Detailed Blacksmith Creation: Part 2 Adding the Best Stats to Equipment; With a Synth on the Side.

Alright, now that we are in maintenance I guess this is the best time to make this guide. In part 1 we discussed the process of creating a Blacksmith Character that could create the highest potential equipment possible, and if you were able to do so, Congratulations! Great, now you're an awesome blacksmith right?! ... Well... almost. Making high potential equipment is only half the game. This guide will cover the 2nd half: Adding the BEST Stats to the HIGHEST potential equipment you've made!

Two notes before we get started:

1. People have different opinions of the BEST stats, and I have no intention to get in the middle of that discussion in this guide. I have my preferences, use what works for you! Heck, here is a thought; after you're done with guide - craft it for yourself and test it out. I will leave the numbers to the eggheads, this is all concept and direction!

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2. The primary reason for making this guide separate form the first is that I want to emphasize that this Blacksmith will be a completely different character from the first one we made in the guide Part 1. The first Blacksmith we made in Part 1 is what I refer to as a CRAFT Blacksmith and you may at any point have several of these Craft Blacksmiths each who specialize in making a different type of Highest Potential equipment. This NEW Blacksmith will be referred to as a TECH Blacksmith, and it's creation and maintenance are both fairly simple compared to the Craft Blacksmith - And unlike the Crafting Blacksmiths you will only ever need ONE of these AND the added benefit of Stat Adding, Equipment Refining, Item making Synthesis/Blacksmith all in ONE! Yay, aren't you lucky?

Step 1: Create an ENTIRELY NEW character, and get them to level 85. (Finally.) You'll want to learn BS skills level 1-2 (And 3 when it becomes available,) and Alchemy Skills all levels. As far as distributing skill points it is fairly straightforward, learn the "Process Skill" Level 10 on EITHER the Blacksmith Skill Tree OR the Alchemy Skill Tree, it doesn't matter which one, just don't do it one BOTH. Learn ALL of the Alchemy skills to level 10, and then learn Blacksmith skills Upgrade level 10,and Refinement (mid too) level 10. That does it for abilities. The skill point distribution is also just as straightforward! Put ALL of your Stat Points into Personal Stat TECH.

Step 2: There is no Step 2. IF you are done with Step 1 then you have a Stat Adding, Equipment Refining, Item making Synthesis/Full TECH Blacksmith to compliment your Craft Blacksmith{s} and you can start adding Stats right away. UNFORTUNETLY life (even virtual) is never so simple and as such the remainder of the guide will focus on HOW to Add Stat, And HOW to get the most out of your Synthesis.

This section next Section is about making your TECH Blacksmith Double as a Synthesis; IF you're only interested in the Blacksmith Portion, feel free to skip to the next Asterisk.

About Synthesis Proficiency
As with Blacksmiths, Synthesis' have their own proficiency level as well. If you read part one of this guide you should be fairly familiar with the difference between Proficeny level and Item Difficulty level. The good news for you is that with a Full Tech Character, you will naturally have an extremely high Synthesis Item Difficulty Level! So take advantage of this fact, head to Athema Ruins farm Kijimi and make HELLA REV 3s. And By HELLA I mean like 495 at a time! All these Rev 3s will boost your Synthesis Proficency level up to 60 (that's where mine is currently,) in no time flat! At level 60 you can pretty much make any of the buff items you want and as such will never again find yourself having to pay for Rev 3s or Vita II Plus, it is very convienient! The real prizre of the synthesis is the fact that you can eventually make Refinement Materials, I haven't really gotten into this because I have been pretty invested in crafting equipment, but I have heard rumors that there are one or two players who can make some of the higher level Ores, but I haven't confirmed it, it would be ridiculously expensive to do, and at this point it is just not practical so I can't be bothered with it. The main thing with the synthesis is that you can make pretty much any support item from the NPC place with a couple of exceptions. You can easily sell these items on the consignment board or just use them for yourself as needed. It's SUPER CONVIENIENT, and your friends wil be Jelly ^^; As this becomes more practical I will edit this guide to annex new information but as far as I know that's all you need to know a this point.

