Guild Wars 2

I’ve compiled the materials you will need to get Armorsmithing, Leatherworker and Tailor from 400 to 500 by discovery alone very quickly (probably 5 to 10 minutes each)

The numbers are based on the method of discovering 28 exotic level 80 armor pieces ONCE you get to 425 by crafting the insignias and doing some basic refining of mats.

You will need to purchase 5 different exotic Intricate Gossamer Insignia recipes from vendor 1st.

After you will craft 6+6+6+6+4=28 Insignias.

Once that is done and you’re at 425, you will be discovering:
5 boots
4 legs
4 coats
5 shoulders
5 gloves
5 helms
28 total different armor pieces to get to 500 in each crafting profession. (Assuming you will not use a crafting booster)

In the chart attached, check the totals for the amount of materials you will need to get all your crafting professions to 500 very quickly.

I hope it is helpful to some fellow players who can’t wait to get their hands on some ascended armor

Cheers and please let me know if you have questions (or I messed up somewhere)

hmmm from 400 you can refine T6 mats like ori, gossamer and leather to get to 420 ish.
so your numbers might be a bit off, also remember that at 450 you can start crafting
ascended components, while the ascended armor itself can only be crafted once you reach 500.

Of course, the materials are all base materials so the players will easily reach 425 as they are making basic refinements, armor parts, insignias, etc. The ascended material refinement at 450 is too slow for my taste and many people may have refined them already so I didn’t take it into consideration.

500 Armorcraft
500 Leatherwork
500 Tailor

Been updating those since September. Prices were ~50-70 before Gossamer spiked.

xanthic are rabid/dire/soldier etc. insignias included in those? (although they don’t exist yet)

Aberrant.6749:

xanthic are rabid/dire/soldier etc. insignias included in those? (although they don’t exist yet)

Not yet. Recipes for the guides are controlled by the public gw2 api.

This can be a lot cheaper:

- refine hardened leather squares, ori and gossamer first.
- craft cheap sigils/ runes if you can. Some may take you to 440 (similar to potion of ghostslaying for artificer)
- refine ascended mats from 450-475
- salvage dungeon armor for dire/shaman’s etc when the patch is live for cheaper exotic insignia.

Whatever you do, try to avoid using gossamer. You shouldn’t need it in large quantities.

for the 400-425 u can discover alot of 300-400 stuff…
i did it with my wep\arti\hunts
alot cheaper
and ofc craft only on Fridays so u get 15-20% bonus for your crit chance and use
craft booster… it will make it even cheeper
and if u where smart and bought alot of mats few months ago when they where like
9copper – 1 silver

It’s alot cheaper than the 3 previous crafting professions.
Stupid me though, i sold all t6 materials except blood and dust.

I was wondering as a tailor:
Why not make many runes of the undead? Really cheap and its exotic.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Rune_of_the_Undead

Runes should give xp until what, 450? Or does it go higher? This will be awfully convenient.

xanthic.9478:

500 Armorcraft
500 Leatherwork
500 Tailor

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Been updating those since September. Prices were ~50-70 before Gossamer spiked.

Thank you for this, big time. That price is very reasonable. I can work with this.

I’d like to thank you too for your awesome crafting guides and for your post on reddit. It has had immediate effect on the prices of Flawless Snowflake, Pile of Putrid Essence and Platinum Doubloon just like I anticipated long ago, making me even richer

xanthic.9478:

Aberrant.6749:

xanthic are rabid/dire/soldier etc. insignias included in those? (although they don’t exist yet)

Not yet. Recipes for the guides are controlled by the public gw2 api.

Cool, ty for all your work. It’s really appreciated

I’m totally with anabasis on this one. I bought crap ton of putrid essence when it was very cheap about 3-4 months ago, thought the day would never come I would be able to resell those for a nice profit. Thank you.

I want to know what ANet’s plan is to deal with Gossamer prices.

Goss will be fine. It’ll be controlled with silk and dust/ectos over time.

It’ll just suck if you didn’t prep and gotta have ascended armor right away.

Goss will still likely double in price again once the update comes out. I don’t believe that promoting silk will control goss prices to the degree that you think it will. It won’t be until the demand for goss starts to die down that you’ll see any impact.

It’ll spike in the first few days for sure (hence the didn’t prep/gotta have it asap). Longer term the demand will go down, and the prices will drop. If you didn’t prep, I would just wait it out.