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Crafting is a new way for players to obtain items, which may or may not be better than what they currently have. It has influences the Gambling system in Diablo 2, such as the ability to obtain a rare item or good quality item early as well as having randomization. Unlike crafting professions in other RPG's, where a player must craft items by himself, the Crafting in Diablo 3 is done by Artisans.

Mechanics

An open crafting window, with a rare Monk Claw being crafted, resulting in a claw that poisons, hits hard and takes health after killing a monster

A player visits an Artisan, selects items he wants made which are determined by the level of the Artisan, as well as any recipes the player has found in the world, provides a gold fee and Salvaging Supplies. The items will take some time to be crafted, allowing the player to continue his adventures without the hindrance of other conventional crafting systems. In order to avoid the crafted items being the same everytime they are crafted, every item that is crafted will have a plus 1 or more in random attributes, these attributes will finalize once the item is made. It is possible to craft rare items as well.

Crafting Recipes

The only known recipes are Blacksmith Recipes, shown in various Artisan media from August 2010. Click the linked recipes to see their full details; the others are known only by name.

Mystical Scale Mail of Focus
Mystical Scale Mail of the Horadrim
Mystical Scale Mail of the Elements
Mystical Scale Mail of the Titans
Empowered Long Dagger
Empowered Wrist Spade -- The only item seen in completed form.
Empowered Yew Wand
Empowered Long Axe
Magical Leather Pants of Virility
Magical Skull Cap of Willpower
Magical Leather Boots of Dexterity
Magical Leather Belt of Brawn

Crafting in the End Game

The D3 Team has repeatedly stated that they want a wide variety of equipment to make up a character's end game kit. Rare, Legendary, and Crafted items (as well as magical items and Set Items, perhaps_ should all compete for the top item in each spot. [1]

Jay Wilson: One of the key elements of crafting is that to acquire the best stuff you need the recipes to make them. and recipes drop. You might find those from final bosses in hell difficulty. It is our goal that some crafted items as viable as top tier items. we don’t want crafting to dominate. If anything, we’ll make them the smallest percentage of the items. But we do want to make some crafted items obviously the best in their area. So that when you get a max level char, they’re not wearing just rares/legendary/crafted. But a mixture.

Might the high end Crafted Items be too good? Could a player mass produce them and flood the market, almost as if they had a way to dupe? [2]

in.Diablo.d3: If Artisan items are that great, can they be created in bulk and traded and passed around?

Jay Wilson: The problem with that idea is that the D3 crafting system produces random items. So there won’t be high end crafted items that don’t have completely random properties.

Crafting is more like gambling was in D2. You know what type of item,but not the mods. So even the uber [[recipes] you’ll have to make a ton of them to get one that’s really good. Even if crafting does make a lot of great same type of item, it would just devalue it since other people could probably do the same thing. We don’t think that’s a problem as long as crafted items are a small % of the overall [high end] items.

Media

Various images showing off crafting recipes, items, and other related images.

The first crafted item, an Empowered Wrist Spade.

