character can get. There are multiple ways of doing this which are purchasing the
apprentice II version from a merchant, having a jeweler making you an Apprentice IV,
getting a rare stone and having the jeweler make you an Adept III, acquiring an Adept I as
a drop from a chest, purchasing an Adept I off of the broker, or the holy fabled and sacred
Master I drop.
You can never ever depend on getting a Master I drop of a usable skill, so the next
best thing is the player crafted Adept III. Jewelers require the rare stones of the proper
tier to make the Adept III that you desire.
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Let’s say for instance you wanted to upgrade Assassin’s Mark to Adept III, which
should be your first priority when you get the skill anyways. You would need a Rough
Jasper, or Palladium Cluster (or the proper equivalent) and take it to an alchemist to get
made into an ink. This service usually does not cost much, and pristine isn’t necessary,
however the Jeweler would most likely prefer it pristine. Then take that ink to a jeweler,
and they can make you the appropriate Adept III skill. Other classes can also make the
rare ink, if they have the advanced apothecary book of the proper tier. The apothecary
skills are less effective than the alchemist skills, and it requires more fuels to make the ink
that if an alchemist made it themselves, so because of that fact, I always recommend
taking your stone to an alchemist first.
Here is a list of the tiers of stones needed for your skills to be made into Adept III’s
Tier 1(Levels 1-9)
Tier 2(Levels 10-19)
Tier 3(Levels 20-29)
Tier 4(Levels 30-39)
Tier 5(Levels 40-50)
Tier 6(Levels 51-60)
Copper Cluster
Silver Cluster
Palladium Cluster
Ruthenium Cluster
Rhodium Cluster
Vanadium Cluster
Rough Lapus Lazuli
Rough Coral
Rough Jasper
Rough Opal
Rough Ruby
Rough Pearl
You can acquire these by several means. The easiest is usually purchasing them
off of the broker. Prices differ from server to server but you usually spend at least the tier,
times 10 in gold pieces. So a rough ruby will run you at least 50gp on average; most likely
even more, but rarely less.
Another way you can acquire the proper stone is by mining. It can be time
consuming, and getting a stone is not very likely as they are very rare, but still if you don’t
have the gold, it’s the easiest way to acquire the stone. Plus you need mining skill for
several heritage quests anyways, so you have to raise it sometime.
The last way to acquire a rare stone is as a drop from a named mob. This also
happens rarely, and the drop is not usually the actual stone, but an item that works in
place of the stone for an alchemist. For instance, you could kill a level 45 named mob and
get a Fissured Ruby, which for all intents and purposes is actually a rough ruby.
For Apprentice II skills, every town in Freeport has a scribe (located on the map)
for you to go and purchase your level 1-19 Apprentice II skills. For the rest, in North
Freeport, are three merchants near a tree on the third floor of the zone, overlooking the
housing below. Go up the stairs near the Longshadow Alley zone door to get to them.
This is also the merchants who sell your flavor skills like your useless rat pet, your ugly
high elf illusion, and your cool shadowed form of the assassin particle effect spell.