Guild Wars 2

There are loads of guides to leveling crafting online, but a lot of them were written during beta or early stages before the cost of things was locked in place (for now, at least). I know branching out in the professions is going to cost a lot of time and money (I farm/salvage everything), but are there any current guides?

http://www.guildwars2-crafting.com

The tooltips are up to date (bronze ingot shows it requires copper ore x 10 and a lump of tin) but the guide itself isn’t. It implies 168 copper ore can be refined into 84 bronze ingots (a 2:1 rate) in lieu of the current 10:1 rate.

Most crafting professions follow a simple rule when trying to level efficiently.

Only try to discover new items. Avoid making the same item twice. Salvage results to retain some of the mats.

Most crating jobs have a certain item combination that will yield discoveries. Stuff like 1 Shaft + 1 String + xyz = new discovery.

Just combine the various elements so you’re always discovering something new and you should level crafting very quickly and efficiently.

I had been waiting for a guide simply so I could know how much of each mat to have on hand to maximize efficiency, but I seem to have reached the point where my collection tab is overflowing with copper ore and leather and I probably just need to get on with it.

Are there any items in GW2 that bind when picked up? I ask because I may use the same character to learn all of my crafting skills and just use others as gatherers. But he’s a warrior so I don’t want to get to 400 skill and find out the kitten bow I made for my ranger wasn’t transferable.