Guild Wars 2

I haven’t got around to my first Legendary Weapon yet but from what I have read each weapon needs two crafting professions at 400 and the professions vary according to which weapon you want to make.

New players are not always sure which profession(s) to learn. It would seem to me that the first place to look is to find out what you will need to craft your Legendary Weapon.

My first character was a Warrior so I chose weapons and armour crafting because it seemed logical for that character type. Perhaps if I had known about Legendary Weapons I would have looked there first to find out which two professions I would need. I don’t know everything about LWs but I suppose that even if you aren’t sure which sword you might want, for example, you could get a rough idea of what to pick.

So, I would suggest to new players when deciding which crafting professions to learn, assuming you only want two, look here first http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Miyani and read the “Gift of ????” list to see what they all are and which you might need someday.

As an example Leatherworker is needed when making “The Flameseeker Prophecies”, a Legendary Shield. As far as I know the Leatherworker doesn’t make gear for any class which uses a shield so that Profession might be ignored by someone making a Warrior or Guardian both of which can use Shields.

Not everyone would want to learn a new Profession from scratch just to make their Legendary.

By the time that you get enough gold/mats etc to craft legendary, getting all professions to 400 is nothing. It easier then killing single fly. You can lvl all professions on one char if you want, and it’s a way to get this 200 skill points faster.
You can also craft legendary on your alt, if i’m not wrong there are soulbound on use so you can transfer them between characters.

It’s better to choose profesion based on what type of exotics you want to craft then on legendary.

I just have alts and all of them have two different crafting professions. This makes leveling them up a lot faster, too.