Guild Wars 2

Crafted 1-400 Armoursmith with booster the whole time and got less than 10 levels character XP.

Supposedly you can get from 1-80 with crafting, 8 (crafting professions) x 10 levels per profession. If you use a booster, shouldn’t you be getting more than 10 levels per profession?

On one character I have done 7 of the 8 professions all with craft boosters and i am only lvl 68 and that is with completeing starter map, events etc. etc.

You can hit lvl 15 on 1-400 with crafting boosters (my Guardian and my Fiancée’s Ranger are both proof of this) so if you got less than 10 lvls I would say something is definitely wrong.

ANet should rename the game to NerfWars 2

OP you mistake crafting exp with character exp. Crafting booster gives bonus to crafting exp (additional chance to get bonus to be precise) which means you require less materials to lvl your crafting skill. Your character gets experience for leveling crafting skill, not for crafting itself.
Less than 10 levels from 1-400 is easily explainable if you know how you are awarded exp for crafting: lets assume that each crafting lvl up gives you 2.5% of character lvl on average to simplify this example, then you have 399*2.5% of character exp to begin with (less than 10 lvls). Also you lose a bit of exp on actual char lvling as each next character lvl requires more exp: if you had 99% of character exp and gained 1 level in crafting – you’ll get 2.5% of exp for that character level. Character will successfully level up and excess 1.5% will go to the next level, but as it requires more exp to lvl – those 1.5% will become 1-1.2%(for example).
Its easy to understand(i think) and there is nothing to fuss about. Crafting booster works as intended.

It has been stated by ANet that you can level from 1-80 by crafting 1-400 in all professions on one character, so in theory 10 levels of character xp per 1-400 crafting level.
So far I have 7 of the 8 professions @ 400 plus I have completed the starter area, and started the next area as well as 5000+ points of Karma from DE events but I am only a third through level 68, so 1-80 by crafting alone isn’t possible?
I understand your explanation of how boosters work, but when I first started the game in headstart and did crafting on another character, I was hitting more than 10 levels of character xp by crafting from 1-400 using boosters, so something has changed.

could it have something to do with the bonus experience from achievements? As in you would get it for your first character making it level up faster but not your second? Not sure about this though

Also just noticed that I have received the Master Crafter title but no points (0) have been awaraded in the achievements panel.