In Aion, there are six different crafting skills: Alchemy, Armorsmithing, Cooking, Handicrafting, Sewing, and Weaponsmithing. In order to learn a craft, you must find that craft's expert from your race's major city and pay ~3,500 Kinah.

For Asmodians, go to the Temple of Artisans in Pandaemonium and find:
Alchemy: Honir
Armorsmithing: Kinterun
Cooking: Lainita
Handicrafting: Lanse
Sewing: Zyakia
Weaponsmithing: Rogi

For Elyos, go to the Artisans' Hall in Sanctum and find:
Alchemy: Diana
Armorsmithing: Vulcanus
Cooking: Hestia
Handicrafting: Utsida
Sewing: Daphnis
Weaponsmithing: Anteros

Each character can learn every craft and reach a skill of 399; however each character can only become a master at one craft.

The Basics

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Now that you have learned a craft, there are a few important guidelines to follow. The first is accessing your craft window. To do this, open up your Skills window and select the Crafting tab, then Right-Click on your craft to bring up its window. At the top of the window, under the name of the craft, is your experience bar. If you just learned it, it will say '1/99'. As you get closer to 99, just like gaining regular experience, the bar will fill up. However, when you max out at 99, you will need to return to your craft's expert (the names listed above) and pay to learn the next level. The following are the prices to pay.

Lesser = ~3,500 Kinah
Regular = ~17,000 Kinah
Greater = ~115,000 Kinah
Expert = ~460,000 Kinah
Master = ~1,500,000 Kinah
Prices change depending on your faction's current influence

When you pay the price above to learn the next level, you will gain 1 skill point. For example, if you are at 99 and pay ~17,000 Kinah to become a Regular crafter, your skill will become 100.

The large area below the experience bar in the crafting window is the list of your recipes. They are organized by category and you can hide or show each category by clicking the box to the left of the category name. When you accept a Work Order, they will automatically be the first category.

The two boxes on the right side, called Product and Required Materials, are just that. When you click a specific recipe, the end result will appear in the Product box and the required materials to make that recipe will appear in the Required Materials box.

On the bottom right of the window are two buttons and a box in-between them. The right button is to craft the number in the box of the currently selected recipe. The left button is craft all, which places the maximum number you can craft of the currently selected recipe into that box.

When you are actually crafting, the success or fail rate is dependent on your skill compared to the recipe and chance. If your skill is equal to that of the recipe's level, your chance of failing is around 33%. If your skill is 3 points higher than that of the recipe's level, your chance of failing is around 15%. If your skill is between 5 and 10 points higher, your chance of failing is minimal. Once you are above 10, your chance of failing is incredibly low. Once the recipe turns grey, your chance of failing is 0.

Lastly, as you level up, visit the same merchant as you do for supplies to purchase some of your craft's recipes. The rest of the recipes can be obtained through quests or are dropped.

Actually Crafting
If you just started a craft, go to your craft's expert and accept the work order for '1P' (stands for a skill level of 1 point) by clicking 'Craft Request'. Now, find a workstation and Right-Click it to bring up your craft window. Select the recipe for the work order. Since the quest requires that you make 3 Gritty Clams, change the '1' to a '3' in the box and then hit the craft button. As you're crafting, each time you fail, hit the > arrow to increase the amount you need to craft to fulfill the quest. Once you are done, return to your craft's expert and turn in the work order. Continue this process until you are at a skill of 10 and can receive your first real work order.

Once you accept the quest for the work order for '10P', open your craft window and select the recipe for the work order you just accepted. Now look at the required materials. As a general rule, multiple each material by however many finished products you need to complete the quest (if you have the work order for 10P, this number is 6), and then multiple that by a factor of 6 (that is around the least amount of attempts you can possibly do to raise your skill to the point where you can accept the next work order). Once you have calculated how many materials you will need, visit the merchant, who is also inside of the crafting room, and purchase those materials. As your skill becomes higher, it will require more than 6 work orders to raise your skill level by 10.

As a general rule, I usually purchase one extra the amount of work orders I think will raise my skill level by 10 since there are usually failures at the beginning. If you purchase exactly the right amount and fail just once, you won't be able to finish your last work order and will have to buy more materials. However, purchasing one extra will give you the cushion to fail up to 6 times (more at higher skill levels).

If you need clarification on this, let's take a look at an example. If you just learned Cooking, you would accept the work order for 'Salted Pujery Supply 10P'. Open your craft window and select the recipe for 'Salted Pujery'. The required materials are your given materials and 1 Salt. Now, the required amount of finished products for the quest is 6. Thus, multiple 1 Salt by 6, which is 6 Salts. Now, you need a skill of 20 to obtain the next work order, so multiple the 6 Salts by 7 (6 and 1 spare), which is 42 Salts. Now, visit the merchant and purchase 42 Salts. The next part is a trick that you will love. Position yourself between your craft's expert and the closest workstation. Then put yourself as far away from the workstation as possible, but still able to craft. You should be exactly in the middle between the workstation and your craft's expert. As you finish each work order, simply Right-Click your craft's expert, turn in the work order, accept the new one, chance the number from '1' to '6', then hit the craft button. You won't even have to move! This can save massive amounts of time if you plan on crafting for a long time.

The last bit of information is for when you are crafting actual items. When you craft an item, most of them have a chance to (what I call) proc. This is when you are, for example, crafting a white item and then it proc's into a green item. This is what I specifically mean:

Regular Craft:

Proc'd Craft:

Now that you know the basics of crafting and how to craft work orders to raise your skill, the next part of the guide will go into detail of the benefits of each craft.

Cooking
Cooking is only used for creating food. This, more or less, is used for temporarily boosting certain statistics. It is fairly inexpensive to cook and I would suggest it to anyone who uses food on a regular basis. However, there is little money to be made from it if you include the time it takes to gather and cook. Also, you can simply purchase food off of the Trade Broker or from a merchant with near the same benefits for a reasonably cheap price. If you plan on consuming lots of food, as in never being without a buff, then I'd suggest it. However, if you only plan on using food for groups or hard areas, I wouldn't suggest spending the time raising it up.

Va spun cum am procedat eu ( a trebuit sa mi-l fac 449 pentru fenris ). Pana la 400 cu work orders (foarte simplu, la fiecare skill divizibil cu 10 primesti un nou work order, si vezi ce materiale iti trebuie si cumperi matsuri de 10 workordere dinalea si le faci pe toate. Daca ti s-a marit skillu cu 10 iei pe urmatoru si tot asa.Daca nu cumperi inca niste materiale pana faci de la xx0 la xx10 de exemplu.)Cand ai ajuns la 400, cumperi o reteta care iti cere 400 si faci cam 200 de mancaruri (pana la 420), apoi cumperi o reteta de 420 si faci pana la 449 cam 300-400 de bucati . MENTIONEZ CA TERBUIE SA FACI ASTA IN DUBLU XP TIME, va merge mai repede si mult mai ieftin! (cu pana la 50% mai ieftin)