Guild Wars 2

I know that if i wanna level a little faster and have some cool items while doing so i need to get some crafting skills. But i am having a hard time deciding? What are 2 of them that you run into mats often and is good for a ranger?

Let me recommend Leather working for ranger simply because you can keep yourself in gear as you level… AND some of the best gear in game you can make for yourself at level 80. (after a lot of farming :P) You get experience for turning jute scraps (and later materials) into cloth and leather scraps in leather. The tough matts are always the trophy items used to make the insignias. So your second profession should probably not require those items. I have never tried being a gem crafter but wonder if that wouldn’t be a good match.

edit: and make sure and grab a logging axe, mining pick, and harvesting sickle so you can gather ALL matts. It also levels you.

And you will need salvage kits to blow up light armor and medium armor for cloth and leather. Also handy to blow up excess items you made to get some matts back. And of course used to blow up salvage scraps.

So is it wise to salvage everything that i will not be using? IE: trophies and light / heavy armor and older medium armor that is of no use to me?

I may do the leatherworking just because it would make sense, isnt there something that allows me to make my own bows as well?

Huntsman will allow you to make bows and guns, however, the problem in taking most crafting skills in pairs is that they’ll both use the same fine crafting materials—vials of weak blood, tiny claws, tiny venom sacs and the like—to advance both crafts. You can get around this by working on one of them first and putting in a little extra farming time to advance the other, or choose jeweler or chef as your second craft, neither of which uses the same blue materials as the armor and weapon crafting skills use for their insignias.

Also, I’d advise salvaging all the white drops you get, be they light, medium or heavy armor and any weapons, vendoring the blues and trading the greens that you don’t equip in groups of four to the Mystic Forge in the middle of Lion’s Arch. That will ensure that you have a decent supply of materials and keep you in coin as you level up. It’ll also give you (hopefully) a few useful green upgrades or maybe even an occasional yellow, as well as typically a little extra coinage to purchase some of the insignia crafting materials if you choose to take leatherworking and huntsman.