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Guide to Living Skills

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While my guide may be late into the game and other guides have came up, I find the guides hard to edit and contribute therefore I started to make my own. I hope this guide will be useful to everyone in this game, even those who are not
interested in the living skills. This way too, you can avoid being fooled by expensive enchantments.

There are of course, various additional information strewn across the Wiki, and I shall include as many as possible into this guide.

While I mostly made this guide myself, my progress in this game would be hardly possible without the support of my guildmates, so I have to dedicate this guide to Jedi Academy guild of Dynasty of Aurora server, for those who played in the guild when I played, even if they have switched guilds. So in itself, this guide is the hard work of the Jedi Academy guild members as a whole, let them be still in or not.

As of date, my current progress on living skills, the highest between my characters are:

Herbal Collection	Lumber	Ore Mining	Alchemy	Blacksmithing	Tailor	Craftsman
(Level 4)	(Level 4)	(Level 7)	(Level 5)	(Level 7)	(Level 8)	(Level 10)
[0/540]	[764/960]	[1248/2940]	[98/1250]	[24/980]	[611/1280]

Are they high? Nope, I have guildmates who has the same level for at least each one of them. My alchemy level is lower however due to my lack of training it. Blame the ridiculous pot consumption of an ice mage that made me have barely enough money to craft and to bot. Onto the guide! This all can be achieved by a lv42 ice mage, which you can assume, is quite costly to maintain (craft lv8 at that time). So there's no excuse 'I'm too weak/poor to level it up that much'. If you are committed in crafting, your guildmates may also provide you with materials for you to level up your living skills in return for your service. [Also, my road to match Kazari's is still a long way away o.O]

Revision History:
1.1 07/11/2008 (Later in the day) Added comments from Kazari regarding material availability.
1.0 07/11/2008 Finished initial version of guide.

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[TOC] Table of Contents
1.0 [INTR] Introduction
1.1 [FORM] Formulas
2.0 [GATH] Gathering skills
2.1 [HERB] Gathering
2.2 [MINE] Mining
2.3 [LUMB] Lumbering
2.4 [TMAT] Tailoring Materials

3.0 [CRFT] Crafting Skills
3.1 [ALCH] Alchemy
3.2 [BLAC] Blacksmithing
3.3 [TAIL] Tailoring
3.4 [CMAN] Craftsman
4.   [ENCH] Enchanting
5.   [DECO] Decomposing
6.   [CONC] Conclusion
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1.0 [INTR] Introduction
Warning: Excessive crafting may lead to boredom, depression, disappointment, hopelessness, and annoyance.

First off, you have two NPC friends that you should get to know well. They are Grocery Merchant and Production Principal. You can buy gathering tools at the Grocery Merchant and perform composition for crafting skills at Production Principal. Production Principal is found at Sky City (North warehouse manager) and Sun City (South warehouse manager)

Living Skills are divided mainly into two categories: Gathering Skills and Crafting Skills. None of the skills are useless, but some are useless for some yet useful for others.

To summarize, here are the use of each skill:
Gathering Herbs is useful to supply materials for alchemy.
Mining is useful to supply materials for Blacksmithing and Craftsman.
Lumbering is useful to supply materials for Blacksmithing and Craftsman.
Alchemy is useful to make your own potions, and VIT and INT enchantments,
Blacksmithing is useful to make warrior's armors, Power, AGI, and HIT enchants.
Tailoring is useful to make mage, archer, and summoner's armors, DEF and Dodge enchantments.
Enchanting is useful to add attributes to your equipments that otherwise would be rare as drop/crafted materials.
Decomposing is useful to obtain powders to feed your mount, crafting enchanting materials, and obtaining lv8 Flammable stones to level up crafting to level 2.

Blacksmithing and Tailoring can only make Armors, Gauntlets, Boots, but not Helmet and Belt. Also, Crafting skills can be used to make furnitures to pretty up your house. Unless we have a lot of players, this may not be popular anytime soon.

There are two ways to level up your gathering/crafting skills. The first, of course, is to gather and craft items as necessary. This is the slowest method and hence the reason most players won't do living skills. The second way shall be explained in specific to each skills.

For location of gathering materials, Production Principal shall kindly give out the locations to you. So any information below that has coordinates is courtesy of Production Principal.

I also thank whoever posted up this guide in the forum which is now in the wiki
as I have been greatly helped starting my crafting career through: Guide to living skills 1-6

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1.1 [FORM] Formulas
You open Pandora lv3 and lv4 boxes and you get 'Curtain Fomula2'. What are
these? Some craftable items requires formulas before you are actually allowed
to make them yourself. These formulas are mostly found in these Pandora boxes.
In-game, we currently have a lot of lv1 and lv2 formulas strewn all over the
place, however everyone trades in Pandora lv5 Boxes to the Treasure Hunter so
we have a low stock of lv3+ formulas.
Alchemy Lv1 formula gives recipe for Alchemy Lv4, lv2 for lv5 and so on
Tailoring and Blacksmithing Lv1 formula gives recipe for Tailoring and
  Blacksmithing lv6, lv2 for lv7, and so on.
Craftsman has unique formulas and has no Lv1 or Lv2 attached to the formula
names.
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2.0 [GATH] Gathering Skills
Gathering skills are living skills which main purposes are to assist you in the
1st Class Transfer and to supply materials for Crafting skills. Alternatively,
higher level materials tend to be rarer and *might* sell well if there are
desperate crafters.

You may have heard a term called powermining, and this is one way to level up
your skills quickly. For gathering skills, the trick is to mine materials as
low level as possible to level up your skills (usually because the place is
safer) and just sell off the unnecessary materials for extra pocket money. For
example, at Mining Level 3, you may mine lv2 ores or lv3 ores to level to
Mining Level 4. Rather than having a hard time mining in goblin, it may be
better to mine lv2 ores safely in a Magocean Village. At level 20, three solid
gathering tools should be able to fill your inventory up before they break. For
example, you want lv4 lumber but do not want any other lower lumber. Therefore
it might be a good idea to mine hundreds of level 2 lumber, sell them off to
NPC, and mine lv4 lumber when you are up to that level without having to mine
level 3 lumbers. Now, on to the use of each skills.

While level 7 and 8 materials exist, my lack of knowledge disables me from
providing information on the location. The location for lv5 and lv6 materials
are also incomplete here. I have seen Demon Defense Wood in tunnel II for
example.

