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For a categorical listing of transmuting-related articles, see Category:Transmuting.
For a categorical listing of adorning-related articles, see Category:Adorning.


Adorning is a Secondary Tradeskill that allows a player to create Adornments. Adornments can add both triggered effects ("procs") or different stats to the equipment they adorn.

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Basics[]

Unlike primary tradeskills where you earn experience, secondary tradeskills like Adorning use a skill-based progression; you begin with a skill of 1 when you first become a Adorner, and your maximum skill value is your tradeskill or adventure level (whichever is highest) multiplied by 5. To level up your Adorning skill, you must craft adornments.

Please refer to the Transmuting article to determine what components are used to make adornments.

Becoming an Adorner[]

In order to become an Adorner, visit an Adorning Trainer in one of the following locations:

  • Sala Maki stands on the south west side of the docks in Butcherblock Mountains.
  • Noora Maki can be found in Kelethin at ( 414, 89, 236 ) Copy
  • Maege Blackwing is near the Jewelers and Alchemists in Qeynos Capitol District.

Note: You must be a crafter before the Adorning Trainer will allow you to become a adorner as well.

Leveling[]

In order to increase Adorning skill, you must complete adorning combines using any of the adorning recipes. To level your adorning skills, you might choose only to create "Lesser" quality (Handcrafted) adornments, as they require only fragment and powder components, whereas "Greater" (Mastercrafted-Legendary) and "Superior" (Fabled) adornments require extra powders as well as Infusions and Manas that are more expensive components. Another popular option is to use the Dilutions series of recipes to turn lower-tier (and less valuable) manas and infusions into powders and fragments which can then be used to craft lesser adornments. This path gives chances of skillups both from the dilution combines and from the finished adornment crafting.

An easy way to only have relevant recipes show up in your recipe book is to set up a filter on the adorning skill. You will not get a skill up on every combine. It takes a large amount of transmuting components in order to gain enough skill to scribe the next Volume, be it an Essentials volume or and Advanced volume.

Making a white con Adorning recipe offers about a 50% chance of getting a skill up. Making a grey con Adorning recipe offers a 20 to 25% (estimated) chance of getting a skill up.

The chance of getting a skill up is apparently unaffected by the rarity of the item created (handcrafted, mastercrafted-legendary or fabled) or the quality of the produced item (crude, shaped, normal or pristine) but making the highest quality gives you back some of the components used in the recipe. You may feel that certain recipes have a higher chance of granting a skill up, but this impression is likely just a statistical fluke.

In addition to making the standard adorning items, adorning can be increased by undertaking a daily adorning task, given by NPCs in the same place that you would find work orders. You will be given the components, but not the fuel, for making the 10 items needed for the task quest. In order to gain the possibility of another skill up, you may perform 1 more combine, as you are given enough materials to perform 11 combines, although the quest only requires 10. To do this, do not turn in the quest until all combines possible are completed.

The trainers for these daily tasks are all named Londiar Inygad. Their locations are in each city's tradeskill area:


Skillup Odds[]

Recipe Color Con SkillUp Tests Found % SOE Official %
Grey 181 611 29.6% 25%
Green 14 44 32.0% ?
Blue 120 231 51.9% ?
White 57 97 58.8% 50%
Yellow 42 66 63.6% ?


What might or might not be helpful for advancing your adorning skill in Tier 7:

Both of these items are used for Heritage Quests, and as such require fewer components than are regularly required for T7 combines.

Recipes[]

Essentials[]

The Essential Adornment recipe books can be purchased from Tyla Maki on the Butcherblock Docks or from Sade Maki in Kelethin. They are used for creating "Lesser" (Handcrafted) and "Greater" (Mastercrafted-Legendary) adornments.

Essential Adornments Volume 1
Essential Adornments Volume 2
Essential Adornments Volume 3
Essential Adornments Volume 4
Essential Adornments Volume 5
Essential Adornments Volume 6
Essential Adornments Volume 7
Essential Adornments Volume 8
Essential Adornments Volume 9
Essential Adornments Volume 10
Essential Adornments Volume 11

Advanced[]

Adorning Advanced volumes have recipes to create "Superior" (Fabled} adornments. They are body drops off of mobs in any zone; the level of the mob will directly determine what tier of book can drop.

