Crafting in Hyboria

[ShenMolo]

Found some info on gathering & crafting from a post on the AOC forums.

-Gathering skills can be learned at 20.

-There are resources available to gather in the 20+ zones. Trees, for example, show leaves falling from them if they are gatherable.

-Crafting can be trained at 40.

-Aquilonians train at Poitain, Stygians at Purple Lotus Swamp.

http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=3900

EDIT:

Aquilonians - Poitain

    To get there, you need to go to the Wild Lands of Zelata (from Old Tarantia). In the Northwestern corner of Zelata, there is a stagecoach that will take you to Poitain. (Emidan)

Stygians - Purple Lotus Swamp

    To get there you go to the k something province then take the road south and follow the road signs it will take you to a npc who you talk to who teleports you to the purple lotus swamp. Once there, go to the town and talk to the trainers. Caution some of them are glitched and are underneath the building; to talk to them just jump off the building (they are on stilts) and they should be standing underneath. (Annatar & Gemwatcher)

Cimmerian - Lachish Plains

    Lachish Plains, is off of the Field of the Dead zone. You have to go ALL the way to the end of Conall's Valley, enter the Field of the Dead, and hang a right by the small camp that is there. It's the hardest resource zone to reach by far. It's a long walk with lot's of level 28+ mobs right in the path with a few elites thrown in. (etaber)

    You don't actually have to go through the Field of the Dead, you just zone in there and make a right immediately and the entrance to Lachish Plains is right there. (mandachuwa)

[schild]

While Information is really fucking limited, here's what is important.

In the same location the guild city will be set up - The Purple Lotus Swamp, you'll find all your crafters. One of them is not wearing a top. Anyway, here's the low level (level 25) gathering classes:

# Mining: This profession will allow you to gather resources such as copper, tin, iron and more. You can also find rare ones like aurichalcum and blue iron.

# Prospecting: This profession will allow you to gather resources such as silver, electrum, gold and more. You can also find rare ones like illustrium and platinum.

# Skinning: This profession will allow you to gather resources such as different types of leather, some of which are rare ones like the grained leather and the whorled leather.

# Stonecutting: This profession will allow you to gather resources such as sandstone, granite, basalt and more. You can also find rare ones like adamant and obsidian.

# Weaving: This profession will allow you to gather resources such as cotton, wool, flax and more. You can also find rare ones like bloodflax and cottonwisp.

# Woodcutting: This profession will allow you to gather resources such as ash, yew, oak and more. You can also find rare ones like soulwood and amberwood.

You can take all 5. Do so.

High level crafting (40+) is as follows:

* Weaponsmithing: Picking up this trade allows you to craft various types of weaponry, from swords to staffs, from daggers to crossbows. Everything needed to kill your opponents!

* Armorsmithing: If you wish to go the completely opposite route from the weaponsmith, try picking up the armorsmithing craft that allows you to craft various types of armor pieces.

* Alchemy: Do you enjoy mixing things into vials and seeing how the result affects people? Then you should try your luck at alchemy, allowing you to make various types of potions.

* Architecture: City-building is an integral part of Age of Conan, and you will need someone skilled in the arts of architecture to draw up the plans needed for the different buildings.

* Gemcutting: Monsters tend to drop rough gems that the gemcutter can turn into powerful enchantments, and these can be placed into other crafted items to make them more potent.

You can only pick 1.

I'll go through the pain of being an architect. Obviously, the others will be needed. Finally, the gemcutting and alchemy stuff drops from monsters. So all that shit generic stuff? Gems, etc. Store them. I think.

Ok, more as I find out.

[stray]

Geez. Besides Arch, it sounds like WoW. Please tell me it plays out differently.

[schild]

Please don't compare this game to WoW. If you really want to, throw up a thread in MMOG.

[stray]

Never even played it dude. I'm just asking (asking) how it plays out -- because the profession names at least sound WoW-ish.

[schild]

Never even played it dude. I'm just asking (asking) how it plays out -- because the profession names at least sound WoW-ish.

Or Muddish circa 1990. That was my point. That there's nothing new here, a comparison is just silly. It plays out like the profession would play out, get shit make shit viola items. ^_^

[Nerf]

He's right man, the whole system is totally ripping off WoW, take off your fanboi glasses and look at the real picture.