[11th Jul 08] "GM's have stated Lv7/8 items are not ingame (except leather/cloth,
which I have seen) and ore/grass are not (have been searched for on most maps)"
- Kazari

Update: Lv7 ore/grass/lumber can be received from a quest but it is not exactly easy to come by.
- Kazari

[19th Aug 08] With the new path being released that opens Benthal Vestige map and also access to Lv7 grass/lumber and ore... Lv60 monsters there though >.<
- Kazari

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2.1 [HERB] Gathering
Herbs. Alchemy. Of course. So? Well herbs are useful to make your own potions.
Further explained below.

Level	1	2	3	4	5	6
Herb	Magic Grass	Fire Flower	Elderberry	Ice Grass	Soul-swallow Flower	Life leaf
Location	Magocean Village (45,44), Blaze Cliff (46,313)	Magocean Village (29,27), Blaze Cliff (35,338)	Alaman Tribe (47,207), Beast Camp (208,577)	Alaman Tribe (38,218), Beast Camp (206,61)	Spirit Tomb (303,44)	Golden Plain (467,307)

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2.2 [MINE] Mining
Ores. So? A lot of uses. I mine a lot of ores for powders and enchantments.
More details in Blacksmithing.

2.3 [LUMB] Lumbering
Wood! Yay! What can I make with them? Anything to make myself uber-powerful?
No. Disappointed? Check out Blacksmithing.

Level	1	2	3	4	5	6
Wood	Hardwood	Bakelite	Bramblewood	Wood of Serrated Blade	Demon Defense Wood	Wood of Frost Metal
Location	Magocean Village(83.28),Blaze Cliff(40,280)	Magocean Village(50,60),Blaze Cliff(95,334)	Beast Camp (49,250)	Beast Camp (58.257)	Spirit Tomb (257,344)	Golden Plain (41,380)

Lv3 and Lv4 wood are also located below Goblin Tribe's lv3 and lv4 ores.
Even though production principal said lumbers can be found in Alaman Tribe,
according to Kazari they do not exist in Alaman Tribe.
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2.4 [TMAT] Tailoring Materials
"So.. what do I do with these cloths and leathers?" "Sell to NPC." Wrong. They
are the materials you use for tailoring. Of course, it is likely that you will
have inventories full of lv4 materials before you get to level up your
tailoring to the necessary level to craft those materials. The location of each
of the materials are:

Level	Leather	Cloth	Location
1	Soft Leather	Flax	Magocean Village, Sky City
			Blaze Cliff, Sun City
2	Hard Leather	Silk	Armed Coast, Skeleton Hole, Shadow
			Forest, Hope Oasis, Dragon Vale
3	Beast Leather	Satin	Hawk Fall, Goblin Tribe
			Sky Garden, Alaman Tribe
4	Behemoth Fur	Stream-cut Fabric	Tunnel (U/II/M), Beast Camp, Vestige I
5	Scholomance Fur	Luminous Silk	Vestige I (rare), Vestige II+, Hero Island, Dreamland
6	Malice Leather	Moonlight Cloth	Vestige, Hero Island, Dreamland
7	Desperate Leather	Magic Silk	Crime Abysm

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3.0 [CRFT] Crafting Skills
Finally.. After getting all those materials, now what cool stuff can I make to
be super powerful? Well, don't think it come without consequences. Enchanting
will be explained below, and let me tell you, like gambling, there are times
when you always fail. Otherwise, crafting skills are used to convert materials
to useful items. There are also some tricks involved in power-leveling these
skills, optimizing the use of materials you have in hand, finding sources of
highest yield of materials, and calculation of how much you need to level up.
I will not put numbers of how many skill points you need to level up, because
some may intimidate you. For example, Alchemy lv5 to lv6 require 1250 points
while Crafting lv9 to lv10 require 1200 points.

[07/11/08] Regarding experience required, Kazari has posted up her Crafting
Skills EXP Table in this MWO Wiki:
Crafting Skills EXP Table

Just like powermining, there is also a power-leveling concept. The difference
is, the developers give a bit of an easier time to crafters. While you need at
least 1 level lower material to level up your gathering skills, at level 8
crafting for example, you can obtain crafting points by crafting items you can
craft at level 6, 7, or level 8 crafting. This method is mostly used to
conserve high level materials and to minimize risk (use lv1 tailor mats to
level up tailor to lv5 instead of using lv2 mats because armed coast is harder
than sky city). On to the skills.
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3.1 [ALCH] Alchemy
Ah, the source of potions. At low levels, especially for mages like me, we
consume pots at a rate much more than we make. I have to consume 200k everytime
I bot overnight at level 38+. Alchemy is a good way to save money until you
consume less potions than you make. Also, as a mage, I'm aiming to reach lv7
alchemy to enchant some of my lv40+ armors. However, with all the craze as the
game has mostly non-mage players, vamp and dodge enchants are much more
demanded so here I am.. leaving alchemy unleveled..
Here are the items you can craft using alchemy, at what level, and formulas if
they need some:

The available formulas for Alchemy are:
Regular Elixir Formula Lv1: Medium Life Potion, Medium Magic Potion
Regular Elixir Formula Lv2: Superior HP Potion, Superior MP Potion
Regular Elixir Formula Lv3
Regular Elixir Formula Lv4
Regular Elixir Formula Lv5
Regular Elixir Formula Lv6
Rare Restoring Elixir Formula
Rare Transient Elixir Formula
Sepcial Elixir Formula A
Sepcial Elixir Formula B
Sepcial Elixir Formula C

Only Regular elixir formula lv1 and lv2 are easy to find, and lv3 formula may
already exist. The formulas above are taken from the bot's item list and the
items below are taken from Production Principal's catalogue.

