Guild Wars 2

I created an engineer before creating a ranger. The engineer is huntsman and leathersmith, while the ranger is cook and artificer. It makes more sense to me for the ranger to be leathersmith and huntsman – it’s a preference, nothing more. I haven’t found a way to “swap” crafting professions. Is there a way to do this, even if I have to buy something from TP?

You can’t swap. You can add. You can have every craft on one character, albeit needing to pay a small fee to bring an inactive one up to active (and you can buy crafting licenses in the gem store to increase the number that can be active per alt). However, you must level the craft up on that alt again, you cannot transfer the skill level from one alt to another.

Some people have requested account wide crafting, and maybe one day that will be a thing, but don’t hold your breath.

There’s no way to move crafting level/experience from one character to another, although you can train another character in the same discipline. You’ll be working up from scratch, so that’s probably fine if you’re only partially into a discipline, but it’s a more significant investment if you’ve leveled a crafting discipline to 500.

Hey OP I main an Engi and he too is my LW and Huntsman crafter and it makes perfect sense for him to have those crafts as he is a medium class just as Ranger is. My Ranger is my Cook and Jeweller since I have my Engi as the other 2. Then I have other classes for the other crafts that also suit them.

So it’s fine how you have them now but if it’s just for role-play/preference as you say then I guess it could bug you lol.

The main reasons you can’t transfer crafting skill from one character to another (in my opinion) are as follows:

1: Role playing realism. If Bob your warrior is a master chef, why would that automatically make Sally your Ranger a master chef as well?

2: People get XP from crafting. It used to be a viable way to level up characters, but I think they kind of nerfed that. The point is that if having a 500 skill weaponsmith with your first character meant that all other characters had that skill, then that’s 500 points of skill that can’t be used to level up the other characters. Again though, this may be a moot point as crafting XP isn’t what it used to be, but some people still might scream bloody murder if they lost the ability to level alts with crafting.

3: It is somewhat of a gold sink in that a lot of crafting ingredients have to be bought from vendors. We need gold sinks. Really we do. Otherwise established players with tons of gold will inflate prices on the TP on everything far beyond what newer players can afford.