Getting Started

To get started with crafting there are four NPCs, found in each of the starting areas in the game, who will give out the first crafting quest. The quests from different starting areas may be different but they do the same job: they point out your nearest Master/Mistress of Apprentices, who will get you started on your crafting career.

Alf Goodcliff	Mibrethil	Edward Carver	Bogi Deepdelver
Little Delving	Falathlorn	Archet	Thorin's Gates

Picking a 'Vocation'

Vocations cosist of three different types proffessions, the are seven different vocations and their include proffessions are listed below:

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The Crafting Interface

After choosing a vocation you will be able to open your 'crafting panel', where there are 3 tabs at the top - one for each trade in your vocation -





Clicking on each tab will bring up its trade known recipes. You will start out an apprentice in each of your trades. As you begin to use your crafting you will gain experience which will in time become to the maximum amount of experience then you may have to do a quest to carry on to get to your next crafting tier. After gaining proficiency at a trade you will have the right to become a master at that trade tier, but we will go into that in more detail later on.

When highlighting a recipe, the bottom half of the box will list the materials,tool and required crafting station.
It also tells you the amount of crafting experience that will be gained in one creation of the item. When you have the required materials, a crafting tool equiped in the 'craft tool slot' and are near the required crafting station (if needed). You just select the item you want to create and then press the make button and sit back as the animations pass by.

To get you started:

• A short overview of LotRO items.
• A short-cut: Buying LotRO gold. (well, maybe even better: buy LotrRO gold from trusted sellers)
  
• What you need to know about armor in Lord of the Rings Online

Tools and Ingredients

Some of the tools and ingredients that are not able to be crafted or gathered from a nodeare bought off the vender from a 'provisioner'. Provisioners are usually near crafting stations and the 'Master/Mistress of Apprentices. Such as the Boiled Light Leather, it is a component crafted by a Forester from two 'light hides', common loot of animals. The chances are, if the provisioner doesn't have the item you need then it is crafted or gathered by another trade.


Crafting Stations

Crafting stations include; Oven(Cook), Forge(Metalsmithing/Prospection), Workbench(Woodsman,Tailor, Forester, Jeweler), Fields(Farmer).



These stations are usually close by provisioners and Master/Mistress of Apprentices. But farms are dotted about some places you can find them are, Staddle (east of Bree-Town) and Delving Fields (South-East of Michael Delving).

Advancing to a 'Master'

After gaining crafting experience from crafting items, by using the required materials, tool and crafting station. When your experience points reach the maxium you have to do a crafting quest to get proficiency (not on gathering trades). After doing that quest you will be iledgible to advance to a Master of that crafting tier in that trade.

After completing that quest, or just getting the maxium experience you will notice that the crafting experience bar has changed somewhat.

As you continue to make new items in this crafting tier your experience will go up the same as before. At the same time, you also get an experience bar for Journeyman proficiency.

When you gain a proficiency you automatically learn the default recipes at the new tier but you can also purchase some new recipes from the vendor for your trade (e.g. Novice Tailorer), or from the auction house.

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New 'Mastery' Options

After your mastery experience bar fills up, you will gain a new title: Master Apprentice. But more importantly, after gaining mastery you also gain a new option, at the bottom of the crafting window you will see the "mastery option" you can use this to enhance the chance of making a improved product of what you are making. E.g. a cloth cloak with 10 armor becomes a stout cloth cloak 14armor +2might, or a umber dye becomes 3 umber dyes.

But you can only get this with a chance, the base is 5% after getting master but you can also use mastery items to enhance that chance by up to 44% also stacking that with a ancient steel tool that leads to a total 69% chance!

Theres also another part of crafting i haven't told you about, the incredible: single-use recipes, these require specific ingredients from rare or unique creatures. Each single-use recipe list a unique ingredient with no tips as to where you get it from, and you have to find it to complete the recipe. These type of items are even more rare then the mastery item, because of the difficulty of obtaining them, if you just happen to get hold of one you dont need, be sure to give it to a friend or sell it at the auction house.

Just to help you crafters a list has been produced to help you find the right creature and where to find it.