Level	Item Name	Materials
1	Minor HP Potion	Magic Grass X1
1	Minor MP Potion	Fire Flower x1
2	Medium HP Potion	Magic Grass x2
2	Medium MP Potion	Fire Flower x2
3	Minor Life Potion	Magic Grass x4  Fire Flower x1
3	Minor Magic Potion	Fire Flower x4 Magic Grass x1
3	Large HP Potion	Magic Grass x4  Fire Flower x2
3	Large MP Potion	Fire Flower x4 Magic Grass x2
4	Medium Life Potion	Magic Grass x6  Fire Flower x2
4	Medium Magic Potion	Fire Flower x6 Magic Grass x2
5	Superior HP Potion	Magic Grass x7 Fire Flower x3
5	Superior MP Potion	Fire Flower x7 Magic Grass x3
5	Life Origin Lv1	Elderberry x3  Normal Magic Powder x3
5	Life Origin Lv2	Ice Grass x6  Normal Magic Powder x6
5	Wisdom Origin Lv1	Elderberry x3  Normal Magic Powder x3
5	Wisdom Origin Lv2	Ice Grass x6  Normal Magic Powder x6
5	Candles	Elderberry x10 Ice Grass x10  Soul-Swallow Fur x5
?	Large Life Potion	?
?	Superior Life Potion	?
?	Special Life Potion	?
?	Ultimate Life Potion	?
?	Large Magic Potion	?
?	Superior Magic Potion	?
?	Special Magic Potion	?
?	Ultimate Magic Potion	?
?	Special MP Potion	?
?	Ultimate MP Potion	?
?	Special HP Potion	?
?	Ultimate HP Potion	?
?	Life Origin lv3-9	?
?	Wisdom Origin lv3-9	?

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3.2 [BLAC] Blacksmithing
What about Blacksmithing? Blacksmithing is both overrated and underrated. The
enchantments are not as desirable as what can be crafted by other skills.
However, not training blacksmithing would be a mistake. Low level blacksmithing
is very useful to obtain cheap magic powders, unless you want to buy hundreds
of armors from the npc to be decomposed or wait until you finished farming sky
city or armed coast or buy overpriced magic powders ^^ Your choice! To speed up
smith-and-decompose and due to massive decomposition for fine powders, I ended
up with 1 char lv7 smithing, 1 lv6, 1 lv5, 1 lv3, and 1 lv2 -_-

So, I told you lv4 wood would be useful and to look at Blacksmithing. What to
do with it? Remember powerleveling? Look below for materials for accurate eye 1
Got it?

[07/11/08] For Lv3 formulas and above, and the blacksmithing craftable items
lv8+, the contents are purely my assumption due to the expected pattern of
craftable items. The information of the name of the formulas and the names of
the armors are obtained from the MWO Bot and Production Principal's catalogue.
There has been no confirmation of their existence in American MWO.

Formulas:
Heavy Boots Formula Lv1: Ravage Boots (Refined)
Heavy Gauntlets Formula Lv1: Ravage Gauntlets (Refined)
Heavy Armor Formula Lv1: Ravage Armor
Heavy Boots Formula Lv2: Valour Boots (Refined)
Heavy Gauntlets Formula Lv2: Valour Gauntlets
Heavy Armor Formula Lv2: Valour Armor (Refined)
Heavy Boots Formula Lv3: Loyalty Boots
Heavy Gauntlets Formula Lv3: Loyalty Gauntlets (Refined)
Heavy Armor Formula Lv3: Loyalty Armor
Heavy Boots Formula Lv4: Glory Boots (Refined)
Heavy Gauntlets Formula Lv4: Glory Gauntlets (Refined)
Heavy Armor Formula Lv4: Glory Armor (Refined)
Heavy Boots Formula Lv5: Stateliness Gauntlets
Heavy Gauntlets Formula Lv5: Stateliness Boots
Heavy Armor Formula Lv5: Stateliness Armor

