The other day I was able to craft higher tier Adra from lower tiers, but this is no longer the case. Couldn't find any mention of this in the patch notes - is this an intended change?

Turns out it was just a case of loading a save before I'd gotten one of the higher tier Adra. Looks like you have to have found an example before you can upgrade it, which seems sensible.

You can craft it when you upgrade an item to +3/3 level and by that you hit the treshold for possible upgrade to new quality tier. For example you upgraded common weapon to fine weapon, improved it further with +1, +2, +3 upgrade and now you need awakened adra for exceptional upgrade. Then you can craft awakened adra for this improved quality upgrade even if you didn't find awakened adra or salvage any of higher tier unique (excellent as tier "III") item. You wont be able to craft awakened adra as long as this weapon is Fine +2/3 or lower quality.

In my current run I managed to upgrade my unique weapon to excellent (III) in Dawnshore without exploiting this system with common template weapon which doesn't require adra to upgrade. Now I have superb weapon and armor halfway through Emerald Stairs.

Edited March 3, 2025Mar 3 by Silvaren