• Dos 2 Skill Crafting

Oct 06, 2017  The crafting system in Divinity: Original Sin 2 is a tricky beast, so we've compiled a few of the most interesting recipes for you to play with. Everything from lock picks, to magical idols of.

Crafting and Blacksmithing are two helpful but optional Abilities characters can take. Characters can upgrade, repair, or outright create their own items, weapons, armor, spell scrolls, and more. Because money is hard to come by early, this can save you a lot of gold and keep your party well-outfitted for those difficulty early battles.

Once you unlock the Hall of Heroes in the Homestead (generally in Part 2 of the Walkthrough), you'll be able to hire additional heroes to journey with you. Therefore, one possible strategy is to not put points into Crafting or Blacksmithing with either of your Source Hunters. Let your Source Hunters spend all their Ability Points in their weapon, magic, or defenses as applicable. Instead, once you can hire additional heroes, put all of their points into Crafting or Blacksmithing (or both!), and just keep them inactive unless you need them.

The downside is that your characters won't be able to craft or repair in the field, which is an immensely helpful skill. Simple repairs to your gear only require a character to carry a repair hammer, so if one of your normal party members takes Blacksmithing and carries a Repair Hammer at all times, he will be able to repair gear for free even in the middle of a deep dungeon. Just keep an eye on your gear durability!

Creating a piece of gear from scratch requires ore, which can be smelted by dragging metal onto a blacksmith's forge. Forges are not portable, but there are many around; the first one you can find is out in the open behind the abandoned house in Cyseal. Repairing gear, or crafting normal items such as potions, do not need additional items to be crafted.

To craft most items, you only need to drag one ingredient on top of another. For example, to craft a simple Minor Healing Potion, you need a Penny Bun Mushroom and an Empty Potion Bottle. To craft it, simply drag either item onto the other. Assuming your Crafting level is high enough, the item will be created. If your level is not high enough, you will be informed as such. Blacksmithing, including repairing gear, works the same way.

Some recipes require combining two of the same item. For example, to create a Medium Healing Potion, you must combine two Minor Healing Potions. If you have multiple Minor Healing Potions, they are likely stacked on each other. In order to combine them, you'll need to split the stack. To do this, hold SHIFT, then click-drag the Minor Healing Potions into an empty inventory slot. You'll be asked how many you want to put in the new slot. Then, combine the two stacks, and you'll prompted to either combine the stacks or craft something better, assuming your level is high enough.

Around the world, you may find recipe books. Double-clicking a book will spawn a “Recipe Unlocked!” message, and the recipe is copied to your journal. You can then sell the book, and the recipe will be retained. Further readings bring no benefit.

That said, most recipe books are not required to craft. As long as your respective level is high enough, you will succeed in the crafting. Failure is only possible if your level isn't high enough, and even if it's not, your ingredients are not lost.

Note that some incredibly high-level items will need recipe books.

We'll do some of the heavy lifting for you here. On the next few pages are several recipes sorted by crafting level. If we missed any, please add them to the wiki!

Crafting Recipes Table of Contents[edit]

Blacksmithing Recipes Table of Contents[edit]

While there are 14 different starting classes in Divinity: Original Sin 2, your build is more determined by which skills you learn than by what class or origin you picked during character creation.

In addition to racial, weapon, and Source skills, the 10 main skill types are broken down into the Aerothurge, Geomancer, Huntsman, Hydrosophist, Necrommancer, Polymorph, Pyrokinetic, Scoundrel, Summoning, and Warfare categories.

The wide range of skill combinations makes for a huge number of build types (which we'll be covering more in-depth soon in our character creation guide). For now, you need to know how to get new skills, either by buying books or crafting your own.

Divinity: Original Sin 2 Skill Book Vendors

Right now we only know the locations of Act I vendors, but check back soon for updates on the vendors in the other parts of the game.

Note that you can actually kill the skill book vendors (or get them killed in certain quest lines) and leave yourself out of luck on the skill front until you head to a different area with a new vendor. The Red Prince, for instance, has dialog options that lead to a lethal fight with Warfare skill book vendor Kalias.

• Aerothurge - Gawin (Fort Joy Ghetto)
• Geomancer - Maol (Fort Joy Ghetto)
• Huntsman - Bahara (Sanctuary of Amadia)
• Hydrosophist - Rezik (Fort Joy Ghetto)
• Necromancer - Mona (Fort Joy Ghetto)
• Polymorph - Doctor Leste (Fort Joy Ghetto)
• Pyrokinetic - Stingtail (Beach outside Fort Joy)
• Scoundrel - Hilde (Fort Joy Ghetto)
• Summoning - Nebora (Tent near western gate of Fort Joy Ghetto)
• Warfare - Kalias (Caverns outside Fort Joy)

Divinity: Original Sin 2 Skill Crafting Combinations

While many skills are gained by buying books at different vendors (or found during the course of the game), you can actually directly craft your own skill books. Crafting these skills can make them available earlier than normal, or in some cases is the only reliable way to get the skill in question.

You just need the appropriate scroll and a book corresponding to the appropriate skill type. Obviously in many cases its better to have a permanent skill (assuming you have the Memory available to learn it) rather than just a single use scroll.

Dos 2 Skill Crafting

Don't have the specific needed scroll for a new skill book? Head over to our complete guide on crafting in Original Sin 2 for each individual scroll recipe.

There are absolutely more skill books hiding out there as the game leaves Early Access and finally sees full release -- and it's a good bet there will be different combinations for some of the same books. Stay tuned as we update this list, and if you've found any others not included here, please let us know in the comments!

If you need more help with other aspects of this tactical RPG, be sure to check out the rest of our Divinity: Original Sin 2 guides for extra tips and tricks: