Guild Wars 2

I never did it near release but I just started playing again and I’ve got a ton of karma and a solid amount of gold. I was just wondering if it was still efficient or even doable. Or if there’s something i’m just plain forgetting, please let me know! Thanks.

I leveled cooking to level 400 on every charakter so far. Getting 7 levels in like an hour nearly for free is always nice to have.

Ignavia.7420:

I leveled cooking to level 400 on every charakter so far. Getting 7 levels in like an hour nearly for free is always nice to have.

Ahhh thats what I was looking for. Did you wait until towards 80 or towards the early levels because I thought I heard that makes a difference. Also about how much money does it take?

Power levelling with other crafts is not as efficient as it once was thanks to ascended crafting. Cooking is cheaper than any other option at the moment and comes in at a little over 4 gold.

1. Using this guide it costs about 2g 26s if you have access to all karma vendors and buy the rest.

2. I usually level cooking when there is a large gap in the personal story, which is probably not most efficient, but I find it works well enough.

Edit: Fixed typo.

Cormac.3871:

Power levelling with other crafts is not as efficient as it once was thanks to ascended crafting. Cooking is cheaper than any other option at the moment and comes in at a little over 4 gold.

Jewelry still isn’t too bad, at least until level 325 and that give almost 5 levels.

The facts (from experience and wiki.)
Since Ascended Crafting every craft gives 7 levels (down from 10) between 0-400 and 3 between 400-500 (even if it’s not available, e.g. cooking/jewelry) and the crafting booster doesn’t increase character experience, only crafting experience (in other words, less material is needed to max the craft.) The character- experience you can per level increases the higher the craft is, so I recommend going all the way to 400 for any craft.

Personally I level Jewelry, Artificing and Cooking on every toon I level(ed) so far since I can gain gold faster (on my 80s) than I can gain the levels, and I just don’t enjoy leveling much. The level on which you do it doesn’t really matter but things to consider are:
Early levels – You like having all utilities/elites available aswell as some early traits. Or you want to start dungeoning asap.
Mid-levels – Gap in the Personal Story you’d like to have filled.
Last-levels – Gear suddently starts to matter in the Orr regions and you can’t be bothered updating/you just want to be 80 already.

I did cooking on my human Mesmer to level her from level 4 to 14. I did use two crafting booster. I had some ingredients already in my inventory and that really helped. I will probably power level my other lower level toons unless the cooking prices go up. I do save my karma though; it is much easier to make back the gold more so than karma.

Just want to add that it’s probably a good idea to power level alts to at least lvl 60 before the patch, so you wolnt have to run around the whole world multiple times just to unlock basic traits.