Guild Wars 2

Can anyone give me some tips for levelin crafting quickly? I’m near max level and I’m stuck in the first tier of crafting cus I just don’t get materials anymore. And when I go farm I hardly make any xp with what I do make.

Any tip for leveling Artificing and Tailoring quickly? I need to hit 400 in both so I can make my exotics when I hit 80

Thanks for the help in advance

If you want to level it “quickly,” prepare to spend a lot of money at the Trading Post. My best piece of advice would be to hang on to all of your fine crafting materials because you’ll be using them.

Also, when you hit 375, purchase one of the second-to-last tier recipes from the karma vendor. Otherwise it’ll take forever to hit 400.

How do I get to 375 though xD.

Buy your mats at the trading post, and prepare to be broke for a while. There’s no easy way to do it that isn’t very expensive.

To be fair, it only costed me around 2 gold to level from 1 to 400 in an hour with Jeweler

Unless you have a difficult time to gain gold then id say to spare all your gold till you’re max level and can afford it

Also, make sure you’re discovering recipes and not just making items from the recipes you already know. A lot of people miss that part, and discovery is where the best experience is.

Jenosavel.1756:

Also, make sure you’re discovering recipes and not just making items from the recipes you already know. A lot of people miss that part, and discovery is where the best experience is.

That’s my main problem I can never discover anything cus I don’t have a clue of the general formulas.

General formula for armor would be the two parts of the armor piece you’re trying to make + any insignia. Insignias are made from the fine crafting mats. Weapons have an equivalent.

For most disciplines there are intermediate crafting materials you will have to make in order to start discovering recipes. For example:

The general formulas can usually be gleaned from you starting recipes. To make a coat, for instance, just look at the one you start with – you’ll need a coat outer (i.e. panels), a coat inner (i.e. lining), and an insignia of some sort. That’s your pattern.

So then you just make all the kinds of insignia you can, one for each piece of armor (usually 6 pieces of armor [head, coat, leggings, etc], so make 6 types of each insignia).

Then make the components for each type of insignia (if you made 3 kinds of insignia, make three coat panels, three coat linings, three legging panels, three legging linings, etc).

Then go to Discovery and make all the possible combinations you can – mix every kind of outer/inner with every kind of insignia. That’s the way to rake in crafting (and real) XP.

Every discipline except cooking uses that same general formula. Everything is typically 2 general components + 1 upgrade component. Check the wiki for specifics if you need more info.

Start an alt & use that to acquire the Fine ingredients you need to level. Or go broke on the TP! The biggest bar to advancing crafting is Fine ingredients (Totems, Fangs, etc).

One thing that will help is Craft All. You get bonus xp the more you make of something. Therefore, when you open a new craft tier, make sure you have a nice big stack of the basic resources to refine. You can get up to 25 levels from that, if you have enough. 250 will usually (if we’re not talking e.g. making bronze) get you about 20-23 levels.