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Expertise skills are skills that allow players to craft objects for personal use or to sell/give to other players. Each player can learn the Cooking skill from Caryl and one of 5 equipment skills (listed below) from the appropriate NPC in Rocheste.

After first learning the Expertise, players have a proficiency of 0 in the skill, which improves with regular practice. A Beginner Recipe Book can be purchased from the NPC who teaches the expertise. Other recipe books are available later on when the player has advanced their proficiency enough to "rank up" (eg. Beginner to Apprentice). Some of the items needed for crafting will be obtainable from merchants, while others must be obtained from a dungeon. At any time, a player is free to switch skills, but must first go to the initial NPC who taught them to forget the Expertise; players wanting to relearn the skill must then begin from scratch.

Through expertise crafting a player can gain a higher quality item, there are three possible qualities: *Low, **Normal, and ***Superior. The names of craftable items will appear in 4 colors representing the crafting difficulty for your Expertise skill level. The more difficult the craft the more skill points you can possibly earn and the more likely it will be that the item will be crafted in an inferior quality.

Equipment Skills

 * Weaponsmithing - Krunk
 * Goldsmithing - Jarlath
 * Tailoring - Nel
 * Platesmithing - Brakis
 * Armorsmithing - Arthyen

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).