Improving Weapons, Where to Find Materials?

Gedalya · April 2014

When it comes to improving weapons with Honing Stones, Dwarven Oil, et al., can these materials only be found or can I buy them?

Sihnfahl · April 2014

You can only buy them from other players, never a vendor.

You can get them as a chance when refining (chances improved with the appropriate passive) or when breaking down an item of the appropriate color.

Green for honing stones, blue for dwarven oil, etc.

SadisticSavior · April 2014

Gedalya wrote: »

When it comes to improving weapons with Honing Stones, Dwarven Oil, et al., can these materials only be found or can I buy them?

These drop rarely from deconstructions (only Green or above), and will also drop from refining normal raw materials. So refining 10 Raw Jute gives you a chance of "Hemming" dropping. The same holds true for all low level materials in all professions.

The drop rate is fairly low. Like maybe 1 in 10 on average. I have seen them drop 3 times in a row though.

You cannot get them from any Vendor. But you CAN buy green items from Vendors to deconstruct. So a way to farm them with gold is to just buy green armor or weapons or whatever from a vendor and deconstruct them. I have gotten Hemming and Honing stones doing that on the first try before.