Guild Wars 2

Total noob, but I don’t how to find new recipes in professions. The interface seems to make me want to “guess” which mats will discover a new recipe. Is this right or is there some other way to go about it?

Oh, you mean crafting disciplines. Professions are like Ranger, Elementalist, Warrior, etc.

This may be helpful: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Crafting

There are also crafting guides available across the web (use Google to search).

Good luck.

The main way to learn new recipes is through the discovery tab, which is presented as combining random things to see what happens. This is also where most of the experience comes from so it’s essential to level up crafting.

But it’s not actually random – there is a pattern to it and once you learn that it’s very easy to know what you need to make to ‘learn’ the recipe.

Weapon and armour crafting is the simplest. Virtually all the recipes have 3 parts – 2 parts that make up the basic item (like a sword blade and hilt or a helm case and lining) and an ‘upgrade’ component, which is always an Inscription for weapons and an Insignia for armour. So you make the 2 basic parts and the inscription or insignia, then go to the discovery tab to combine them and learn the recipe. Then you move on to another one and repeat the process.