I mean cmon, fucking mining? Skinning? ALCHEMY!?!11

I'm seriously considering ebaying my AoC box now, fuck funcom, fuck them in their thieving norweigan asses!

[stray]

I thought/hoped that since they went through the trouble of citybuilding, then that might have indicated a more creative direction with crafting in general. Not knocking it necessarily. It's just that... umm.. Well, whatever. Nevermind. 

How many architects are needed anyways?

[Signe]

I would have gone for architect, too, at least one of my chars will.  City building is actually one of the draws of this game for me.  Though, I wish there were move construction professions.  My PoM will probably do something girly.

[Miasma]

He's right man, the whole system is totally ripping off WoW, take off your fanboi glasses and look at the real picture.

I mean cmon, fucking mining? Skinning? ALCHEMY!?!11

I'm seriously considering ebaying my AoC box now, fuck funcom, fuck them in their thieving norweigan asses!

You're being sarcastic with the "ripping off Wow" right?

I would have gone for architect, too, at least one of my chars will.  City building is actually one of the draws of this game for me.  Though, I wish there were move construction professions.  My PoM will probably do something girly.

Architects are also the ones who build siege engined during PvP I guess.  And don't say that about PoM, I play one and I don't want it to become the girly class like Toyota solaras!

[Viin]

Or Jettas.

[Mrbloodworth]

He's right man, the whole system is totally ripping off WoW, take off your fanboi glasses and look at the real picture.

I mean cmon, fucking mining? Skinning? ALCHEMY!?!11

I'm seriously considering ebaying my AoC box now, fuck funcom, fuck them in their thieving norweigan asses!

Green or fail?

[Hutch]

Wow. Time for Context and Deconstruction 101.

He's right man, the whole system is totally ripping off WoW, take off your fanboi glasses and look at the real picture.

"Take off your fanboi glasses" is an obvious tongue-in-cheek trolling. This is your first clue. More to follow.

I mean cmon, fucking mining? Skinning? ALCHEMY!?!11

Note here the cliche'd abuse of overemphasized punctuation, complete with ironic substitution of 1 for !.

I'm seriously considering ebaying my AoC box now, fuck funcom, fuck them in their thieving norweigan asses!

"Thieving norwegian asses" is not a thing you can say without implied sarcasm. Unless Nerf is, in fact, Norwegian. In which case this entire analysis is moot.

[Signe]

DO NOT FALL INTO HIS SARCHASM!!!  You might never get out!

[Slayerik]

Nerf is an ass and a forum griefer.

[rattran]

Don't forget he's a racist, and a snappy dresser. 

[tazelbain]

He smells of Bengay and failure.

[Miasma]

Well harvesting isn't the nice relaxing activity I thought it would be.  Anything from one to three mobs will often randomly spawn, some are mini bosses.  You can also get jumped just wandering around, enemies spawn right on you.  Some of the animals are bugged too, a level 20 pig tore me to pieces in no time flat but a level 25 cow just needed a feather touch.  I'm still not sure how to get leather, I imagine it's a drop because I can't do anything with the corpses...

There are way, way too few resource nodes too.  It's going to be insane once everyone decides to check it out so you should do your gather quests right now.  There were maybe six people sharing the zone with me and even though it's quite large most of the resources had already been depleted.

Looking forward it would be a good idea to right click on your mini map and set a waypoint each time you find a node.

[Miasma]

Some level 40 people are saying you can now take two professions instead of just one.  They might be lying though...

[Typhon]

Don't forget he's a racist, and a snappy dresser. 

You have my vote for thread winner

[jpark]

Thanks for that info.

[schild]

Merging into other thread.

[ShenMolo]

I am able to begin the gathering quests at 22.

The gathering quests require you to collect 20 each of certain resources, the nodes of which can be found in the zone you trained in. There is no node tracking on the mini map that I can find, so you have to find them. I'm doing them now and thankfully each node gives plenty of resources, my first ash tree gave 10 out of the 20 needed.

Might be a good time to bang these quests out now before the hordes get to 20+ and resource competition heats up in these zones.

interestingly, nodes appear to be static spawns. They have a health bar that lowers as you farm them, and slowly regenerates over time.

