Guild Wars 2

I just made a new toon, popped my ‘bump to lvl 20 scroll’ and then maxed cooking to get my guy up to lvl 30…the only thing is that he only hit lvl 26!

I know they adjusted XP for the ascended crafts so that you have to hit 500 to get the full 10 lvls, but that should not have affected the crafts that still only have 400 lvls. Was this intentional, a bug, poor QA or what?

I’m really sad about this.

Weird, I always manage to get 10 levels out of cooking.

This is due to crafting levels eventually going to 500. Give it time it will adjust itself so that you can craft to 80 again. When all professions are at 500.

anzenketh.3759:

This is due to crafting levels eventually going to 500. Give it time it will adjust itself so that you can craft to 80 again. When all professions are at 500.

I’m well aware that in the future this will happen. But the XP should not have been nerfed now. Anet did not warn us of this happening to non ascended crafts being affected. We also have no ETA on when the other crafts will bump up to 500. It could be several months. That’s a long time to wait to be able to get 10 lvls again, and it will cost a small fortune as well.

anzenketh.3759:

This is due to crafting levels eventually going to 500. Give it time it will adjust itself so that you can craft to 80 again. When all professions are at 500.

This could be it, a warning would have been nice though. I was lucky enough to craft all my alts to 80 before this nerf. Not everyone will be so lucky.

You don’t get 10 levels from maxing one crafting profession. This is a pretty common misconception. You get 1/8th of the total XP required to get to level 80. This is not necessarily 10 levels, although it can be. It’s higher at low levels and lower at higher levels. Check this out:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Xp#Leveling_table

That said: only 6 levels when you’re such a low level does seem wrong. It seems like that may have been a coding mistake.

They changed xp rewarded from crafts when they added 500 level crafting.
it used to be:
1% 0-99
2% 100-199
3% 200-299
4% 300-399

Now 400-499 is 4% and the first 400 is either 1,1,2,2 or 1,1,1,3.