Overview

Update 2 will soon be here, and we cannot wait to tell you about all of the new crafting-related updates and features! This update introduces new tutorials for all crafting vocations, redesigned crafting progression-gating quests, improvements for the Metalsmith and Tailor professions, some new recipes and also a surprise.

Crafting Vocation Tutorials

Starting out, crafters can find themselves full of bewilderment, wondering how they should begin their journey towards mastering each craft profession. Well, be confused no more! We’ve introduced brand new crafting vocation tutorial quests to guide you along your first steps of the path!

Mistress of Apprentices offering introductory crafting tutorial quests to a Historian

After choosing your vocation, the Master or Mistress of Apprentices now offers three tutorial-style quests, one for each crafting profession. These quests are designed to provide basic information such as how to gather/obtain resources, how to navigate the crafting panel and how to execute recipes to produce your very first crafted item.

Crafting tutorial quests help new players learn the fundamentals of their profession

Completing each tutorial awards the newly-enlightened crafter with some ingredients to use as they wish. A special vocation title is awarded for completing all three tutorials in each vocation, so be sure to see each one through to the end!

Veteran crafters take note: If you wish, you may visit any Master or Mistress of Apprentices and go through the tutorials for your chosen vocation and claim the new title as your own.

Revised Crafting Progression-gating Quests

The road from Apprentice to Supreme is full of challenges for all crafters: Finding rare ingredients, obtaining critical success, locating superior facilities, completing unnecessary progression-gating quests...

Wait, scratch that last one! We've made changes to all crafting progression-gating quests in an effort to streamline the experience and impart useful wisdom at important moments in your crafting career. Here are the major revisions:

We’ve removed many instances where crafting progress was halted due to a progress "lock" requiring quest completion. Profession-specific hints with useful information will now appear upon completing proficiency for any given crafting tier. The result is fluid crafting progression throughout all tiers of each profession.

New tutorial hints provide more detailed information

We’ve added new quests to Cook, Jeweller, Metalsmith, Scholar, Tailor, Weaponsmith, and Woodworker vendors. These new quests guide players who have completed Journeyman proficiency to a Master or Mistress of Craft Guilds, which allows the player to choose from the available guilds.

Novice Scholar vendor offering a quest

We’ve also removed quests that previously provided access to the Artisan tier and/or to a specific Superior Facility Access trait (where applicable). Often these quests required obtaining a quest item that may or may not have been easily accessible to the player, depending on their level and profession. In their stay, we’ve added new quests that simultaneously unlock Artisan tier and grant Superior Facility Access trait. These new quests focus on crafting items and abilities already familiar to the player.

Quest panel displaying one of the new quests