Crafting and using orb colours

[Stumpelwurz]

Hey guys ^^
Well i saw many crafting guides but i never saw any guide for the different orb colours.

Orb colour means the glowing colour on the table, anvil or whatever job your character is doing.

Here is an explaination for newcomers.
Plz correct me if i am wrong.

The first you should do is to watch your character from the front and you can see a glowing orb holding in its hand. It represents the item you are crafting atm.
Usually it allways starts with a white glow.

Every skill you use for crafting is able to change the colour of the orb.
It can turn to red, rainbow, purple and even back to white.
It has influence to your hq chance while using a refining skill.

White = no influence.. Just the regular hq rate increase based on your stats

Red = slightly increased hq rate.. You should refine if possible

Rainbow = pretty high hq increase. Definitely refine your item if possible
And after every rainbow.. No matter if failed or successful refining the orb turns purple.

Purple = no need to refine, either skip the next step (skill) or finish your product if the durability is on 10 points.
You get almost no increase for a refining skill.
Or at least you can use a regeneration skill for your durability if there are still enough points left

You can also use the skip skill to skip through to get either a red or rainbow coloured orb but it costs points everytime you use it. It is up to the crafter either to refine with a white orb or risking points to get a better colour

I hope its helpful 😉

[Promestein]

It's Normal, Good, Excellent and Poor material conditions. You can read the current status on craft menu and totally ignore colors, they are there just for additional indication.

[Nico Yazawa]

Ooor.... instead of looking at the color just look at the UI and notice "Normal" "Good" Excellent" instead.

[Stumpelwurz]

Whatever 😉 i prefer the colours and watching my lil lalafell hammerin

[kuma_aus]

I like to use both orb color + the text it says. Have my crafting window right next to my character. Grumble have you hit level 53 with a crafter yet? Once you do you start to unlock new skills that make use of orb colors a lot.