Guild Wars 2

- where can I get all the deldrimore stuff?
- where can I get the globs of ectoplasm?
- cheaper way to get thermocatiltyc reactor?
- easiest way to get vision crystal?
- where can I get globs of dark matter?
- where can I get recipes for deldrimore steel dagger blade/hilt?
- where can I get berzerker orichalcum imbued inscription?
- easiest (cheapest) way to get deldrimore steel played dowel?

(I only have 24 gold atm and am very new to all the crafting. I really want this dagger and hope to have it ASAP. I have the recipe for the dagger and the zojjas berzerker inscription but for the rest not that much. I have some materials but not like 250+. Hope you guys can help!)

1. You need to be weaponsmith level 500 to see the recipe.
2. Salvage Lvl. 68+ rare/exotic equipment.
3. No.
4. Do champs, world bosses and WvW to get the account bound materials.
5. Salvage Lvl. 68+ exotic gear.
6. They get unlocked automatically once your reach level 500 as weaponsmith.
7. Buy it/craft it. The recipe is unlocked at weaponsmith level 400.
8. Cheapest way: Farm wood and ore and craft everything yourself. Easiest way: Do a couple of dungeons and use the money to buy it. The latter option is going to be heaps faster.

For most of these questions the official wiki is a great resource. This is not to discourage you from asking questions in the forum, but it is most likely the faster option in this case.

Ya, you are not getting that dagger any time soon.

24g is not enough to even level from 1 to 400 yet alone 400 to 500 which requires about 90g, then you have get ascended materials which is fairly easy.

Holl.3109:

- where can I get all the deldrimore stuff?
- where can I get the globs of ectoplasm?
- cheaper way to get thermocatiltyc reactor?
- easiest way to get vision crystal?
- where can I get globs of dark matter?
- where can I get recipes for deldrimore steel dagger blade/hilt?
- where can I get berzerker orichalcum imbued inscription?
- easiest (cheapest) way to get deldrimore steel played dowel?

The wiki will answer your questions.

If you want to do things the quick way then 24 gold isn’t enough I am afraid. It costs 28 gold to get the materials to make just the inscription itself. You are going to have to do a lot of resource gathering in a lot of places. Never let an iron ore node go unmined.

You really have two options. Set yourself a medium term goal like World Exploration, gather resources on the way and level up your crafting naturally, or find your favourite way to make gold fast, grind out gold, buy resources from the TP and use that to level your crafting. I prefer the first way, but it is slower. You should also find a good crafting guide, but this can be googled.

By the time you are at 500 crafting, 90% of your questions will be answered. The other 10% are answered above.

Ok thx a lot guys, but what is the #1 faster way to get to 500? (Which materialen should i buy to craft?

1-400: 21g
http://www.gw2crafts.net/weaponcraft.html

400-500: 104g
http://www.gw2crafts.net/weaponcraft_400.html

zojia’s dagger: 51g
http://www.gw2spidy.com/recipe/7761

from scratch you will need about 175 gold.

Thats why I’m just grinding out 20-39 level fractals until I can get drops. But last week I considered going to just craft one, I put this thread out then which has some helpful information. But be sure to read all of it, as I posted some wrong info in my original post.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/crafting/Weaponsmithing-to-500-on-a-Budget-My-Plan/first#post4080248

Holl.3109:

Ok thx a lot guys, but what is the #1 faster way to get to 500? (Which materialen should i buy to craft?

You can’t just buy one material and craft it to 500. First you’ll need about 3 types of t1 mats, then 3 types of t2 mats, etkittenil you get to t6. Then you’ll need to get 3 tpyes of t6 mats plus globs of ectoplasm. Then you need to make a bunch of exotic weapons. Then you can start your work an ascended.

Holl.3109:

Ok thx a lot guys, but what is the #1 faster way to get to 500? (Which materialen should i buy to craft?

The longest part of getting a crafting discipline up is gathering the gold so you can buy the materials you need. The site Dodgycookies linked calculates the cheapest way to level crafting disciplines based on current prices. So you should use it.

I’d recommend, considering your budget, to do a little research leveling your craft. gw2crafts is an amazing website, how-ever it doesn’t consider the costs you can make back. Hence I’d highly recommend pulling out gw2 Spidey
1. Go to Crafting -> Weaponsmith
2. Rating 400-400 (can be done for any rating, but 400-500 is the most expensive to level and thus most worthwhile to research cheaper methods.)
3. Pick items that sell for the least loss (or a bit of profit, but for weaponcrafts you should count on a loss) that are likely to sell (e.g. Pearl) and to be safe, a low investment (e.g. avoid Sentinel) and open their page to see the materials. Note that certain weapons (e.g. Corrupted, require a recipe and thus won’t yield as much as a discovery.) Pick different ones since discoveries give the most crafting experience and if something doesn’t sell well, you won’t be hurt as bad.
4. Sell, with a bit of patience almost anything will sell and you leveled your craft for only a few gold loss instead of 110g (out of Tailor, Leather and Armorsmith I even made a profit.)

I’d also recommend crafting 450-470’ish with time-gated refinement, considering you don’t have enough money to buy the materials anyway, you might aswell show some patience and save yourself a penny. DodgyCookies link shows exactly what’s cheaper to craft yourself and what’s cheaper to buy. (This link)

In the meanwhile you’ll be getting some gold from farming the account-bound materials, Dragonite Ore, Bloodstone Dust and Emphereal Fragments.

