Guild Wars 2

So, I just hit 500 tailoring (woot….) and I’m maybe thinking about crafting a suit of ascended armor for my necro (main, person I do fractals with). Wondering what total cost I could see it coming out to in the end…

Also, what’s the best way to make a profit with crafting? I’d like to try to recope my gold costs thus far and perhaps make some in a way that’s not super hard.

worth it to level jewel making to 400?

You cannot really make a profit from crafting now, as the market levels out the prices of the mats fairly quickly,

As for the cost, that will depend vastly on what mats you have, and what mats you need, dulfy has a great break down, its heavily time gated for tailor its more than any of the other 2,

http://dulfy.net/2013/12/12/gw2-ascended-armor-crafting-guide/#t0

You need approx. 120gold of silk alone, and its the cheapest of the mats.

Trying for those armor boxes seems a better choice.

Though I’ll point out the silk thread thing is a 4 hour timer, not 1 day. I made one earlier and I can make another now.

Seems like selling Damask would be best <_<.

Kalavier.1097:

Trying for those armor boxes seems a better choice.

Though I’ll point out the silk thread thing is a 4 hour timer, not 1 day. I made one earlier and I can make another now.

Seems like selling Damask would be best <_<.

They are on a one day timer, but that means you can only craft one between two resets. So if it’s four more hours till the next reset, you can craft another one at that time (but then you have to wait 24 hours till the reset after that).

advice on how to make coin crafting… short answer: find an item that sells for more than the cost to make it
long answer: it’s a lot of work, but very rewarding.
one easy way to do it is to look at gw2spidy.com, specifically one of the crafting pages, such as: http://www.gw2spidy.com/crafting/6?sort_profit=desc
that is essentially a list of things tailor can craft, ordered by how much profit they give when sold on the TP (it does include tp tax). click on the item to get a shopping list for what is needed to make it.
a better thing is to write a computer program similar to spidy that uses the API but suited to your tastes.
ascended stuff will be tricky, due to the material time gate (it is one per day, reset at daily reset) buying pre-made materials is more expensive, which cuts into your profits.
This is my typical weekly crafting schedule: spend saturday buying 500g worth of materials, spend sunday crafting a lot of different stuff (from all professions), spend the week picking up 900g from the TP. I like to relist items that are still there after 2 days. I don’t make it unless it gives at least a 10% profit, so if I relist a particular item twice it’s still going to be some sort of profit.