Guild Wars 2

I’ve read in a few places (crafting forum, reddit, in-game) that crafting XP has been nerfed since the feature patch. Other people claim it’s still the same.

Note: before the patch, crafting from 1-400 would give you around 7 levels of xp. I can confirm that this was the case a few days before the patch (although I used a booster).

Has it been changed, or is it bugged for some people? If it has been changed – why? So people can’t circumnavigate the, ahem, “controversial” new changes?

I’m posting here instead of the crafting forum because it gets very little attention. Has anybody here levelled 1-400 in any crafting discipline since the patch?

More than likley it was nerfed, cause gaining 7 levels by crafting would be way to confusing.

How many levels does 1-400 give now?

Only 7 levels? I leveled 1 – 400 back in the day and each craft gave me 10 levels.

Lodius.5392:

Only 7 levels?

It’s been like that for months. Ever since crafting was increased to 500. You still get 10 levels, but only if you go all the way to 500, which is expensive as hell.

And the crafting professions that can’t yet go to 500 also just give 7 levels for 1-400.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

How many levels does 1-400 give now?

Somebody said only one level, but I’d like confirmation of that (preferably without spending 20-30g finding out…)

So no confirmation?

Just to note, as many people have – did you attempt to Craft when your character hit lv29?

For some reason, currently, you hit lv29 and you suddenly get almost no xp from anything, be it crafting, zone-completion, WvW or whatever.

Obviously a bug, which will hopefully be addressed.

Editted to add in: (started at 18 and ended at 23)

I attempted to find that out yesterday. I crafted to 3 points shy of 250 for artificing where I got 4 levels and then NOTHING after that except very, very, very, very small increments of exp if any.

Then, just to see if it was nerf to match xp per level where the player was at, I switched to leatherworking and NO levels gain at all and the same very, very, very, very small to nonexistant incremements happened.

I hope it’s bugged, but I feel like its “working as intended”. -_-

I made a new char after the Patch and – having no Experience Scroll – levelled her up to lv28 by maxing the Cooking, Jewelry and Huntsman Crafts. At no point was there any problem and the xp worked exactly as it had before.

The problems started when I then decided to bump up a couple of levels by exploring all the Hub Cities. I happened to hit lv29 just as I entered the Black Citadel – and zone completing it netted 100xp.

I really think it’s a systemic scaling-problem with being a certain level (29), not specific things like Crafting being broken.

Sgloomi.4103:

I made a new char after the Patch and – having no Experience Scroll – levelled her up to lv28 by maxing the Cooking, Jewelry and Huntsman Crafts. At no point was there any problem and the xp worked exactly as it had before.

The problems started when I then decided to bump up a couple of levels by exploring all the Hub Cities. I happened to hit lv29 just as I entered the Black Citadel – and zone completing it netted 100xp.

I really think it’s a systemic scaling-problem with being a certain level (29), not specific things like Crafting being broken.

Yikes, this is a pretty major issue. Especially for something intended to help new players out.

FIX PLS !

leveling system is bad enough atm doesnt need bugs xD

Just leveled 1-400 and received a whopping 2 levels. This game needs serious help or people are going to leave. What’s the point in having gold if it doesn’t make things like this easier?

It’s not just crafting. There is a bug that’s causing some people to gain almost no XP. 29 seems to be the common one as another guy said, but I think some other levels are getting it too.

Here is the bug thread for it: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/EXP-Drastically-reduced-when-I-hit-level-29/first#post4399162