Guild Wars 2

I’m looking to level up quickly by doing crafting, but alas it seems the mats nowadays are so expensive that I might not be able to afford it. What is currently cheapest crafting profession? (Minus cooking) If I could get all the cheapest in a list from cheapest to most expensive, that’d be great. Or a website where I could track this stuff.

Cooking or Artificing (If you level through making potions). Jeweling isn’t too bad either if you got a fair bit of metal.

I agree with Ridley. Cooking → Artificing → Jewelry.

You can also save money by crafting on Thursday/Friday, when your Power of the Mist’s crafting bonus is at its peak (and remember that you don’t get the bonus while in overflow).

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

I agree with Ridley. Cooking -> Artificing -> Jewelry.

You can also save money by crafting on Thursday/Friday, when your Power of the Mist’s crafting bonus is at its peak (and remember that you don’t get the bonus while in overflow).

Power of the mists crafting bonus?

Yes, while they go on and give you the warning that cooking will be so expensive when you start it I found it by far the easiest and cheapest to master, but only after I had a level 80 char I could bounce around the grid collecting supplies, I had to buy very little to do it.

Jeweling was next (though the last 10 levels were a brutal grind of finding expensive things) as again with a level 80 char farming metals is easy and you get plenty of gems with that.

The trick really is to max out a char before you start crafting, then they become your farmer for all your lower level characters (so they can take advantage of the XP from crafting).

Maxing chef is not that hard; mastering it (i.e. learning all the recipes) is more complicated because of the huge number of recipes that don’t conform to a specific pattern (like the recipes of other crafts do).

Power of the Mists: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Power_of_the_Mists
the Artisan bonus reduces the amount of materials you need, since, since you get a few more “criticals” while crafting (i.e. it doesn’t reduce the costs for any specific recipe, but it means you use less mats over a 30 or 60 minute session).