Guild Wars 2

Started to work on my Jewel crafting. My weapon crafting is 400, and I learned early that discovery is where the gains in skill come from. This was working the same for jewel crafting. On average, a new discovery would get you about 1.5 skill points. this worked for weapon crafting and has been working for jewel crafting. After couple days away while gathering some mats during game play, came back to work on Jewel crafting today. Discoveries now getting me about .1 of a skill point. To give you an idea I just created 13 discoveries and got less then half a skill point. The discoveries btw are for the highest mats I can use for my jewel crafting. At this rate it will take 1000+ gold ore to go from skill 221 to skill 225

I just leveled Weaponsmith last night from 225-400 – no change in discovery skill points. My GF also leveled her JC from 150-300 – also no changes.

The amount of craft exp you get from a discovery is based on the required level for the discovery and your crafting level. So if you have say 250 cooking and the discovery requires 200 you are not going to get nearly as much as you would from a 250 requirement. This is also why you will notice as you get closer to a new tier say 300 that the same discoveries slowly give less and less because you still have to use 275 recipes to get to 300 but every new level you gain means you are higher than 275 and thus the efficiency of the exp is lowered.