Getting to 400
You have to discover things to make. Lots of guides out there.
At 375 you’re supposed to buy recipes from the crafting trainer, in particular the intricate silk insignias / embellished brilliant jewels and discover with those until you are 400
Yup, as DeumReaper said, your respective crafting merchant sells insignia recipes that are of rare quality, allowing you to make rare gear, using these, you should jump up rather quickly.
Laughably I always found the last 100 levels in crafting to be faster than the first 300.
lv80 Necromancer, all professional skills unlocked, working on the final norn elite skills.
Thanks, all!
Kwolf: Can you point me to one, or give me a string that might catch the right places in Google? Thanks!
DeumReaper and Berkut: I think I see your point. So, I don’t get credit for the recipe (since I bought it and know it by the time I use it). But, that allows me to craft something else (armor piece or ring or whatever), and doing that gains me crafting XP. Is that about correct?
If so, that’s easier than I thought. And, a LOT less expensive.
Thanks to all!!! Great insights!
Yup, you actually can’t discover the recipes sold by the merchant (hence why you need to buy them), but the items you can make from them are of a high enough quality that they will boost your crafting level much faster than what you can currently make.
THANKS!!!
I got it. I bought one recipe from the master tailor, and then I used discovery to create a new pair of gloves, and it raised me from 396 to 399. Now I only need one more thing.
THANK YOU ALL!!!
It gets better: I made a pair of gloves. Rare of course, but so were my old gloves. Since the old ones were soulbound, I decided to master salvage it (didn’t think of using a Black Lion kit). I received not just the rune, but also 2 silk and a glob of ectoplasm.
I am pleased.
This is the one I used for artificer recently …
http://www.guildwars2-crafting.com/crafting-guides/artificer/
I found it fairly accurate in terms of how much mats I would need for each Tier, but it’s wrong about making staffs. Don’t make staffs for artificer, they are too expensive. You can get to 400 just making focus, scepters and tridents.
Here’s a decent cooking guide …
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/13o1xj/creepysloths_cooking_guide/
… and one for jewel crafting …
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/zl6og/1400_jewel_crafting_guide_hope_it_helps_some/
They usually all have small inaccuracies, but generally directionally correct.
Or from Jeweler 388 to 400?
Very expensive right now because of the cost of ectos.