Crafting

Alter Aeon boasts an extensive crafting system that covers a wide range of items, from basic wooden cups to legendary weapons and armor. Certain crafting skills are accessible to any class, while others are exclusive to experts in specific magical or martial disciplines.
Guilds play a significant role in the game, offering members access to unique skills, job opportunities, and exclusive resources. Unlike class spells and skills, guild abilities are typically acquired by advancing through the guild ranks and do not require practices to learn. Progressing in a guild may involve completing jobs, crafting masterwork items, contributing new discoveries to archives, or providing resources to the guild's stockpiles.
There are two main types of guilds: General Guilds and Professional Guilds. General Guilds, such as the Cartographers Guild, provide skills essential for everyday activities. Professional Guilds focus on teaching and supporting the crafting and enhancement of equipment, spell scrolls, potions, and poisons. Examples include the Smiths Guild, Rangers Guild, Lapidarists Guild, Woodwrights Guild, Haberdashers Guild, Alchemists Guild, Assassins Guild, and Scribes Guild.
Supporting skills like Rune Carving, Cooking, Enchanting, and Fishing complement crafting disciplines. Rune Carving enhances equipment through magical runes, Cooking boosts regeneration with carefully crafted recipes, Enchanting imbues items with magical properties, and Fishing provides a source of income or joy.
Crafting disciplines follow a similar model: gather materials with different properties, craft the desired item, then enhance it with enchanting, rune carving, gems, or inlaid metal. Crafting usually incurs a cost, whether in gold, mana, or energy.
Crafted items are assigned an Item Quality ranking, such as WELL_CRAFTED, EXPERTLY_CRAFTED, MASTERCRAFT, MASTERCRAFT 2, and MASTERCRAFT 3. Higher quality items have greater potential power. Crafting proficiency earns Profession Points, which can be spent to improve item quality, among other uses. Resting before crafting can increase the average quality of produced items.
The "composite" of an item represents its potential power, influenced by factors like required level, class flags, alignment flags, and HUM/LIGHT/GLOW flags. Profession Points are earned passively through gathering and crafting tasks, and they can be used to increase skill proficiency, enhance item quality, and perform certain crafting sub-commands.
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