Guild Wars 2

I’m quite stoked from the new content regarding crafting that’s supposed to come with HoT. However, I’d also appreciate if Anet considered in the future to come back to gathering and low level crafting to add something new or to make it more “entertaining”.
What I noticed is that crafting low level gear is almost pointless, given how fast is leveling and how it’s hard to craft rare gear on low level characters. I noticed that even items at level 65 started blue and only got to green before moving to the next tier of materials.

There are 2 things that I’d like Anet to introduce: a mastery for gathering that makes possible to gather rarer materials (or salvage them), and to use those rarer materials to craft better gear for leveling.
Something like Heirlooms in World of Warcraft.
Sure, it’s not a perfect system, and there are a lot of edge cases to trim, but I think it would contribute in making crafting a little more interesting even at lower levels ("Well, I still can’t craft ascended Light Armor but I can make a rare armor that will fit my Necro from level 20 to level 40) and also gathering a little more fun "Hey, now I actually have mats to make an extra one and sell it or use it on my Elementalist!)

Anyway, that was just a random idea, but I’d really like if 1-80 crafting and gathering were to be improved in the future.

There are already crafting recipes for leveling gear …

Khisanth.2948:

There are already crafting recipes for leveling gear …

You mean like the one you get from the personal story? Well, there are one or two recipes, actually a little more (More info here ), but they are quite more “simple” than an Heirloom.
An heirloom in WoW is an accountbound item that has very high stats and that changes its level with the level of the owner.

Leveling equipment in gw2 are soulbound items that have x levels of stats more than their required levels.

What I suggest is something hybrid, for example a level 20 rare weapon that scales all the way up to 40 together with the owner. Possibly Soulbound, so that you can also trade them.

for a comparison, here how Heirlooms work in WoW.
http://www.wowhead.com/guides/heirloom-list

Leveling equipment are account bound not soul bound.

Khisanth.2948:

Leveling equipment are account bound not soul bound.

True, didn’t notice that. But still, it could be further polished.