Diablo 4's blacksmith not only repairs your equipment, but also allows you to extract valuable crafting materials from useless stuff. This guide will show you how to unlock the blacksmith and which resource you can get from which junk.
All about the blacksmith in Diablo 4: If a nasty demon has punched a gaping hole in your armor, you'll need not only an XXL healing potion, but also a friendly person to patch up the weak spot in your body armor. And that's exactly what a blacksmith does, of course, even in the hack 'n' slash epic Diablo 4.
But where in the game is the hammering patron located anyway? And can the blacksmith do anything other than repair armor? The answers to these questions, and more, can be found in this guide.
On the one hand, the blacksmith in Diablo 4 does the usual job of the role-playing blacksmith, which is to repair and improve worn-out equipment, of course. On the other hand, the hammering craftsman also makes himself useful in that he transforms the supposedly useless junk you drag in into very common resources. In that sense, he turns ... you know what, to gold. You'll find out exactly how he does that in a moment.
Once your character reaches level 10, you'll get a quest that asks you to pay a visit to Zivek the Blacksmith in Kyovashad. Similar to the alchemist (you can read all about the potions prankster in this guide), Zivek's quest begins with improving an item, in this case, a piece of equipment. After that, in addition to experience points, you also get his helping hand, that is, access to the blacksmith is open to you.
This is so important because your equipment loses a tenth of its durability with each of your deaths per se. If you don't do anything about it and let the durability value drop to zero, the armor bonuses will be partially deactivated and you will be noticeably weaker. So it's better to visit Zivek and other blacksmiths in the game world regularly.
That's right, of course there are several forges in the Diablo 4 world. These become available automatically when you unlock Zivek, and can be found in abandoned fortresses, outposts and towns, for example.
By disassembling an item of equipment, you get a varying amount of crafting materials depending on the item, which can be used to improve equipment. The rarer an item is, the rarer the materials extracted from it. Will wonders never cease. Disassembling an upgraded piece of armor also refunds some of the materials used for the upgrade. Socketed gems, for example, are extracted during disassembly and go back into your inventory.
Incidentally, disassembly of objects is also possible in bulk and simultaneously. Only equipment with the attributes "enchanted", "socketed" or "transmogged" are excluded from mass processing. Below is a list of armor pieces and their raw material output from disassembly.
Overview of raw material gains from disassembled armor parts
(Will be updated continuously)
Equipment can be upgraded a limited number of times, depending on its rarity, with the item level increasing by 5 each time. Common and magical armor pieces can be upgraded just like legendary ones, but here the question of usefulness arises. As a rule, only parts of higher rarity are worth upgrading.
Upgrading items increases most affix values as well as armor value and weapon damage. These are crucial for reducing damage taken as well as increasing skill damage. The following list tells you which upgrade materials can be used and how. (Will be updated continuously.)
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