Tutorial: Forging Ahead

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EverQuest 2 Quest Information

Journal Category	Tradeskill Instance
Introduced	Rise of Kunark
Journal Level	3 (Tier 1)
Journal Difficulty	Solo
Starting Zone	Tradeskill Instance more
How to Start	Speak to a Tradeskill Tutorial NPC
part of: Crafting Tutorial Timeline Preceded by: Tutorial: Learning to Harvest Followed by: Tutorial: Countering Problems
Note: This is the state of the quest on the live servers, for the origin server look here Tutorial: Forging Ahead

What does this information mean?

Description

"The tradeskill tutor has told me a bit about the crafting process, and asked me to make a simple candelabra for practice." --Everquest II Journal

Steps

1. Craft a simple candelabra using your carpenter skills
   • you receive 1 Basic Coal to power the forge and artisan essentials volume 1 containing 62 recipes
   • you will need 2 tin cluster, 1 severed elm, and 1 root.
   • This recipe must be made using a Forge.
2. Return to the instructor

Rewards

• At least 25c

Notes

You will need the following items to complete the Crafting Tutorial timeline:

• 7 tin clusters
• 6 roots
• 5 severed elm
• 5 lead clusters
• 4 jumjum
• 5 rawhide leather pelts
• 3 rough malachite
• 2 leaded loam

• 1 aerated mineral water
• 1 Basic Kindling
• 2 Basic Coal
• 1 Basic Sandpaper
• 1 Basic Incense
• 1 Basic Candle
• 1 Basic Filament

Plus 1 Tin cluster and 1 Lead cluster if you plan on doing If I Had A Hammer.

Journal Steps and Dialogue

• Tradeskill Tutorial NPC: "You have learned how to gather harvests, and whether or not you decide to learn a profession, you'll find harvesting can be a useful and profitable pastime. Are you interested in reviewing the crafting process?"
• Player Character: "Yes please."
• Tradeskill Tutorial NPC: "All right, let's learn about the crafting process itself. You'll need to have some harvested elm, tin, and roots in your bags. Shall I tell you a bit more about the crafting stations and your tradeskill arts, or do you want to just get going?"
• Player Character: "Elm, tin, roots ... check. And I'd like to learn more before I start, yes."
• Tradeskill Tutorial NPC: "There are a number of different crafting stations that can be used to make different items. For example, you would use a forge to make metal armor, and a chemistry table to make potions. the other crafting stations are: the sewing table, the woodworking table, the sage's engraved desk, the stove & keg, and the jeweler's workbench."
• Player Character: "And what skills will I need?"
• Tradeskill Tutorial NPC: "Each of the 9 professions has its own 6 tradeskill arts, and there are also a couple of special arts that are used for recipes not related directly to one tradeskill specialty. The appropriate arts will appear as buttons at the bottom of the crafting window when you start to make the item."
• Player Character: "So I need to use these tradeskill arts while crafting?"
• Tradeskill Tutorial NPC: "That's right. If you mouse-over or examine the arts in your book, you should see what each of them do. Three will add progress, and three will add durability. When you're crafting you will want to know which ones add progress and which ones add durability. If you're having trouble maintaining durability, use all your durability arts all the time! Or to speed up progress, use the progress arts nonstop."
• Player Character: "So what happens next?"
• Tradeskill Tutorial NPC: "The first step in crafting anything is the recipe. The recipe you select determines what you will create. Open your recipe book from the main menu, or press N, to see yours. If you're new to crafting it will be empty, but as you gain more recipes they will be listed here and you can use the Search box at the top of this window to easily find recipe names. You can also create custom filters using the Edit button."
• Player Character: "Once I find a recipe I want to make, what then?"
• Tradeskill Tutorial NPC: "In this window you would select the name of the recipe you wish to use and then click Create. You will need to be near a crafting station of the appropriate type. If you click on the crafting station directly, your recipe book will automatically filter to show you only the recipes you can make on that station. Once you click Create, you will move to the Resource Window which shows you the list of ingredients that recipe requires. If you have all those, you click Begin and crafting starts."
• Player Character: "I think I'm ready to give it a try."
• Tradeskill Tutorial NPC: "I'd like you to make a candelabra for practice. While you craft it, I'd like you to pay attention to the blue and green bars in the middle area. This shows you your progress (blue), and the durability (green) of the item you are creating. The goal is to increase your progress without losing too much durability. To create the item, you need to fill all four blue progress bars. If you lose at least one full bar of durability, you will not be able to do this unless you can regain that durability again. It is safest to keep your durability near maximum just in case of unexpected critical failures."
• Player Character: "How do I stop losing durability then?"
• Tradeskill Tutorial NPC: "That's where the reaction arts I mentioned come in. You can use these to add progress (blue) or durability (green). Mouse click these or press 1 through 6 on your keyboard. You can use these skills proactively throughout crafting to influence the outcome - for example, use skills that add durability if your durability is dropping. Every 4 seconds a crafting 'round' completes and you will see numbers indicating your overall progress and durability loss or gain for that round above the crafting station. This is generally easier to see in third-person view (use your mouse wheel to scroll out)."
• Player Character: "It might be easier if I just try it out, can I give it a try now?"
• Tradeskill Tutorial NPC: "Of course, it'll be easier to understand once you can see it in action. Here's a recipe book, and some fuel. Scribe the recipe book by finding it in your inventory and right-clicking it. Check that you have some elm, tin, and roots in your bags, and head over to the forge. Click on the forge to bring up your recipe list, and select the recipe for the simple candelabra."
• Player Character: "Thanks. Here I go."

I must follow the tutor's instructions to create a simple candelabra. I need to create a simple candelabra using the recipe the tutor gave me.

I have reviewed the process of crafting an item. I should return to the tutor with the candelabra.

I returned to the tutor with the candelabra I made. The tutor was pleased with my candelabra.

I created the candelabra as instructed by my tutor.