Master Darktide crafting! Learn how to Consecrate, Refine, and Bless items to unlock powerful perks and traits. Understand Plasteel and Diamantine uses for weapon upgrades.
Alright, let's dive into how you'll be upgrading your gear in Warhammer 40,000: Darktide. The crafting system has a few key parts: Consecrating (which is basically upgrading), Refining items, and working with Blessings. Think of it as making your favorite lasgun or chainsword even better!
Consecrate is your go-to for improving an item's quality. You can take anything from a basic white 'Salvaged' weapon all the way up to an 'Orange' Master Crafted one. Each step up costs resources, and here's the breakdown:
- Black Market Quality: Costs 150 Plasteel.
- Frontier Quality: Costs 200 Plasteel and 50 Diamantine.
- Militarum Issue Quality: Costs 400 Plasteel and 150 Diamantine.
- Master Crafted Quality: Costs 900 Plasteel and 350 Diamantine.
When you upgrade your item's quality, you're not just making it shinier; you're unlocking new perks and potentially better blessings. Perks are the passive bonuses your gear gets, while blessings are those special buffs with icons you see at the bottom of the weapon tab. For example, upgrading to Militarum Issue quality gives you two perks and one blessing. Go all the way to Master Crafted, and you'll get two perks and two blessings. If you're not happy with the blessings you've got, there's a 'Re Bless' option, but that feature isn't in the game yet, so we'll have to wait and see how that properly works.
Next up is Refine Item. This lets you reroll one of the perks on your weapon. Super useful if you've got a perk you just don't like. However, there's a catch: when you reroll a perk, the *other* perk on your weapon gets locked in place forever. So, make sure you're only rerolling a perk you're not interested in. Keep in mind that the new perk you get is chosen randomly from a big list, including things like bonus damage against specific enemy types (Infested, Maniacs, Carapace Armor, Unyielding, Unarmored, Pox Walkers, and loads more).
There's also a feature called Combine Blessings, which also isn't in the game yet. The idea is that it will let you combine your existing blessings to potentially unlock another blessing slot. We'll be sure to update this once it's live!
Darktide Crafting Currencies
You'll be using two main currencies for all this crafting: Plasteel and Diamantine. Plasteel is the common one; you'll find it scattered all over the maps and in storage boxes. It's available on most mission difficulties, so you can start hoarding it pretty early on, especially once you're comfortable with level 2 missions.
Diamantine, on the other hand, is much rarer, particularly on lower-level missions. Expect to find maybe 5 per level 2 mission, but higher difficulties will give you significantly more. This is the precious resource you'll need for those higher-tier upgrades like Militarum Issue and Master Crafted quality. It's essential for making those weapons and curios you buy from the shop with good base stats truly shine, especially when you've used up your weekly shop currency.
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