Finding Your Way in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - A Handy Crafting Guide

Embarking on a journey in the expansive world of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora can be intimidating for even the most seasoned gamers. Developed by Massive Entertainment, this game poses an impressive array of features ranging from survival mechanics and crafting systems to combat strategies and much more. At its heart, however, the ability to enhance your character heavily relies on securing top-quality crafting materials. The potency of your gear is essentially determined by the caliber of materials you use in their creation. Building powerful gear right from early gameplay requires the best ingredients, specifically "Superior" and "Exquisite" crafting materials. Navigating this terrain can be daunting at first. Hence, we've collated a few pointers to set you on the path to mastering your craft in Pandora.

The Different Tiers of Crafting Materials

In Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, crafting materials fall under three categories - Fine, Superior, and Exquisite. A quick scan with your Na’vi senses will reveal the rarity of each material. Fine materials bear a green outline, Superior materials come in purple, and Exquisite ones glow in gold. When sourcing materials from animals, look out for Adult and Mature creatures. They are the sources of Superior and Exquisite materials, respectively.

Tracing the Superior and Exquisite Materials

Emerging questions include where to find these top-tier materials. The Hunter's Guide is essentially your atlas here. A material's listing, added via scanning any material version, reveals common locations to find it as well as unique spots to unearth rarer variations. This latter category is where Superior or Exquisite material specimens are likely uncovered. Routing the specific material or animal through the Hunter's Guide lens helps spot your target more vividly onscreen or enables a trail draw if you're pursuing a hunting gather.

Quality Counts: Enhancing Your Gather

The location matters in the quest for Superior or Exquisite materials, but so does how you collect them. In the realm of plant-based materials, achieving "pristine" status involves deftly handling the gathering mini-game and reaping the materials in optimum conditions, such as ideal weather or time. While these factors do not upgrade a material's rarity level, they swell the quality of Superior or Exquisite material when both bonuses converge. If the collection process daunts you, the game's options allow some tweaking to avoid any impairment to the materials.

Mastering hunting-based material collection

For hunting-based materials, clean and merciful captures contribute to your success as a hunter. Clean captures focus on targeting the animal's weak spot, while merciful captures minimize the shots taken to capture the animal, with a single shot being the gold standard. Enhancing your ability to achieve these conditions is made possible through advances in the 'Memories of the Hunter' skill tree.

Extra Tips and Strategies

Faced with elusive crafting ingredients? Fear not! A host of Na'vi merchants might be willing to trade Superior or better-quality ingredients for Clan Favor. Unlocking the 'Renowned Crafter' skill under the Memories of the Maker tree could have merchants extending offers of higher-grade materials to you. With these strategies in place, demystifying the crafting terrain should soon be within your grasp, paving the way to an enhanced game experience complete with powerful gear.