Can't craft Adra?

[Bookmaniac]

Is there a reason I suddenly can't craft adra (blue rarity)? I have the option for awakened (purple), but not blue. I do have adra shards in my inventory.

[Mindeveler]

What shards? What adra?
You use adra (just "adra", the very first tier, not craftable from anything) to upgrade common weapons to fine (blue).
You use awakened adra to upgrade blue weapons to exceptional (purple).
You use corrupted adra for purple => superb (pink).
And adra ban for pink => legendary.

[Bookmaniac]

Right, but if you break down the Unique Commons (White items), you get Adra Shards. Are these just useless?

[Mindeveler]

Do you?
Huh.
I don't remember seeing any adra shards when I was playing the game about a month ago. Iirc, breaking down common uniques (tier 1.1) gave something like 2 herbs and 2 iron/wood. Did they change it?

[Bookmaniac]

Yup! They still give that, plus Adra Shards now as well. They seem like they would craft into Adra, but there's no recipe for it in camp and haven't found another use for them yet.

[Mindeveler]

Maybe I'm misremembering.
Anyway, just in case you didn't know that: collecting common uniques is bad idea since the tier of unique weapons/armor found in the world scales with the tier of your highest-tier weapon/armor (rounded down to x.0) as long as you didn't "trigger"/lock that item.
So it's best to just avoid unique items you don't need right now and some time later you'll be able to come back and pick, say, a superb verison instead of common one.

[jack_of_tears]

They might be for upgrading the special ability on your unique weapons - you've been using the book in camp to do that, right? It took me awhile to try it out and I was shocked to discover each item had a special power upgrade to choose from.

[rustdwarf]

Originally posted by Bookmaniac:

Is there a reason I suddenly can't craft adra (blue rarity)? I have the option for awakened (purple), but not blue. I do have adra shards in my inventory.

just tested, 3 adra shards indeed give you 1 adra as expected
maybe you never had regular adra?
try finding/purchasing a single adra piece, that should unlock crafting adra from shards

[braindrain86]

i'm still pretty early, but I only unlocked the crafting recipe for Awakened Adra once I actually needed it. if I didn't have anything that required an upgrade, I couldn't make it at all. maybe you need to have something in your inventory that needs that specific kind of Adra?

[Mindeveler]

Originally posted by braindrain86:

i'm still pretty early, but I only unlocked the crafting recipe for Awakened Adra once I actually needed it. if I didn't have anything that required an upgrade, I couldn't make it at all. maybe you need to have something in your inventory that needs that specific kind of Adra?

That's how it works for higher-tier adra, but in his case it would be a bug/oversight, because if he ran out of common unique items to upgrade, he'll never find any more of them (because of scaling) and therefore will never be able to craft any more basic adra out of shards.

[melianos]

You need to find one piece of higher level adra before you can craft it.
So try to find one at a merchant or wait until you come accross one.

[Bookmaniac]

Yeah no, it's just bugged out. I am well into Purple quality gear now. I can craft Awakened (Purple) but not regular (Blue). I have 6 shards in inventory and can see them on the crafting screen, but can't do anything with them.