Level	Item Name	Materials
1	Cyan Wolf Boots	Flame Crystal-mine x8
1	Cyan Wolf Gauntlets	Flame Crystal-mine x6
1	Cyan Wolf Armor	Flame Crystal-mine x11
2	Ninja Boots	Flame Crystal-mine x8 Magic Crystal-mine x1
2	Ninja Gauntlets	Flame Crystal-mine x6 Magic Crystal-mine x1
2	Ninja Armor	Flame Crystal-mine x11 Magic Crystal-mine x1
2	Normal Magic Armor Piece	Satin x2 Beast Leather x2 Glow Crystal-mine x1
3	Brightness Boots	Flame Crystal-mine x8 Glow Crystal-mine x1
3	Fortitude Boots	Magic Crystal-mine x8 Glow Crystal-mine x1
3	Brightness Gauntlets	Flame Crystal-mine x6 Glow Crystal-mine x1
3	Fortitude Gauntlets	Magic Crystal-mine x6 Glow Crystal-mine x1
3	Brightness Armor	Flame Crystal-mine x11 Glow Crystal-mine x1
3	Fortitude Armor (Refined)	Magic Crystal-mine x11  Glow Crystal-mine x1
3	Fine Magic Armor Piece	Stream-cut Fabric x2 Behemoth Fur x2 Seablue Crystal-mine x1
4	Triumph Boots (Refined)	Magic Crystal-mine x8 Seablue Crystal-mine x1
4	Flame Boots	Glow crystal-mine x8 Seablue Crystal-mine x1 Normal Magic Powder x1 Normal Magic Armor Piece x1
4	Triumph Gauntlets (Refined)	Magic Crystal-mine x6 Seablue Crystal-mine x1
4	Flame Gauntlets	Glow crystal-mine x6 Seablue Crystal-mine x1  Normal Magic Powder x1  Normal Magic Armor Piece x1
4	Triumph Armor	Magic Crystal-mine x11 Seablue Crystal-mine x1
4	Flame Armor	Glow crystal-mine x11 Seablue Crystal-mine x1 Normal Magic Powder x1  Normal Magic Armor Piece x1
4	Accurate Eye 1	Seablue Crystal-mine x1 Wood of Serated Blade x1 Normal Magic Powder x1
4	Normal Screws	Flame Crystal-mine x5 Magic Crystal-mine x3 Glow Crystal-mine x2
4	Perfect Magic Armor Piece	Luminous Silk x2 Scholomance Fur x2 Thunder Crystal-mine x2
5	Blaze Boots (Refined)	Glow crystal-mine x8 Thunder Crystal-mine x1 Normal Magic Powder x2 Fine Magic Armor Piece x1
5	Blaze Gauntlets (Refined)	Glow crystal-mine x6 Thunder Crystal-mine x1 Normal Magic Powder x2 Fine Magic Armor Piece x1
5	Blaze Armor (Refined)	Glow crystal-mine x11 Thunder Crystal-mine x1 Normal Magic Powder x2 Fine Magic Armor Piece x1
5	Power Crystal Lv1	Seablue Crystal-mine x3 Normal Magic Powder x2
5	Power Crystal Lv2	Seablue Crystal-mine x6 Normal Magic Powder x4
5	Agi Crystal Lv1	Seablue Crystal-mine x3 Normal Magic Powder x3
5	Agi Crystal Lv2	Seablue Crystal-mine x6 Normal Magic Powder x5
5	Accurate Eye 2	Seablue Crystal-mine x2 Wood of Serated Blade x2 Normal Magic Powder x2
5	Exquisite Wall Lamp (Uninstalled)	Flame Crystal-mine x50 Thunder Crystal-mine x10 Ray Crystal-mine x5
5	Candlesticks	Flame Crystal-mine x50 Seablue Crystal-mine x10 Ray Crystal-mine x5
5	Reinforced Screws	Flame Crystal-mine x8 Magic Crystal-mine x4 Seablue Crystal-mine x2
5	Reinforced Metal Combination	Seablue Crystal-mine x10 Thunder Crystal-mine x4 Ray Crystal-mine x2
5	Perfect Magic Armor Piece	Luminous Silk x2 Scholomance Fur x2 Thunder Crystal-mine x2
6	Ravage Boots (Refined)	Glow crystal-mine x8 Thunder Crystal-mine x1 Normal Magic Powder x2 Fine Magic Armor Piece x1
6	Ravage Gauntlets (Refined)	Glow crystal-mine x6 Thunder Crystal-mine x1 Normal Magic Powder x2 Fine Magic Armor Piece x1
6	Ravage Armor	Glow crystal-mine x11 Thunder Crystal-mine x1 Normal Magic Powder x2 Fine Magic Armor Piece x1
6	Power Crystal Lv3	Seablue Crystal-mine x9 Fine Magic Powder x2
6	Power Crystal Lv4	Thunder Crystal-mine x4 Fine Magic Powder x4
6	Agi Crystal Lv3	Seablue Crystal-mine x9 Fine Magic Powder x3
6	Agi Crystal Lv4	Seablue Crystal-mine x4 Fome Magic Powder x5
6	Accurate Eye 3	Seablue Crystal-mine x3 Wood of Serated Blade x3 Fine Magic Powder x1
6	Accurate Eye 4	Thunder Crystal-mine x1 Demon Defense Wood x1 Fine Magic Powder x2
6	Excellent Magic Armor Piece	Moonlight Cloth x2 Malice Leather x2 Ray Crystal-mine x2
7	Valour Boots (Refined)	Glow crystal-mine x8 Thunder Crystal-mine x1 Normal Magic Powder x2 Fine Magic Armor Piece x1
7	Valour Gauntlets	Glow crystal-mine x6 Thunder Crystal-mine x1 Normal Magic Powder x2 Fine Magic Armor Piece x1
7	Valour Armor (Refined)	Glow crystal-mine x11 Thunder Crystal-mine x1 Normal Magic Powder x2 Fine Magic Armor Piece x1
7	Exquisite Candlestick (L) Lv1	Candlesticks x1 Candles x2
7	Exquisite Candlestick (R) Lv1	Candlesticks x1 Candles x2
7	Power Crystal Lv5	Thunder Crystal-mine x8 Perfect Magic Powder x2
7	Power Crystal Lv6	Ray Crystal-mine x5  Perfect Magic Powder x4
7	Agi Crystal Lv5	Thunder Crystal-mine x8 Perfect Magic Powder x3
7	Agi Crystal Lv6	Ray Crystal-mine x5 Perfect Magic Powder x5
7	Accurate Eye 5	Thunder Crystal-mine x2 Demon Defense Wood x2 Perfect Magic Powder x1
7	Accurate Eye 6	Ray Crystal-mine x1 Wood of Frost Metal x1 Perfect Magic Powder x2
8	Loyalty Boots
8	Loyalty Gauntlets (Refined)
8	Loyalty Armor
8	Power Crystal Lv7
8	Agi Crystal Lv7
8	Accurate Eye 7
9	Glory Boots (Refined)
9	Glory Gauntlets (Refined)
9	Glory Armor (Refined)
9	Agi Crystal Lv8
9	Power Crystal Lv8
9	Accurate Eye 8
10	Stateliness Gauntlets
10	Stateliness Boots
10	Stateliness Armor
10	Power Crystal Lv9
10	Agi Crystal Lv9
10	Accurate Eye 9
	Fantastic Magic Armor Piece

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3.3 [TAIL] Tailoring
What do you do with lv4 cloths and leathers that you get in tunnel? Sell to
NPC? What a waste.. You can just give it to me so I can tailor them o.O There
are two main usefulness of tailoring. A medium of conversion of your cloths and
leathers to magic powders, or to enchant Dodge and DEF to your armors. Also,
you can make armors such as lv19+ armors that are not sold to NPC and sell it
to new players (not popular due to the high number of drops) or you can provide
your new low level alternate characters with the armors. The reason Tailoring
is hard to level is because we level up through the mobs that drop lv1-3
materials too fast and end up stuck with lv4 materials in our daily botting!

[07/11/08] For Lv3 formulas and above, and the tailoring craftable items
lv8+, the contents are purely my assumption due to the expected pattern of
craftable items. The information of the name of the formulas and the names of
the armors are obtained from the MWO Bot and Production Principal's catalogue.
There has been no confirmation of their existence in American MWO.

The formulas available for tailoring are:
Light Boots Formula Lv1:     Snow-tracing Boots (Refined)
        Soul Purify Boots (Refined)
        Intonewind Boots (Refined)
Light Gauntlets Formula Lv1: Snow-tracing Gauntlets (Refined)
        Soul Purify Gauntlets (Refined)
        Intonewind Gauntlets (Refined)
Light Armor Formula Lv1:     Snow-tracing Leather Armor
        Soul Purify Robe
        Intonewind Vest
Light Boots Formula Lv2:     Aquila Boots (Refined)
        Blessing Boots (Refined)
        Incubus Boots (Refined)
Light Gauntlets Formula Lv2: Aquila Gauntlets
        Blessing Gauntlets
        Incubus Gauntlets
Light Armor Formula Lv2:     Aquila Leather Armor (Refined)
        Blessing Robe (Refined)
        Incubus Vest (Refined)
Light Boots Formula Lv3:     Meteor Boots
        Doomsday Boots
        Sacrifice Boots
Light Gauntlets Formula Lv3: Meteor Gauntlets (Refined)
        Doomsday Gauntlets (Refined)
        Sacrifice Gauntlets (Refined)
Light Armor Formula Lv3:     Meteor Leather Armor
        Doomsday Robe
        Sacrifice Vest
Light Boots Formula Lv4:     Killer Boots (Refined)
        Break-sky Boots (Refined)
        Dream-broken Boots (Refined)
Light Gauntlets Formula Lv4: Killer Gauntlets
        Break-sky Gauntlets
        Dream-broken Gauntlets
Light Armor Formula Lv4:     Killer Leather Armor (Refined)
        Break-sky Robe (Refined)
        Dream-broken Vest (Refined)
Light Boots Formula Lv5:     Devil-sealing Boots
        Judgement Boots
        Revenge Boots
Light Gauntlets Formula Lv5: Demoniac Gauntlets
        Judgement Gauntlets
        Vengeance Gauntlets
Light Armor Formula Lv5:     Devil-sealing Leather Armor
        Judgement Robe
        Revenge Vest

