Shield Smith

It's time for you to forge your first shield, so put down your weapon and equip your Smith's Hammer! When you arrive at one of the Smith's Workshops on Pandala Island, click on a shield anvil and select the action 'Forge a Shield'. Then slide the ingredients into the slots available, bearing in mind the quantities you see in your recipe window.

The materials you'll need to create your shield are as diverse as they are unusual - Dragoturkey tail, Leopardo Skin, Moon Hairs - you never know what you'll need next! You can do without some ingredients, but others will be absolutely essential - wood and especially minerals, are the basic components of most ''recipes''. You can buy all these materials in the Marketplaces of the world, in particular the ones that serve miners and lumberjacks.

When you start practicing your profession, you'll only be able to use simple recipes, and only ones with 2 resources (i.e. 2 slots). Once you get a little experience under your belt, you can move on to more complex recipes with more ingredients and more slots. The list below tells you the different grades of recipe along with the level you require to be able to use them:

• 2 slots (level 1+)


• 3 slots (level 10+)


• 4 slots (level 20+)


• 5 slots (level 40+)


• 6 slots (level 60+)


• 7 slots (level 80+)


• 8 slots (level 100+)

Like with the craft professions, the more complex a recipe is, the more experience you'll gain if you manage to do it. But the lower your level is, the less likely you will be to succeed in using it... bear in mind that no recipe is a guaranteed success.