Guild Wars 2

I’m level 80, leveling tailoring. Last I heard, every 40 levels in a crafting profession give you 1 level on your character (or in my case 1 skill point) and thus leveling a crafting profession to 400 will get you 10 levels. Thus by extension you could level from 1-80 by leveling all the crafting professions. But recently I’ve noticed that the xp doesn’t quite seem to match that.

Doing a quick calculation I found that I’m now only getting 2% xp per level. Now while this may not see like a big change, it reduces the levels (or skill points) gained from maxing a crafting profession from 10 down to 8.

Was this nerf announced and I just wasn’t paying attention? Or was this a stealth nerf that Anet didn’t tell us about? Or perhaps its a bug? Anyone else noticed this?

I read that 0-400 gave you 10 levels, but to me it always seemed like you got more exp the higher up you were. I seemed to get a lot more exp when I went from 300-325 in artificer than when I went from 0-50 in tailor. I might have been imagining it, but it never seemed to me that it was equal exp the entire way through.

Surely otherwise you would be able to just get from 0-75 in all the crafts and get a ton of levels, despite those being the easiest levels to earn? :S

Depending on what you craft, like rare grade items, You can get more than 10 levels while leveling a craft. My thief got 13 maxing huntsman

@evilbottom: The XP seems to go up as you level because the XP required to level also increases. Crafting XP scales so as you level you get a higher raw amount of XP in terms of the number that pops up onto the screen, but the same percentage increase as you got at lower levels. I hope that makes sense.

For anyone reading, what tigger said is not at all how character xp from crafting works. You get a % of your current level’s xp per level you gain in the crafting profession. So for example, I’ve been noticing 2% per level. If what evilbottom is saying is correct, then later down the track I should be getting MORE than 2%. I’m at 202 right now, but I’ll check next time I do some crafting to see if it’s gone up at all.

Hmm… over the weekend I went from 1 – 386 Jewler on my Thief, which corresponded to high level 10 to low level 20 worth of experience. I expect if I had gone the full 1 – 400 I would have gained exactly 10 levels, because the proportions work out right.

If it’s a change then it must be a very recent one. I’ll go home and level one of my current characters’ professions (maybe huntsman on my ranger, starting with level 1) and see how much it gives me.

The experience scales according to what your crafting level is. In other words, you got a lot more experience going from 300 to 400 than you do going from 0 to 100.

Now that I think about it, if you were to get 1% per level for the first 100 levels, 2% for the next 100 and so on it would end up at an average of 2.5% per level ([100+200+300+400]/100). I just happened to notice that the xp increase seemed to be low while i was in the 100-200 bracket, so now that im in the 200-300 bracket ill see if its increased at all.

Edit: thats probably not right though because then the first 100 levels would only result in 1 level and that doesn’t sound right.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Experience there you go

oh, so I was right then, what do you know. Those last 100 levels give you a heap of xp