Fine Material

Fine Materials can be used in crafting recipes to help create either artisan based fine materials (ie: a 'Fine' Steel Bar) where then the fine materials can then be crafted into an item/tool with a +1 scale higher chance of creating a better crafted item quality. This means the lowest quality you can craft doing this becomes "Good" and scales up a level from there for each quality tier. Having partial fine materials is allowed when the recipe calls for a non-material in this case 30% of the outcome from the lower result is moved to the higher.

Fine Materials can be found randomly when using a gathering skill and have chances of finding them improved with certain gear or tools.

They have a base rate of 1/100 to be dropped in place of the regular material. This can be affected by the "Fine Material Find" attribute - see Fine Material Finding (Mechanics) for more details on this. Note that this attribute does not affect this rate for material dropped from chests.

Fine Materials will typically sell for more money to shops as well due to their increased rarity. They will also give an additional +75% experience if used in a artisan skill. You also need to find a fine material for the Ooh, Shiny! achievement

Activity Inputs

Fine materials may be used as inputs in some activities. When used in this way they apply the bonus attributes below in addition to any existing attributes from any other source like gear, consumables or pets.

Global +40% Work efficiency
Global +200% Fine material finding
Global +10% Double rewards
Global +100% Bonus experience