Learning augmentation is a multi-step process. [[Nightshade]] sends players to visit four of his associates: [[Poe]], [[Malgath]], [[Syndra]], and [[Gribburn]]. The player can then return to [[Nightshade]] to learn weapon augmentation, which will open the ability makes it possible to train some abilities. The player will also have to travel back to [[Poe]], [[Malgath]], [[Syndra]], or [[Gribburn]] in order to learn individual types of augmentation as they level up. Each of these sub-trainers has their own challenges such as having to use violence to reach their locations (i.e. [[Malgath]], [[Poe]]), learning [[Goblinese]] and gaining favor with [[Hogan]](e.g. [[Gribburn]], and carrying wood for the campfire so [[Syndra]] is warm enough to talk to the player.

Using [[Weapon Augmentation]] as an example, a player would have to first travel travels to [[Malgath]] and gain his favor in order to train the first level skill called '''"Decompose Main Hand Weapon"'''. This skill will allow the player to take any enchanted (green or above) main hand weapon and break it down into "beads". The level and rarity of the weapon determine how many beads the player receives, between approximately 1 and 30 beads given out. Decomposition also rarely results in the creation of a [[Prism]], which are reagents used in [[Transmutation]].

During the first 10 levels of [[Weapon Augmentation]], the player learns to extract effects from weapons, and then apply them to other weapons. Extracting a specific effect costs beads. According to the crafting menu, it can cost up to one bead per level of the effect(e.g. a staff that requires level 60 fire magic would cost up to 60 beads for a successful extraction of a fire magic effect).

For instance, to extract extracting a psychology effect from a sword that requires psychology, the player would use uses [[tourmaline]] as the crystal in the extract augment recipe. The weapon and crystal are both destroyed in the process, but create an augment that can be placed on another weapon. The player's augmentation skill level determines the success of the extraction; the skill level should be within 10 levels of the weapon's level.(A level N player has a 100% chance of extracting a level N+10 power, but only a 10% chance of extracting a level N+20 power, and a 0% chance of extracting anything higher.) If you fail to extract an augment, the item is lost anyway. Even if the weapon and crystal are destroyed, the player still receives Weapon Augmentation experience.

The higher the item’s level, the more skill you need to successfully extract an augment. There’s a ten level margin of safety, and after that your chances drop off quickly. (A level N player has a 100% chance of extracting a level N+10 power, but only a 10% chance of extracting a level N+20 power, and a 0% chance of extracting anything higher.) If you fail to extract an augment, the item is lost anyway. Assuming everything went right in this example, the player may now have an oil such as recieves [[Weapon Augment Oil Cruel Dialog L50new example]] which can be applied to a different weapon.(In the past, augmentation resulted in oils, which are no longer used in the mechanic.)