Guild Wars 2

I started playing GW2 again about a month ago after over a year of absence. Much has changed and much has been forgotten from the first time I played as I’ve played many other MMOs since. Anyway, I’m giving it a second chance and I had a question about crafting.

I’ve only leveled one crafting profession from 0 to 400 since I returned and I got about seven character levels while doing so (58 to 65). I was about to undertake leveling a second profession to 400 and was trying to do some research about it before I began as I didn’t know if it was more productive to level it on a lower level character or a higher one.

So far my attempts to search for such data has left me a little confused. I see in countless places data stating that you will ALWAYS get at least 10 character levels from leveling a profession from 0 to 400, no mater what level your character is. This was anything but the case when I did so last week so I was confused.
Admittedly the newest place I read such data was over 9 months old, so I thought it best to ask here since I’m not aware if the crafting EXP was nerfed since then of if by using Crafting Boosters while leveling the first profession up I somehow shorted myself in character exp.

Any help would be appreciated.

anet nerfed it a few months ago, you used to get 10 levels, now 7

I see. That’s rather… sorry, can’t think of a nice way to say it. What was the point? Most crafting professions are quite expensive to level, it’s not like new players were leveling too fast using the crafting (unless they were buying gold from the in-game store).

Would I be wrong to assume that the experience gains from other sources were nerfed within the past week or two? I ask because when I first started back I made a new character and leveled it to 80 without too much hassle then leveled a second older character up as well, but now this current character I’m trying to level this past week has been doing all the same things I did with the others but it just feels like the grind is ten times worse than it was before and I’m getting no where levelwise.

I don’t think anything else with exp was nerfed

I got my warrior from 32 to 80 in three days just farming boss blitz

it’s in the crown pavilion in divinity’s reach, it’s temporary content though, will be gone july 1st

To be a bit clearer, what happened is they raise the level cap of most crafting profession to 500. But kept the fact that leveling from 0 to max will give you 10 levels.

Since you are stopping at 400, you are only getting 7 levels. Even if currently, cooking and jewel crafting cannot go beyond 400.

They did not nerf it….per se. They extended the crafting on most crafts to 500 and the same level XP is spread over the 0-500 range. That means only a bit more than 7 levels is available when crafting to 400.

Currently, Chef and Jeweler is kind of nerfed, however (as they still only allow 0-400 advancement).