Guild Wars 2

I chose 2 crafts cooking and artifacting, and although i think i maybe made the wrong choices ive invested a lot of money in them and it has helped me level up.

Cooking im over lvl 75 but artifacting I cant seem to get the level to go up much or get much benefit from it

wanting artifacting to make a great staff but at level 23 its very slow to get to level 25 for the next set and I have lots of items using up space in a chest for crafting that i cant really do anything with at the moment and sell value is next to nothing.

so 2 questions

1 – what should I be building to get the level up and get a better weapon
2 – should I even bother sticking with this one as armour for my elementalist might be better

Thanks

1. http://gw2crafts.net has crafting guides with the stuff you can craft to level up the fastest and the cheapest.
2. You need articifing if you want the end tier weapon (Acended), as it can only be crafted. Right now this tier does not exist yet for armor, which only goes up to Exotic at this moment. Exotics can be gotten in a lot of other ways besides crafting. So yes, it may be handier than Tailoring.

Are you trying to craft with the materials you gather during regular play? That’s really hard to do if you’re on your first character.

Lord Kuru.3685:

Are you trying to craft with the materials you gather during regular play? That’s really hard to do if you’re on your first character.

Unless you have some gold to buy materials with, doing this with one character is nearly impossible. I ran 5 characters up at about the same pace and was able to craft some useful equipment along the way, but until you get some resources (gold, gathered mats or both), you are going to run into roadblocks with crafting.

Those guides are a good way to plan some crafting and you will find that cooking is the anomaly of the crafting professions and artificer is the oddball weapon craft.

Brother Grimm.5176:

Lord Kuru.3685:

Are you trying to craft with the materials you gather during regular play? That’s really hard to do if you’re on your first character.

Unless you have some gold to buy materials with, doing this with one character is nearly impossible. I ran 5 characters up at about the same pace and was able to craft some useful equipment along the way, but until you get some resources (gold, gathered mats or both), you are going to run into roadblocks with crafting.

Those guides are a good way to plan some crafting and you will find that cooking is the anomaly of the crafting professions and artificer is the oddball weapon craft.

My suggestion is to run the Champ train to get your magic find up. If it’s low the whole game seems to be a drag.

I went from 100+% some went down from 300% down to 30% – either make the clothes and armor and salvage them or do the trains and salvage them that way until your magic find is better.

You will make money eventually but it takes time – it took some of us quite a bit of work to get to even 50 gold…

Be sure to also craft potions and tuning crystals. Remember that you earn more experience from discovering new recipes than from repeatedly crafting ones you already know, so check the wiki and try to craft all the potions from each tier.

Yep. Artificers have a HUGE leg up on the other crafting professions (other than Chef and Jeweler) in that they can craft potions, giving them a ton of discovery XP for relatively small material costs.