Warhammer online crafting system

With Warhammer Online releasing on September 18th, many of you may be wondering about the Warhammer crafting system. I was able to do some crafting last weekend during the Preview weekend and would like to share what I have learned.

Warhammer crafting is pretty straight forward. There are two different types of warhammer crafting - harvesting and finished product crafting. There are four types of harvesting crafts. Scavenging is scrounging usable stuff from humanoid type mobs after you have killed them. Butchering is pretty much the same thing as scavenging only from dead animals. Cultivating is farming or growing items to be used to make finished products. Magical salvaging is breaking down items into crafting supplies. There are only two types of finished product crafting at this time. Apothecary is basically potion making and can be pretty handy. You can make healing potions, stat buffs, or cause damage that can really help in RvR. Talisman Making creates adornments to be added to armor and weapons.

I would recommend everyone get a harvesting craft early in the game. Around level 5, you will come across a quest camp with crafting trainers in it. As a beginner Warhammer craft I would recommend Scavenging. It seems there are more humanoids to be killed than animals and even if you don't plan to craft right away or ever, you can scavenge items to sell to a merchant to make money early on. You can even scavenge from other players after you have killed them in RvR. It also makes sense to have your first character scavenge because it doesn't require anything but dead bodies to skill up and you gain items usable in cultivating, apothecary and talisman making.

Finished product crafting is pretty easy and skill ups come fast. There are no recipes in Warhammer crafting so you just open the crafting window, put the items in there and see what happens when you combine them. In Warhammer Apothecary, for instance, you put in a glass vial to hold your potion, you add a basic ingredient like Elvish Parsley (to make a healing potion) and then you have three more slots that you can buy items to enhance the combination, increase the number of potions created or make it more stable (more likely to succeed). This is where your scavenging comes in. If you have scavenged something that says it does something interesting, you can just throw it in to the mix at this point and see what you get from the combine. No recipes to search for or buy.

According to Mythic, Warhammer crafting is not necessary but is meant to enhance RvR. So it's all about being tougher or better at attacking or more resistant to magic, etc. Everything in the game is centered on killing the enemy.