Guild Wars 2

2nd character, just want a leveling boost

I’ve already done cooking, used trade post, and it cost me around 2-3 gold, but I had alot left over and resold it, plus crafted foods and got almost all of it back, somehow.

Seems like other crafts will be way more. Is this the case? Im not spending 10g for leveling.

Not totally sure – I did tailoring which is definitely not the way to go for leveling.

Wood prices are really cheap so my guess would be weaponsmith/artificer or chef.

i’d say Artificer due to all the potions. it was really cheap to do up to 400.

jeweler was pretty easy but it took quite a bit of ores to reach next tier(took me about 400)

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You want the Cheapest or Quickest? Cheapest would be to farm and mine, making all trades pretty cheap, but time consuming. Quickest is Cooking, as you can really pump out items if you have tons of Karma and Gold.

I know that Leatherworking and Huntsman both are very expensive if you plan on buying materials.

You could do cooking again on the second character since it’s cheap, and just blow it out for the levels. Anything that uses a lot of fine crafting materials gets expensive if you don’t plan to actually get them yourself – not farming, necessarily, but completion (killing everything you see, gathering every node and going back to rich veins regularly, salvaging everything that isn’t worthwhile to sell depending on your current money range, doing all events, etc).

I like weaponsmith because I craft 1 of each new inscription when I learn the new sets – per weapon (dagger, sword, greatsword, etc.). Then I just discover all possible combinations, though I do one or two at a time because often I’ll level out of the good exp from those sets by the time I finish. You do that and you’ll usually have 4 of the same general type of item – sometimes good to sell, sometimes not. If not, mystic forge them for a nicer item to use or to sell.

If you didn’t use up too many FCM on your first character, you should have enough to get you started. Too bad you sold your excess – artificing uses a few cooking ingredients. Basically just see what you have stored up (if you do have any stored) and see what uses that stuff. You’ll probably also run across the higher level stuff on your first character that you can use on your second if you level in crafting faster than you level your character for higher tier FCM.

I would say artificer and jeweler are the cheapest ones, if you are buying mats off the TP.

Jeweler is the cheapest, and the easiest. Hold on to all the junk gems you get levelling and never use, and you’ll have 400 jewelling in no-time at 80.

Guildies of mine also hit Chef 400 spending less than 1g50s.

Any of the crafts that take the blue items for insignias (armor/leather/tailor) or inscribed dowels (weapon/arti/huntsman), you reach points where each skill-up takes ingredients that are ~15-20 silver on the TP. If you farm them, then you’re not spending the cash, but if you farm them you could have sold ’em for that much…

Arti has the potions which helps a lot.

Jewels and food imo

For Jeweler you shouldn’t need to use the TP at all unless you have been skipping mining or sold everything you got.

Quickest AND cheapest? Cooking, but it’s going to involve a bit of traveling to high-level zones to get karma food.

Quickest AND NOT cheapest? That’s a tough one because you have to consider that the quickest way period is buying everything off the TP [assuming 100% availability, which is actually a really good assumption] but that’s going to cost you.

Longest AND cheapest? Farm absolutely everything possible for it. But you want to level quickly by crafting so this isn’t viable.

Longest AND NOT cheapest? Farm aimlessly and make impulse buys off the TP as it suits your fancy [like I do at times! Makes sense, right?].

I think overall your best bet is Jeweler because you cannot level cooking for less than 2g unless you buy karma food and you are only getting that by completing hearts, one of which is in a 60+ zone if I remember correctly.

in my opinion, one of the 3 weaponcrafts will be cheaper and easier over any of the 3 armorcrafts. I leveled artificing and cook on my first toon, my husband did tailor and jewelcrafter. Artificer is wood heavy and uses some ore but it’s not crazy. Made a fair amount of tridents when I just needed to get to the next level. The challenge with all 3 of the armoring crafts is that they take lots of jute, wool, cotton etc.

The upside to armoring is that you will be able to make 6 pieces of gear for yourself every 5 levels that is useful. With most toons, they settle into a few of the weapon options and the rest is vendor or breakdown trash since too many people sell for vendor cost + 1 copper on the TP right now.

Jeweler is the cheapest. To bad everyone is doing it. It was the most money making craft during beta.

Kiwifruit.8294:

I would say artificer and jeweler are the cheapest ones, if you are buying mats off the TP.

Only problem with JC is the last 15 or 20 points will run you 60ish silver per piece of jewelery due to the ecto’s you need. If you have no issues getting the 3 ecto’s per rare you will need then jc isent a bad choice.

The cheapest is cooking – it took me 2gold to get from 1 to 400 in about a full day.
The fastest is likely armorsmithing or weaponsmithing – resources for those are available everywhere, you just have to buy fine ingredients.
Lastly, I tried leveling tailoring after cooking, I spent 8 gold and 4 days to get it to 400.

VakarisJ.5619:

The cheapest is cooking – it took me 2gold to get from 1 to 400 in about a full day.
The fastest is likely armorsmithing or weaponsmithing – resources for those are available everywhere, you just have to buy fine ingredients.
Lastly, I tried leveling tailoring after cooking, I spent 8 gold and 4 days to get it to 400.

Just to point out a lot of time if you buy only the items used in discovery from the tp its cheaper for armorsmith atleast.

SiNoS.2147:

VakarisJ.5619:

The cheapest is cooking – it took me 2gold to get from 1 to 400 in about a full day.
The fastest is likely armorsmithing or weaponsmithing – resources for those are available everywhere, you just have to buy fine ingredients.
Lastly, I tried leveling tailoring after cooking, I spent 8 gold and 4 days to get it to 400.

Just to point out a lot of time if you buy only the items used in discovery from the tp its cheaper for armorsmith atleast.

Actually, I only bought the ingredients for discoveries for cooking and tailoring is analogous to armorsmithing and I only used discoveries there as well. The thing is that fine crafting materials are kitten overpriced – if you get them from the trading post, instead of scavenging yourself, then be ready to pay a great deal.
Oh and, forgot to mention – I also spent 1000 karma on cooking.

VakarisJ.5619:

SiNoS.2147:

VakarisJ.5619:

The cheapest is cooking – it took me 2gold to get from 1 to 400 in about a full day.
The fastest is likely armorsmithing or weaponsmithing – resources for those are available everywhere, you just have to buy fine ingredients.
Lastly, I tried leveling tailoring after cooking, I spent 8 gold and 4 days to get it to 400.

Just to point out a lot of time if you buy only the items used in discovery from the tp its cheaper for armorsmith atleast.

Actually, I only bought the ingredients for discoveries for cooking and tailoring is analogous to armorsmithing and I only used discoveries there as well. The thing is that fine crafting materials are kitten overpriced – if you get them from the trading post, instead of scavenging yourself, then be ready to pay a great deal.
Oh and, forgot to mention – I also spent 1000 karma on cooking.

Ya fine mats are overpriced. But buying pre made insignia’s for half the cost of the fine mats isent

SiNoS.2147:

Kiwifruit.8294:

I would say artificer and jeweler are the cheapest ones, if you are buying mats off the TP.

Only problem with JC is the last 15 or 20 points will run you 60ish silver per piece of jewelery due to the ecto’s you need. If you have no issues getting the 3 ecto’s per rare you will need then jc isent a bad choice.

your server is expensive

anyway,i kept making mithril discoveries till the 390s.only then did i had to use ectos and even so it wasnt that many.only spent like 6-7 ectos to reach 400 when they were 18-19s on my server(now they are 22-23s)