Guild Wars 2

It seems that crafting from 450 to 475 requires 9 exotics. And then crafting from 475 to 500 requires 10 or 11 exotics based on the guides from gw2crafts.net.

If I were to use a crafting booster, how many exotics would I need to craft to get from 450 to 500? (Actually I’m starting from 460 to 470)

If 470, I’m calculating 2 exotics to get to 475 then 10 or 11 to get to 500
If 460, 5 or 6 exotics to get to 475 then 10 or 11 to 500?

Probably overthinking it but wonder if the crafting booster would help a lot here.

As far as i know, crafting boosters dont affect discoveries, just items that you are crafting for at least the 2nd time.

Crafting boosters do help, they increase the chance of getting a critical craft, which gives you bonus crafting xp.

Murth.5637:

Crafting boosters do help, they increase the chance of getting a critical craft, which gives you bonus crafting xp.

But a discovery is a critical craft by default.

crafting boosters do give extra exp at discovery. as a result, all it will do is decrease how many exotics you need to discover to get to 500.
so instead of 19-20 to get from 450 to 500, you need 12-13

Also, FWIW, crafting Ascended Materials from 450-475 will save you a ton of cash if you have the mats.

digitalruse.9085:

Also, FWIW, crafting Ascended Materials from 450-475 will save you a ton of cash if you have the mats.

Do you actually know how much ascended mats you need to refine to gain 25 levels?

At 15 silver and 4.2k karma per refinement, i wouldnt neccessarily suggest to craft more than you actually need, as they dont have any resale value either.

if you’re leatherworker, if you happen to have a lot of charged lodestone you can craft rune of speed.. they sell ok, at least you can get some of your investment into leveling up your crafting back.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Superior_Rune_of_Speed

in fact , in any profession, try looking for the superior rune/sigil that sells well that you can craft with the profession

Wanze.8410:

digitalruse.9085:

Also, FWIW, crafting Ascended Materials from 450-475 will save you a ton of cash if you have the mats.

Do you actually know how much ascended mats you need to refine to gain 25 levels?

At 15 silver and 4.2k karma per refinement, i wouldnt neccessarily suggest to craft more than you actually need, as they dont have any resale value either.

Well, I guess that depends on how many bladed backpacks you are making.

Karma is cheap and compared to buying or crafting insiginas (once your burn through settlers and givers) I think you still come out on top.

As you alluded, you are going to need a decent amount to craft your armor in the end anyway. I will concede that for weapons, just burning through exotic discoveries may be better.

That said, I did patiently grind 400-425 with ori, ancient, gossamer, and leather refinements.

Wanze.8410:

digitalruse.9085:

Also, FWIW, crafting Ascended Materials from 450-475 will save you a ton of cash if you have the mats.

Do you actually know how much ascended mats you need to refine to gain 25 levels?

At 15 silver and 4.2k karma per refinement, i wouldnt neccessarily suggest to craft more than you actually need, as they dont have any resale value either.

bloodstone/dragonite/empyreal are not ideal to refine, but the others are. it does take a lot… I would guess around 150 refinings, but each one will give a profit when sold, so you’re essentially leveling for free – it just takes 2 months.

Well i didn’t want to delete my ascended mats. So I ended up crafting all of them. Every new on i get will get the second armor profession from 450-475. I got now 150 bloodstone bricks, 98 emperial stars, and 75 dragonite thingies. Costs only 14 silver per brick. If you use crafting booster and have loads of ascended mats laying around, it can go fast. 473-475 is very slow though. That might be better crafting exotic/discovering from 473. But if you don’t mind, i think it was about 30 ascended mats to get tru 473-475.

Wish they d let us craft insignias and inscriptions at 475. At least then the whole thing wouldnt feel like a tax to get ascended gear.