Surely it takes some research, but if ~10 minutes of research can save you loads of gold, it’s worth it. GW2spidey does most of the work for you, showing how much profit/loss, supply and demand and how to craft it in the most econimical way. Use wiki if you’re unsure something requires a recipe or can be discovered.

Esmee.1067:

I’d recommend, considering your budget, to do a little research leveling your craft. gw2crafts is an amazing website, how-ever it doesn’t consider the costs you can make back.

Yes it does. Go look at the page for levelling any discipline. Note the calculation at the top. Specifically the expected recovery line. It is taking the sale price of everything you craft into account.

It just doesn’t show it on the totals page.

Sure, the stuff will probably take a while to sell at that price. But if you’re talking about crafting ascended weapons, you’re in this for the long haul. You’re in no hurry for them to sell.

And then of course there is the dark matter, which you can only get by salvaging exotics, if you are only going to make one dagger just for the skin then you only need ten dark matter. I’ve never seen a salvage rate posted but it does appear to be better if you use Black Lion Salvage kits.

This means you will need to buy or craft a number of exotics to get this material. The number needed is unknown. I’ve read of people salvaging 10 or more exotics and only getting one or no dark matter.

Edit: found this (for the what it’s worth department).
http://guildwars2.mmmos.com/index.php?page=view&id=22776
“After salvaging 1765 exotics level 68-80 using Master’s salvage kit, here is what I got:
2101 ectos, 1.19 per salvage.
897 globs of dark matter, 0.5 per salvage.”

And http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Talk:Glob_of_Dark_Matter
“I conducted some drop rate research on 1/22/2014, using 50 Cleric’s Emblazoned Coats, one Black Lion Salvage Kit, and one Master’s Salvage Kit. The Master’s Kit yielded 11 Dark Matter, 27 Ecto, and 104 Hardened Leather Sections. The BL Kit yielded 24 Dark Matter, 36 Ecto, and 111 Hardened Leather Sections. Bottom line: BL kit yields twice the dark matter, may or may not have an effect on Ecto yield”

Astral Projections.7320:

And then of course there is the dark matter, which you can only get by salvaging exotics, if you are only going to make one dagger just for the skin then you only need ten dark matter.

You could just buy the inscription off the trading post, outsourcing the salvaging step to someone else. It costs a bit more, but avoids RNG hassle.

Snoring Sleepwalker.9073:

Astral Projections.7320:

And then of course there is the dark matter, which you can only get by salvaging exotics, if you are only going to make one dagger just for the skin then you only need ten dark matter.

You could just buy the inscription off the trading post, outsourcing the salvaging step to someone else. It costs a bit more, but avoids RNG hassle.

Yeah, at the moment it’s 30 gold as a buy order. Expensive but a possibility, especially for those without black lion salvage kits to improve the odds.

Snoring Sleepwalker.9073:

Esmee.1067:

I’d recommend, considering your budget, to do a little research leveling your craft. gw2crafts is an amazing website, how-ever it doesn’t consider the costs you can make back.

Yes it does. Go look at the page for levelling any discipline. Note the calculation at the top. Specifically the expected recovery line. It is taking the sale price of everything you craft into account.

It just doesn’t show it on the totals page.

Sure, the stuff will probably take a while to sell at that price. But if you’re talking about crafting ascended weapons, you’re in this for the long haul. You’re in no hurry for them to sell.

It doesn’t take it into it’s calculations when it comes down to finding the most economical way of crafting to 500, which is exactly what’s important if you’re on budget. It picks the cheapest way to craft to 500 then it calculates how much you can get back from selling the items that were picked. Which is the best you can expect from a program, but it’s not the cheapest way to go since it doesn’t include the sell-price in it’s calcualations.

Taking Tailor for example, there’re plenty of armors at 400 rating that aren’t perse the cheapest to craft but sell for a profit, with enough of those, I made a decent profit getting my craft to 500. Look at my attachment (the gw2spidey page updates, so I simply took a printscreen to keep the explaination accurate) you can craft almost all Dire and Cavalier gear for a profit! There’s 15 armors (Dire, Cavalier, Berserker) and another 5 Sentinel pieces (bigger investment, bigger profit, but I’d avoid those if on budget) that’s enough to get from 400-500, especially with a crafting booster and when you refine some Bloodstone, Dragonite and Emphereal Fragments or time-gated materials. End-result: ~10g profit now let’s look at gw2crafts 50g loss ouch. Same principle can be applied to any other crafting profession, however with weaponcrafts you will have to count on ~20g loss, still beats a 100g loss. You’ll also have to skim the page a bit better aswell, unless you’re confident the Corrupted and Destroyer weapons will sell, hence I took Tailor for example since almost everything in that page is viable.

I can’t speak for anyone else, but it takes me about 15 minutes to pick the recipe’s and buy all materials, then I do something else until the buyorders are filled and a few minutes to craft, so unless you can somehow make 40g in 20 minutes, it’s worth the hassle.

Maybe if you read my post and confirmed it, you wouldn’t go on 1 single line, which is indeed incorrect, it should have stated it doesn’t include the material price vs the sellprice in it’s calculations.

PS: The profit is bigger if you use buyorders (which you should always do, patience makes more money/hour than most people) but the same can be said for minimilizing the costs on gw2crafts by doing the same, so I didn’t include that.