Guild Wars 2

So regarding this update in the patch notes:

“Weaponsmith, Huntsman, and Artificer can now be leveled to a rating of 500.”

and this:

“Crafting experience for all disciplines has been updated to accommodate leveling to a rating of 500. As part of this, the total amount of leveling experience that comes from leveling a crafting discipline now requires leveling all the way to a rating of 500.”

I interpret this as meaning that even the disciplines not yet adjusted to level 500 will still give XP based on being level 500. Does this mean you can no longer get 10 levels from say crafting Cooking or Jeweler if you go from 0 – 400 even though they are currently capped at that level?

I’d also like to know why this change was even necessary. This is supposedly a game where you can level via crafting, so why make it even more ridiculously expensive to do so than it already was???

Let me state that I agree it wouldn’t be a big deal if someone could just get more XP, but given the curve it would be 5 more levels from 400-500 based on:

1-100 1 level
100-200 2 levels
200-300 3 levels
300-400 4 levels
400-500 5 levels

I mean, 15 levels from one craft, not that big of a deal I guess, but I guess they thought it was too much. It does suck if it changes the 0-400 crafts.