It is known to all players that handicrafting is a profession that walks astride the living world and the manufactured one, taking raw materials such as wood and gemstones, then carving and cutting them into items that are deadly, decorative...or both. Simple handicrafts such as carved Crystal Gems, Betua Bows, and Tecoma Staves are within the abilities of nearly every handicrafter.

Utsida (in Sanctum) or Lanse (in Pandaemonium) offer basic proficiency in Handicrafting to anyone who can afford 3,500 Kinah for the skill. The price varies slightly depending on the current influence ratio. When you first become a Handicrafter, you start with 1 Expertise Point out of 99 possible. You’ll also have a Handicrafting experience bar in the Crafting tab of your Skills window. Each time that bar fills up, you gain another Expertise Point until you’ve hit your current maximum. The higher your Expertise Points, the better recipes you can attempt--and ultimately, the more powerful your creations.

The Handicrafting Master immediately teaches you one recipe: Silver Ingot and offers you the "Wooden Staff Completion" work order. You gain additional recipes through questing, looting fallen enemies and from merchants such as Chiwurinerk (Sanctum) and Obirunerk (Pandaemonium). As you gain Expertise Points, Utsida and Lanse will offer more difficult--and more rewarding--work orders.

Whenever you reach the maximum possible Expertise Points, return to Utsida and Lanse and pay enough Kinah to raise the ceiling on your Expertise Points, according to the table below. Note that prices may vary somewhat depending on your faction’s current influence ratio. You get one Expertise Point immediately, which moves you up into the next tier.