Blacksmith

Blacksmiths can be found at the Home Bases. There are currently two bases in the game each with its own blacksmith. The original one, Hedwig, is found in Fortress of the Order, and the other, Trundil, is in Odenor Village (In the Icelands map area).

## Basic functions of the Blacksmith

There are several basic functions that can be carried out in the Blacksmith.

### Repair all items worn

This is used to repair all items and equipment carried but it does not apply to items in the inventory. All repairs cost gold. As you would suspect, the worse the damage the higher the cost to repair.

### Repair a single item

Any repairable item being worn, or in the inventory, can be moved to the blacksmith's window to be repaired. Once a broken item (one that has a stat of zero) has been swapped out, or taken off, it cannot be put back on again until it has been repaired. So this is the only way that this can be done.

### Remove sockets

This would have been more aptly named *Remove Gems*. An item that has gems in its sockets can have them returned to the inventory using this function. Once again the item you wish to modify is dragged to the blacksmith's window. Recovery of gems, of course, comes at a price. The more sockets an item has the higher the price of removal. Also the more powerful the gem, the more it costs to remove. The socketed item itself is unharmed by this process.

There is no way to remove just a single gem from a multi-gemmed, multi-socketed item.

### Recycle

This is used to convert items into their consumable form. There are restrictions to this process though. An item has to be at least tier IV (4) and nothing below Epic can be recycled in this way either. Recycling epic items has a base cost of 10K gold. Legendary and Astral items, a base price of 20K gold. Upgraded items will have a higher cost to recycle but you will recover some of the material originally used to upgrade them.

By completing specific quests the blacksmith can be unlocked to perform two advanced functions.

### Upgrade the power of an item

In order to upgrade within a certain power range, specific Consumables are used dependant on the current power level of the item. It takes 3 pieces of material (and increasing amounts of gold) to upgrade. Also the higher the tier of the original item the more gold it takes. Upgrades will also upgrade any enchantment that was applied (and possibly enchantments applied afterwards. Fused items below their maximum level can still be upgraded too.

This ability unlocks when the quest The Vedjay's Power has been completed.

### Fuse two items together

This uses an Infuse Core to combine two items. Where you put the two items is important. The item on the left will be infused into the item on the right. Matching specs will be added together. Non-matching specs and unique item abilities will just be carried across. Any enchantment on the left hand item will be lost. If you try to fuse an item with gems socketed, the process will fail. If you try to fuse items at different tiers the process will fail. When fusing with green set items, the set item must always be on the right. You also cannot fuse two set items.

When you preview a fuse, the stats given for the new item will nearly always be wrong but the item created will have the expected stats. Fusing items always has a set price of 2.5 million gold. Once fused there is no way to recover the individual items again.