Guild Wars 2

So there’s been some rumors going around that XP gained from crafting will not contribute to Mastery tracks. Only “confirmation” that someone has said was that they thought they heard it on a livestream. Anyone have a link to where Anet said anything about this if it exists?

i sure hope it does if i am going to spend ~ 500 gold to level all crafts from 400 to 500 at some point.

Well up to lvl 80, I don’t expect it to. I would expect if my character is level 80 that any future XP gain contributes to Mastery tracks regardless of the source.

I’d just like to find out where people are getting their so called information from because I remember during the livestream when they were talking about masteries about everything contributing to it. They were talking how you might go gather random nodes because, hey, it gives you XP for masteries. Don’t see why they would change it for XP gained from crafting especially since it used to give you Character XP and would result in skill points before.

I don’t know, but maybe not because of this

The next Mastery, Productive Downtime, grants bonus crafting experience, which Josh said will be very helpful in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns. Not only will the expansion add new recipes, but having a high crafting level is necessary for the upcoming legendary precursor crafting Mastery!

You would get exp from crafting and bonus exp and bonus on the bonus….. all going towards a mastery line.

Isn’t crafting XP different from regular XP? I mean, using a Crafting Booster only boosts crafting XP, but does nothing for XP toward leveling.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Isn’t crafting XP different from regular XP? I mean, using a Crafting Booster only boosts crafting XP, but does nothing for XP toward leveling.

Currently xp is xp, the boosts provide a bonus to the activity you are doing be it crafting, wvw, kill etc

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Isn’t crafting XP different from regular XP? I mean, using a Crafting Booster only boosts crafting XP, but does nothing for XP toward leveling.

Crafting XP contributes to your crafting level. Whenever you finish a crafting level, you get character XP.

The Crafting Booster and one of the bonuses on the Item Booster grants you additional chances to critical when you craft an item getting bonus crafting XP.

The new XP booster grants you +50% XP from all sources. This will apply to the character XP when you finish a crafting lvl.

Linfang.1087:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Isn’t crafting XP different from regular XP? I mean, using a Crafting Booster only boosts crafting XP, but does nothing for XP toward leveling.

Currently xp is xp, the boosts provide a bonus to the activity you are doing be it crafting, wvw, kill etc

No, crafting xp is a completely different system.

Crafting grants both XP and crafting XP. The orange numbers at the top of the window when crafting (with the little anvil icon) are crafting XP. Crafting XP is applied when gained to raise your crafting level. This is also the type of XP that crafting boosters actually boost.

Crafting XP only ever applies to leveling crafting, however any time you gain crafting levels, you generally also gain normal XP, which is denoted by the same yellow xp numbers you see when doing other tasks.

PopeUrban.2578:

Linfang.1087:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Isn’t crafting XP different from regular XP? I mean, using a Crafting Booster only boosts crafting XP, but does nothing for XP toward leveling.

Currently xp is xp, the boosts provide a bonus to the activity you are doing be it crafting, wvw, kill etc

No, crafting xp is a completely different system.

Crafting grants both XP and crafting XP. The orange numbers at the top of the window when crafting (with the little anvil icon) are crafting XP. Crafting XP is applied when gained to raise your crafting level. This is also the type of XP that crafting boosters actually boost.

Crafting XP only ever applies to leveling crafting, however any time you gain crafting levels, you generally also gain normal XP, which is denoted by the same yellow xp numbers you see when doing other tasks.

This.

Simply put, crafting xp goes towards your crafting skill. Once you get a full crafting skillpoint worth of experience, you gain 1-4% of your level needed experience. (see https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Experience )

Thus
- crafting level 1-125 give you 1.25 levels
- crafting level 126-250 give 2.5 levels
- crafting level 251-375 gives 3.75 levels
- crafting level 376-500 gives 5 levels

for a total of 12.5 levels worth of experience from crafting no matter what level you are.

Not sure this will extend to masteries. Maybe, we will have to wait and see. Otherwise I see people creating multiple level 80 characters and pushing crafting skills (some people are sitting on over 1 thousand tomes of knowledge) to get masteries maxed within days.

So to confirm, crafting does not give XP to mastery tracks (at least not to Fractal track).