Expertise

Expertise are basically crafting skills a player can learn from certain NPCs. You can learn Cooking and ONE other expertise. You can also unlearn an expertise by going to the NPC you learned the skill from -- to learn another skill.

Types of Expertise Available

• Weaponsmithing - Krunk
• Goldsmithing - Jarlath
• Tailoring - Nel
• Platesmithing - Brakis
• Armorsmithing - Arthyen
• Cooking - Caryl

Notes

• The time it takes you to craft an item decreases with every proficiency point earned.
• You can craft an item about 10~20 prof away.
• Items with their names in red cannot be crafted, items with gray names no longer provide proficiency for being crafted.

Advantages to Learning an Expertise

• Players can craft items normally available from merchants for less gold and fewer materials.
• Items that are crafted by the player can be higher in quality compared to items crafted by NPCs. This is indicated by the number of stars in the item's description. Normal quality (i.e. merchant quality) items have two stars.

Disadvantages to Learning an Expertise

• Unless there is a special event going, it can take a lot of time to increase a player's proficiency in an expertise. Typically, most items crafted will result in an increase of 1 or 2 points to the proficiency.
• Advancing an expertise ultimately takes a good bit of gold. Although items crafted by the player cost less than having them crafted by an NPC, there will still be a lot of gold spent on obtaining recipe ingredients (especially if they are obtained from the Marketplace, rather than from dungeon runs).