance
of a critical success. Of note though, the intestines of certain
animals, which are crafting trophies, are used for making lute strings.
In these case they are just a component of making magical lute strings
rather than increase the chance for a critical success. For
example, you can make superior blueberry muffins instead of blueberry
muffins, and by using better tools and magical scholar scrolls you can
increase your chance of rolling a critical success, but there is no
trophy you can add which increases that chance even further.
For of all the remaining professions (scholar, tailor, metalworker,
weaponsmith, woodworker, jeweler) in most cases, you gain a mastery
item when you successfully roll. In a few cases, especially with
the scholar profession, you gain more items rather than better
items. This is usually in the case of consumable items, such as
crafting scrolls (made by scholars) or class items (such as fire oil
for hunters). Jeweler amulets (such as amulets of the bear, etc.)
cannot have a critical success, there are no mastery items for these
amulets.
Tools of the Trade
Magical scrolls that increase your chance of gaining a critical success
are created by the scholar profession. These scrolls are usable
by higher and higher levels, are available for all crafting professions
(but no gathering professions), and provide a 1%, 2.5%, 3.5%, 7.5% or
10% bonus (for tiers 1-5 crafting scrolls, respectively).
Crafting tools provide bonuses to crafting depending upon their
quality. Tier 1 Crafting tools provide a 1% bonus (2% for the
superior bronze tool), all the way up to Tier 5 crafting items (ancient
iron crafting tools provide a 14% bonus, and the superior version,
ancient steel crafting items, provide an 18% bonus). These
bonuses stack with scrolls items and crafting trophies plus the base 5%
of gaining a critical mastery roll.
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trophies provide a 44% bonus to your chance to get a critical success
with a crafting attempt. There are no tiers to mastery bonus
items, they simply are present or not, and one crafting trophy is
consumed per attempt. To use a mastery bonus item, simply check
off the box in the recipe when you craft an item. A single
mastery bonus item will be used each time you attempt to craft an item.
Crafting trophies are pieces of animals that rarely drop as loot when
creatures are defeated. For example, if you wish to gain a
critical success for tier 4 scholar recipes (which use the grey eyes
crafting trophy), you need to defeat creatures that drop
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eyes in Middle Earth, and rarely these will drop as loot.
These items usually drop from level appropriate creatures. Not
all creatures drop crafting trophies, and not all critical items drop
at the same rate. Furthermore, some tiers or professions use
different items for different products, but all recipes only use one
item. Finally, single use recipes do not have crafting trophies
(so you can use scrolls and tools, but not an item to improve the
chance to increase of your gaining a mastery item).
Below is a list of all crafting trophies and where they are
found. Note that there are other locations where these crafting
trophies have been reported to drop, however, in the interest of
confirm ability, only those the author has been able to verify with at
least reasonable certainty are included. Tier 4 and higher drops
have not be personally confirmed by the author, but instead gathered
from multiple sources.
of The Rings Online Crafting Trophy List
One
Name
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Treasure
Wights
Lin, Ered Luin
Treasure
Wights
Downs, Bree-Land
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Tail
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Eye
Fly, Neekerbreeker
Marshes, Bree-Land
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Eye
Fly, Neekerbreeker
Marshes
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Two
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Bree-Land
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Treasure
Bog Warden
Lone Lands
Claw
Eidh, Lone Lands
Eidh, Lone Lands
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Heartwood
Claw
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Eye
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Tail
Root
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Ear
Pass, Lone Lands
Lone Lands
Levels
Downs, Bree-Land
Claw
Eidh, Lone Lands
Eidh, Lone Lands
Three
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Tail
North Downs
Mantle
North Downs
of Fornost, North Downs
Skull
Bog Warden
Lone Lands
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Tail
North Downs
Mantle
North Downs
of Fornost, North Downs
Tail
Mantle
Amlug, North Downs
Amlug, North Downs
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Tail
Claw
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Heartwood
Lone Lands
Heartwood
Lone Lands
Four
Claw
Bear
Tail
Mountains
Eye
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Eye
Worm
Duath, North Downs
Sand Lurkers
Evendim
Tail
Tail
Mountains
Claw
Crag Hawk
of Bruinen, Trollshaws
Five
Claw
Bear
Eye
Blight Worm
Iarchith
Tail
Claw
Bear
All cooking crafting trophies refer to the intestine ingredient for
magical lute strings, which do not provide a critical success
bonus. There are no crafting trophies for cooks past tier 2.
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