Guild Wars 2

I picked up leather working and weapon smith, when I first started. What I’m discovering is that 1-75 on each craft I’m coming up short. Since both crafts require some of the same fine materials. That and I don’t think I fully understand/utilize the discovery process enough. Over so many years of mmo’s basically having you “make XX amount of one item” to level I just automatically did the same here, which was my fault. What do I need to do in order to level crafting more efficiently? Also should I drop say, leather working and pick up something else instead? Possibly Jewel crafting for money gains?

I love all aspects of the game so far, but I suppose I need to do some research in crafting, since its not coming to me as easily as I see it is to most on the forums with crafts already at 400.

The best way to level your crafting is to discover every recipe in a given tier including bags/boxes. as for the Fine mats your not alone there if its armor or weapon crafting of any sort its going to be using the same fine mats the only thing that changes is the raw materials

Yeah, crafting is entirely about discovery really, and as the above post said: every recipe in a given tier.

Say weaponsmith, for example. You have inscriptions and lots of weapons. Get the materials you’d need to make 1 of each inscription and craft those from recipe. Then, go make the pieces from a weapon – dagger, for example. You should usually have 4 inscriptions per tier and which they are vary. So make 4 dagger sets to correspond – then go to discovery and make one of each inscription/dagger set. Now go back and do this for each weapon, until you reach your next tier/level range. You’ll get the most EXP from discovering sets from inscriptions that are gold in your recipe list and from the best base components you can make (iron over bronze, for example), since those will craft higher-level stuff. And then you can use those weapons if they’re good enough, or sell them – or, if you want, throw all 4 of those same weapons (the 4 daggers, for example, even with different inscriptions) into the mystic forge to get an even better, cooler dagger (usually) – applies for all types of weapons/items. The same tactic applies for leatherworking: make one of each insignia and that many armor sets per insignia.

So say you have the mats to make 4 armor types (helm, chest, leggings, books), and your highest tier has 3 insignias available. That’s 12 discoveries, which equals a lot of EXP. That’s usually enough to bump you close to the next tier, and even then there are usually other recipes you can discovery outside of just the “base components + craftspecific attachment (insig/inscript/etc)”. Also note that while discovery gives the most EXP, any item on your recipe list that is in gold will give a decent amount of EXP.

I do both weaponsmith and leatherworking on my main character – which, yes, is probably not the best move, since they use the same FCM. I don’t focus much on crafting, however, but I make sure to gather absolutely everything I can while I’m out and about and rarely ever have to go looking for materials (once in awhile I’ll buy a couple if they’re cheap in the TP, as some are a bit trickier to find than others). I level weaponsmith a whole lot faster – logical, since it has far more sets available to make per tier of inscriptions.

If you want to “do it right” and drop one, you can switch out leatherworking (I find weaponsmith my favorite, it’s just so valuable) – and you can always come back to it later. You won’t loose your exp in that craft, but you’ll have to pay for what you’ve already done to switch back. Cooking can be really cheap, easy to do, and a lot of fun if you know where to get what you need, and doesn’t use ANY FCM. Jeweler and artificer similarly.

You can also take up other crafting disciplines on other characters.

Thank you both for the replies! I’ll have to give it a try later today. And I may drop LW as you said and pick up something else, since at the moment it seems I can upgrade from the TP for pretty cheap.

I came in here to help but Adine.2184 and starii.3865 had excellent responses already! Way to go everyone. :o)