Guild Wars 2

Im interested in making an alt, and heard rumours that you can actually level up faster via crafting, if you got the gold for it.

Does anyone got experience with this?

Thanks in advance!

Cheers!

Of course! You don’t even need gold for this! You can farm the materials.

You get XP. You get about 10 character levels from leveling one crafting profession from 1-400.

Since you can switch crafting professions, it’s possible to level a character from 1-80 by mastering all crafting professions.

If you just master 2 normally while leveling your character, that’s about 20 levels just from crafting.

Is the XP scaled of some sort?

I mean, doing at level 10, or doing it at level 40… Is that the same xp ?

Is there a wiki page where it lists what items are needed for what profession and what types of monsters drop them?

Here’s a recent discussion about this.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/1-80-with-crafting-only/first#post1179546

There is no list on the wiki but there are guides available, one is listed in the link above. You can also check out the ones at http://www.guildwars2-crafting.com/ which are also good.

The exp is scaled and is the same if you craft at level 10 you’ll get to lvl 20 or start at lvl 40 you’ll hit 50. One profession from 1-400 will give you 10 levels no matter what level you initially started at.

If you’re worried about gold or materials then I suggest Chef as a profession that you craft since most of the ingredients can be bought through karma.

SanctumSyte.5019:

If you’re worried about gold or materials then I suggest Chef as a profession that you craft since most of the ingredients can be bought through karma.

Chef costs a pretty good amount of money between lots of necessary vendor buys (water, flour, sugar, etc) and expensive ingredients on the TP (eggs, vanilla) and very rarely makes anything worth selling on the TP to get a little money back, and never anything that can even be vendored.

Yeah but its will still costs you less overall then say being an Armorsmith. Since with that you still need all the crafting materials (fangs, bones, blood, totem), cloth (jute, wool, linen, silk, etc), and metals (copper, iron, steel, etc). All of which you need to farm or salvage if you have the time or buy off the TP if you don’t. Plus lots of necessary vendor buys like lumps of tin, coal, primordium, and the various spools of thread.

Overall Chef is the profession that will cost you the least if you are starting from scratch since MOST materials can be bought from karma vendors. As for expensive ingredients like vanilla and eggs well you can go out and harvest them, kill the mobs that drop those loot, or if you’re low on coin and time avoid the recipes that require those ingredients. There are plenty of recipes you can skip while still being able upgrade to chef to each tier level.

http://www.gw2db.com/recipes/cook

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Chef#Recipes

Crafting boosters will give you 12 levels per profession.

Artificer is probably the cheapest making potions 1-400