Guild Wars 2

Hey there-

Never really been a crafter in any game, let alone this one. I really need help understanding GW2 crafting system. I get the basic discovery formats, but I dont get some other stuff with crafting.

1. How do I learn or find out how to convert mats from one tier to another? I cant find anything in game that tells me, and the wiki is not very straight forward on how to do this.

2. How do I use the mystic forge to make stuff? I have tried putting items in but it does nothing more than give me a reduce 4 for 1 exotic.

3. I heard that mystic coins in the Mystic Forge give you named rares/exotics, but I dont want to throw exotic gear away as it costs too much. How does this work? I cant find squat on the wiki about this.

4. When talking about making exotic celestial or ascended gear, I have no clue on where to even start.

Basically, where is a condensed guide on how to level crafting? I cant find any condensed or in-game info on how this stuff works and feels like I am simply throwing mats away.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

1) http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mystic_Forge/Material_Promotion
2) The 4 -> 1 thing is just for gambling. Other items have specific recipes.
3) The weapons you make with Mystic Coins also require an Eldritch Scroll.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Eldritch_Scroll has the list of weapons and what you need to put into the Mystic Forge to make one.

4) Raise your crafting skill for whatever armor and/or weapon skill to 500.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ascended_weapon
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ascended_armor

The wiki is your friend and is the official in game help system.

Not try to be an idiot…

… how do you promote things? That link says that you can promote stuff, but…

Am I doing this through the mystic forge? Buying some item that allows me? I dont know where to go in-game to figure this out.

Seems like a tone of work to try and figure out how to do this… I guess I was looking for something intuitive, or at the least, obvious.

Am I missing an obvious NPC in game that tells me how to do this? Seems like you wouldn’t make a crafting system that required people to wiki how to even learn the system. I have to be missing something in-game… I’m sure it’s obvious, I just don’t know what…

I play for allmost 2 and a half years and i have no clue what “promoting” stuff means.

I’ll try to explain to you as simple as i can.

1. every profession goes to lvl 500 except cooking and jewelery

2 i recommend you try cooking first. It’s cheap, easy and fun to lvl.

3. You can have 2 crafting professions per character, learning it for the first time is free. Just go to lions arch or some other main city and find a crafting station you desire, next to it will be a professions vendor who sells reagents, recipies and other crafting stuff for that profession.

4. Tailoring makes light armor, weaponsmith makes swords, rifles, greatswords, sharpening stones (utility slot consumable) ect , leatherworker makes medium armor, armorsmith makes heavy, cooking makes food, artificier makes staves, scepters, focci, making higher infusions, combining luck etc, jeweler makes rings and trinkets and so on.
Use your brains and logic; you surely wouldn’t pick tailoring if you want to turn ore into ingots.

5. I just figured out what promoting means. I tink that means throwing in t5 materials and getting t6,or making a loadstone out of two cores. you can always check for the mistic forge recipies online.

6. No npc mate, learn yourself it really isn’t that hard. They even made it simpler then before You lvl the profession trough converting ores into ingots, scraps into bolts, making items like armor and weapons, it’s really not that hard.

7. All profesions that are going to lvl 500, at lvl 450 you get ability to craft ascended stuff, after that it pretty much lvl’s by itself.

petespri.6548:

Not try to be an idiot…

… how do you promote things? That link says that you can promote stuff, but…

Am I doing this through the mystic forge? Buying some item that allows me? I dont know where to go in-game to figure this out.

Seems like a tone of work to try and figure out how to do this… I guess I was looking for something intuitive, or at the least, obvious.

Am I missing an obvious NPC in game that tells me how to do this? Seems like you wouldn’t make a crafting system that required people to wiki how to even learn the system. I have to be missing something in-game… I’m sure it’s obvious, I just don’t know what…

I’m not too sure I’d class the forge/promotion as crafting. Honestly not sure what I’d call it but probably not crafting.

But here’s how to promote stuff in the forge.

1 – take 250 of the low level item (so jute scraps or iron ore for example)
2 – take 1 of the item you want to promote to (so with jute you promote to wool and iron promotes to platinum)
3 – take 5 or more of the promotion tier dust (so to make wool you need shimmering dust whereas platinum requires radiant dust)
4 – take 1 – 5 philosopher’s stones (this depend on the promotion level. Lower levels need less stones)
5 – throw all of this in the forge and receive your new materials.

Promoting finished materials (bolts of cloth or ingots etc.) follows similar guidelines but requires more philosopher’s stones.

Very helpful, thanks!

Again, the wiki is your friend.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mystic_Forge/Material_Promotion

I will point out that the return is actually a range, 40-200 for 250 input promotions, 8-40 for 50 input promotions. On AVERAGE, I can’t stress that enough, AVERAGE, you will get roughly 1/3rd of the input quantity returned as the higher quality.

A-V-E-R-A-G-E

Here’s a post I made about two weeks ago about 250 unit promotion stats.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Mystic-Forge-Recipe-Outcome-Averages/first#post4794522

Many of the promotions can result in losing money relative to simply selling the items although this also depends on what you plan on doing with the end results.

Khisanth.2948:

Many of the promotions can result in losing money relative to simply selling the items although this also depends on what you plan on doing with the end results.

And, when working, a website like this can give you an idea what’s profitable at the moment, key word moment, to promote.

http://legendsrpg.com/gw2.php?forge=yes&crafting_type=CommonFineRare

You can do this manually, just don’t forget the 15% loss from selling on the TP in your manual calculations. The other think to remember is you are burning Skill Points to buy Philosopher Stones for promoting, a resource we may be running out of after the expansion hits.

I think there needs to be some delineation here in terms of what the OP is asking:

CRAFTING is done at crafting stations with raw materials and components (that are crafted from raw materials). There are tons of crafting guides available across the web. Note that all the crafting disciplines except cooking follow a very ordered set of tiers and once you figure out the Tiers and progression thru those tiers, it is rather simple (until you reach 400 crafting….but worry about that when you get there). Frankly, cooking just requires you to view a list of recipes on a website and combine ingredients (or you can just start combining as you are able…..it’s kind of fun to randomly discover stuff).

FORGING is done via a recipe of 4 items put into the Mystic Forge that generate another single item (hopefully that is better, but not always).

These 2 things are often mistaken and talked about together but they are only related in the fact that some items needed as ingredients for Forge recipes MUST be crafted (but not always by the player).

As far as I am aware, all the information you need to use the Mystic Forge is available on the wiki on or linked from the Mystic Forge page: Most modern games require website usage to obtain detailed information on all aspects of the game (prior to just trying everything or obtain all items).

Did anyone direct you here yet:

http://www.gw2crafts.net/

Guides on what you need to max each crafting discipline, including the recipes.

Brother Grimm.5176:

I think there needs to be some delineation here in terms of what the OP is asking:

CRAFTING is done at crafting stations with raw materials and components (that are crafted from raw materials). There are tons of crafting guides available across the web. Note that all the crafting disciplines except cooking follow a very ordered set of tiers and once you figure out the Tiers and progression thru those tiers, it is rather simple (until you reach 400 crafting….but worry about that when you get there). Frankly, cooking just requires you to view a list of recipes on a website and combine ingredients (or you can just start combining as you are able…..it’s kind of fun to randomly discover stuff).

Fun until your entire inventory is taken over by the intermediate items. :P