Complete Artisan guide

Table of Contents
(0) Overview
(1) Stat Descriptions
(2) Stat Allocation
(3) Skills
(4) Equipment
(5) Leveling Strategy
(6) Questions and Answers

(0) Overview
This is a guide created out of a compilation of my own experiences, and many questions I've seen arise about Artisans and their versatile entourage of skills.
A few things that the guide includes are: stat descriptions and allocations, skill information, equipment and builds, leveling strategy, and a large composition
of Q&A. If there any questions you still have about Artisans after reading the guide, be sure to ask.

(1) Stat Descriptions

Required Stats
Concentration: Increases your crafting success rate (%)
Sensibility: Increases your chances of having stats or a slot on your crafted item

*Note* Sensibility only increases the chance of having slots on weapons and shields (items that can have slots)

Optional Stats
Strength: Raising your Strength to 62 will allow you to equip a Short Bow Gun (slot)
Intelligence: Raising your Intelligence to 20 will allow you to equip an Oriental Drum (+5 CON and slot)
Charm: Raising your Charm to 30 will allow you to equip a Royal Crown (+10 CON)

*Note* Level 10 Market Research automatically gives you +20 Charm, rendering stat increases in Charm useless

Utterly Useless Stat
Dexterity: Increases your dodge rate? Well, you might need that to protect you from unhappy customers when you fail their gems XD

(2) Stat Allocation

Ideal Stat Allocation
This build will take you to approximately Level 207
STR: 62
DEX: Base
CON: 300
INT: 20
CHA: Base
SEN: 300

(3) Skills
*Note* You will be able to max all of the mandatory and optional skills at level 200 with approximately 5000 skill points to spare



Mandatory Skills
Craft Mastery: Prerequisite for all of the crafting skills. (Not literally, but both Weapon Mastery and Armor Mastery require it, as well as many of the miscellaneous crafting skills)
Weapon Research: Allows its user to learn Weapon crafting skills. Increases CON by +20 when maxed.
Armor Research: Allows its user to learn Armor crafting skills. Increases Defense Power by +60 when maxed.
Market Research: Prerequisite for all of the market skills. Increases CHA by +20 when maxed.

Optional Skills

Weapon Crafting Skills
Sword Craft: Allows you to craft up to L135 One-Handed Sword, L129 Two-Handed Sword, L136 Dual Sword
Mace Craft: Allows you to craft up to L136 One-Handed Blunt Weapon, L136 Two-Handed Axe, L137 Spear, L135 Katar
Bow Craft: Allows you to craft up to L109 Bow Gun, L135 Bow
Magic Weapon Craft: Allows you to craft up to L135 Staff, L130 Wand, 260 INT Magic Shield (Mystic Shell)
Gun Craft: Allows you to craft up to L129 Gun, L136 Launcher

Armor Crafting Skills
Normal Armor Craft: Allows you to craft Hats, Hair Decorations, Casual Suits, Gloves, Shoes, Masks, Glasses, and Misc.
Magic Armor Craft: Allows you to craft armor for Muse and Dealer classes
Combat Armor Craft: Allows you to craft armor for Soldier and Hawker classes

Miscellaneous Crafting Skills
Sub-Item Craft: Allows you to craft up to STR 288 Shield, Capacity 1300 Bag, L115 Wings, L132 Backshield & Castle Backshield
Item Divide: Allows you to disassemble items, and detach gems.
Item Refine: Allows you to refine items.
Gem Cutting: Allows you to cut gems from 1-7
Cart Craft: Allows you to craft Cart gear
Castle Craft: Allows you to craft Castle gear

(4) Equipment
*Note* The following equipment is not "perfect", but affordable. If you find items with +7-9 CON or +7-9 SEN, be sure to utilize them in the correct set

Gem Crafting Set
For gem crafting, you want to have as much CON as possible. A good gem crafting set would be the following:

Hat: 6/5 Royal Crown (+10 CON)
Weapon: Slotted Bow Gun w/ S7
Shield: Slotted Oriental Drum (+5 CON) w/ S7
Jewelry: S7 Set
Other: 6/5 Equipment

Total CON: 546
Total SEN: 325

Equipment Crafting Set
For equipment crafting, you want to have as much SEN as possible. A good equipment crafting set would be the following:

Hat: 6/5 Cowboy Hat (+8 SEN)
Weapon: Slotted Bow Gun w/ E7
Shield: Slotted Oriental Drum (+5 CON) w/ E7
Jewelry: E7 Set
Other: 6/5 Equipment

Total CON: 361
Total SEN: 513

(5) Leveling Strategy
As full artisans do not have any combat skills, you may be wondering how you're going to get all your stats and skills.
The simplest way in AruaROSE to level an Artisan, is to start out with a combat build and reset your statistics and stats by talking
to Warren in Zant at level 200 or above.

I highly recommend a Launcher build for leveling, due to the damage you will be dealing out. Though Gun builds do have the
advantage of faster moving speed, you shouldn't be moving around all that much anyway due to your launcher's range.

Launcher Build
Launcher damage is approximately 45% STR, 45% CON, 10% SEN
STR: Minimum Requirement of Launcher
DEX: Base
CON: 300
INT: Base
CHA: Base
SEN: Any remaining points

Launcher Skills
Required / Prerequisite Skills
Marksmanship: Increases launcher damage
Arms Mastery: Increases launcher attack speed
Might Shot: Prerequisite for Sniping Shot

Main Attacking Skills
Twin Shot (Triple Shot at L11): Your highest damaging skill
Sniping Shot: Your second highest damaging skill
Zuly Pink: Your quick-cool-down-damaging skill

Your basic attacking strategy would be Triple Shot (for possible slow walk debuff) -> Zuly Pink -> Sniping Shot -> Repeat

(6) Frequently Asked Questions

Question: Does detaching a gem from an item lower the gem's grade?
Answer: Yes, if the gem is above grade 1, there is a small chance that your gem will degrade 1 level. If the gem IS however grade 1, there is a chance that the gem maybe be destroyed altogether.

Question: Is it profitable to craft a gem?
Answer: Yes, if you buy the MATs by vending with carefully calculated prices.

Question: Why can't I disassemble my item?
Answer: Your item is either not on the craft tables (usually because it is too high level), or is a better quality version of the original item.

Question: What are the probabilities for crafting a gem?
Answer: Take a look at the following topic by MeetYourMaker: Gem Crafting Probability

Question: Why did you not include stockpile in the optional skills?
Answer: Stockpile does not work on HR because of the 10x drop rate. Feel free to utilize stockpile in LR and Classic however.

Question: What's the difference between disassembling and refining items with a NPC and with an Artisan?
Answer: The only difference is that NPCs require money to disassemble and refine, while Artisans require MP.

Question: What items do I disassemble for low essence and essence?
Answer: Recovery Wands for Low Essence. Windstorm Wands for Essence.

Question: Is charm useful for an artisan?
Answer: Not really, aside from allowing an artisan to equip a Royal Crown (+10 CON). The only thing that Charm really does is help find appraisal and socketed items
from monsters.

Question: Does repairing an item increase the chance of getting more items from disassembling?
Answer: Yes.

Question: Can item disassembly fail?
Answer: No. You may however receive less or more disassembled items depending on the chance of disassembling.

Question: Where can I find a list with all of the items you can craft and their materials?
Answer: There is currently no completely accurate list, however RoseGuru has a list that may be used as a guideline: Rose Guru Crafting List