[Brighthaven] Golden Scales Company seeking refiners and crafters (NG)

[Urman]

The Golden Scales is a company focused on refining and crafting. We will be based in and sponsored by Brighthaven, in the mountains 12 hexes SSE of Thornkeep. We will be the first in-house crafting company for The Empyrean Order (TEO). Brighthaven and TEO are NG, so a good or true neutral alignment will be required of all members.

We are looking for characters that are planning on putting anywhere from 50 to 90% of their training time towards refining or crafting, with a goal of reaching Tier 2 in one skill quickly, and reaching Tier 3 eventually. We'd encourage characters planning on a lesser amount on crafting focus to join the Empyrean Order's fighting companies; we will still have plenty of contact with (read: work for) the gatherers, crafters, and refiners in our sister companies.

We are seeking all types of crafters, but Brighthaven itself will be geared towards Fighters and Clerics in the first months of Early Enrollment. We do have allied settlements close by: Keepers Pass, Phaeros, Blackwood Glade, Hammerfall, and RiverBank, so all our crafters will have access to those trainers and workshops and markets. The refining buildings we expect in town include smelter, geologist (gemcutter), arcanist workshop (sage), and apothecary. The crafting buildings include armorsmith, weaponsmith, jeweler, and iconographer. Despite not having all of the buildings in our settlement in the beginning of EE, we still will have need of crafters from the other vocational paths, such as tanners, weavers, leatherworkers, bowyers... We'll find space for any crafter, and dedicated gatherers as well.

The Golden Scales will be a subsidiary member of TEO; all members of the Scales will also be members of TEO and by extension, the out-of-game organization Covenant of the Phoenix (CotP). The Scales, TEO, and CotP are all dedicated to having a close knit community, with a family-appropriate atmosphere. While we intend to be competitive, we recognize that real-life has priority over the game-life, and that gaming is supposed to be fun.

For more information, contact our "Master of Scales", FieryWind.

[Fierywind]

Also, anyone interested in working with us is free to contact me as well :)

[Fierywind]

The Empyrean Order has successfully crafted the first +4 armor in the game! It required 1792 iron, 1792 coal, and 640 wool for the refined +4/5 goods. Big thanks to everyone who gathered resources, and to those who traded us their iron/coal.

http://tinypic.com/r/28hd9gx/8

http://tinypic.com/r/zjw039/8

http://tinypic.com/r/i3i5xv/8

[Giorgo]

Congratulations!

Now, can you please format the links so they are useable? :)

[Fierywind]

They work for me, and for the others I've linked to so far...what issues are you having?

[TEO Cheatle]

He meant this Fiery:

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As you can see, even at +4 the Armor Model Changes, so the better +4 the more difference in design.

[Urman]

For Empyrean Order crafters, lost TEO members, and others possibly interested in joining us: this weekend (October 24-26) may be the last weekend of Alpha testing.

We have a large number of recipes and resources that we have gathered through this stage of Alpha. If you might be crafting in EE, but haven't ventured into Alpha yet, you might want to do so this weekend. Get on line, make contact, get your basic skills, then head to Brighthaven to try out the crafting system. While we have some crafting facilities, we certainly don't have all of them, and some crafting will be done down in Keepers Pass.

Alpha is an opportunity to try out the character skill-buying, make sure you understand the basics of combat, and orient yourself on the ground. (And deal with disconnects as the server stress-testing continues.) It's a time to make mistakes and maybe try out a couple builds to see which you prefer. See you in game.