Crafting

The basic idea behind most of the crafts is to transform raw materials into something more valuable. However, none of the crafts are profitable until you gain a sufficient skill level. The skill levels are as follows:

Novice > Apprentice > Accomplished > Adept > Talented > Skilled > Expert > Master > Grand Master > Champion > Legendary

In order to succeed beyond the accomplished level in most crafts, one must specialize in the craft.

Crafts

Mental (Mage & Poet only)

Alchemy
Scribing

Gathering

Fishing
Mining
Woodcutting

Manufacturing

Gemcutting
Smelting
Weaving

Refining

Carpentry
Jeweling
Smithing
Tailoring

Foodstuffs

Food preparing
Cheffing

Crafting Limits

• You can do all gathering crafts up to Legendary.
  

• You can do all manufacturing crafts until Accomplished, Then specialize in one to reach Legendary skill in that craft. Food preparing can be done to Legendary regardless.
  

• You can only gain skill past Accomplished in one craft of the following refining skills: Smithing, Carpentry, Tailoring, and Jeweling.
  

• You can be Legendary in Cheffing regardless of devotion to other crafts.
  

• Mages and Poets may become Scribes or Alchemists, not both.

Ways To Advance Faster In A Craft

• Always perform your skill during your Totem Time.
• Use crafting tiles if they are available.
• If your clan has a crafting room, such as Sun Moon, Dharma, Silla, The Forsaken, or Phoenix, try to take advantage of it. These rooms normally have a bank NPC allowing you to craft without having to leave to acquire additional raw materials.
• Concentrate all of your crafting for a certain craft on one character -- for instance, don't do woodcutting on all four of your characters. Pick one character to be your woodcutter, and concentrate on that character. One exception to this is if you plan to do the Poet Sun Quest.