Guild Wars 2

So as everyone know leveling a profession from 0-400 results in 10 lvls, so one would think oh these crafting boosters should increase this a little. NO!

On my lvl 24 alt i decided to make lvl 400 Jeweler to avoid 40s change cost on main and while doing it though craft booster would be good. So i got a 5 pack from the black lion post, used one and leveled up my Jeweler profession to lvl 400 within a hour.

At this point i was completely disappointed as i was lvl 34, meaning crafting booster i used was completely useless and didnt give any/much extra xp.

Luckily i only used in-game gold to buy these boosters, but this is to make other aware using real money to buy these, that they don’t really help you level any more than leveling up a profession without one.

The biggest problem is that new discoveries are guaranteed bonus xp so you only get little xp from the couple of lvls crafting ingots at the start of a tier. These boosters should be 50% bonus xp on discovery or completely removed.

Umm… I think the crafting booster increases the rate of gaining crafting levels, meaning you spend less mats on the way to 400 which is not a small benefit.

Try to read the tooltip next time. Crafting booster gives chance for that extra crafting exp (the number that appears after the + in the popup), meaning you will level your discipline faster. The level gain does not change. Your character still gains 10 levels for getting a discipline from 0 to 400.

No they don’t really help level up a profession faster, they help with maybe 10% of all your lvls.

Like i said discoveries are 100% chance bonus xp, so these boosters are only good for first 20 lvls per tier crafting while crafting the base tier components.

I guess maybe if you don’t effectively level up a profession, meaning not doing all discoveries and crafting the same item over and over again. Then maybe you would level up your profession faster, but this is a total waste when can do new discoveries all the way though leveling a profession and get guaranteed bonus xp for free.

Pro tip:

In many tiers it’s much, much cheaper to level by discovering and crafting upgrade components. There’s one for every 25 levels. Combined with the booster it’s dirt cheap and fast.

@Sins: No, discoveries give double xp for the craft. You can still gain bonus xp ontop of that

The booster is on any crafted item. So like when you do your 200 copper to copper bar combines you get increased experience. If you for example discovered the emerald mithril ring if you make that item again you will still get the experience boost
It does not count on discoveries only everything else it works.
Whether that make it worth it is of varied opinion
I for example had tons of tier 2 blood, t3 claws and not alot of the other stuff so it made sense for me