Guild Wars 2

My warrior is level 50-ish now, and I figured now would be as good a time as any to choose a second crafting discipline to go along with my armorsmithing, which is at about 200-ish right now.

Weaponsmithing seemed like a good choice at first, but they pretty much use the same materials. I feel like it could get tedious leveling both, but I do like the legendaries you can make with them.

I’ve also considered Jeweler, because the materials don’t overlap as much and trinkets and the like seem useful, but a guildie told me to not even bother with jeweler as it’s supposedly completely useless and a waste of time and money.

Any suggestions to what I should pick?

As for me, I made some “logical” decisions about crafting:
Thief: Artificer and jeweller (cause you know..thiefs love shinies )
Guardian: Weaponsmith and Armorsmith (Closest disciplines about crafting and use)
Ranger: Huntsman and Leatherworking (Because rangers hunt and use natural fabrics)
Warrior: Cooking and tailoring (Warrior is kinda posh/tough guy..loves food and drinks and dresses nice LOL)

Of course, this makes only sense in my own little world, but for me it works..I never have to look which discipline I have on what char..I just switch to this specific char if I need something crafted (actually my ranger isn’t even geared…he’s just fulltime in The Grove at the crafting stations)

Weaponsmithing/Armorsmithing are definitely things you’ll be using. If not one of those, Jewelcrafting, Huntsmen or Chef.

Tacowrap.5681:

Weaponsmithing seemed like a good choice at first, but they pretty much use the same materials. I feel like it could get tedious leveling both, but I do like the legendaries you can make with them.

Any suggestions to what I should pick?

I do not envy you with crafting so late in the game’s development and the mess of the resource economy.

That said, the most logical course is Armor Crafting and Weaponsmithing.

However, if you plan on using a Guardian you can opt to put Weaponsmithing on the guardian and go for huntsman on the warrior. Huntsman will make your spearguns, rifles and bows for the warrior.

You may say, “I work with similar materials with Armor and Huntsman.” This is true but Huntsman works with wood and leather, where Armor works with cloth. They both work with metal.

These 2 disciplines also create a synergy at 450 crafting making the warrior the one stop crafter to do ALL of your daily ascended refinement as you have access to all 4 materials, cloth, wood, leather and metal.

I hope this solves your dilemma.

NOTE:
Your guild member is incorrect about jewelcrafting. Sure at the end game you can buy ascended jewelry with Laurels and Guild Commendations. But what are all your characters going to use until you get to 80 and get all the Laurels and Commendations that you need? Jewelcrafting is not expensive. It also gives your character experience like any other craft and it is quite fast to blow through.

When they get around to increasing jewelcrafting to 500, I will suspect they will add recipes to alter rings you get at random from Fractals to other rings or maybe even breaking down rings into Pristine Fractal Relics.

If such a thing did happen, jewelcrafting would become expensive like any other craft. Don’t let people discourage you from doing things you are interested in because they say it is not cool to experience.

Jewelcrafting is required for crafting title and awards achievement points, so again your guild member’s opinion is incorrect.

Assuming you have more than one character, I’d go with leather working or tailor.

The insignias that you craft work with all professions right now. Also, any recipes that unlock for armor smithing will also unlock for the other class. It’s cheaper that way.

Thanks for all the replies. Some really good advice there. I feel like I have a better idea of how to proceed now.

I feel like it’s either going to be Jewelry or Weaponsmithing.

Again, thanks