Monday, April 7, 2014

Crafting Guide

Introduction
Crafting was introduced with the arrival of adventure mode, players can create equipment and mercenaries for free granted they have the corresponding ingredients to do so. With the right amount of fragments and luck, it is possible to obtain permanent items from crafting. Selling what you don't need because of the limited crafting inventory available can also provide a decent source of GP.  Learn more about crafting below.
Crafting User Interface

Crafting Ingredients/Terminology
Before you can start crafting, you must first obtain ingredients as a reward through normal game play completion, or by purchasing ingredient pouches in the shop. In addition, it is also possible to dismantle timed and permanent equipment to create hero specific fragments, and get catalyst from legendary gears.
Hero Fragments - Hero fragments are used to craft specific characters/equipment.
Catalyst - Used primarily in target crafting to transform the ingredient into additional goal hero fragments.
Hero Soul - Transform hero fragments into timed/permanent heroes.
Rare Hero Soul - Transform hero fragments into timed/permanent rare heroes.
Gear Fragment - Transform hero fragments into timed/permanent equipment.
Dimensional Gear Fragment - Transform hero fragments into timed/permanent legendary equipment.


Hero/Gear Crafting Recipe
Hero fragments, along with a single hero soul or gear fragment, will be most important ingredient to craft a hero and/or gears. You are required to have a minimum of 10 hero fragments to transform the recipe, while the maximum number of hero fragments that you can enter is 10,000. Using 10,000 hero frags does not guarantee a perm, but it does increase your chances by doing so. If you are lucky to get a permanent gear it will have a starting stat value of +0. 
Infantryman and Graffiti Artist results

Part Crafting Recipe
Want a random hero fragment? You will want to use the part crafting recipe. Similar to the hero/gear crafting recipe, part crafting requires that you have a minimum of 10 hero fragments. In exchange, players receive a random, but smaller stack size than previously entered. Part crafting is generally performed to combine heroes that you would otherwise not need, and if you wanted to take your chances on obtaining unreleased hero fragments. It is important to note that if you have no crafting inventory space available, then it might be wiser to use the GP crafting recipe to get rid of fragments prior to using the part crafting recipe.
Part Crafting example

Target Crafting Recipe
The target crafting recipe is by far the most useful method for gathering additional hero fragments. The amount of catalyst inserted can determine whether you get 25% and the possibility of more depending on the number of catalyst used. Furthermore, total ingredient fragment transformed will change based on the transformation success chance shown (ex. Average, High). A maximum of 1,000 hero fragments can be placed in your ingredient slot. What you determine as your target hero is entirely up to you, while focusing on a single hero fragment, rather than several at at time, will speed up the process. More importantly, it is advised that you only spend one catalyst at a time, using any more than this can be a waste of catalyst depending on the amount of ingredient fragments entered. 

Catalyst usage formula:
Amount of catalyst: 1 / 333 / 666 / 999 = 25% / 45% / 65% / 85%
(#catalyst / 25 * 15 + 250) * (#fragment / 1000) = Total ingredient fragments converted to target
Target Crafting example

GP Crafting Recipe
GP crafting is the final and simplest recipe to understand. The GP received is equivalent to the number of ingredients entered as long as the total amount is greater than or equal to one. e.g. 1534 ingredients = 1534 GP. While this might be the least used crafting recipe for some, it does however help to get rid of those smaller stack hero frags from taking up valuable crafting inventory, which in turn will begin to fill up your gift storage space.
GP Crafting example