Talisman Making

Talisman Making turns magical fragments into useful Talismans. It requires fragments from Salvaging, so the two skills are often paired together. Talisman Making is taught by trainers found in early chapters. Unlike all other tradeskills, Talisman Making is not taught by a NPC whose title matches the skill: Talisman-making trainers are titled "Hedge Wizard".

• Capital cities
  • Order -
  • Destruction -
• Ch 2 camps
  • Dark Elf - Mistwood - Ezkar Cleaveheart
  • Dwarf - Redhammer Station - Dani Binasdotr (by the fireplace)
  • Empire - Grey Lady Coaching Inn - Aidan Bond (around the left side of the inn)
  • High Elf - Adunei - Drilian Lightpath
  • Greenskin - Da War Maker - Dripnose Shinymaka (in a hut to the southwest)
• Ch 11 camps

How To Make Talismans

First off, get a fragment from Salvaging, the Auction House or for low level fragments, from Merchants. Then collect the basic items needed for a talisman: a container, gold dust and magic essence.

You can also optionally use a curio - while curios are not needed to create a Talisman, they do increase the potential quality of the final product - "That Bar" (see below) will increase its highest point in response to slotting an appropriate curio into a make.

All of these are available on the Hedge Wizard that trained you, though they aren't the highest quality. Standard merchants also carry the basic items. Open the window and put the container in the upper left corner. Next, add your fragment. Then you can add the dust, essence, and a curio if you have one. Hit fuse, and you're done! Note that the box must be inserted in its corresponding slot first, then the fragment. The last three may be inserted in any order.

That Bar

The bar will predict the power of the talisman if all ingredients are in place. Also a text will appear which also states the power of the talisman. (inferior, weak, etc) There are two competing theories. The answer will either have to come out of a grab bag or through statistical analysis of actual cases.

1. Crafting talismans when the bar is at the top or bottom does not change the strength of your talisman, only different component will. Neither starting crafting when the bar is at the top, nor having the crafting finish at the top makes a difference. It seems to be more of a 'fuzzy' way of showing you the strength instead of something static.
2. When you put all of the components of the talisman into the window, a bar will appear on the upper right hand side. Its level will go up and down with time. Your goal is to make it at the highest time.

• You have to start the talisman making when the bar is lowest.
• The talisman making should end when the bar is highest.

The bar position can be measured in animation "steps". All white level 1s with no curio is as low as it can go, which bounces from 0-6: a total of 7 frames starting at 0 pixels of blue.

• R/1 essence adds +2 / +2
• R/25 essence adds +5 / +5
• C/1 gold adds +2 / +2

Quality

Better ingredients let you make better talismans that last longer and are more powerful. The effect of the talisman is dependent on the fragment. The quality of the talisman is theoretically based upon both the quality of the fragment. It is poorly understood whether only the fragment or all talisman crafting components affect the quality of the talisman, as is the nature of the effect which each component has on the final product. The quality affects the duration:

• White - 8 hours
• Green - 2 days
• Blue - 5 days
• Purple - Permanent

The curio possibly seems to affect your critical rate. When you critical, you craft a talisman of the next highest quality from what the talisman would normally be (ex. 2 days rather than 8 hours). The other two optional components possibly seem to affect the magnitude of the buff (ex. increasing the extra strength granted by the talisman).

Items

Fragments

Fragment names are formed by combining the rarity prefix, skill prefix, and fragment suffix. The fragment suffix varies according to rules that are not yet known. So far, at most three possible suffixes have been seen per stat. It is guessed that the additional suffixes listed in the below table may be associated with fragments which state in the tooltip "... still retain some power ... could be used in a charm".

Icon	Stat		Common	Uncommon	Rare	Epic		1	25	50	75	100	125	150	175	200		Suffix 1	Suffix 2	Suffix 3
	Strength		Barbarous	Savage	Fierce			Rugged	Sturdy	Potent	Mighty	Puissant	Rugged					Debris	Ash	Slag
	Ballistic Skill		Snarling	Baying				Sorrel	Russet	Umber	Bister	Amber	Sorrel					Heart	Essence	Core
	Intelligence		Venomous	Murderous	Grim			Lavendar	Orchid		Perse	Amethyst	Lavender					Frost	Chill
	Toughness		Deviant	Fevered	Frenzied			Insulating	Protective	Warding	Guarding	Shielding	Insulating					Brand	Aspect	Visage
	Weapon Skill		Sparking	Burning				Carmine	Scarlet	Vermillion	Sanguine	Crimson						Ingot	Combine
	Initiative		Blurred	Dusky				Slate	Smokey	Leaden	Ashen							Fiber	Pattern
	Willpower		Wispy	Tuft of	Strand of			Indigo	Viridian	Azure	Cerulean	Sapphire	Indigo	Veridian	Azure			Haze	Gloom	Cloud
	Wounds			Coarse,Callous	Stony	Hardened		Charcoal	Ebon	Sable	Jet	Obsidian	Charcoal	Ebon				Sand	Stone
	Corporeal Resist		Noble	Majestic				Entrancing	Mystic									Gauze	Satin
	Elemental Resist		Nascent	Animated	Breathing			Beryl	Malachite	Nephrite	Emerald	Jade						Stone	Dust
	Spiritual Resist		Flickering	Sparkling				Incandescent	Lucid	Fiery	Fervent							Glimmer	Radiance

Curios

Essences

Item names are formed by combining the skill prefix with the rarity suffix. For example, an uncommon lv25 essence would be "Dormant Whisper." Note that echos and whispers cannot be used to make talismans. They are combined to form the next tier.

Gold

Template:Research neededItem names are formed by combining the skill prefix with the rarity suffix. For example, an uncommon lv25 gold would be "Leaden Golden Essence"

Bonus Formulas

These formulas are the best theories we have at this time, based on the data in the Recipes table below and other sources

The talisman depends on 3 factors:

• rarity of the talisman
• quality of the talisman - likely related to your skill and the skill level of the items. The quality appears in the bottom of the talisman making window.
• type of the fragment used in the talisman

A critical success ("You have made something better.") increases the quality of the talisman by 1 without changing its rarity. A super critical success ("You have made something awesome!") increases the rarity of the talisman by 1 without changing its quality. It is unknown at this time what the results of a super critical success is with a purple fragment. The stat bonus starts with the rarity value. Each increase in gives +3 to the result.

Next, add or subtract a value for the quality.

Apply a multiplier

Duration is purely dependent on rarity.