How Studying Works in Albion Online

Studying turns finished items into crafting fame. You place an item in the Study tab of a crafting station, pay the station's fee, and the item is destroyed. In return, the Destiny Board nodes that craft that item receive at least 275% of its crafting fame, almost three times what crafting it gave.

You can study items you bought, so studying lets you level a crafting specialization with silver instead of materials and crafting time. This guide covers how much fame an item gives, what multiplies it, what studying costs, and which items can be studied. Every example below was checked against the Study tab in game.

The study fame formula

Study fame per item = Crafting fame × Artifact factor × 2.75 × Daily bonus × Focus × Premium

Every bonus multiplies the others. None of them is added to the 275%.

City production bonuses do not apply to studying. They were removed in September 2022 (Into the Fray, Patch 6), when the base study factor went from 2 to 2.75. Where you study does not change the fame you get; only the station's fee differs.

How the bonuses stack

The Study tab shows the combined multiplier as Total. These are the totals the game shows:

With the rarer 20% Daily Production Bonus, Premium and Focus, the total reaches 275% × 1.5 × 1.2 × 1.59 = 787%.

Where crafting fame comes from

An item's crafting fame is the fame of the refined materials in its recipe. Each material is worth:

Fame per metal bar, plank, cloth or leather. Each enchantment level doubles it, so a T4.4 item carries 16 times the fame of the same item at T4.0, and a T8.0 item carries 62 times the fame of T4.0.

The artifact in an artifact recipe adds no fame of its own. The item's artifact factor raises its crafting fame instead: 1.1 for the Bedrock Mace.

Item quality is not part of the formula. A Normal item studies for the same fame as an Excellent one, so the cheapest quality is the one to buy.

Example: Adept's Bedrock Mace with every bonus

This Bedrock Mace was studied with Premium, Focus and a 10% Daily Production Bonus for maces. Its crafting fame is 594, and each bonus is applied on top of the ones before it:

Base study fame   594 × 2.75            = 1,633.50
Daily bonus      +10% of 1,633.50       =   163.35   → 1,796.85
Premium          +50% of 1,796.85       =   898.43   → 2,695.28
Focus            +59% of 2,695.28       = 1,590.21   → 4,285.49

The Study tab shows the same result as +4k (+163, +898, +2k): the total fame, then the share added by the Daily Events, Premium and Focus bonuses. The shares in brackets are shown to the fame point, which makes them the easiest way to check a calculation in game.

The 721% Total does not include the artifact factor, because that factor is part of the item's crafting fame.

Which nodes get the fame

Every node listed in the Study tab receives the full amount. This one mace gave 4,285 fame to Mace Crafter and another 4,285 to Bedrock Mace Crafting Specialist.

A node that is already level 100 is no longer listed and gains nothing. In the cape example below, Cape Tailor is already level 100, so only Cape Tailoring Specialist appears.

Fame also carries over between levels. If a study gives more fame than the current level needs, the rest counts toward the next level.

Masteries need much less fame than specializations, so the mastery usually reaches level 100 long before the specialization does. Cape Tailor needs 3.2 million fame from level 0 to 100, while Cape Tailoring Specialist needs 19.3 million.

Each node's next-level requirement also says which items count, for example "Craft Adept's Cape or better".

Example: Cape Tailoring Specialist from 95 to 96

Level 96 of Cape Tailoring Specialist needs 594,030 fame (shown as 594k). An Expert's Cape has 720 crafting fame.

With Premium:            720 × 2.75 × 1.5        = 2,970 fame per cape
With Premium and Focus:  720 × 2.75 × 1.5 × 1.59 = 4,722.3 fame per cape

Studying with Focus saves 75 capes for this level. Add the price you pay for the capes to get the full cost.

The Focus cost of studying

Studying an item with Focus costs the same Focus as crafting one of that item, reduced by your Focus Cost Efficiency for it:

Focus per item = Base Focus cost × 0.5^(Efficiency / 10,000)

The Expert's Cape has a base Focus cost of 750. The player in the example has:

Cape Tailor 100                   × 30 per level  =  3,000
Cape Tailoring Specialist 95      × 370 per level = 35,150
Total efficiency                                  = 38,150

Focus per cape = 750 × 0.5^3.815 = 53.29, shown as 53

A specialization adds 280 efficiency per level to its own item (370 for capes and 340 for bags). The mastery and the other specializations of the same family add 30 per level, except artifact specializations such as Avalonian, Keeper, Hellgate, Morgana and Undead, which add 15 or less. How Crafting Specialization Reduces Focus Costs explains this in detail.

When is Focus worth it?

Focus adds 59% to the fame you already get, so the fame you gain per point of Focus depends on how cheap the item's Focus cost is for you:

Spend Focus on items you are highly specialized in. For items with a high Focus cost at your levels, studying without Focus and keeping the Focus for crafting or refining is usually better.

The silver fee

Each studied item pays the station's usage fee for the item's nutrition, exactly as crafting it would:

Fee per item = Item Value × 0.1125 × Station fee per 100 nutrition / 100

• The game rounds the Study Cost down to whole silver.
• An artifact's Item Value counts toward the fee, so artifact items cost more to study at the same station.
• Premium, Focus and the Daily Production Bonus do not change the fee. The Bedrock Mace cost 216 silver with and without Focus.
• Market prices are not part of the fee; it only depends on Item Value and the station's rate.

How Crafting Station Fees Are Calculated covers Item Value and nutrition in more detail.

What can be studied

You study an item at a station that crafts it. Refining stations and a few others do not allow studying:

Refining specializations therefore cannot be levelled by studying.

The game also refuses to study an item when:

• the item is not at full durability,
• you have not unlocked crafting that item, or
• none of your Destiny Board nodes would gain fame from it, for example because they are all level 100 or the item's tier is too low for their next level.

Tips for studying efficiently

• Compare silver per fame, not price. Divide each item's price plus the station fee by the fame it gives. A cheap low-tier item often costs more per fame than an expensive higher-tier or enchanted one.
• Buy the cheapest quality. Quality does not change study fame.
• Keep Premium active and watch for a Daily Production Bonus on your item's category. The party hat icon in the Albion Free Market top bar shows today's bonuses.
• Use Focus where your Focus cost is low, usually on the items of your highest specialization.
• Craft, then study. Crafting an item gives its crafting fame once, and studying the finished item gives at least 275% more for the same materials.

Plan your levels with the Study Calculator

The Study Calculator does all of these calculations for you. Pick the crafting, cooking or alchemy specialization you want to level and your current level, then set how you level: the routes you use (buy and study, craft and study, or craft and sell on the Black Market, which is off to start), the Daily Production Bonus, Focus, Quick Learn, Premium and your station fee.

Reach level shows the cheapest plan to your target level: the item, how many to buy or craft, the route and the total silver, with the other routes under it and every item ranked by silver per fame, station fee and Focus included. Reach a focus cost finds the cheapest mix of levels across the specialization, its sister specializations and the mastery to bring your item's Focus cost down to a target, because a few cheap levels in a sister specialization often beat the last levels of the one you craft with.

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