What kind of gain should I expect from a crafting booster?
Crafting boosters make the crafting leveling go faster, not your character leveling. You still get 10 levels from 1-400.
In my experience using a discovery guide it made it about 5 items cheaper on the backend which are the most expensive ones.
I’m not 100% sure if they actually do stack, but I’ve found it incredibly effective to use a crafting booster at times when the WvWvW artisan bonus was at 20%.
Under those boosts, I could finish tiers incredibly cheap, hardly needing anything other than discovering full gear sets for my own characters and some miscellaneous side discoveries (runes/sigils/bags/potions/etc.)
Crafting boosters make the crafting leveling go faster, not your character leveling. You still get 10 levels from 1-400.
Are you sure about that? Used one but I didn’t feel like my crafting level was going any faster than without. When I looked at my tab with the history of character exp gain from crafting those seem to be randomly boosted.
Yes I did 1-400 artificing a few days ago under a booster and got 10 levels exactly. The crafting booster increases the chance of critical success which just gives you double the crafting xp.