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| Level| Item Name  | Materials          |
|_______|_______________________|_____________________________________________|
|   1 | Lightness Boots | Soft Leather x4         |
|   1 | Mystic Boots        | Flax x4          |
|   1 | Etherealizing Boots | Soft Leather x4         |
|   1 | Lightness Gauntlets | Soft Leather x3         |
|   1 | Mystic Gauntlets     | Flax x3          |
|   1 | Etherealizing Gauntlets| Soft Leather x3         |
|   1 | Lightness Leather Armor| Soft Leather x5         |
|   1 | Mystic Boots        | Flax x5          |
|   1 | Etherealizing Vest | Soft Leather x5         |
|   2 | Blue Feather Boots | Soft Leather x4 Flax x1        |
|   2 | Spiritualism Boots    | Flax x4  Soft Leather x1       |
|   2 | Eagle Feather Boots | Soft Leather x4 Flax x1        |
|   2 | Blue Feather Gauntlets| Soft Leather x3 Flax x1        |
|   2 | Spiritualism Gauntlets| Flax 34  Soft Leather x1       |
|   2 | Eagle Feather Gauntlets| Soft Leather x3 Flax x1        |
|   2 | Blue Feather Leather | Soft Leather x5 Flax x1        |
| | Armor   |           |
|   2 | Spiritualism Robe | Flax x5  Soft Leather x1       |
|   2 | Eagle Feather Vest | Soft Leather x5 Flax x1        |
|   3 | Sniper Boots  | Soft Leather x4 Flax x1        |
|   3 | Serenity Boots | Hard Leather x4 Silk x1        |
|   3 | Starry Boots    | Flax x4  Soft Leather x1       |
|   3 | Dimcrystal Boots    | Silk x4  Hard Leather x1       |
|   3 | Saker Boots  | Soft Leather x4 Flax x1        |
|   3 | Rift Cloud Boots | Hard Leather x4 Silk x1        |
|   3 | Sniper Gauntlets | Soft Leather x3 Flax x1        |
|   3 | Serenity Gauntlets | Hard Leather x3 Silk x1        |
|   3 | Starry Gauntlets    | Flax x3  Soft Leather x1       |
|   3 | Dimcrystal Gauntlets | Silk x3  Hard Leather x1       |
|   3 | Saker Gauntlets | Soft Leather x3 Flax x1        |
|   3 | Rift Cloud Gauntlets | Hard Leather x3 Silk x1        |
|   3 | Sniper Leather Armor | Soft Leather x5 Flax x1        |
|   3 | Serenity Leather | Hard Leather x5 Silk x1        |
| | Armor (Refined) |            |
|   3 | Starry Robe  | Flax x3  Soft Leather x1       |
|   3 | Dimcrystal Robe    | Silk x3  Hard Leather x1       |
|   3 | Saker Vest  | Soft Leather x5 Flax x1        |
|   3 | Rift Cloud Vest | Hard Leather x5 Silk x1        |
|  | (Refined)  |           |
|   4 | Wyvern Boots (Refined)| Hard Leather x4 Silk x1        |
|   4 | Cruor Boots  | Beast Leather x7 Satin x1       |
| |   | Normal Magic Powder x1        |
|   4 | Truth Boots (Refined) | Silk x4  Hard Leather x1       |
|   4 | Life Boots     | Satin x7  Beast Leather x1      |
| |   | Normal Magic Powder x1        |
|   4 | Hover Boots (Refined) | Hard Leather x4 Silk x1        |
|   4 | Dragonbone Boots | Beast Leather x7 Satin x1       |
| |   | Normal Magic Powder x1        |
|   4 | Wyvern Gauntlets  | Hard Leather x3 Silk x1        |
| | (Refined)  |           |
|   4 | Cruor Gauntlets | Beast Leather x6 Satin x1       |
| |   | Normal Magic Powder x1        |
|   4 | Truth Gauntlets    | Silk x3  Hard Leather x1       |
| | (Refined)  |           |
|   4 | Life Gauntlets | Satin x6  Beast Leather x1      |
| |   | Normal Magic Powder x1        |
|   4 | Hover Gauntlets | Hard Leather x3 Silk x1        |
| | (Refined)  |           |
|   4 | Dragonbone Gauntlets | Beast Leather x6 Satin x1       |
| |   | Normal Magic Powder x1        |
|   4 | Wyvern Leather Armor | Hard Leather x5 Silk x1        |
|   4 | Cruor Leather Armor | Beast Leather x11 Satin x1       |
| |   | Normal Magic Powder x1        |
|   4 | Truth Robe  | Silk x3  Hard Leather x1       |
|   4 | Life Robe (Refined) | Satin x11  Beast Leather x1      |
| |   | Normal Magic Powder x1        |
|   4 | Hover Vest  | Hard Leather x5 Silk x1        |
|   4 | Dragonbone Vest | Beast Leather x11 Satin x1       |
|  | (Refined)  | Normal Magic Powder x1        |
|   5 | Wave-smashing Boots | Beast Leather x7 Satin x1       |
| | (Refined)  | Normal Magic Powder x2        |
|   5 | Faith Boots (Refined)| Satin x7  Beast Leather x1      |
| |   | Normal Magic Powder x2        |
|   5 | Volitation Boots | Beast Leather x7 Satin x1       |
| | (Refined)  | Normal Magic Powder x2        |
|   5 | Wave-smashing  | Beast Leather x6 Satin x1       |
| | Gauntlets (Refined) | Normal Magic Powder x2        |
|   5 | Faith Gauntlets | Satin x6  Beast Leather x1      |
| | (Refined)   | Normal Magic Powder x2        |
|   5 | Volitation Gauntlets | Beast Leather x6 Satin x1       |
| | (Refined)  | Normal Magic Powder x2        |
|   5 | Wave-smashing Leather | Beast Leather x11 Satin x1       |
| | Armor (Refined) | Normal Magic Powder x2        |
|   5 | Faith Robe (Refined) | Satin x11  Beast Leather x1      |
| |   | Normal Magic Powder x2        |
|   5 | Volitation Vest | Beast Leather x11 Satin x1       |
| | (Refined)  | Normal Magic Powder x2        |
|   5 | Phantom Armor Piece Lv1| Satin x3  Normal Magic Powder x3|
|   5 | Phantom Armor Piece Lv2| Stream-cut Fabric x6 Normal Magic Powder x5|
|   5 | Fortitude Armor Piece Lv1| Beast Leather x3 Normal Magic Powder x3|
|   5 | Fortitude Armor Piece Lv2| Behemoth Fur x6 Normal Magic Powder x5|
|   6 | Snow-tracing Boots | Behemoth Fur x7 Stream-cut Fabric x1  |
| | (Refined)  | Fine Magic Powder x1         |
|   6 | Soul Purify Boots  | Stream-cut Fabric x7 Behemoth Fur x1       |
