Warhammer Online is trying to make crafting system different with other online games. Warhammer strives for making a fun and rewarding players. Hence, they have promoted the system to allow you to craft while your exploring and killing on the battlefield.
Maybe you ask is there any set recipe for crafting. Warhammer Online tells you no! You have to stochastically gather various elements to make something unexpected in a big pot instead of doing what the book says.
Two crafting skills are currently available:
Apothecary
Talisman Crafting
And four gathering skills:
Butchering
Cultivating
Magical Salvaging
Scavenging
Players can learn from the above information that lots of work involved in Warhammer Online crafting. It is challenging and interesting to make items with thousands of different possibilities out there. What's more, you need to coorperate with others if you want something more powerful. This is where having a good guild or network of crafters comes into play. It is not so easy to craft at first, however, Warhammer rewards you for your each effort.