Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Alchemy / Sagecrafting / Blacksmithing Guide

Alchemy

Sagecrafting

Blacksmithing


ALCHEMY

The first part of alchemy is harvesting the ingredients / reagents. There are different levels to harvesting these ingredients. Some reagents need higher levels of the Alchemy skill for you to be able to successfully harvest them and it also depends slightly on chance.

It would be best if you do not go around trying to harvest plants which you cannot the first time itself or you will be losing precious natural resources. I will list the various ingredients and the level of alchemy required for you to be able to successfully harvest them.

You need to experiment with various reagents at an Alchemy Bench to gain knowledge about a mixture. I have listed some mixtures below and the recipes for them. If you want to brew the advanced versions of the potions then you have to upgrade the Alchemy skill.

(only need to experiment with one of each to discover potion)

Novice (Minor) Recipes

 
Frostbite – 2 whiteflake, 1 scarwood 
 
Current Stopper – 2 Eel Petal, 1 Ysa's Breath
 
Burning Sentinel – 2 Tindertwig, 1 Edelweiss
 
Bleeding resistance – 2 Scarlet Flowstone, 1 Ysa's Breath
 
Piercing Serum – 2 Scarwood Bark, 1 Ysa's Breath
 
Mana Regen – 2 Softscrabble Powder, 1 Scarlet Flowstone
 
Sorcerer's Intelligence – 2 Softscrabble Powder, 2 Star Thistle
 
Magic Amplification – 2 Scarwood Bark, 2 Star Thistle
 
Magebane – 2 Ysa's Breath, 2 Star Thistle
 
Health Regen – 2 Black Cohosh. 1 Scarlet Flowstone
 
Force Potion – 2 Sativa Fibers, 2 Scarwood Bark
 
Flesh Eater – 2 Leechwood Bark, 2 Black Cohosh
 
Serpent's Venom – 2 Cripplespore Caps, 1 Scarwood Bark
 
Thief's Cunning – 1 Sky Blossom, 1 Eel Petal
 
Tracker's Draught – 1 Scarab Salts, 1 Sky Blossom
 
Venomguard – 2 Cripplespore Caps, 1 Ysa's Breath
 
Warrior's strength – 2 Sativa Fibers, 2 Black Cohosh
 
Blacksmith's Craft – 1 Sky Blossom, 1 Tinderwig *
 
Assassin's Evasion – 1 Cripplespore Caps, 1 Sky Blossom *
 
Healing Potion – 2 Black Cohosh, 1 Embereyes
 
Mana Potion – 2 Softscrabble Powder, 1 Embereyes
 
Damage Boost – 3 Star Thistle, 3 Sativa Fibres, 2 Scarwood Bark
 
Steeled Curtain – 2 Seaflax, 1 Ysa's Breath
 
Slashing Fury – 2 Scarlet Flowstone, 1 Scarwood Bark
 
Precision – 2 Scarab Salts, 1 Sativa Fibres
 
Magic Precision – 2 Scarab Slats, 1 Star Thistle
 
Blazing Salve – 2 Tinderwig, 1 Scarwood Bark
 
Flameguard – 2 Tinderwig, 1 Ysa's Breath
 
Liquid Seduction – 1 TInderwig, 1 Sky Blossom, 1 Scarwood Bark
 
Frostguard – 2 Whiteflake, 1 Ysa's Breath
 
Lightning Storm – 2 Eel Petal, 1 Scarwood Bark
 
Mana Sap – 2 Softscrabble Powder, 2 Leechwood Bark
 
Mana Regen – 2 Softscrabble Powder, 1 Scarket Flowstone
 
Hardened Shell – 2 Sativa Fibers, 2 Ysa's Breath
 
Freezing Sentinel – 2 Whiteflake, 1 Edelweiss
 
Lightning Sentinel – 2 Eel Petal, 1 Edelweiss
 
Dispelling Boost – 1 Sky Blossom, 1 Star Thistle
 
Merchant's Command – 1 Sativa FIbers, 1 Sky Blossom
 
Social Grace – 1 Leechwood Bark, 1 Sky Blossom
 
Jeweled Shilelagh – 1 White Flake, 1 Sky Blossom
 
Experience Booster – 2 Prismere Dust, 1 Leechwood Bark
 
Alchemist's Art – 1 Sky Blossom, 1 Embereyes
 
Purification Potion – 2 Ysa's Breath, 2 Embereye
 

 