| | (Refined)  | Fine Magic Powder x1         |
|   6 | Intonewind Boots | Behemoth Fur x7 Stream-cut Fabric x1  |
| | (Refined)  | Fine Magic Powder x1         |
|   6 | Snow-tracing   | Behemoth Fur x6 Stream-cut Fabric x1  |
| | Gauntlets (Refined) | Fine Magic Powder x1         |
|   6 | Soul Purify Gauntlets | Stream-cut Fabric x6 Behemoth Fur x1       |
| | (Refined)   | Fine Magic Powder x1         |
|   6 | Intonewind Gauntlets | Behemoth Fur x6 Stream-cut Fabric x1  |
| | (Refined)  | Fine Magic Powder x1         |
|   6 | Snow-tracing Leather | Behemoth Fur x11 Stream-cut Fabric x1  |
| | Armor   | Fine Magic Powder x1         |
|   6 | Soul Purify Robe  | Stream-cut Fabric x11 Behemoth Fur x1       |
| |    | Fine Magic Powder x1         |
|   6 | Intonewind Vest | Behemoth Fur x11 Stream-cut Fabric x1  |
| |    | Fine Magic Powder x1         |
|   6 | Phantom Armor Piece Lv3| Stream-cut Fabric x9  Fine Magic Powder x3 |
|   6 | Phantom Armor Piece Lv4| Luminous Silk x4 Fine Magic Powder x5  |
|   6 | Fortitude Armor Piece Lv3| Behemoth Fur x9 Fine Magic Powder x3  |
|   6 | Fortitude Armor Piece Lv4| Scholomance Fur x4  Fine Magic Powder x5 |
|   7 | Aquila Boots  | Behemoth Fur x7 Stream-cut Fabric x1  |
| | (Refined)  | Fine Magic Powder x2         |
|   7 | Blessing Boots  | Stream-cut Fabric x7 Behemoth Fur x1       |
| | (Refined)  | Fine Magic Powder x2         |
|   7 | Incubus Boots  | Behemoth Fur x7 Stream-cut Fabric x1  |
| | (Refined)  | Fine Magic Powder x2         |
|   7 | Aquila Gauntlets | Behemoth Fur x6 Stream-cut Fabric x1  |
| |    | Fine Magic Powder x2         |
|   7 | Blessing Gauntlets | Stream-cut Fabric x6 Behemoth Fur x1       |
| |    | Fine Magic Powder x2         |
|   7 | Incubus Gauntlets | Behemoth Fur x6 Stream-cut Fabric x1  |
| |    | Fine Magic Powder x2         |
|   7 | Aquila Leather | Behemoth Fur x11 Stream-cut Fabric x1  |
| | Armor (Refined) | Fine Magic Powder x2         |
|   7 | Blessing Robe  | Stream-cut Fabric x11 Behemoth Fur x1       |
| | (Refined)  | Fine Magic Powder x2         |
|   7 | Incubus Vest  | Behemoth Fur x11 Stream-cut Fabric x1  |
| | (Refined)  | Fine Magic Powder x2         |
|   7 | Phantom Armor Piece Lv5| Luminous Silk x8  Fine Magic Powder x3     |
|   7 | Phantom Armor Piece Lv6| Moonlight Cloth x5  Perfect Magic Powder x5|
|   7 | Fortitude Armor Piece| Scholomance Fur x8         |
| | Lv5   | Perfect Magic Powder x3           |
|   7 | Fortitude Armor Piece Lv6| Malice Leather x5 Perfect Magic Powder x5|
|   8 | Softskin Blanket | Soft Leather x30 Hard Leather x5       |
| | (L) Lv1  | Beast Leather x3 Behemoth Fur x1       |
|   8 | Softskin Blanket | Soft Leather x30 Hard Leather x5       |
| | (R) Lv1  | Beast Leather x3 Behemoth Fur x1       |
|   8 | Linen Curtain  | Flax x100  Silk x15       |
| | (L) Lv1  | Satin x5          |
|   8 | Linen Curtain  | Flax x100  Silk x15       |
| | (R) Lv1  | Satin x5          |
|   8 | Phantom Armor Piece Lv7| Moonlight Cloth x8  Perfect Magic Powder x7|
|   8 | Fortitude Armor Piece Lv7| Malice Leather x8 Perfect Magic Powder x7|
|   8 | Meteor Boots  |           |
|   8 | Doomsday Boots |           |
|   8 | Sacrifice Boots |           |
|   8 | Meteor Gauntlets |           |
| |   (Refined)  |           |
|   8 | Doomsday Gauntlets |           |
| |   (Refined)  |           |
|   8 | Sacrifice Gauntlets |           |
| |   (Refined)  |           |
|   8 | Meteor Leather Armor |           |
|   8 | Doomsday Robe  |           |
|   8 | Sacrifice Vest |           |
|   9 | Killer Boots (Refined)|           |
|   9 | Break-sky Boots |           |
| |   (Refined)  |           |
|   9 | Dream-broken Boots |           |
| |   (Refined)  |           |
|   9 | Killer Gauntlets  |           |
|   9 | Break-sky Gauntlets |           |
|   9 | Dream-broken Gauntlets|           |
|   9 | Killer Leather Armor |           |
| |   (Refined)  |           |
|   9 | Break-sky Robe |           |
| |   (Refined)  |           |
|   9 | Dream-broken Vest |           |
| |   (Refined)  |           |
|   9  | Phantom Armor Piece Lv8|           |
|   9  | Fortitude Armor Piece Lv8|           |
|   10 | Devil-sealing Boots |           |
|   10 | Judgement Boots |           |
|   10 | Revenge Boots  |           |
|   10 | Demoniac  Gauntlets |           |
|   10 | Judgement Gauntlets |           |
|   10 | Vengeance Gauntlets |           |
|   10 | Devil-sealing Leather|           |
| |   Armor  |           |
|   10 | Judgement Robe |           |
|   10 | Revenge Vest  |           |
|   10 | Phantom Armor Piece Lv9|           |
|   10 | Fortitude Armor Piece Lv9|           |
| |    |           |
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Hint: You can level tailoring to lv6 without using any lv2+ materials!
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3.4 [CMAN] Craftsman
Crafting is the hardest skill to level up due to the lack of materials. It is
also the most useful skill in overall, but requires patience and commitment. It
would be also helpful to ask a friend to help you decompose armors for magic
powders to provide materials for crafting. Crafting is hardest to level at lv1
and lv9. The reason is you need lv8 stones to level crafting to lv2, and at lv9
you can only compose lv40 stones, lv48 stones, Fantastic Magic Powders, and
Bloodlust Hearts lv5, lv6, and lv7 to level up your crafting skill.