*ADDING STATS and NEGATIVE STATING
As of the writing of this guide the current Natural Highest Potential of any equipment is 47 Potential without a Slot and 46 Potential with a Slot. This will change in the next 2 hours once maintenance is completed and I will edit this post when I know the new Potential Cap.
So the first step to adding stats is to Craft some High Potential equipment, once this is done you must equip the equipment to your BS, then go into your EX Skills and select Upgrade Equipment. Let me make a point clear to you *ONLY add stats to your equipment using a your FULL TECH Blacksmith! The FULL TECH will make a significantly better usage of the equipment's potential due to their extremely high TECH Stat.

*NOTE: For those of you making C777, 888 ect. the following Step 1 doesn't apply. I Personally don't make C*** equipment, but to each their own.

Step 1. Okay now for a quick explanation, and probably my PERSONAL biggest "AH HA" moment in Toram to date. ADDING STATS TO EQUIPMENT WORKS BOTH WAYS! What this means is that when you go to add a Stat, and you see the buttons on the right to say add, +2% Str, or +2% INT each time you ADD a POSITIVE STAT it lowers the remaining potential, however, you'll notice there are also some buttons on the LEFT! WOW. Well imagine what those special little buttons do?! That's right, THEY ADD a NEGATIVE STAT to the equipment, and what do you think happens to the equipment potential when you ADD a NEGATIVE STAT?! Any guesses? Alright I will tell you. IT ADDS POTENTIAL TO THE EQUIPMENT! Amazing huh? Now, here is the deal with ADDING NEGATIVE STATS, Weapons and Armor react differently to different NEGATIVE STATS, so play around with each different one to see how much potential each one can add. I will tell you now that *currently the most potential that ADDING A NEGATIVE STAT can add is 21 POTENTIAL Points, again this will possibly change after maintenance, but the numbers don't matter, the concept of ADDING NEGATIVE STATS is absolutely the most important part of this process, period. Learn it, Love it, Live it. And last note on Step 1: ALWAY ALWAYS ALWAYS - Add the NEGATIVE STAT to the Equipment and complete the Adding first before attempting to add whichever other stats you're trying at. And when I say Add the Negative stat first I mean literally go through the entire upgrade process first ONLY adding the NEGATIVE STAT, doing so will significantly increase your chances of adding the other 2 Stats on the second upgrade. So to clarify, when adding NEGATIVE STATS to a piece of equipment you will always upgrade the equipment TWICE; the first time with the NEGATIVE STAT and the second time with the other 2 STATs.

Step 2: Attempt to Add the other 2 Stats AND PRAY. Now, you will notice that your Tech Blacksmith is able to *ATTEMPT* to ADD POSITIVE STATS that exceed the equipment's potential by I believe up to 18 points, don't quote me on the numbers- and again just understand the concept the numbers will change, the concept will not change. When you attempt to add stats that exceed the equipment's potential you will be prompted with your new nemesis: THE RATE SUCCESS %. Not much to say here, and I am sorry for that fact. This is really where the rubber meets the road in your quest to create the best Equipment in the game. I will tell you the worst feeling in the world is when you have finally made the perfect high potential equipment with a Slot, added your negative stat and are finally ready for that final craft only to see a 69% chance of success end with huge CRASH! Look, it's gonna happen. Let me apologize to you in advance; it's gonna happen OFTEN- so prepare yourself, Toramian! The good news is that as your BS characters level up and add you more to their pure STATS you will have a lot more success creating gear and adding STATS.