• LotRO Cook
• LotRO Jeweler
• LotRO Metalsmith
• LotRO Scholar
• LotRO Tailor
• LotRO Weaponsmith
• LotRO Woodworker
  

Name	Level	Species	Region	Coordinates	Roaming	Notes	Component
Achathling	50E	Spider	Angmar		Y	Spider Den, North East of Himbar in East Angmar.	Achathling's Mandible
Asht	20	Warg	Lone Lands	35.3S, 39.0W	Both	In Minas Eriol (the area with Arnorian Rubble). Can spawn at any of the warg positions.	Asht's Tooth
BlackClaw	18S	Bear	Breelands	36.2S, 55.0W	Y	Barrow Downs, far south by the elite trees	Blackclaw's Claw
Bleakwind	33EM	Drake	North Downs	6.5S 41.0W	Y	Nain Amlug west at the "w" on the map	Bleakwind's Tongue
Colnor	52EM	Drake	Angmar	8.0N, 24.0W	N	In the valley on the right of the road to Minas Caul (Nan Gurth, E Angmar)	Colnor's Scale
Darkheart	31EM	Huorn	Lone Lands		Y	Agamaur north of the undead area	Darkheart's Black Heart
Driftmane	41	Lynx	Misty Mountains		Y	Stealthed. NE of Gloin's camp and east of Cirith Imladris	Driftmane's Fang
Eitor-Kalsak	18E	Spider	Old Forest		Y	Roams The Weaver's Den	Eitor-kalsak's Mandible
Gloom-Gaze	15	Bat	Breelands	34.9S, 58.1W	N	Old Forest	Gloom-Gaze's Fang
Gnashmaw	48E	Worm	Angmar		Y	Ravine in Gorothlad, around the L. Another circles the canyon around the LAD in gorothlad	Gnashmaw's Tongue
Grish	33E	Warg	North Downs	15.4S, 39.6W	Y	Dol Dinen south of the binding stones	Grish's Tail
HoarTusk	46EM	Mammoth	Misty Mountains	29.6S 1.9E	Y	Giant Area, West of "The Lornstone"	Hoartusk's Horn
Ironhide	20E	Boar	Lonelands	28.9S, 36.8W	Y	Echad Sul, hill north of Weathertop	Tuft of IronHide's Fur
Karnasht	37S	Wolf	Trollshaws	35.0S, 13.9W	Y	Drauglad, wolf den south of the road. PH's are the roaming wolves	Karnasht's Tooth
Khurshat	27S	Warg	North Downs	11.3S, 43.5W	Y	South of Esteldin near The Snares	Khurshat's Tooth
Kindle-Maw	43EM	Drake	Misty Mountains			On the slopes above the western half of Caldwells Pool	Kindle-Maw's Fang
Kraur	26S	Warg	Lone Lands	32.8S, 26.3W	Y	Near Haragmar and the East-West Road	Kraur's Paw
Moss-back	30E	Bog-lurker	Lone Lands	30.8S, 27.5W	Y	Roams Haragmar east of Ost Guruth	Green Moss
Nurzum	33S	Warg	North Downs	12.1S, 37.0W	Y	East of Esteldin on the road south into Dol Dinen	Nurzom's Tail
Silverclaw	35E	Wildcat	North Downs	8.2S, 45.4W	Y	S of Othrikar near the wildcat lair	Silverclaw's Claw
Skulkmire	28S	Bog-lurker	North Downs	15.4S, 43.2W	N	Meluinen south of the Orc camp at Merenost	Skulkmire's Moss
Steelmaw	39E	Bear	Trollshaws	30.3S, 16.3W	Y	Western edge of the forest north of Thorenhad	Steelmaw's Paw
Skybreaker	48EM	Drake	Angmar			Under the Th in Maethad	Skybreaker's Scale
Sawtooth	18S	Wolf	Lonelands	28.6S, 41.6W	Both	Spawns in Den near Weatherway bridge, can also spawn in valley west of the bridge	Sawtooth's Tooth
Sagrurz							Sagrurz's Tooth
Snowback	49E	Snowbeast	Misty Mountians	20.4S 2.3W	Y	In the open field South of Helegrod raid instance (roughly west of the instance for Book 5 Chapter 8)	Snowback's Claw
Swale-singer	45S	Neekerbeeker	Angmar		Y	Spawns a little above the first "a" in "Malenhad" on the Angmar map	Swale-singer's Mandible
Trampletusk	21S	Auroch	North Downs	12.0S 45.2W	Y	South of Gatson's Farm	River Maiden's Thread
Umling	42E	Spider	Trollshaws	27.0S 19.1W	Y	Trap Door ruins at the north end of the Wovenvales	Umling's Mandible
Wildthorn	17E	Huorn	Old Forest	34.2S, 57.6W	N	Forlorn Glade, south of Tom Bombadil's house	Wildthorn's Bark
Windscreamer	31S	Lynx	Trollshaws		Y	Patrols the High Moor	Windscreamer's Claw