xRenegade has a comprehensive table for Crafting. This can be found at this MWO
Wiki Link:Crafting Guide/Table

His table includes items made by Sofa Formula2, Carbinet Formula2, Curtain
Fomula2, and Formula of Wisdom Necklace. no typos there!

If there is enough demand I will make an ASCII table of crafting, which I would
assume not as I think xRenegade's table is quite helpful already.
(Note: first lv64 stone made in 07/10/2008 in Aurora! I think..)

The formulas available for crafting are:
Crafting lv8:  Formula of Wisdom Necklace, Formula of Optative Amulet
Crafting lv9:  Formula of Sacrifice Necklace, Formula of Duskglow Amulet
  Carbinet Formula Lv2, Sofa Formula Lv2, Curtain Fomula2
  (Ancient Wood Cabinet; Luxury Sheepskin Sofa; Silk Curtain)
Crafting lv10: Formula of Poseidon Necklace, Formula of Sage's Amulet
???: Unknown Formula2

The most popular use of crafting skill is to enchant a Phys. to HP, which is
also called vampire enchantment, to upgrade your Magic Powders, and to clear
your inventory by upgrading your socket stones (Lv8, Lv16, Lv24, Lv32, Lv40,
Lv48, Lv56, Lv64)
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4. [ENCH] Enchanting
WARNING: Excessive enchanting may cause bankruptcy, depression, addiction to
gambling, and overconfidence. Enchant at your own risk.

So, what is enchanting skill? It is not a skill, rather, it is a feature.
You cannot level up enchanting unfortunately, neither does higher level of
the corresponding crafting skill increase your chances :(

The current popular enchantments are Phys. to HP (Vampire) and Dodge. Some of
my guildmates like Item drop enchantments too. Now, what is enchanting?
There are cool people out there using Legends and Gold Armors, so why bother
with enchantments? Well not all players use platinum, and therefore there are
limited supply of Legend items. Also, one may found some combination of
enchanted items are more desirable than bonus for a full Legend set, for
example a good combination of Dodge and Vampire enchantments that may reduce
the potion consumption of your character while farming for items.

The introduction to enchanting can be found in this MWO Wiki link: Enchanting materials

As far as I know the information that Kazari gave seems to conform with my
experiments. Do read every line, especially this line in the end:
Note: Bloodlust Heart's %o means 10th of a % so if you have a part with 15%o
you will receive only 1.5% not 15%, the total amount does stack.

Now, here are the enchantment success probabilities of each enchantment item:

Enchant

Percentage of Line

Level	1	2	3	3	5
1-4	100%	70%	50%	30%	20%
5-6	80%	40%	10%	5%	2%
7	50%	10%	2%	1%	1%
8
9

Note: Item Drop has special numbers that are much lower than these for 2+ line.
I prefer to not put them here as it's too disappointing.

A line means how many enchantments you put on the item. Enchanted items will
only turn blue, never gold or darkgold. You can't enchant a sixth line, but
you can buy perforating crystals (180 plats) from the item mall to get a
socket where you can put good stones in, such as godstones. Once enchantment
fails, you lose any previous lines that you happen to accumulate, so it's all
a gamble. There is a way to protect those previous enchantments of course,
using Attribute Protective Stone which can be bought at a rate of 100 plats for
every 10.

The percentage above is pure chance, sometimes I fail to enchant lv7
enchantments 7 times in a row. Sometimes to make a line of lv7 followed by lv6
vampiric enchantments I require 9 stacks of perfect magic powders, other times
25. Also, cost to enchant for each attempt is enchantment level * 1000 gold.

The trick to enchantment is use progressively lower level enchantments for
highest percentage of luck. You may do the calculations yourselves from the
percentage above, of getting 4 lines of lv4 enchantments, lv7 followed by lv6,
and lv7 followed by lv7 enchantments. Of course, one may think it's safer to
attempt a 20% enchantment rather than 10%, but you risk losing the 4 lines you
have worked hard on! The answer is to prepare a new armor in such cases so you
save your glory.

The other trick to enchantment is cleaning. What to do with a very cool armor
with the blue/gold attributes you hate? Simple. Enchant another line with the
intention to fail it. Recently however, I realize there is some chance of
failure in cleaning. Hence, sometimes it may be better to _not_ use a low
level enchantment to clean when we obtained a low-value higher level enchant.
For example, Bloodlust Heart Lv7 can enchant 20%o-49%o on a line. Hence if I
get less than 30%o, I would immediately clean it because it would be pathetic
(and recently I do get it a lot). However it may be better to clean it with lv7
enchantment. Who knows you get 49%o on the next line due to 'luck'?

Also, most importantly, you CANNOT enchant items if they are lower than the
minimum enchant level of the enchanting material OR your living skill is not
high enough to PRODUCE that enchantment.

Item Drop enchant can be said to be the most overpriced because they relatively
require more Magic Powders than other enchantments. Dodge enchantment tend to
have hard-to-get materials at low levels. DEF, Power, AGI, and HIT enchantments
all has the same issue. Their value are insignificant at lower levels hence
is not of concern. At higher levels, the value itself is not that significant
compared to identifying drops from Vestige or Hero Island, albet more expensive

As one say, good enchantments are the poor people's Legend items.

