Guild Wars 2

Hello , So i am so confused with crafting .

I have taken the weaponsmith and armorsmith since my main is a guardian.

Honestly dear Arenanet i am very confused to how exactly i will lvl up my crafting .

i will have to do a BIG work of searching and killing specific mobs in order to farm so many materials . i just don`t have the time and why on hell an armorsmith will have to use jute cloth for heavy armor ???

I just don`t see myself spending all my playtime just for countless hours of stupid farming and and searching for drops it is plain awfull for all the many kinds of materials .

Other than that i am totally disapointed in the lack of any info from where i am supposed to get any gear in this game ? Is there any info or a video to inform starting players "HOW to obtain gear " in this game ?

Now i am lvl-ing my chars without ever thinking about doing crafting i just don`t have enaugh time to put in countless hours of searching , searching for a clue where to get all my materials !

i loved guild wars 1 but this is really making me confused .

Pls help .

The cloth is for the armor padding underneath, it’s might uncomfortable to wear just heavy armor and probably results in chafing and other such painful things. But yeah, you don’t really need to craft if you don’t want to, you can make a fair profit just selling the craft mats you find/gather.

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Crafting is basically a side quest. You don’t have to do it, but if you do, you can reap some rewards (ie. selling for profit or making items for yourself).

What it comes down to is time and effort. My main is lv 80, and I’ve been mining and farming materials for the other characters I’ll be making. You can deposit crafting mats directly to your bank, so you don’t waste space in your inventory. When you see a node, mine it. If you have low level equipment, you can salvage it for cloth or metals. Killing stuff drops crafting materials too (ie. spiders drop venom). Heck, you can do WvW, and get crafting mats there too.

tl;dr > Play the game + don’t skip content = win

Crafting is actually fairly easy. I leveled both weapon and armor smithing to 400 before I was 70 and I spent no more than 10 hours doing so in total. There’s a simple way to level these. It’s all about discovering the highest level items you can at the time.

From a leveling perspective, you do not want to actually “craft” a bunch of items, unless it is all you can do. The merchants next to the smithing station sells karma recipes. By one recipe for a particular type (Carrion as bones are cheapest I believe), and then discover each component in that tier (axe, hammer, sword, etc) or (helmet, chest, gloves, etc). Note, I crafted my armor to 400 without doing a single orichalcum item and done in less than 5 hours.

To effectively level there will be financial cost involved but at a minimal loss, at least there wasn’t at the time I did it. Unfortunately relying strictly on farming mats will take you forever. I spent no more than 4g at a time during my crafting sessions but recouped most of my cost by selling the items on the trader.

Of course as stated this was earlier (2-3 weeks into the game) when I did it. Mats have gone up a bit in cost, but the same principle should apply. If you can’t sell the items, you always have the option of salvaging for ectos (if they are 68+ rare items).

I think many share your frustration with crafting. I would like to point out crafting is NOT the best way to get gears.

You get gears from completing personal quests and map exploration as rewards. You also get gears from completing any dungeons for the first time. There is also random drops from monster you slayed.

If you still missing gear for your level, you can buy them from vendor across Tryia using coins or karma. Do a search on wiki or other sites and you will be able to find lists for them.

Finially you can also buy gears from The Trading Post (TP).

You will find it very difficult to keep up your crafting level with your character level if this is your first character in GW2. By the time you can build a level 15 gear you will most likely be level 20+.

Crafting is using good for leveling if you have a lot of gold or real money to burn.