Guild Wars 2

I dont know if anybody else has noticed this but scraps and bolts of jute are becoming increasingly more difficult to locate for me. During the beta i had no problem building my supplies of jute items but now its almost like i get only 4 to 10 scraps during a play session. Does anyone know where i can more effectivly grind for jute scraps and bolts.

Salvage as much Light Armor as you can afford to. Whites always, Blues unless you’re really broke, Greens if you can afford it. Really depends a lot on your spending habits. That’s really the only other way other than Salvage Items and Loot Bags.

Yeah, I’ve pretty much gone broke having to buy jute and other things off the TP for crafting. Scraps aren’t impossible to find, but I wish they’d up the drop rate of them a little bit.

5% less butter, 5% more scraps.

Tell me about it. I’ll say a small prayer of thanks when I finally get out of 1-15 crafting. My character is already in 30+ and crafting in the first zones because there just isnt’ enough jute. I haven’t even been in the 30+ areas because I’m too busy trying to get enough jute in the starter zones.

If you cannot get through 1-15 levels you must be doing something wrong. I was able to level my crafting for tailor on one charr and leatherworker on another without much farming. Key to success – Discovery, Discovery, Discovery!

Some mobs specifically drop Cloth or Leather salvage trash items. I know Grawl cover Cloth. (There are more, but I can’t think of any.) Then any kind of lizard can drop a Leather salvage item, though the four legged lizards seem to drop them more often than just “reptilian” creatures.

Since they moved Butter and Chocolate to the random crafting item bags, our supply of Leather and Cloth pieces has significantly decreased. Despite complaints, an ArenaNet dev has stated on this sub-forum that they won’t reverse their decision to make those items drop in-game (instead of being bought for Karma). Their reasoning is that they don’t want people to be able to just level up Cooking with vendor bought items. Yet in fixing this “flaw” that made Cooking easier (if you had the cash / karma), they jacked up the drop rates of everything else. Kind of a sledgehammer fix, but MMO companies are often like that.

You can often buy the paddings you need cheaper on the TP than you can make them yourself. Just something to keep in mind.

The 1st Norn area with buckets of Sons of Svanir is a great place to both get daily events done and farm jute and white armor to salvage for more jute.

It also sounds like your going about it wrong and many still don’t grasp leveling crafting.
I really struggled with this at first, but I got some help from a friend and the lightbulb clicked. I just hit 400 yesterday in my second craft.

The key is are you wanting to level crafting, or make armour for your current level.
If your wanting to level it (say to catch up), then stop crafting items.
What I mean by that, is only discovery, and even then, only discover items that are as close to your level as possible.

Heres what I do:

For every certain tier, you can get quite a few levels off simply refining materials.

1) Buy up say 150 jute scraps, and do nothing but refine those. That will net you probably 7-10 levels on its own. Then you can sell the bolts back. The small fees/taxes you pay on doing this, more then pay up for the time it would have took to farm all this, and I rarely have a hard time selling bolts.

2) Figure out the material that requires the LEAST amount of materials, and make that.

If that is making one single insignia because you have 10 claws, and then making one pair of boots, (lining/panel), one pair of gloves, and one helm.
That will let you another 5 levels. Now, if you have resourecs for a second insignia, say that needs small fangs, now make 3 of THAT insignia. And make again, a pair of boots, pair of gloves, and helm lining/panels. Now go to discovery, and discover THOSE 3 different kinds.

This will now get you to level 25-30. And you will have used hardly any materials.
Most people think they need to make every kind of boot, every kind of helmet, every kind of glove, etc. And they just burn and burn and burn through materials for almost no gain at all. There are times for making armour just to make it but the market doesnt support it as a ‘business’ yet, so make it to maximize gains, and buy your armour for now, or at least make it strictly off discovering the MAX level items closest to where your at. And then once you catch up, THEN spend the materials to make a full SINGLE set of one insignia set.

@ Prophet, that’s all well and good in-theory, but jute scraps are going for 22 copper a pop on the TP currently. That equates to well over 100 silver to get to lvl 25 by refining jute scraps. My low level character just doesn’t have anything like that kind of money and if I did I doubt I’d spend 100+ silver on scraps of cloth. I’ve got wood and ore coming out of my ears because you can easily find that everywhere. It’d help if the various crafting disciplines each had a few different items you could refine, maybe with a little more overlap between the different disciplines.

To put the price of a single piece of jute scrap in perspective, I can get the best available weapon for my character for about the same price, sometimes even cheaper. You can’t even do anything with a single piece of scrap, you need two at least.

So the question becomes, “Do you want this awesome sword/rifle/whatever, or this scrap of tattered garment which you can’t do anything with?” That’s a no-brainer IMO.

Maybe sell some of that extra wood and metal?

Also jute materials make armor up to lvl 20. If I recall it was about lvl 25 that I was able to keep my gear up crafting.

stonberg.4198:

That equates to well over 100 silver to get to lvl 25 by refining jute scraps.

Sure, but typically the bolts go for about twice the scrap price, so you could just sell them back after leveling.

It helps to have multiple alts that you’re all leveling through the starter zones at the same time, and only ONE Tailor out of all of them who gets all the Jute scraps.

Or simply do what I did and do two starting zones on one character.

I’ve had a terrible time getting jute too. Beggar’s Burrow in northern Queensdale is the best farming spot I’ve found. Humanoid mobs spawn really quickly there and drop bags with jute. Good luck.

I just made it into wool now. We’ll see how that goes…

I don’t have much issue with jute… I gun for light armor drops in 1 – 15 areas, decon them and I get tons.

Do not equip magic find gear if you need white drops in low-level zones

Zaxares.5419:

It helps to have multiple alts that you’re all leveling through the starter zones at the same time, and only ONE Tailor out of all of them who gets all the Jute scraps.

It should be pointed out that leatherworkers (I’m maxed) also go through a buttload of cloth, and I think tailors may use a buttload of leather (I haven’t started my tailoring yet) as well. These should probably not be done at the same time.

Good point, Targen. I’d forgotten about that. Upon reflection, Armorsmiths also use Jute as “padding” for their armor. Plus all 3 armor crafting skills also use Jute for their insignias. So yes, Jute is definitely required by all classes and is probably why the demand is always so high.

Still, as someone who has 3 Scholar classes, 1 Adventurer and 1 Soldier, playing through all the five starter zones and salvaging all white/blue Light armor I came across still netted me enough Jute to craft 1 suit of Lvl 20 Masterwork armor for all my characters.