Crafting Advice
If you’re just starting the game and this is your first time leveling a crafting skill, I just recommen playing the game and crafting as you go, and try to enjoy it while you discover the recipes (specially if you’re leveing cooking).
In this case, ALWAYS go for discovery. Just craft the base components (for example, sword hilt, sword blade and an inscription), then go to the discovery window to combine the elements. Don’t craft the same weapon/armor/etc several times onces you discovered them, just keep discovering different items.
If you are already lvl 80 and have tons of mats hanging around in your bank, you can follow the respective guide from this site. I used it for LW and I was able to level from 0 to 400 in a bit more than an hour, with minimal gold spent (I already had almost 100% of the mats to do so).
Have fun!
Marcus Ironforge ~ Norn Ranger
Alianza Argentina [ARG] @ Sorrow’s Furnace
Alianza Argentina [ARG] @ Sorrow’s Furnace
What you should depends on why you’re picking up crafting, and how much you want to save/make money as you level up.
A. You are crafting because you want to make a legendary weapon for your character. A common reason, and you probably don’t like crafting or figuring out where good markets are. Spend your cash, and get to 400 as fast as possible. Do discovery mode (it’s the most efficient), even though it takes more attention.
B. You are crafting because you like to make stuff for your characters and friends, but you don’t care about making money. In that case, keep your crafting level on par with your character level. If you don’t have a ton of money, use the money-saving techniques below so that you can buy what you need from the TP (since it’s very hard to gather everything you need to keep a craft level up to your character’s).
C. You’re taking crafting up so that you can make money at it. Some of the posts are pretty bitter about how impossible it is, but that’s because they’re expecting to not have to work hard to make money. Making a profit takes effort, and it is less time-efficient than farming stuff, at level 80. And as difficult, maybe more.
To make or save money, you need to buy at the lowest cost. Sounds trivial, but lots of people don’t, including most of the ones making leveling guides. The market is dynamic, so prices change. No guide will be able to keep up with the fluctuations. You have to do it by hand (and some of the price sites help, but still don’t keep up with the actual market). When you make an item:
— compare the cost of getting each component different ways
a. Making it from raw materials
b. Making it from processed materials
c. Buying it from the TP
And then buy it the least expensive way.
Check the cost of Insignias/Inscriptions/Gems as well. Sometimes they are available at well below mfg. cost.
— When you purchase from the TP, use orders rather than buying immediately, unless the prices between bid and asked are really close. Be patient, and wait for the order to get filled. You may have to cancel the order and raise your offer sometimes. If you’re planning on crafting to make money, you’ll have to get good at estimating how much to offer.
— When you craft for leveling, craft whatever you can sell for a profit. Seems obvious, but figuring out what’s profitable takes work and most people aren’t willing to do it. So I’ve (in the last couple weeks) been able to find green items I could make and sell to a vendor at a profit, components with a buy offer that I could fill at a profit, and (often true) rare items I could sell at a profit. And these opportunities were in the first two tiers of a craft.
If you want to raise your craft to 400 while making a profit, you can. You will have to buy the rare recipes from the master craftsman for karma (ex. cooking), as those rare items are most often the profitable ones. It will take time and effort, though. You have to watch markets, buy/make components at lowest cost, and judge your sale price carefully (to sell quickly, before others find the profitable opportunity).
ty for the information guys.