Guild Wars 2

What guides exist to inform people the cheapest ways to level each crafting discipline ?

That means a guide that automatically updates itself as prices on the trading post change. I know of http://gw2crafts.net/ . It’s a start, but it has two problems:
– It doesn’t have any information on scribes. Not a big deal given how expensive levelling a scribe seems to be right now, but it does suggest that the guides aren’t being maintained any more.
– It doesn’t take the price you can sell what you crafted into account when picking the cheapest items. From the faq

Q) Various questions about considering TP sell values or adding vendor cost recovery.

A) Balancing based on TP sell values would add risk to the guide price, as prices would even out and stagnate removing the ability for some people to recovery costs that way and thus making their run through the guide several silver more expensive. I currently provide a “best guess” cost recovery based on maximum bid or vendor price, whichever is greater, and if 0 minimum TP sale price.

There also doesn’t exist an “automatic” way to determine if an item will actually sell at the price listed either.

Meaning that if there was an item that cost 5 silver to make and sells for 1 (net cost 4 silver) and another item that cost 10 silver and sells for 11 (net cost -1 silver, aka a profit), GW2Crafts would pick the 5 silver item. I’d like a guide that picks the 10 silver item and leaves me with the risk of it not selling at that price.

Does such a guide exist ?

Hi there, I searched the internet for a little over an hour for you, but I couldn’t find a guide that takes the things you asked for into consideration. Though you shouldn’t be expecting to make money back using the cheapest leveling guide. The site you provided is actually the site I use to level crafting, I’ve checked for 4 hours on my own a while back and I couldn’t find a better guide, most guides I find don’t list how much it costs or how much each item is. Your best bet is to use the “long” guide for the site you gave us.

Best of luck

Snoring Sleepwalker.9073:

What guides exist to inform people the cheapest ways to level each crafting discipline ?

That means a guide that automatically updates itself as prices on the trading post change. I know of http://gw2crafts.net/ .
Does such a guide exist ?

No. And I would be very surprised to see anyone create something like what you ask, except to use for themselves.

gw2crafts is the most comprehensive scripted guide and its creator stopped playing a while ago. They sometimes get back into to adjust stuff. I imagine with scribe, they are waiting for anet to fix the bugged stuff and for some recipes to be discovered; there aren’t really enough r400 scribes out there yet to be sure a script could adjust itself properly.

Incidentally, you missed some issues with gw2crafts and over-estimated the importance of others:

• The script doesn’t include refinement of ascended mats. That alone eliminates substantial costs in getting to r500.
• It cannot reasonably take into account the value of the things crafted for the reasons stated in the FAQ. It would be fine to do that for a guide that one person uses, but not a script designed for the entire community.
• It doesn’t include the likely value to the person learning the craft. Nearly everyone has things that they can use from crafting and those should be crafted first (at the relevant level of discovery etc). Obviously, players with newer accounts should craft more variety than veterans.
• It doesn’t take into account the value that people put on mats. Folks that farm in one place tend to have an overabundance of pricey mat X, but are short on affordable mat Y. Thus, while technically ‘cheaper’ to craft things with Y, that player would spend less time and out-of-pocket expenses by using X.

tl;dr one-size-fits-all is rarely an actual good fit for anyone and this script comes in just the one size