  Journeyman (Greater) Recipes

 
For The greater potions, you have to mix one extra type of reagent to the preexisting mixture, Below, I will mention that extra reagent you need to make the recipes into greater potions, you need to experiment with each one of the already existing mixtures along with the extra one and the formula will be automatically added.
 
Frostbite – whiteflake, scarwood, Bloodroot
 
Current Stopper –  Eel Petal,  Ysa's Breath, Seaflax
 
Burning Sentinel –  Tindertwig,  Edelweiss, Seaflax
 
Bleeding resistance –  Scarlet Flowstone,  Ysa's Breath, Seaflax
 
Piercing Serum –  Scarwood Bark,  Ysa's Breath, Sativa Fibers
 
Mana Regen –  Softscrabble Powder,  Scarlet Flowstone, Bloodroot
 
Sorcerer's Intelligence –  Softscrabble Powder,  Star Thistle, Bloodroot
 
Magic Amplification –  Scarwood Bark,  Star Thistle, Bloodroot
 
Magebane –  Ysa's Breath,  Star Thistle, Seaflax
 
Health Regen –  Black Cohosh,  Scarlet Flowstone, Bloodroot
 
Force Potion –  Sativa Fibers,  Scarwood Bark, Bloodroot
 
Flesh Eater –  Leechwood Bark,  Black Cohosh, Scarwood Bark
 
Serpent's Venom –  Cripplespore Caps,  Scarwood Bark, Bloodroot
 
Thief's Cunning –  Sky Blossom,  Eel Petal, Bloodroot
 
Tracker's Draught –  Scarab Salts,  Sky Blossom, Bloodroot
 
Venomguard –  Cripplespore Caps,  Ysa's Breath, Seaflax
 
Warrior's strength –  Sativa Fibers,  Black Cohosh, Bloodroot
 
Blacksmith's Craft –  Sky Blossom,  Tinderwig, Bloodroot
 
Assassin's Evasion –  Cripplespore Caps,  Sky Blossom, Bloodroot
 
Healing Potion –  Black Cohosh,  Embereyes, Bloodroot
 
Mana Potion –  Softscrabble Powder,  Embereyes, Bloodroot
 
Damage Boost –  Star Thistle,  Sativa Fibres,  Scarwood Bark
 
Steeled Curtain –  Seaflax,  Ysa's Breath, Bloodroot
 
Slashing Fury –  Scarlet Flowstone,  Scarwood Bark, Bloodroot
 
Precision –  Scarab Salts,  Sativa Fibres, Scarwood Bark
 
Magic Precision –  Scarab Slats,  Star Thistle, Scarwood Bark
 
Blazing Salve –  Tinderwig,  Scarwood Bark, Bloodroot
 
Flameguard –  Tinderwig, Ysa's Breath, Seaflax
 
Liquid Seduction –  TInderwig,  Sky Blossom,  Scarwood Bark
 
Frostguard –  Whiteflake,  Ysa's Breath, Seaflax
 
Lightning Storm –  Eel Petal,  Scarwood Bark, Bloodroot
 
Mana Sap –  Softscrabble Powder,  Leechwood Bark, Scarwood Bark
 
Mana Regen –  Softscrabble Powder,  Scarket Flowstone, Seaflax
 
Hardened Shell –  Sativa Fibers,  Ysa's Breath, Seaflax
 
Freezing Sentinel –  Whiteflake,  Edelweiss, Seaflax
 
Lightning Sentinel –  Eel Petal,  Edelweiss, Seaflax
 
Dispelling Boost –  Sky Blossom,  Star Thistle, Bloodroot
 
Merchant's Command –  Sativa FIbers, Sky Blossom, Bloodroot
 
Social Grace –  Leechwood Bark,  Sky Blossom, Bloodroot
 
Jeweled Shilelagh –  White Flake,  Sky Blossom, Bloodroot
 
Experience Booster –  Prismere Dust,  Leechwood Bark, Bloodroot
 
Alchemist's Art –  Sky Blossom,  Embereyes, Bloodroot
 
Purification Potion –  Ysa's Breath,  Embereye, Seaflax
 
Minor Phase Walk – Star Thistle, Sky Blossom, Cripplespore Caps
 
Minor Damage Deflection – Star Thistle, Sativa Fibers, Ysa's Breath
 
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MASTER

For all master potions, we need to add one extra ingredient to the already existing mixtures. That single ingredient for all the mixtures is "Essence of Fate" and this is extremely rare in its plant form, but you can get this ingredient from dead enemies also rarely. Here's the pic of the plant form –
 
Just keep adding essence of fate to the Journeyman(greater) list of potions to get the Master Potion version of them.
 
 
The following are all the pics –

                                                                          Star Thistle

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                                                                          Scarwood Tree

                                                                          Black Cohosh

