Guild Wars 2

Hey, I’ve got a bunch of alt characters I’d like to level, and I’m not terribly keen on repeating a bunch of starter zone content that I’m already well familiar with. What are the 2-3 cheapest crafting disciplines to max out? I’ve already got 400 in leather, jewelry, artificing, and tailoring. How do the rest of the professions compare to these?

cooking cost about 4g
weaponsmith about 7g

from memory

There are about 3 levels: (1) Cooking is by far the cheapest, it costs a gold or less if you do your research. (2) Artificer and jeweler are next at around 2-3g. (3) All the other ones, which are rather more expensive.

I think my plan, then, will be to do cooking on all of the characters that need levels, followed by jewelry. After that, I will pick up a 3rd craft that I have not mastered yet.

there are 3 sides to doing this.
either you a) want to craft for yourself, or b) you’re crafting for profit, c) crafting for legendary.

in case of “a” then i suggest you go chef or jewelcrafting, they’re useful for all classes so you can make stuff for alts.

in case of “b” then i suggest you don’t get a craft at all, you will be making more money selling raw mats than selling the finished product.

in case of “c”, asking which crafts are cheap is irrelevant, since you don’t have a choice as to which craft you want to use for the legendary you want.

According to my dynamic crafting guides at http://gw2crafts.saladon.net/ :

cooking_karma 97s86c
cooking_karma_light 1g11s41c
cooking 1g43s15c

armorcraft 8g 5s98c
artificing 4g36s56c
huntsman 7g27s48c
jewelcraft 4g42s29c
leatherworking 6g99s21c
tailor 7g37s97c
weaponcraft 7g34s51c

[edit] that is assuming lowest initial gold cost, and not counting any cost recovered from vendoring items.

Cooking is extremely easy. Even if you don’t bother doing discoveries it’s probably the cheapest.

you need to know though, cooking might not be expensive on the gold, but it uses a lot of karma and you will need to move around the game world a lot.

other crafts you can basically sit at the crafting tables and do what you want right away.