Guild Wars 2

Okay, so I’ve started a new Norn Warrior, going good so far.

But now that i’m level 7, I need to start focusing on a Crafting Skill with which to make my mark on the global economy, though I’m stuck with which to choose.

I know the obvious ones are Armorsmithing & Weaponsmithing, but which is more beneficial to me as a Warrior, and which best serves everyone else via the market?

Also, which would be a good secondary Crafting Skill? Granted it can’t be one which uses the same basic materials as Armorsmithing & Weaponsmithing. Though I’m not sure which one.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

Between armor and weapons, i’d go for armorsmithing, as that would allow you to cover 6 equipment slots and also make your own inventory boxes.

I personally went ahead and gave up on AS for now though. It’s probably the most expensive craft in the game right now, and if you intend on grinding for the mats instead of buying them, you will out level the gear you can make pretty fast.

For now i’ve personally gone with Jeweler and Cooking. Cooking has some neat benefits before big/difficult battles, and being able to make your own jewelry/stat boosts is useful for pretty much any class, up until Ascended gear I guess. Both seem much much cheaper than armorsmithing.

I’m not sure which, if any, would be a profitable craft. I see no shortage of weapons/armor on the market, and it even seems like it’s cheaper to buy gear from others than it would be to try and make it yourself.

If you want to make equip for yourself and everything else sell with profit, I suggest you to don’t take any crafting skill, because every crafting skill in GW is just gold sink with only possible chance to earn money in 400/400 (and it still playing with TP).

Complete and utter nonsense!
Both armorsmith and weaponsmith not only are useful they provide profit opportunities at each step of the way!
Avoid crafting what everyone else is crafting (blues and greens), get all the karma recipes that you can gather along the way.
You have to invest some time into learning your market but that investment will be paid back many times.

Ooshi.8607:

Complete and utter nonsense!
Both armorsmith and weaponsmith not only are useful they provide profit opportunities at each step of the way!
Avoid crafting what everyone else is crafting (blues and greens), get all the karma recipes that you can gather along the way.
You have to invest some time into learning your market but that investment will be paid back many times.

Both armorsmith and weaponsmith are most expensive crafting profession so it isn’t best choice for new players. If you want to train crafting you have to make blue and green so your advice isn’t really helpfull. Recipe for rare items are nice but if you want to make money through them you have to have max rank and create weapons which is used for Mystic forge gamble, so again nothing for new player.

Thanks Prepin, as far as i’m concerned this is a good answer. I’ve already gotten cooking, and i have plenty of unused gems in my bank.

Syberius.2301:

Both armorsmith and weaponsmith are most expensive crafting profession so it isn’t best choice for new players. If you want to train crafting you have to make blue and green so your advice isn’t really helpfull. Recipe for rare items are nice but if you want to make money through them you have to have max rank and create weapons which is used for Mystic forge gamble, so again nothing for new player.

Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.
You keep speaking of stuff that you have absolutely no idea about. Charr weapons can be crafted after obtaining karma recipe at Diessa Plateau, they can be crafted at a profit and are quite popular as a skin.
Bandit weapons are also quite popular and again can be crafted at a profit.
Are you starting to see a trend here?
It’s like this thoughtout all the levels of weaponsmith crafting.
What you are really saying is that you didn’t put any time in your crafting, just crafted whatever you had the mats for, and then found out that it was exactly the same things as eveyone else that where leveling crafting just for the xp.