Blacksmith

Role

The Blacksmith is the Merchant's second job. Blacksmiths forge weapons and elemental stones, repair broken items and buff themselves and the party for melee: Adrenaline Rush speeds up axe and mace attacks, Power-Thrust adds damage, Weapon Perfection removes the monster size penalty, Maximize Power always deals the weapon's top damage. Hammer Fall stuns monsters around. Merchant skills stay.

Forging. A hammer (Iron Hammer, Golden Hammer, Oridecon Hammer) or a Mini Furnace opens the "Forge" window with everything you can make right now: the furnace makes Iron, Steel, elemental stones and Star Crumb, the hammer makes weapons. A weapon can take an elemental stone and Star Crumbs (up to three together). Forged weapons carry the smith's name. Christopher in the Geffen workshop sells hammers, furnaces and anvils; an Anvil in the bag raises the chance. Materials are spent even on failure.

Job change

• Where: the Blacksmith Guild in Geffen — Altiregen takes the application.
• Requires: a Merchant at Job Lv 40 or higher. Spend every skill point on Merchant skills first: unspent points do not carry over to the second job, and the guild won't change your job while you have them.
• Trade exam: Geschupenschte in the Alberta smithy asks 10 questions — one mistake is allowed.
• Special order: gather materials for Geschupenschte, deliver the finished item to the customer — in Geffen, Morroc, Izlude, Payon or the Alberta port — and bring him the receipt.
• Craft exam: Mitehmaeeuh in the Blacksmith Guild asks five questions and gives a Blacksmith Hammer — take it to Altiregen.
• Reward: 5 Steel, or 30 at Job Lv 49.

The quest journal leads through the exam step by step and tells where to find the order's materials.

Stats

A fighter takes STR and DEX, like a Merchant. A forging smith takes DEX and LUK: they, Job Lv and skills set the forging chance.

Tips

• The second job's Skills window has "First" and "Second" tabs.
• Weapon Repair fixes broken items — your own and a neighbour's — for ore or metal.
• Ore Discovery sometimes brings ore from killed monsters.
• Quest skills are not learned with points. Unfair Trick (Mammonite costs 10 % less) is taught by Akkie in south-east Geffen at Job Lv 30: Steel, 5 Coal, Detrimindexta, Iron Hammer and 500 zeny. Greed (picks up every item in 5 × 5 cells) is taught by Goodman in south Geffen: come with a full inventory.