Step 3: CRAFT IN BULK, Celebrate or Seek Consolation, take a little break and get CRAFTING AGAIN: Because of low rate of success for PERFECT equipment, and for the sake of your sanity/efficiency you should usually plan to make 10-15 Crafts at one time. From my experience I would say that it usually takes about that many to have 1-2 successful, Highest Potential with a Slot equipment, not a ratio; just an observation. Look, if you have gotten to this point in your crafting career than you are truly on par with the BEST Blacksmiths in Toram! The ONLY thing they have on you at this point is practice, practice, practice! (And maybe a couple of secrets people don't want to share.) BUT, don't let a few (or even 100) failed crafts sour all of the hard work you have put into this process! The ONLY way to ensure success is to keep crafting! Take some time and go farm some mats or hang out with your guildies or something if you're feeling discouraged but definetly definetly do not give up and if you succeed- celebrate with your friends! Nothing feels better than hearing that anvil ring SUCCESS. And THAT'S IT. If you've read both guides you now know everything I know about becoming an AWESOME Blacksmith, Congratulation, Good luck, and HAPPY CRAFTING!

 

It does not need to ALWAYS add the negative stats first. In some situation, such as Int5 Int4%, you can get a 80~100% success rate by NOT adding negative stat first.

 

Thank you very much for your input. When I am done lvling my BS characters to 85 today I will test that out, and once I see it I will update the guide.

 

i need ur help.. which one is better for creating high potential armor.. Full tech or Full vit... please help me..

 

Ofcourse Full stat Vit would increase your pot, TEC is only for refining-upgrading-synthesizing

 

which one is better? full vit / tech?

 

Phew this sure hard explaining to you. TEC doesnt make your POTENTIAL higher but increases your success rate in Crafting,Refining,(Upgrading/Statting) and Synthesizing. You should try also finding/testing it yourself. Dont just ask and wait people to spoonfeed all the answers your looking cause there are many threads about BS already you just need to be patient/diligent in reading. lol

 

im just askin..

 

You should know now what to do lol

 

Rikito I really do encourage you to ask questions, but please do read through both of the guides. I know there is a lot of information, so no worries but I would be a little disappointed if you don't read through. If there is something unclear for sure ask, that's what the forum is for, and not to be ridiculed. To answer your question the Full Vit will create the high potential armor, however to quickly create a Full Vit capable of making the best armors you need to first make a full TECH BS character, use this BS to build Proficiency and then reset the stats and put them all in VIT. Doing this will keep your BS proficiency level high enough to access the more difficult recipes and with stats now invested in VIT the armor you make will have high potential. Hope this helps- Read up bud.

 

Your totally right cause patience is virtue.

 

im sory to cause misunderstanding.. im just askin perfect gun opinion.. i didnt write it in corect sentence.. i should add.. in ur opinion.. sory..

 

It's all good Rikito. Fortunely the answer to your question is not a matter of opinion. A Full VIT BS will always make higher potential armor than a Full TECH BS

 

Thanks n sory once again

 

I love these guilds you've taken the time to create and share, they've helped me a lot in developing my refiner/synth Smith but info have a question.
Forgive me if this was answered in the guide because I did read over both of them and I can't seem to find the answer but,
Does my refinment and/or upgrading depend on my bs proficency level in any way? I know it depends on tech and I've created good dex gear to help with the bonuses that come with that but im hoping that I won't have to farm all those mats to get my smith prof up too.

 

Nope, only depends on TEC (refine/upgrade and synthesizing)

 

Amazing. Almost lvl 50 and I've already got 80 synth prof, I'm on my way. Now if I could just find that thread I was reading a while ago that has good refining mat farming locations.
Thanks so much

 

No prob. You actually lvl it that far? LMAO XD

 

Just started tonight lol it's easy if you can convience someone to rush you to lvl 25 st niesel. Lucky I have a storm mage to make up for my leeching. I would have never asked had the character been anything other than pure tech.

 

tho you still need to max your char lvl to max out TEC stat(currently 236tec @85). Gl pal in your bs