Guild Wars 2

Hi I have leveled a few characters from 1 to 80 using a profession crafting guide I found on the net. With crafting boosters I have been getting easily 10 levels of experience from leveling professions to 400. I have needed to level over 6 -8 professions to level 400 to reach experience level 80.

My friend said he uses a different guide. In this guide you buy pre made metal ingots or leather squares off the auction house instead of buying the ore and making the ingots yourself. So to me this means you gain less xp as you are not creating the ingots. My friend said that using his system he leveled from level 12 to 80 by leveling only 2 professions to level 400. Is this possible even with crafting boosters? I tried this guide and it did not give me the same results as my friend. Sure I saved money on mats but gained less xp. Sorry to repeat myself.

I challenged him on this and I said I do not believe you can go level 12-80 on only 2 professions. Doing the maths I cannot see this is possible especially if he is buying pre made mats and not making them himself. He then changed his story and then said he leveled the last 10 levels from 70 to 80 via questing/ exploring.

So am I wrong? Can you level from 12 to 80 by leveling only 2 professions to 400? Or is my friend misleading me?

Leveling vom 1-400 always gives you 10 levels no matter how you do it.

Beldin.5498:

Leveling vom 1-400 always gives you 10 levels no matter how you do it.

Yes agreed, I already stated that, but can you level from level 12 to 80 from leveling ONLY 2 professions to 400 each? That would give you 20 experience levels. With boosters maybe a little more. Where is my friend getting the other 40+ levels from. To repeat my friend said he leveled from 12 to 80 solely by leveling 2 professions to 400. Only 2, no more. I’m not outright denying my friends method, simply if there is a better way than I am doing it I’d like to know.

No, like is said 10 levels for one prefession, so it will bring you from 12 to 32 with only 2 preofessions, or from 60 to 80. Your friend simply lies.

Thnx for the reply Beldin and those who PM me. I was not trying to win an argument with my friend, he’s one of my best mates. I tried his method and it did not work. I thought maybe I did it wrong but after leveling a few characters by crafting I was pretty sure I was right. I simply needed clarification that if his way was possible I would try that method again but I was sure it didn’t work.

You used to be able to do that like 1 year ago, but that was quickly fixed

Just to further clarify:

Craft boosters are to get more crafting “experience” so you use less materials, not get more actual experience to level up while you do it.

“The boost increases bonus crafting experience, but does not affect experience towards leveling. In other words, you use fewer materials in order to gain crafting ranks.”
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Crafting_Booster

TexZero.7910:

You used to be able to do that like 1 year ago, but that was quickly fixed

Thnx for your comment. I asked around about it. I recently received my one year anniversary gift several days ago. I started playing in the bonus pre launch time. So if what you say is accurate, the problem must have been fixed at launch as I know some people who have ever only leveled via crafting 8 professions since launch day and they do not recall being able to level to 80 from getting only 2 professions to 400. Cheers tho.

I use a crafting guide that utilizes the buying premade components idea and it works very well. I buy 2 levels worth of parts at a time, pop a booster, and craft them all at once using the discovery panel which grants more crafting exp. I switch to an alt (just so I’m not wasting time in my booster) to buy another 2 levels of items and leave them in the BL for my crafter to pick up and then I repeat the process.

It’s true the booster works on crit crafting and that you technically craft less when you aren’t making every little bit of an item, but mass crafting within the 1 hr boost time still yields a benefit. Plus, you can easily get to lvl 400 within the hour using this method.

Check out http://pwniversity.com/category/gw2-crafting-guides/ for some solid crafting guides that use premade items in an effective way.

Uvatha.5476:

I use a crafting guide that utilizes the buying premade components idea and it works very well. I buy 2 levels worth of parts at a time, pop a booster, and craft them all at once using the discovery panel which grants more crafting exp. I switch to an alt (just so I’m not wasting time in my booster) to buy another 2 levels of items and leave them in the BL for my crafter to pick up and then I repeat the process.

It’s true the booster works on crit crafting and that you technically craft less when you aren’t making every little bit of an item, but mass crafting within the 1 hr boost time still yields a benefit. Plus, you can easily get to lvl 400 within the hour using this method.

Check out http://pwniversity.com/category/gw2-crafting-guides/ for some solid crafting guides that use premade items in an effective way.

OK thnx I’ll look at those. Is it possible to go from level 12-80 by ONLY crafting 2 professions to 400. If so I’d like confirmation on this so that my leveling 1-80 can be the fastest possible, faster than leveling 8 professions to 400, which I do now.

Crafting a profession to 400 will only give you 10 levels. There are 8 crafting professions so you can gain 80 levels but only if you do them all on the same character.

Uvatha.5476:

Crafting a profession to 400 will only give you 10 levels. There are 8 crafting professions so you can gain 80 levels but only if you do them all on the same character.

Thnx a lot for you answers, good luck to you in game ^^

The crafting boosters are basically money savers. You have a higher chance at increasing your crafting level. This does NOT translate into higher XP for crafting 1-400, you just get a higher chance of getting to 400 with fewer materials.

Aberrant.6749:

The crafting boosters are basically money savers. You have a higher chance at increasing your crafting level. This does NOT translate into higher XP for crafting 1-400, you just get a higher chance of getting to 400 with fewer materials.

Thnx for explaining that!