[stu]

Do resources have variable quality rates which change the outcome of a crafted item each time one is made?

[schild]

Not that I know of.

[Miasma]

Do resources have variable quality rates which change the outcome of a crafted item each time one is made?

Yes there are rare harvests like tin from copper nodes and they can be used in higher quality recipes.  The second set of harvesting quests actually require a rare from each resource type and it's a fucking pain in the neck.  It will only get worse as more people come to the resource areas.

[stu]

I enjoy searching for the best possible resource to plug into a recipe, although something like the high amount of variables in the SWG resources would turn me off this time around. On the other hand, I'm not looking for the cookie cutter recipes that are in WoW either. Maybe the AoC system will turn out to be a happy medium, although I'll wait about another month before I sub.

[Kirth]

Gathering is pretty fun, I've gained almost 2 levels from doing it so far.

Can someone explain skinning?

[Slayerik]

Gathering is pretty fun, I've gained almost 2 levels from doing it so far.

Can someone explain skinning?

Lemme get this straight.....you gained levels by pickin herbs and shit? Or was it the kills near the resources?

Fuckin' A ... points to Funcom if the former

[Miasma]

Gathering is pretty fun, I've gained almost 2 levels from doing it so far.

Can someone explain skinning?

There is no skinning, leather is a drop.

Lemme get this straight.....you gained levels by pickin herbs and shit? Or was it the kills near the resources?

Fuckin' A ... points to Funcom if the former

No he would have gotten the levels from the fedEx and initial gathering quests.

[Kirth]

Gathering is pretty fun, I've gained almost 2 levels from doing it so far.

Can someone explain skinning?

Lemme get this straight.....you gained levels by pickin herbs and shit? Or was it the kills near the resources?

Fuckin' A ... points to Funcom if the former

mostly from killing the guys who pop when you gather.

[Falconeer]

Tonight we formed a full party of guildees and went gathering resources for the guild city (for those who missed it, you gather 95% of the resources in specific instances where you can only build Guild Cities and/or gather resources). It has been a blast! Maybe it's just the novelty, maybe it's the unexpected XPing while resource gathering, maybe it is thanks to the "apprenticeship" system (a kind of EQ2 mentoring, only upside down, as the lowest char temporarily gets the highest one's level) which let us form a full party even though some of us were 40+ and some other just above 20. But traveling from resouce node to resource node collecting resources actually useful to BUILD STUFF that changes the landscape, while at the same time:

1) completing Gathering Quests (getting XP and advancing as a gatherer)
2) fighting (because harvest nodes spawns mobs of various levels, including Bosses, Mini-Bosses and Nameds)
3) getting XP and loots from said mobs

is much much more than I expected from the harvesting/building section of Age of Conan. Could it be that they found an entertaining way to do resource-gathering and make it a social experience too?

I don't know. Maybe it's not such a cool thing after all: there are a few annoyances and some of the gathering quests are just irritating. And I can only imagine it will all get nasty when people will start flooding these places (let alone bots!). But I had fun tonight, and it felt definitely different to form a group to just go harvest, and not feel that we were wasting time.

[stray]

I'm surprised that not once has anyone mentioned the "riddle of steel". 

I'll be a blacksmith then, once I get a new machine. Probably will be too late in contributing with Arch.

[Falconeer]

This is what happened:

I only had room for 2 quests in my quest journal. Then I picked up the armorsmith profession. It gives you 3 quests as you do it. The first one is completed once you completed 10 sub-quests. The other two quests are basic canvas equip and advanced canvas equip. So, 3 quests. BUT I only had room for two, so the First one went on my hournal, then Basic Canvas.. but Advanced Canvas couldn't so I missed it.

And now I am stuck.

You can't drop your crafting profession.
You can't delete crafting quests.
You can't get that quest again as it counts as he knows you already took them (even if the second part didn't work due to a full journal).
You can't advance in you crafting profession.

I am stuck. Can't advance as a crafter, can't drop it and can't delete 3 quests from my already tight journal.
I petitioned and I am 89th in the queue. After 6 (six!) hours online I was 87th.. and if you log out your petition is deleted.

I am very angry.

[schild]

If you log out your petition is deleted? What? Someone answered mine 10 hours later when I was somewhere else completely. It may delete it on your end, but not the other end afaik.