Ding 16! and welcome to Researching. Now head to Crescent Reach, 2nd floor library. Stop at Researcher Layla and buy a Spell Research Kit. This is the only research kit you will ever need for combines. Now head up the ramp in the library and find Researcher Akila. Hail her and do the Research quest to get your free skill to 54.

Now that you are at skill level 54, we will discuss gaining skill. Check all merchants in Crescent Reach, Plane of Knowledge, Bazaar merchants etc. What we are looking for are Binding Powders. There are eleven different types of Binding powders. Any that you find, buy buy buy them all and store them in your bank. Binding powders can drop off of any mobs that casts spells. Here is a list of all the binding powders and the skill levels associated with them.


Crude Binding Powder 58-80
Makeshift Binding Powder 83-106
Elementary Binding Powder 118-140
Modest Binding Powder 152-175
Simple Binding Powder 192-215
Binding Powder 232-255
Refined Binding Powder 272-295
Intricate Binding Powder 312-335
Elaborate Binding Powder 352-375
Ornate Binding Powder 392-415
Rune Binding Powder 432-455

Now for each different binding powder, we get a spell to summon one Spellcaster's Empowering Essence. The catch is we have to make it ourselves and it is level dependent to be scribed and no drop. Since we are level 16 we will make the level 16 Spell: Focus Crude Spellcaster's Essence trivial 52.

Here is our recipe and first combine!

1 x Conjuring Thickener - Crafted, Bought
1 x Ink Additive of the Nameless - Bought
1 x Ink of Druzzil Ro - Crafted, Bought
1 x Quill of the Arcane - Crafted, Bought
1 x Rough Hide - Crafted

To make the Rough Hide, we need:

1 x Raw Rough Hide - Dropped
1 x Rough Hide Solution - Bought

Raw Rough Hide will drop off of any level 10 to 20 mob in Crescent Reach.

Make the rough hide combine in your spell research kit, then do the main combine. All of the other items can be bought in Crescent reach or plane of knowledge on research merchants. It make take you a combine or 2. Congrats you have just made your first spell. Memorize it to your spellbook and to a spell slot.

Say we have 5 crude binding powders. That means you need to summon 5 essences with the spell you just memorized. Now to make the Crude Enchanted Spell Parchments. So here we go, our recipe:

1 x A Piece of Parchment - Bought
1 x Crude Binding Powder - Dropped
1 x Crude Binding Solution - Bought
1 x Crude Spellcaster's Empowering Essence - Summoned

Will make you one Crude Enchanted Spell Parchment Trivial 58.

Make as many of the parchment combines as you have crude binding powders. You will reach the trivial for them real fast. Each of the parchments is again used in a higher combine.

Crude Scroll of Static Strike 72
Crude Scroll of Fire Strike 75
Crude Scroll of Frost Strike 75
Crude Scroll of Poisoning 78
Crude Scroll of Pestilence 80

The first combine we will work on is Crude Scroll of Fire Strike:

Ingredients
1 x Crude Enchanted Spell Parchment - Crafted
1 x Ink of Ro - Crafted, Bought
1 x Quill of the Arcane - Crafted, Bought

Now these items can be used or sold back to merchants. Once those are trivial, we move to Crude Scroll of Pestilence:

Ingredients
1 x Crude Enchanted Spell Parchment - Crafted
1 x Ink of Druzzil Ro - Crafted, Bought
1 x Quill of the Arcane - Crafted, Bought

Doing these combines will get you to 80 in your skill. The next powder, Makeshift Binding Powder can be combined at level 20, since that is when you can memorize the next essence summoning spell.

Using the basic pattern here, you can advance your skill easily. It is all level dependent and based on availability of appropriate binding powders.



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thank you