Hello there, name's Rhonder and I've been playing SK for ~ 3 days now. I've been able to work out pretty much everything okay (I started playing at the same time as a friend, so we've been helping each other figure stuff out) so yeah! However, I was wondering about recipes and materials.
For recipes, what are the different NPCs you can buy them from and where are they located? I bought this recipe for a cool looking 2* sword the other day (a... Troika I think it's called? Or something like that), but now I can't seem to find that NPC anymore, and I remember him/her having a lot of cool recipes. That was just the one that I could afford/wanted at the time. I did find the recipe seller in the Bazaar, but he didn't have that recipe, and I looked over his wares and they were all kind of sucky. I also know that there's that recipe seller at the beginning of dungeons before you go down the first elevator to a level, but it wasn't him either. Is there some other recipe seller that I'm missing?
And for materials, I guess I'm specifically wondering about drift wood since that's the only thing I need left to make that sword I mentioned. Is it better to just try and find that from a monster drop, or try and get Forge Tokens or wev they're called and buy them from the token guy? Is there a specific monster that i can farm for drift wood?
Thanks in advance :D
Recipes can be purchased from Vatel in the bazaar, Basil at the lobby at depth zero of every mission, Basil at clockwork terminals in the arcade, or from the Hall of Heroes.
Vatel, the recipe selling NPC in the Bazaar, has a fairly limited stock of recipes, and he changes his supply every 24 hours, i believe.
The Basil you find at the beginning of a mission sells a different set of recipes for each mission. The Basil found in clockwork terminals sells a different set of recipes every time you visit a clockwork terminal, chosen from a list completely at random. Take a look at Basil's page on the wiki for a more detailed list of his recipes for each mission, here (http://wiki.spiralknights.com/Basil)
There's also the NPC's selling recipes at the Hall of Heroes, each selling a static selection of recipes. If you're looking for one that sells Troika recipes, it might have been Izola (http://wiki.spiralknights.com/Izola)
All three vendors are capable of selling troika recipes, though, so i can't really tell you which it was.
As for obtaining driftwood, those are only dropped by lumbers (The big tree golems that slam you with one arm.). You could also attempt to purchase driftwood from other players through the auction house, north of the fountain in Town square.