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!