                                                                          Cripplespore

                                                                          Scarlet Flowstone

                                                                          Eel Petal

                                                                          Leechwood Tree

                                                                          Ysa's Breath

                                                                          Bloodroot

                                                                          Sativa Stalks

                                                                          White Flake


SAGECRAFTING


Sagecrafting allows us to use various gems and place them in weapons and armor in the appropriate solts. You can acuire shards which are use to craft the gems by purchasing them from merchants or obtaining them thru your explorations. There are three kinds of shards depending on their quality – clouded, lambent, pristine. Pristine shards offer the best bonuses when used. We can also, improve shards from clouded to lambent to pristine if we have upgraded the sagecrafting skill. You need two of a low quality shard to convert them into a higher quality shard.

Sagecrafting is all about combining various shard to make a gem which we can place in our equipment for bonuses. Experiment will all kinds of shards and also try all different combinations to get your desired bonus. We can make various types of gems like weapon gems or utility gems or armor gems to make them fit in the respective slot in a weapon we already have. At higher levels of sagecrafting, we can make epic gems that can go into any slot the weapon has as opposed to the specific type of gem needed based on the name of the slot (ex:  a weapon slot and take only a weapon gem but not utility or armor gem but an epic gem can go anywhere).

You can also remove gems you already placed by visiting the sagecrafting experts around the land or if your skill is fully maxxed, even you can remove gems from their slots.

To place a gem into a weapon you already own just go to the "Socket Gem" option at a sagecrafting altar and choose the weapon and the gem which you want. You can also directly place gems which crafting your own weapons or armor at the blacksmithing forge.


BLACKSMITHING

If you want to make your own armor or weapons then this is the way to go. If you go to a Blacksmith's Forge then you can start making your own equipment, ofcourse you need to have the components required to make an item first. As you upgrade your skill, you can make better objects and also break objects which you already have to salvage components from them and add them into your own creation.

If you cannot make a certain item then click on it to know waht components you are missing. When you click on an otem that can be made, a new screen comes where you can choose each piece of the equipment to add. As you choose a piece of equiplment, the next piece to be chosen shows up and you can choose whatever you want from there and so on till you make a choice for all the pieces of your equipment.

If you do not have the component you want or want a better component then you should salvage components from another weapon or armor that you have, but remember that if you salvage an already existing weapon or armor, you will destroy it in the process. You can also buy equipment from different merchants throughout the land or buy weapons or armor and then salvage them, but this is a costly choice. You'll be able to make masteful equipment after you fully upgrade your skill and you should avoid making items till you fully upgrade the skill since you can just pick up better stuff from the world than what you can make. So, just keep salvaging as many parts as you can till you are a master smith.