Guild Wars 2

Is Scribe an actual real crafting discipline with levels that takes up a license spot?

I ask because I understand it is guild based and is to be primarily used for consumables. But, will it simply be done through the guild panel or from the guild hall or is it a standalone thing like chief, or weapon-smith.

If it is standalone I would buy the extra craft license so my main can have 3 professions on him (the 3rd being the scribe) so I don’t have to swap to an alt to make guild things.

I have an official Dev response when I sent a PM to Tyler B

Tyler Bearce
Yes, at least one character in the guild will need to use a crafting slot for the guild to gain the benefits of a scribe.

It will be yes. There are some personal benefits you can get as well from having one of your characters be a Scribe, but we haven’t heard anything on what those perks might be.

Sorry to be bothersome but do you have any links to that anywhere or can anyone else confirm? From what I read it sounded exactly like that as well but then I could only find random Dev comments in POI’s and nothing actually text or from an article.

I really want a 100% yes Dev answer :P

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

It will be yes. There are some personal benefits you can get as well from having one of your characters be a Scribe, but we haven’t heard anything on what those perks might be.

I hope those personal benefits are account bound…

As far as I have seen they haven’t clarified that anywhere. They did say in the original post about it that once the guild unlocks the scribe station members can learn to be scribes… which could mean it takes up an active crafting spot, or it might just be an additional thing.

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I’d love to get a Dev response because if so i’ll be handing you my $$$ today in terms of crafting license gem item! Otherwise I’d end up waiting or possibly never buying it.

No I am not an actual crafting discipline.

-Scribe