While I have not tried every single enchantment, here are the numbers from
my own experiment. Some enchantments such as dodge are incomplete as they are
from what I attempted.
Phys. to HP:
Bloodlust Heart Lv1: 1%o - 3%o
Bloodlust Heart Lv2: 2%o - 7%o
Bloodlust Heart Lv3: 5%o - 9%o
Bloodlust Heart Lv4: 9%o - 15%o
Bloodlust Heart Lv5: 12%o - 19%o
Bloodlust Heart Lv6: 16%o - 29%o
Bloodlust Heart Lv7: 20%o - 49%o

Item Drop:
Lucky Star Lv1: +1
Lucky Star Lv2: +1-2
Lucky Star Lv3: +1-3
Lucky Star Lv4: +1-4
Lucky Star Lv5: +1-5
Lucky Star Lv6: +1-6
Lucky Star Lv7: +1-7
The average enchanted value is +2 for Lucky Star Lv3+, with +1 being more often
than anything above +3

Dodge:
Phantom Armor Piece Lv3: +15-19
Phantom Armor Piece Lv4: +20-24
Phantom Armor Piece Lv5: +25-29
Phantom Armor Piece Lv6: +30-36
Phantom Armor Piece Lv7: +39-64

DEF:
Fortified Armor Piece Lv3: +3, +3
Fortified Armor Piece Lv5: +4-7
Fortified Armor Piece Lv7: +9, +11

AGI/Pow:
Agi/Pow Crystal Lv6: +17-23

Power, AGI, and HIT enchants all has similar numbers. (hopefully)
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5. [DECO] Decomposing
The quick guide to decomposing can be found in this website: Magic Powder Decomposition 

The best and cheapest source of the magic powders specifically are:
Normal Magic Powder: Ninja Gauntlets (Blacksmithing lv2), Cyan Wolf Helmet
   (Armor Trader NPC), Lv12 Gauntlets (Tailoring Lv2)
Fine Magic Powder: Brightness Gauntlets (Blacksmithing lv3),
   Lv20 Gauntlets (Tailoring Lv3),
Perfect Magic Powder: Fortitude Gauntlets (Blacksmithing Lv4),
   Triumph Gauntlets (Blacksmithing Lv4),
   Tunnel (U/II) Drops,
   Lv31 Boots (Tailoring Lv4),
   Lv35 Gauntlets (Tailoring Lv6),
Excellent Magic Powder: Lv40 Gauntlets (Tailoring Lv7), Royal Prison Drops
Fantastic Magic Powder: Hero Island/Vestige Drops, but best is crafting

Decomposing also cost some gold so be careful to not go overboard!

Decomposing is the main method to produce feeds for mount, and crafting is the
main method to upgrade excellent magic powders to fantastic powders to give
feed to +4 mounts. Also, some attempts to obtain lv8 stones (namely me) through
decomposing items that produce Normal Magic Powders to level up their crafting
skill to level 2.

In my opinion, even though these prices are overpriced, I would assume these
are the fair prices of each type of powder:
Normal Magic Powder: 9k-12k
Fine Magic Powder: 12k-15k
Perfect Magic Powder: 15k-25k
Excellent Magic Powder: 25k-100k
Fantastic Magic Powder: 200k-400k (400k is the extra-overpriced version but as
one say, the worth of an item is how much a buyer dares to pay for it)
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6. [CONC] Conclusion
Even if you don't like crafting, gathering, or skills in general, botting and
leveling is going to be hard and long later on. Potion consumption may be
constant while you take longer time to level up. There might be people out
there over-charging you for enchanted items, making you fantastic powders,
selling you Magic Powders. Hopefully this guide helps a bit to those high
leveled people out there who goes 'I have money. I can do everything.' and
became the poorest due to scams in living skills :) And hopefully this guide
makes living skills sounds more fun! And for others to appreciate us crafters
too o.O [save us your lv4-6 cloths! :p]
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7. [TALE] Crafting Tales
I decided to put this additional section due to some misconception about
crafting. Also, it appears that when this guide was finished, Panah^Petir made
quite a few tips on powerleveling living skills. However there are some
conceptions that I disagreed with.

For his guide look at 'Fastest Way to Raise Living Skills' in the MWO Wiki: Fastest Way to Raise Living Skills

Also another good guide is taken from the forum by dionysus: Advanced Guide

I saw dionysus' guide once and even though it wasn't helpful for me because I
don't think it applies to me, but I think it would be useful for some.
The best characters to mine higher level ores is Nature Guard, followed by
Temple Warrior (their equipments break quickly and they'll die quick), then
Illusionist (Mindhunter form)

1. Enchanting does NOT add to your crafting points. Composing enchantment items
does.
2. You don't _craft_ legendary equipments. You _generate_ legendary equipments
by using Anvils on Green Mines. Wordings often confuse players and players love
to ask 'What Crafting level can I craft legendary equipments?'
3. I find making Ninja Gauntlets and Brightness Gauntlets is more beneficial
than making Fortitude Gauntlets for decomposing for powders as both uses lv1
ores, hence you can switch between normal and fine powders decomposing as
necessary, using massive amounts of lv1 ores and a few lv2 and lv3 ores.
4. For smithing powerleveling, if you train lumbering, you will use up far
fewer materials if you train smithing lv4 with Accurate Eye rather than AGI
Crystals.
5. For tailoring, you CAN level up to lv6 tailoring without use of any lv2
materials if you wish not to move to armed coast just yet.
6. Bloodlust Heart Lv8 does not exist on American MWO due to nonexistence
of Titan Crystal-mine. In Crime Abysm there is a mine called Hell Rock but it
may not be related to Titan Crystal-mine. For further discussion of this issue
visit this forum link: (last retrieved 07/10/08)
Ray Crystal-mine location

Update: I heard someone had a lv7 ore, but noone knows of any mass production
of lv8 bloodlust heart. However, with Munchie's help we found out that Lv7
Cloths exist, drops in Crime Abysm. Also he mined a 'Exorcism Ruby Fragment'
from Hell Rock. Definitely not lv7 ore. He also found a Black Rock Iron Ore.
Who knows what that gives.

7. 07/10/08: A guildmate attempts to absorb a weapon using a soul with
Craftman's Heart and the enchantment disappear. Be careful with Growing Weapons
and enchantments.
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Author: acolyte