Why level up craft when you can buy gear on BTC?
→ Easy leveling experience from crafting
→ Gifts for legendary are soulbound (or account bound?) and can’t be purchased from BLTC
→ There’s profit to be made, you just have to do some investigation
Server: Yak’s Bend.
Main: Hunter.
Main: Hunter.
My answer is “don’t farm.” Most of the materials you’ll come across naturally, so you can sell them and buy the equipment, or use it to make the equipment yourself. Sometimes it’s better one way, sometimes the other. I guess I prefer the stability of being able to make things myself and not worry about market pricing too much.
There’s also the experience boost (can be quite significant!), and for legendaries, you need items that are soul/account bound, as mentioned above, and if you might want one of those eventually you’ll have to craft.
I do recommend for your first two crafting professions either 1) a weaponsmithing (or huntsman, or artificing, depending on your class) OR armorsmithing that matches your class, and 2) Jewelcrafting.
The reason for this is that the materials do not overlap very much, so you’ll be more able to support both professions without farming for them specifically (and every character needs jewelry!). If you try to do weapons and armor for your class, I’ve found that I consistently exhausted all of the fine crafting materials (blood, fangs, totems, etc) just keeping one crafting profession “current.”
Hopf Bifurcation, Norn Mesmer, We Are Owl Exterminators [OWL], No Dice [DICE]
Fort Aspenwood
Fort Aspenwood
Crafting is an expensive way to level up and at this point most items is worth more in materials than the crafted item itself. Also you level way too fast to be able to level crafting and create your own gear.
The main reason to level crafting is to create a legendary. other than that you should wait to level crafting until you have the gold to waste on crafting.
I got into crafting because I kept finding materials and wanted to use them. I had a specific armor set I wanted, and found that I’d rather save my gold and craft the armor myself with mats I had than buy it.
It also really does level you up ASAP.
Crafting is an expensive way to level up and at this point most items is worth more in materials than the crafted item itself. Also you level way too fast to be able to level crafting and create your own gear.
Not 100% true. Buying XP boosters from Gold > Gems would be an expensive way to level up. Using the right crafts/crafting guides and some common sense can be very inexpensive for the time invested (expect to spend a little for the convenience of breakneck speed, it’s unparalleled).
That being said, once you’ve gotten your profession levels from crafting you can make up to level 80 exotics (without hitting level 80 yourself). Thus you can continue making appropriate level gear all the way to 80. however it is cheaper to hoard/sell your gathered materials and just buy the finished product rather than “make your own” items all the way up to Rare/Exotics that can be salvaged for Ectos (why they even hold their price at all). Then you save a slim margin crafting these for yourself, unless you want a peculiar stat set which isn’t popular (still better off buying it direct than crafting it in this case).