Can You Craft Legendary Gear in Enshrouded 1.0?

Counting every item that is the output of a recipe: of the 143 weapons you can craft, 132 are Rare, 10 are Common (starter tools and torches) and 1 is Legendary. Of the 387 armor pieces, 239 are Rare, 125 Common, 15 Uncommon, 3 Epic and 5 Legendary. Shields follow the weapons: 39 craftable, 36 of them Rare. No ring is craftable: none of the 38 has a recipe.

A crafted weapon comes at one fixed item level for its tier, from 6 at tier 1 to 46 at tier 7. The item level cap is 55, and loot weapons in the files span the whole range from 1 to 55.

Why rarity matters: the files tie it to the chance of a gem slot (Common 0%, Uncommon 5%, Rare 25%, Epic 50%, Legendary 100%) and to durability (Common ×0.9, Uncommon ×0.95, Rare ×1, Epic ×1.05, Legendary ×1.1). The three Epic armor pieces you can craft are Miner Helmet, Diving Helmet, Swimfins.

Loraine Crim (Ancient Researcher) makes 6 Legendary pieces, and every recipe needs Vorgoth's Bound Essence: 7 in all for the full set. It is the same item the last Flame upgrade asks for, which the endgame guide lists among Lord Vorgoth's drops, so this is an after-the-fight reward, not an early shortcut.

Everything else Legendary is loot. A random gear roll uses the global rarity odds in the files unless a chest or enemy overrides them: Common 40.59%, Uncommon 27.35%, Rare 17.06%, Epic 9.71%, Legendary 5.29%. A few named Legendaries sit at fixed spots instead of rolling: the ones you can walk to early are on the early Legendary weapons page, the dense chest spots on the gold chest routes.

What the files do not give is a source for each named Legendary weapon, so this page lists none. The loot page shows what the files do hold for chests and enemies.

The Blacksmith's enhancement is a separate system. The game's own quest text says the Blacksmith "will upgrade most melee weapons, as well as shields, armors, and rings, in exchange for Runes", that "legendary and rare weapons require Legendary Runes", and that "enhanced equipment will empower you through newly unlocked perks". It speaks of perks, not of rarity, and the files hold no recipe that turns a Rare piece into a Legendary one. What a Rune upgrade costs is also not in the files; see how to get Legendary Runes.

Two things stay open. How much Vorgoth's Bound Essence a Vorgoth fight gives: the files hold a loot table with the item, but nothing that ties it to the fight, so the count is not stated here. And whether the Blacksmith's enhancement can ever change rarity: its text does not say, so the page does not claim either way.