Guild Wars 2

I’ll start off right away that this is not a guide because it will likely not work 24 hours from now. It’ll likely be much sooner than that so use this at your own risk.

I’m posting this to show that there has existed a way to level up to level 10 through cooking that did not come at a loss like many people believed unless you farmed quests/events. As a result. I’ve made a decent amount of gold from cooking since the update almost two weeks ago.

Another reason is to show the flaws with various websites that we use for guides which apparently do not capture everything. For instance, one item is/was generating over 200% profit. There was a guide on reddit from one of these websites that had made guides specifically to show you how to level to 200 in cooking. To their defense though, they likely go off total cost based on sell order prices rather than net cost after selling everything on TP when the recipes are sorted.

The items that allow this to happen are:

• Bowl of Vegetable Stock (costs 3s42c to make and sells for 9s97c)
• Mashed Yams (costs 10s8c to make and sells for 13s89c)
• Pepper Steak (costs 24s23c to make and sells for 34s50c)

The last two used to produce a much larger profit but several people caught on and started flooding the TP with them. They’re also very slow moving items as well. Those prices were from a few hours ago. There’s a delay between when I wrote this and when I’m posting as I’m waiting for everything I have to sell first.

I’ll post what my latest guide was that I used for myself. It’s gone through several iterations over the last couple weeks and produces minimal profit because I didn’t want to deal with those slow moving items. Earlier on I was making upwards to 2 gold profit each run from cooking alone. The cooking levels are based on my memory but they should be fairly close.

As of a few hours ago, using buy orders which I always did, this came to a cost of 2g65s69c to get to level 10 through cooking. If I sold everything on sell orders, I made 3g55s9c. This is just a little over 36 silver in profit after TP fees.

This is not counting the 11 Loot Bags you get through PS rewards that scale with your level. It also doesn’t count the champ bag you get at the end where the armor that drops does scale but the fine mats don’t. There’s also the dye and copper doubloon that you get a well.

Good luck if you choose to use this to farm black lion keys as I’m sure others will be attempting the same or trying to craft just those ingredients to make gold. I’m sure there are ingredients in the 200+ area as well. It kind of makes you wonder if you could have crafted the other professions for much cheaper than what they’re currently calculated at on various websites.

What most of the websites dont consider in their calculations is buying mats on buy order instead of buying them at lowest listing. So if required mats have a high price spread as well (and buy orders get filled) you can raise your profits by a good amount.

By buying up certain mats, raising their lowest listing for a short time or placing some high bids on them, you can influence, which items those guides recommend to craft and accellerate their production from players using those guides, while placing low buy orders yourself.

While those guides mostly are a good help for players that dont know much about crafting, i wouldnt follow them blindly and look for other opportunities.
Especially if you have limited release recipes at your disposal you can raise any profession from 400-500 with a profit.

But im getting off topic.

Quick question: How do you get to level 10 by just leveling cooking from 0-200?

Those items are so profitable atm because they are used in small quantities in crafting the cooks backpack (stock, yams) or are required for an collectible achievement (steak).
There are plenty of steaks that are profitable atm. Celebratory steak might be even better to craft (at rating 25) but you need to visit meatober fest first to get the recipe.

Wanze.8410:

Celebratory steak might be even better to craft (at rating 25) but you need to visit meatober fest first to get the recipe.

The recipe sheets are account bound. You can go there with another character buy, a stack of recipes then bank them.

Wanze.8410:

What most of the websites dont consider in their calculations is buying mats on buy order instead of buying them at lowest listing. So if required mats have a high price spread as well (and buy orders get filled) you can raise your profits by a good amount.

By buying up certain mats, raising their lowest listing for a short time or placing some high bids on them, you can influence, which items those guides recommend to craft and accellerate their production from players using those guides, while placing low buy orders yourself.

While those guides mostly are a good help for players that dont know much about crafting, i wouldnt follow them blindly and look for other opportunities.
Especially if you have limited release recipes at your disposal you can raise any profession from 400-500 with a profit.

But im getting off topic.

Quick question: How do you get to level 10 by just leveling cooking from 0-200?

Those items are so profitable atm because they are used in small quantities in crafting the cooks backpack (stock, yams) or are required for an collectible achievement (steak).
There are plenty of steaks that are profitable atm. Celebratory steak might be even better to craft (at rating 25) but you need to visit meatober fest first to get the recipe.

They modified how much EXP you need from 1-15 or something like that with the update so it’s much quicker to level.

Yeah, that’s what I want people to realize. I don’t get why I was able to go for so long crafting those and only a few people noticed them too. The steaks and mashed yams really are not worth it as they move way too slow. Quite often I just sold to lowest bidder to get rid of them.

Wanze.8410:

Quick question: How do you get to level 10 by just leveling cooking from 0-200?

The new player experience speed up leveling between level1-15.

I just went through 495 loot bags and they were okay I suppose.. A handful of tier 6 fine mats, a few lodestones, a few rares, and about 205 silk from salvaging everything else.

Ayrilana.1396:

Wanze.8410:

What most of the websites dont consider in their calculations is buying mats on buy order instead of buying them at lowest listing. So if required mats have a high price spread as well (and buy orders get filled) you can raise your profits by a good amount.

By buying up certain mats, raising their lowest listing for a short time or placing some high bids on them, you can influence, which items those guides recommend to craft and accellerate their production from players using those guides, while placing low buy orders yourself.

While those guides mostly are a good help for players that dont know much about crafting, i wouldnt follow them blindly and look for other opportunities.
Especially if you have limited release recipes at your disposal you can raise any profession from 400-500 with a profit.

But im getting off topic.

Quick question: How do you get to level 10 by just leveling cooking from 0-200?

Those items are so profitable atm because they are used in small quantities in crafting the cooks backpack (stock, yams) or are required for an collectible achievement (steak).
There are plenty of steaks that are profitable atm. Celebratory steak might be even better to craft (at rating 25) but you need to visit meatober fest first to get the recipe.

They modified how much EXP you need from 1-15 or something like that with the update so it’s much quicker to level.

Yeah, that’s what I want people to realize. I don’t get why I was able to go for so long crafting those and only a few people noticed them too. The steaks and mashed yams really are not worth it as they move way too slow. Quite often I just sold to lowest bidder to get rid of them.

Mashed Yams sell just fine. Since patch, i sold more than 10k.

Ah. Were you the one listing 64 at a time the past week?

Has anyone found a new vendor for Apples? I could see some of the low level mats (non-Karma bought) rising in price as more people attempt to level cooking.

Infernia.9847:

Has anyone found a new vendor for Apples? I could see some of the low level mats (non-Karma bought) rising in price as more people attempt to level cooking.

Apple Jack is hawking them for 16 copper.