Guild Wars 2

I don’t really get it. I have a somewhat large stockpile of materials by this point, but since I never figured out how to level leatherworking, I can’t really forge anything. Granted, that’s fine for now since I’m not at a point I’ll need to start forging ascended gear yet, but it’s another way to gain exp, one I’d like to understand for the future.

Apparently you’re supposed to experiment a lot. That’s all I could find searching around. Thoughts?

yeah finding new recipes give you the most xp in crafting. If you really want to lvl your crafting. Search for a guide. If you want to it without a guide i shall tell you this :-).

you need to craft new armor that you don’t have in your recipe list yet.

what does it take to ‘find’ those recipes?

make the 2 pieces of armor for the same armor piece. ( i cannot remember the names. But you always need to make 2 things for gauntlet’s or 2 things for a chest piece.) and make 1 insignia. go to the discovery panel and throw in those 2 things frome the armor and the insignia and you should have that piece of armor with the stats of the insignia

Honestly, I wouldn’t just experiment with the crafting to gain exp. I’d use a guide, as valheru suggested above. Gw2crafts has great guides that are cost-efficient.

TBH using the discovery tab/process is actually pretty easy and a good way to lvl up crafts. I have almost all crafts at 500 which can go to 500 all just from the discovery panel and gathering everything myself.

The secret is once you figure out a recipe it is very simple to figure out the rest as they all follow the same pattern. Either 3, 8 or 15 of a certain fine mat, the 2 components such as say a shaft and axe head or spearhead etc. Every weapon/piece of armour all have the same stat combos available so it’s pretty easy to figure them all out each tier you go up.

Hope that makes sense.