In Aion, there are six crafting skills including weapon smith, armor smith, alchemy, cooking, sewing, handiwork.
You can learn all the crafting skills but only one can be upgraded to the highest grade and you need to meet skill masters to learn or upgrade the skills (Money cost). » Tip of increasing crafting skills level
Skill Grade
Skill Level
Upgrade Cost
Description
Elementary
1~99
3000
Produce items available for lv1~20
Intermediate
100~199
15,000
Produce items available for lv20~30
Senior
200~299
100,000
Produce items available for lv30~40
Advanced
300~399
400,000
Produce items available for > lv40
Master
400~499
-
Produce items available for > lv45
Crafting Skills List
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Name
Description
Cooking
Make food or beverages that give buffs and purify contaminated materials. * Recommended Class: All
Handiwork
Make precious metals, wooden weapons and small parts. * Recommended Class: Ranger and Chanter
Weapon Smith
Make metal weapons * Recommended Class: Warrior series and Scout series
Armor Smith
Make metal armors, helmets and shields * Recommended Class: Warrior series and Priest series
Sewing
Make cloth armor and leather armor * Recommended Class: Scout series, Mage series and Priest series
Alchemy
Make potion, magical weapons and items can upgrade the equipments * Recommended Class: All
Gather material
For crafting skills, you need to gather different materials when training. There are two gathering skills:
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Name
Description
Extract Vitality
Extracting various vitality on the earth - herb, meat, wood, ore and so on
Extract Aether
Extract the Aether floating in the sky to get the Aether crystals
Extract Vitality
Extract Aether
Crafting Worktable
After gathering the required materials, now you start the crafting through the worktables near the crafting skill masters.
Absolutely love this simple guide. The link to crafting tips is a nice little quip too. We could definitely continue to expand on this too with some crafting basics thrown in here. Maybe a graph about work orders and how far they can get you before you have to change over to the next level?