Guild Wars 2

I obtained a truckload of crafting boosters whilst getting my fused skin. I have a few alts I’d like to do the cheap and fast artificing/cooking/jewelcrafting levelling that seems to be trending. I know it’ll be different for everyone but I’d like to know how much materials I can expect to save by using a crafting booster. For example can I buy roughly 10% less materials from the crafting guide shopping lists? 20%?

Does the booster work on discoveries or only on making the same thing? (i.e. would you use it for artificing but not jewelcrafting, since the former is just potion-brewing and the latter is refining a whole bunch of ores and then a whole lot of discovering).

10 to 20% just make sure to make full use of refinement before you actually start crafting and you can save on a lot of crafting mats.

Since the booster gives a 50% increase in xp, that should mean a reduction of 1/3

Double-click to gain a buff that increases your to chance gain [sic] bonus experience from crafting by 50% for one hour.

from:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Crafting_Booster

it doesn’t increase all crafting experience, it just increase the “crit” experience bonus that you sometimes get.

From my personal experience, and using crafting boosters to level up few alts, you’ll see the difference best in cooking. Where you’d need discovery+26 to hit 25 levels, you might be able to do it with discovery+23 when using booster. Sometimes you’ll do discovery+22, sometimes discovery+24. Discovery+ <20 crafts haven’t happened to me iirc.

When doing armor/weapon crafts, you might be able to save one, rarely two fine crafts per 25 levels, but I don’t recall having much luck when trying to save rare craft (no sense to crafter masterwork, do rare instead and sell it for profit). In fact, there really isn’t sense trying to save rare craft.

Not a gamechanger, but guess it’s ok. More hassle than it’s worth for me, tbh. I might have small inaccuracy with my numbers due the fact I haven’t used any crafting booster anymore in 2 months due their limited usefulness. Using saladon beforehand to buy pile of materials, and then saving one or two randoms here and there, didn’t really feel like worth it.

This is random because it only increases your crafting experience on a critical. So there is no hard and fast you save X on mats.

What Irena said, your best bet is to not pre-buy all the mats for a particular guide but to have a good amount of the basics (unless gold is no object), then just sensibly level following the standard principle of refining everything you can until it turns white, then do a few insignias and use them to discover all combinations until the next level of insignia become available, same with them until you can refine again.

The only problem with this is that if you do run out of something before the next phase kicks in you have to run to the TP asap to pick up the remainder as your buff is on a timer, though I guess you would have a few TP express boxes handy as well.