Expert Crafting Station
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Expert Crafting Station
An Expert Crafting Station is a placeable Crafting Station that adds +5 to its corresponding base crafting skill while an Avatar uses it. An Expert Alchemy Station supports Alchemy recipes, for example, while an Expert Smelting Station supports Smelting recipes.
The station bonus supplements the user's skill; it does not teach recipes, provide ingredients, replace required tools, or permanently raise the skill. The crafting interface remains the best place to confirm whether the resulting skill is sufficient for a particular recipe.
How the bonus works
Early descriptions called the affected value Crafting Proficiency. Release 50 removed Proficiency as a player-facing value and changed crafting requirements and bonuses to use Skill Level instead.[1] Accordingly, this page describes the Expert effect as +5 to the corresponding base crafting skill rather than preserving the retired Proficiency label.
The bonus applies only to the discipline served by that station and while that station is in use. It can improve the effective value reported for station-based crafting, but it does not make the station interchangeable with another discipline. Current recipe requirements and success information should be checked in the crafting interface; a later correction specifically addressed level requirements being displayed incorrectly at Expert stations.[2]
Expert station directory
| Group | Discipline | Expert station | Recorded bonus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Production | Alchemy | Expert Alchemy Station | +5 Alchemy |
| Blacksmithing | Expert Blacksmithing Station | +5 Blacksmithing | |
| Carpentry | Expert Carpentry Station | +5 Carpentry | |
| Cooking | Expert Cooking Station | +5 Cooking | |
| Tailoring | Expert Tailoring Station | +5 Tailoring | |
| Refining | Butchery | Expert Butchering Station | +5 Butchery |
| Milling | Expert Milling Station | +5 Milling | |
| Smelting | Expert Smelting Station | +5 Smelting | |
| Tanning | Expert Tanning Station | +5 Tanning | |
| Textiles | Expert Textiles Station | +5 Textiles |
Agriculture belongs to the current Refining skill group but does not have a corresponding table in this ten-station family.
Standard and reward variants
| Family | Function | Distinction |
|---|---|---|
| Standard station | Provides access to the matching station-based discipline | Does not provide the Expert +5 bonus |
| Expert station | Provides the matching station function and +5 skill bonus | Historically offered through premium-store selections and bundles |
| Founder or Benefactor Expert station | Provides the Expert function for its matching discipline | Visually distinct historical backer reward |
Founder and Benefactor stations were distributed through the game's backer reward program.[3] Later Expert stations appeared in the Crown Store and in selectable packs.[4] Store inventories and bundle availability can change, so historical availability should not be read as a promise that a particular station is currently sold.
As decorations
Expert stations are decoration items as well as functional workspaces. Release 82 enabled decoration surfaces on Expert, standard merchant, Founder, and Benefactor station families, allowing suitable decorative objects to be placed on them.[4] Placement still follows the current decoration permissions and surface rules.
Choosing a station
For ordinary crafting, a standard station is sufficient when the Avatar already meets the recipe's requirements. An Expert station is useful when the +5 bonus helps with the relevant discipline or when its appearance suits a workshop. Neither station type changes which ingredients, tools, or recipe knowledge the craft requires.
Public crafting areas and player towns may provide stations visitors can use. Check the individual station and location pages for recorded availability; ownership is not required when an accessible station is already available in the world.
See also
References
- ↑ Release 50 Instructions, official Shroud of the Avatar website, January 25, 2018.
- ↑ Play Release 94 Now!, official Shroud of the Avatar website, September 30, 2021.
- ↑ Update of the Avatar #166, official Shroud of the Avatar website, March 4, 2016.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Avatar's Update #399, official Shroud of the Avatar website, September 18, 2020.