Guild Wars 2

Is the only way to get potion recipes by experimentation? I haven’t found anybody selling them yet and none have popped up through the natural crafting leveling. Just wondering if I am missing something…

yes it’s all experimentation or use a recipe site like gw2db.com. As far as I’ve seen, artificer is the only one who makes them.

I knew that I could make potions as an artificer, but like you, I never saw them appear on my list of available items to craft. So, I just started going through all my stuff I had in the bank and on the collections tab and pulled everything out that listed “Artificer” on it. I started throwing things together in discovery and started finding potion recipes! One thing I recommend, is getting some “Jug of Water” from the Artificer vendor, most potions require them. Just start throwing things together and see what you come up with! You’ll be surprised what materials go into some of the potions. It was fun to figure them out!

They are all worthless to create because they sell for like 1/10 of what the mats are worth.

@Antiriad: yes, but out of collecting junk, you get +10 xp all the time, that’s not bad

well I tried it and you get +10% exp, not +10 exp :/

The value of potions is that you can max Artificing without using any (or only a few instead of hundreds) Fine Crafting Materials which are thus saved for leveling up another crafting discipline. This makes Artificer the third FCM-independent (along with Cooking and Jewelry) discipline. The first third of each tier can be covered by refining basic materials, the second part by crafting, e.g., potions of Centaur Slaying, and the third one by potions of Dredge Slaying. All those stages require ingredients that are trivial to acquire.

Antiriad.7160:

They are all worthless to create because they sell for like 1/10 of what the mats are worth.

99.9% of crafting in a nutshell ^^

csquirrelrun.3108:

Antiriad.7160:

They are all worthless to create because they sell for like 1/10 of what the mats are worth.

99.9% of crafting in a nutshell ^^

Unless you want legendaries. Every legendary requires 2 crafted items that require 400 in two different crafting professions and are bind on account.

There are also some ways to make money off crafting … just not advertised because then those could be potentially flooded and we don’t want that.