Guild Wars 2

Crafting sounds like a such a nice idea and I really thought it’d be cool. But having leveled many professions to 400 now, it seems like a waste. Here’s why:

1. Much less hassle to just buy items off the TP. The mat cost and selling price on the TP is more or less the same as to make almost no difference. Why go through all that hassle then?

2. I use crafting just to level up. I almost never play 60-80 chars. I reach 60 then craft my way to 80 using one of the many pre defined guides like the ones found here: http://www.gw2wiz.com/. I do this because I can, but come on – it’s a bit dumb. All you need is a few gold and you’re done! I’m pretty sure this was not the intended purpose. I’m able to just skip a huge portion of the content by leveling up with crafting.

I guess I expected something else. The truth is that the TP makes it too easy to get whatever you want. When was the last time anyone here crafted a green or a yellow to use on their character instead of buying it off the TP without the added advantage of getting XP, completing achievements etc, or without doing it to sell stuff?

It sucks because it’s a wonderful concept. I just don’t know what can be done to fix it…

Sadly i agree, you spend around the same money to make stuff than it takes to buy it. It does ‘’save up’’ money if you craft stuff using your own collectables but thats pretty much it. I’ve played tons of games where crafting is much more rewarding and needed for example f2p Atlantica Online had one that really shined and WAS actually fun.

Last time I ran on gear I crafted while leveling…. would have been earlier today. Used crafting to gear both my project alts when they dinged 30, I’ll loop back to craft rare armor for them at lvl 35.

Sure, I could TP the gear…. but the mats pile up as I’m leveling, and if the finished product isn’t at least 15% cheaper than the sum I would get for selling the mats…. I not only save money by crafting myself, I get xp boosts all along the leveling curve. I could save crafting to make 60-80 fast…. but I enjoy it more if I use it all along the leveling curve.

Just my experience, but I find crafting offers a lot in GW2.

It’s good for XP, can be ok for profit (depending on what you craft), useless endgame unless you’re making a legendary (no crafted ascended gear).

The price of materials makes crafting useless but to level up or to get your legendary.
It is simple and sad as that.
Maybe if the resources were more abundant that would change but I’m not sure.

Morpheus.6401:

The price of materials makes crafting useless but to level up or to get your legendary.
It is simple and sad as that.
Maybe if the resources were more abundant that would change but I’m not sure.

1) Resources are abundant, that’s part of why crafted goods are so inexpensive.
2) If you made resources more abundant, the selling price of crafted goods would fall to match the reduced cost of materials, and nothing would change about the status quo.
3) Crafting is a perfectly viable method of both generating profit and supplying gear to your own characters. If you do not enjoy crafting, the alternative is to use the trading post, where I will happily sell you the things that I craft for a 25% markup

crafting is optional. you can earn moneyz in tp just reselling stuff, tho occasionally combining some things together yield more profit