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-[[File:Artisan-icon-craft.jpg|left|thumb|75px]]
+'''Crafting''' is a new way for players to obtain items, which may or may not be better than what they currently have. It has influences the Gambling system in Diablo 2, such as the ability to obtain a rare item or good quality item early as well as having randomization. Unlike crafting professions in other RPG's, where a player must craft items by himself, the Crafting in Diablo 3 is done by [[Artisan (NPC)|Artisans]].
-The '''crafting''' system in Diablo III combines [[materials]], NPC [[Artisans]], and found item [[recipes]] to create new semi-random items from scraps. This system allows players to essentially [[gamble]] for new gear, potentially creating some of the best items in the game.
-Crafting is also a major part of the game economy, creating a useful purpose for all of the extra items and gold that players will accumulate over time.  Players will craft early in the game, and continue doing so in the [[end game] when the highest level crafting recipes will be rolled over and over again, by players hoping to score great mods from the [[Random Properties]] in all crafting recipes.
-Watch [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNP8QiNbFmU Blizzard's Artisan video] for a visual introduction to Crafting.
+==Mechanics==
+[[image:CraftingWindow.png|200px|thumb|left|An open crafting window, with a rare [[Monk]] Claw being crafted, resulting in a claw that poisons, hits hard and takes health after killing a monster]]
+A player visits an Artisan, selects items he wants made which are determined by the level of the Artisan, as well as any recipes the player has found in the world, provides a gold fee and [[Salvaging|Salvaging Supplies]]. The items will take some time to be crafted, allowing the player to continue his adventures without the hindrance of other conventional crafting systems. In order to avoid the crafted items being the same everytime they are crafted, every item that is crafted will have a plus 1 or more in random attributes, these attributes will finalize once the item is made. It is possible to craft rare items as well.
-==Artisans==
+===Crafting Recipes===
-[[Image:CraftingWindow.png|250px|thumb|The crafting interface.]]
-All crafting is done through the [[Artisans]], three new NPCs who are found in the town, or [[Caravan]] area. The caravan travels with the player all through the game, so the same NPCs will be found in each act.  The three artisans cover different aspects of items, and they will be large parts of the game's plot and quests as well, with information to share about all sorts of things encountered during the course of the game's four acts.
-New characters do not start off with Artisans; each of the three are encountered during the course of playing through Act One, as [[NPCs]] with [[quests]] that they need assistance with. Once the player completes their quests, the Artisans join up on your journey, out of loyalty or simply a desire for profits.
+The only known recipes are [[Blacksmith Recipes]], shown in various Artisan media from August 2010. Click the linked recipes to see their full details; the others are known only by name.
-Artisans start off at apprentices, but they can be [[trained]] up in level five times, and will gain more abilities and learn many new recipes as their level increases.
+* Mystical Scale Mail of Focus
+* Mystical Scale Mail of the Horadrim
+* Mystical Scale Mail of the Elements
+* Mystical Scale Mail of the Titans
+* Empowered Long Dagger
+* [[Empowered Wrist Spade]] -- The only item seen in completed form.
+* Empowered Yew Wand
+* [[Empowered Long Axe]]
+* Magical Leather Pants of Virility
+* [[Magical Skull Cap of Willpower]]
+* [[Magical Leather Boots of Dexterity]]
+* [[Magical Leather Belt of Brawn]]
-Haedrig Eamon is the [[Blacksmith]]. The first artisan encountered, Haedrig's family was killed and zombified, and he needs your assistance in putting them to rest. Once that's done, he gifts the player with the [[salvage cube]] and joins the Caravan. Haedrig handles item [[socketing]], [[repairs]], and buys and sells most every type of weapon and armor. His crafting recipes are all weapons and armor.
-The [[Jeweler]] has not yet been named. He's known to be a greedy fellow, who requires assistance obtaining a valuable jewel from a fearsome demon. Once that's given, he joins the Caravan, offering unsocketing, and the ability to upgrade the quality of your found [[gems]]. His crafting recipes create gems, amulets, and rings.
+==Crafting in the End Game==
-The [[Mystic]] has not yet been named. He (or [[Adria|she]]?) has no revealed story yet. The mystic can [[enchant]] items, as well as create [[scrolls]], [[potions]], magical weapons, [[runestones]], and [[charms]].
-==Crafting Items==
-[[File:Recipe3.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Empowered Long Axe recipe.]]
-To craft items, select the crafting interface from any Artisan's options menu. The available [[recipes]] will display in a long list. Hovering on a recipe will expand it, showing the required ingredients, as well as a preview of the [[potential item]].
-All recipes include one or more [[random properties]], which is what makes crafting a long term activity in the game. There's no telling what modifiers will spawn in those spots, so while there's some predictability to crafted items, there are thousands of potential items that can be created from each recipe; as many as there are [[modifiers]] in the game.
-[[File:Item-crafting1.jpg|thumb|250px|Empowered Long Axe potential item.]]
-The recipe is seen here on the left, with the resulting item to the right. This one would make an [[Empowered Long Axe]]; a decent weapon for a low level [[Barbarian]]. Crafting items requires the right materials; in this case 6 [[common scraps]], 1 [[bone]], and 200 [[gold]]. [[Materials]] are the raw ingredients obtained by [[salvaging]] items in the [[salvage cube]].
-The [[D3 Team]] made the crafting interface simple, and kept the creation of items quick and easy. They want players to spend their time in the dungeons, bashing monsters. Not standing around in town, hammering on an anvil. Thus all the item creation is done by the Artisans, with ingredients primarily obtained from monster killing.
-Artisan [[training]] is quick also, once your character has obtained the materials and gold to pay for it.
-==End Game==
 The [[D3 Team]] has repeatedly stated that they want a wide variety of equipment to make up a character's end game kit. [[Rare]], [[Legendary]], and Crafted items (as well as magical items and [[Set Items]], perhaps_ should all compete for the top item in each spot. [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/jay-wilson-interview-indiablo.de-part-one/]
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-==Diablo II Crafting==
+==Media==
-Diablo III's item crafting takes {{iw|crafting Diablo II's crafting system}} and expands upon it. The same basic mechanic exists; crafted items are a predictable item type, and they have preset mods that will vary within a slight range, while bonus modifiers are tacked on to make or break the item, quality-wise.
-Diablo III adds a lot to it, of course, combining elements of gambling, as well as item recycling and creation to the process. There are hundreds more recipes in Diablo 3 than there were in Diablo 2, plus the rare recipes that can only be obtained as item drops from monsters.
-The Artisan interactions are all new as well, with their quest and story input adding to the game. They make crafting much easier as well; players have all they need to know in the game; there's no need to print out or memorize crafting recipes from websites. Crafting is much easier in Diablo III as well, since the items are created from materials. Diablo 2 required players to find an item of the type they wanted to craft, which the recipe would then reroll. That was easy with rings and amulets, but other recipes required a specific quality or types of boot or glove or other item, plus high level gems, which took time to create.
+Various images showing off crafting recipes, items, and other related images.
+<gallery>
+File:Recipe-empowered-wrist-spade-full.jpg|The first crafted item, an [[Empowered Wrist Spade]].
+</gallery>
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