Crafting Guide for TERA Fans

En Masse Entertainment has announced that it has released a crafting guide for TERA fans to get their tools sharpened and set for the arrival of the game on May 1st.

TERA's crafting system is simple but deep. Gather materials, refine them with reagents, then combine them in a recipe with some purchased parts and fittings. Gather fiber from plants for cloth. Mine ore from rocks for metals. Draw energy from crystalline shards for alchemical essences. You will use alchemy when you're crafting focus weapons. Monsters drop hides for leather armor, as well as the runes that give Tera items the magic of the two titans: Runes of Shara imbue weapons with Shara's power, while runes of Arun imbue armor. Higher level armor and weapons also need Runes of Titans, imbued with both.

Any character can craft any item, regardless of the item's intended class. Craft halls in Velika, Allemantheia, and Kaiator sell basic designs and any parts you'll need. All crafting you do with a skill increases it, but success boosts your skill faster. Refine enough materials for a few items to raise your crafting skill enough to build them. Buy the recipe, learn it, hit your bench, and crank out an item!

That's it! Each profession produces worthwhile items across a ten-level spread from just one basic material, so little of what you gather goes to waste as you advance.

There are six different crafting disciplines for Tera items, and your character can learn them all at any time.

Weaponsmithing
You'll use weaponsmithing to make lances and shields, axes, paired swords, and greatswords. Weaponsmithing uses refined ingots, so learning how to turn ore you have gathered from mining into something useful is a big part of the craft.

Focus Crafting
For those who want to make their own ranged weapons tera items, this is the skill to learn. Focus crafting makes bows, discs, scepters, and staffs, by melding or refining energy-infused crystals from essence gathering into weapons of war.

Armorsmithing
Lancers and berserkers wear heavy armor, gauntlets, and greaves, and armorsmithing is what you'll use to supply them. Armorsmithing uses the same ingots as weaponsmithing, but you'll need to learn separate patterns to level up your skill on ingots.

Leatherworking
Warriors, slayers, and archers wear leather armor, gloves, and boots made out of processed hides. Leatherworking is the only crafting skill not tied directly to gathering. Hides and leather only drop from killed enemies.

Tailoring
Sorcerers, mystics, and priests wear robes, sleeves, and shoes made of cloth. You will need to use plant gathering to gather the materials that you can then turn into the fibers used in tailoring patterns.

Alchemy
Using this skill, your characters can make consumable Tera items like potions, scrolls, and dyes that can aid them while adventuring or make them look good while doing it. In addition to ingots and fibers, alchemy uses its own specialized materials refined from rare versions of gathered items.

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