Advanced Adornments Volume 1
Advanced Adornments Volume 2
Advanced Adornments Volume 3
Advanced Adornments Volume 4
Advanced Adornments Volume 5
Advanced Adornments Volume 6
Advanced Adornments Volume 7
Advanced Adornments Volume 8
Advanced Adornments Volume 9
Advanced Adornments Volume 10
Advanced Adornments Volume 11

Distillations[]

The 'Distillation' books teach recipes that allow you to "upconvert" parts at an expense (10 to 1), so that you can gain access to things like infusions and manas without breaking down precious loot. These are purchased at standard adorning NPCs.

  • 10 fragments to 1 powder
  • 10 powder to 1 infusion
  • 10 infusion to 1 mana

Transmuting Distillations, Volume 1
Transmuting Distillations, Volume 2
Transmuting Distillations, Volume 3
Transmuting Distillations, Volume 4
Transmuting Distillations, Volume 5
Transmuting Distillations, Volume 6
Transmuting Distillations, Volume 7
Transmuting Distillations, Volume 8
Transmuting Distillations, Volume 9
Transmuting Distillations, Volume 10

Dilutions[]

The 'Dilution' books teach recipes that allow you to 'downconvert' parts to multiple 'lower' parts (at 1-to-7). This is useful for people skilling up, as recipes start consuming large amounts of fragments and powders. These are purchased at standard adorning NPCs.

  • 1 mana to 7 infusions
  • 1 infusion to 7 powders
  • 1 powder to 7 fragments

Transmuting Dilutions, Volume 1
Transmuting Dilutions, Volume 2
Transmuting Dilutions, Volume 3
Transmuting Dilutions, Volume 4
Transmuting Dilutions, Volume 5
Transmuting Dilutions, Volume 6
Transmuting Dilutions, Volume 7
Transmuting Dilutions, Volume 8
Transmuting Dilutions, Volume 9
Transmuting Dilutions, Volume 10
Transmuting Dilutions, Volume 11 or Version 2

Distillations[]

The 'Distillations' books teach recipes that allow you to 'upconvert' parts from multiple 'lower' parts to 1 higher one. This is useful for people skilling up, as recipes start consuming large amounts of fragments and powders. These are purchased at standard adorning NPCs.

Transmuting Distillations, Volume 1
Transmuting Distillations, Volume 2
Transmuting Distillations, Volume 3
Transmuting Distillations, Volume 4
Transmuting Distillations, Volume 5
Transmuting Distillations, Volume 6
Transmuting Distillations, Volume 7
Transmuting Distillations, Volume 8
Transmuting Distillations, Volume 9
Transmuting Distillations, Volume 10
Transmuting Distillations, Volume 11 or Version 2

Green slot adornments[]

The recipes for common green adornments are included in the essential recipe books 1-10. For crude, refined and prime green adornments there is a dropped recipe (Imprint: ) for every class related version.

  • Priest Consecrated
  • Mage Arcanic
  • Scout Sheen
  • Fighter Fortified

Skills[]

Adorners have six counters to aid in crafting adornments. You no longer must buy the 6 abilities from the Adorning trainer, though they are still for sale. These abilities are:

Skill Cap[]

The skill cap for adorning is based on whichever is higher of your adventure level or tradeskill level.

Skill Caps by Level 
  • Level * 5 = Cap
    • level 50 * 5 = 250 Cap
    • level 100 * 5 = 500 Cap
    • level 120 * 5 = 600 Cap
Player Level 1-50 Skill Cap
1 5
2 10
3 15
4 20
5 25
6 30
7 35
8 40
9 45
10 50
11 55
12 60
13 65
14 70
15 75
16 80
17 85
18 90
19 95
20 100
21 105
22 110
23 115
24 120
25 125
26 130
27 135
28 140
29 145
30 150
31 155
32 160
33 165
34 170
35 175
36 180
37 185
38 190
39 195
40 200
41 205
42 210
43 215
44 220
45 225
46 230
47 235
48 240
49 245
50 250
Player Level 51-100 Skill Cap
51 255
52 260
53 265
54 270
55 275
56 280
57 285
58 290
59 295
60 300
61 305
62 310
63 315
64 320
65 325
66 330
67 335
68 340
69 345
70 350
71 355
72 360
73 365
74 370
75 375
76 380
77 385
78 390
79 395
80 400
81 405
82 410
83 415
84 420
85 425
86 430
87 435
88 440
89 445
90 450
91 455
92 460
93 465
94 470
95 475
96 480
97 485
98 490
99 485
100 500
Player Level 101-120 Skill Cap
101 505
102 510
103 515
104 520
105 525
106 530
107 535
108 540
109 545
110 550
111 555
112 560
113 565
114 570
115 575
116 580
117 585
118 590
119 595
120 600
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