EQL Crafting

EverQuest Legends carries forward classic EverQuest's tradeskill system: twelve tradeskills, learned from merchants and leveled by combining ingredients in the right container. If you can gather it, loot it, or buy it, someone in the guild can probably turn it into something useful.

Why craft

• Fill gear gaps while leveling, especially for solo and small-group play.
• Produce your own consumables: food, drink, and potions.
• Earn platinum selling finished goods other players always need.
• Become the guild's supplier for quest components and raid consumables.

All twelve trade guides are live — click through any card for the full write-up.

No trade stands alone — most high-end recipes pull in two or three other tradeskills. Plan your skilling (and your friendships) around the web, not the single trade:

• Tailoring → Blacksmithing: leather padding (1 low-quality pelt + 1 silk thread, trivial 31) goes into every fine plate combine.
• Blacksmithing → Tailoring: steel boning for reinforced and studded armor; needles and thimbles for sewing kits.
• Pottery → Dyeing: resin and the medium clay jar that every armor dye is mixed in.
• Shaman Alchemy / Rogue Make Poison → Dyeing: the extracts that give each dye its color (trivial 36).
• Blacksmithing → Dyeing: the final dye combine happens in the forge — a smithing skill check.
• Blacksmithing → Fletching & Baking: metal bits become arrowheads; skewers, pots, and pans feed the kitchen trades.
• Fishing → Baking, Brewing → Tailoring (heady kiola for cured silk), and Enchanter → Jewelcraft (enchanted metals) round out the web.

See the full relay — including all 17 armor dyes — in the Blacksmithing guide.

The governing stat

For most trades, your Intelligence or Wisdom, whichever is higher, governs your chance to gain a skill point on a combine — but not every trade follows that rule. Blacksmithing uses Strength, Intelligence, or Wisdom, whichever is highest. Check the rule for your trade, then buff up before a skilling session.

Failure is part of the process

• A failed combine keeps the container but loses the ingredients — buy materials in bulk and expect waste on the way up.
• Both successes and failures can grant skill-ups, so keep combining through the dry spells.
• Never stack items when combining; every component must be a separate item.

Workhorse recipes

The cheapest path up is usually one workhorse recipe per stretch, ideally built around a reusable or easily farmed component. The community leveling guides below map the full climb with trivials for each stage.

Where to combine

• Oven or spit — Baking, found near tradeskill merchants in most towns.
• Brew barrel — Brewing, beside the brewing merchants.
• Forge — Blacksmithing, in cities and heavily trafficked areas.
• Kits — Fletching kits, jeweler's kits, and similar portable containers, some of which live in your inventory.

The tradeskill depot

EQL's tradeskill depot is a bank section that holds a huge stack of materials and lets you craft straight from it without hauling mats around. Park your components there and combine from anywhere the station allows.

Jewelcraft is S-tier

Jewelry is universally wearable and every character wants five to seven pieces (two rings, two earrings, a neck item, optionally bracelets). At high skill, platinum jewelry with strong stat combinations sells well — the king of tradeskill income. (Velium jewelry arrives with a future expansion.)

The Enchanter synergy

Enchanted metals produce jewelry with substantially better stats than unenchanted versions, and only Enchanters can enchant metals. If your class combination includes an Enchanter, you hold the most powerful crafting synergy in the game.

Steady sellers

• Alchemy potions — run speed and utility potions are always in demand.
• Bags and backpacks from Tailoring — every alt needs them.
• Food, drink, and arrows — the consumables everyone burns through.

Step-by-step leveling guides

• Guild Blacksmithing Guide — our full write-up: the metal chain, all fine plate recipes with trivials, the 17 armor dyes, and the out-of-era racial cultural armor lines.
• Guild Alchemy Guide — our full write-up: the 1–255 leveling path, budget route, recipe reference, and money potions.
• Guild Tailoring Guide — our full write-up: the 1–250 leveling path, hide primer, bags and weight reduction, money recipes, and the out-of-era racial cultural armor lines.
• Guild Baking Guide — our full write-up: the 1–242 leveling path, stat-food reference, and the fishing/brewing crossover.
• Guild Brewing Guide — our full write-up: the fast track to 248, tempers/oils/tannins supplier table, and quest brews.
• Guild Fishing Guide — our full write-up: rods, bait, tackle box recipes, zone catches, and skill gates.
• Guild Fletching Guide — our full write-up: the 1–300 leveling path, arrow merging, bow-making, and step-by-step Kelethin (mithril) and Surefall (steel) racial arrow recipes.
• Guild Jewelcraft Guide — our full write-up: the 1–300 leveling path, enchanted bars, gem stats, and the enchanter dependency.
• Guild Make Poison Guide — our full write-up: rogue-only poison brewing, the 1–250 path, and the poisons arsenal.
• Guild Pottery Guide — our full write-up: wheel-and-kiln basics, the 1–250 leveling path, vials, and deity idols.
• Guild Research Guide — our full write-up: spell research basics, combine mechanics, and the caster-service economy.
• Guild Tinkering Guide — our full write-up: the gnome-only gadget trade, the 50–175 path, and beyond-175 devices.
• EQL Wiki: Skill Blacksmithing — EQL-tuned trivials, leveling path, and dye tables.
• EQLForge Baking Guide — full 1-to-cap path with trivials and ingredients.
• EQLForge Brewing Guide — full 1-to-cap path, including the reusable-component grind.
• EQL Wiki Jewelcraft Guide 1–300 — recipes, material costs, and the Enchanter connection.

Verify before you combine

• EQL Patch Notes (official) — tradeskill rules change; check here first.
• EQL Information — the guild's broader EverQuest Legends reference hub.