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Crafting Tips
It’s hard to say what exactly is behind good crafting. Most of the tips included in this section are people’s opinions. There are hardly any cold hard facts included because SE has never come out and said, “This is how you do it.” So, these are from recorded experiences. Take them all with a grain of salt. Understanding Elemental Days
Vanadiel is all about the elements. Each day has it’s own Element attached to it. The order in which they appear are:
Firesday > Earthsday > Watersday > Windsday > Iceday > Lightningday > Lightsday > Darksday > Firesday
The cycle progresses like this over and over again. Each element has it’s weakness – the opposing element. So, the way it works is this:
Water quenches Fire Fire melts IceIce blocks Wind Wind tears away Earth Earth absorbs Lightning Lightning Boils Water Light and Dark oppose each other Water > Fire > Ice > Wind > Earth > Lightning > Water Light >< Dark
Each element also relates to status ailments:
Fire = Disease Ice = Bind Wind = Silence Earth = ParalysisLightning = Stun Water = PoisonLight = Charm Dark = Blind, Curse and Sleep
There are different crystals for each element. These have their own colors.
Red = Fire Day – Fire CrystalYellow = Earth Day – Earth CrystalBlue = Waters Day – Water CrystalGreen = Winds Day – Wind Crystal Aqua = Ice Day – Ice Crystal Purple = Lightning Day – Lightning Crystal White = Light Day – Light Crystal Grey – Darks Day – Dark Crystal
Weather also has it’s own elements:
Wind/Heavy Winds = Wind Darkness/Solar Eclipse = Dark Sandstorm/Heavy Sandstorm = EarthHeat/Heatwave = FireSnow/Icestorm = Ice Aurora/Midnight Sun = Light Thunderstorm/Heavy Thunderstorm = Lightning Rain/Heavy Downpour = Water
People believe that the stars play an important role in crafting as well. Each element has it’s own constellation that is located in a different area of the sky. There are NPCs in the different towns that will show a constellation map to prove this theory. People believe that if you craft in a certain direction with a certain crystal, it will improve your chances of either skilling up, synthing the item or HQing the item. For example, if I needed to craft something using a Dark Crystal, and I were to face North, I would have a better chance to synth that item.
Dark = North – Odin Fire = Northwest – IfritWater = West – LeviathanLightning = Southwest – Ramuh Earth = South – TitanWind = Southeast – Garuda Ice = East – Shiva Light = Northeast– Alexander
Some think the Moon Phases also play a role in crafting.
Full Moon = Increased Success and Skillups New Moon = Great Skillups and best day for HQs
Common knowledge for crafting:
If you synth on the day of your crystal you’ll receive a slight increase in your success rate and get average skillups. If you synth on Darksday or on the day your crystal is weak to you will double your skillup rate and get a better chance to HQ. If you synth on just a normal day you will get average skillups.
It has been my experience that when skilling up, you usually don’t want to skillup on things above 5 skill levels as yourself. The skillup rate seems to come slower and you have way more breaks, which means you are just throwing away your money.
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