Blacksmith

There are 2 categories:

Equipment Combine and Item Combine

Equipment Combining

Here are all of the things you can combine in this category

Item Needed		Result
20 Ancestral Blade Pieces		Ancestral Blade
20 Ancestral Armor Pieces		Ancestral Armor
20 Ancestral Helmet Pieces		Ancestral Helmet
20 Ancestral Necklace Pieces		Ancestral Necklace

Item Combining

Here are all of the things you can combine in this category

Item Needed	Sliver Needed		Result	Lv Unlocked	UPdata
2x Skill Book Lv.1	100		Skill Book Lv.2	Start
2x Skill Book Lv.2	100		Skill Book Lv.3	Start
2x Skill Book Lv.3	100		Skill Book Lv.4	Start
2x Skill Book Lv.4	100		Skill Book Lv.5	Start
2x Skill Book Lv.5	100		Skill Book Lv.6	Start
2x Skill Book Lv.6	100		Skill Book Lv.7	Start
2x Skill Book Lv.7			Skill Book Lv.8	Start
2x Skill Book Lv.8			Skill Book Lv.9	Start
5x White Wax	500		Handpicked White Wax		2016/11/17~
5x Solid Bronze	500		Quality Bronze	61	2016/11/17~
5x Regular Wild Python Tonic	500		Advanced Wild Python Tonic	51	2016/11/17~
5x Regular Rhino Python Tonic	500		Advanced Rhino Python Tonic		2016/11/17~
5x Research Guide			Expert Research Manual

To reach the maximum skill level of 10 one needs 511 Lv. 1 Skill Books: a Lv. 1 Skill Book is needed to reach level 2, a Lv. 2 Skill Book (meaning 2x Lv. 1 Skill Books) is needed to reach level 3,... . So in total 1+2+4+8+16+32+64+128+256 =511 Lv. 1 Skill Books are needed. With 6 skills per hero and 4 hero a total of

Books * Hero * Skill = 511 * 4 * 6 = 12,264 x Skill Books Lv. 1

have to be collected to reach the maximum level for all skills.

Equipment Smelting

Unlocks at hero level, at least one hero must reach the level to wear the item.

Master-III or Lv.70 is the max a rare or perfect item can be smelted to.

Legendary-II or Lv.90 is the max an epic item can be smelted to.

Rare Equipment

Start	Resources			Result
Level		Ancestral Pieces of the same type		Level
Ordinary-I or Lv.1	20	2	5000	Excellent-I or Lv.20
Excellent-I or Lv.20	25	3	7500	Excellent-II or Lv.30
Excellent-II or Lv.30	30	4	10k	Elite-I or Lv.40
Elite-I or Lv.40	35	5	15k	Elite-II or Lv.50
Elite-II or Lv.50	40	6	20k	Master-I or Lv.60
Master-I or Lv.60	50	7	30k	Master-III or Lv.70

Perfect Equipment

Start	Resources			Result
Level				Level
Ordinary-I or Lv.1	20	4	10k	Excellent-I or Lv.20
Excellent-I or Lv.20	25	6	15k	Excellent-II or Lv.30
Excellent-II or Lv.30	30	8	20k	Elite-I or Lv.40
Elite-I or Lv.40	35	10	30k	Elite-II or Lv.50
Elite-II or Lv.50	40	12	40k	Master-I or Lv.60
Master-I or Lv.60	50	14	60k	Master-III or Lv.70

Epic Equipment

Start	Resources				Result
Level				Perfect Equipment of the same type Ordinary-I	Level
Ordinary-I or Lv.1	40	8	100k		Excellent-I or Lv.20
Excellent-I or Lv.20	50	8	100k		Excellent-II or Lv.30
Excellent-II or Lv.30	60	12	200k	1	Elite-I or Lv.40
Elite-I or Lv.40	70	12?	200k?	1	Elite-II or Lv.50
Elite-II or Lv.50	80	12	200k	1	Master-I or Lv.60
Master-I or Lv.60	100	12?	200k?	1	Master-III or Lv.70
Master-III or Lv.70					Legendary-I or Lv.80
Legendary-I or Lv.80	150	20	500k	1	Legendary-III or Lv.90

Equipment Research

Unlocks at : village Level ?

Equipment Rare-->>Perfect-->>Epic and Lv will Down

Start		Resources			Result
Quality	Level				Quality	Level
Rare	Excellent-I or Lv.20	20	2	20K	Perfect	Ordinary-I or Lv.1
Rare	Excellent-II or Lv.30	20	4	20K	Perfect	Excellent-I or Lv.20
Rare	Elite-I or Lv.40	20	10	20k	Perfect	Excellent-II or Lv.30
Rare	Elite-II or Lv.50	20	18	20k	Perfect	Elite-I or Lv.40
Rare	Master-I or Lv.60	20	28	20k	Perfect	Elite-II or Lv.50
Rare	Master-III or Lv.70	20	40	20k	Perfect	Master-I or Lv.60
Perfect¹	Master-III or Lv.70	40	20	100K	Epic	Ordinary-I or Lv.1

1 Perfect-->>Epic requires an unsmelted purple equipment of the same type. To research a Perfect Master-III Ice Sword (weapon) into an Epic Ordinary-1 Dragon Claw (weapon) a Perfect Ordinary-I Ice Sword is needed.

Smelting or Researching Dilemma

The dilemma is: Should a Rare item before smelted to the highest level and then researched to Perfect or should it immediately researched to Perfect and then smelted?

Comparison of the two strategies from a Rare Excellent-I to a Perfect Master-I item:

Strategy					Ancestral Pieces of the same type
Smelting First	20	40	180	102500	25
Researching First	20	42	150	135000	0

Analysis: Researching first and then smelting requires 2 excellent cornalians and about 30k silver more, but 30 bull horns less and no additional ancestral pieces. Considering the difficulty to gather the additional bull horns and the ancestral pieces the researching first strategy is better then the smelting first strategy.

Level down rule for researching Rare equipment to Perfect equipment:

Viking Hatchet

The Viking Hatchet is the same as an Ice Sword but with different icons. Smelting the Hatchet will result in an Ice Sword.