Guild Wars 2

I currently have armor smith, weapon smith and artificer maxed out (500). What is the best way to utilize crafting to make gold (and trying to not use Vial of Powerful Blood as much as possible)?

I would use a combination of sites.

GW2Spidy can show you the most profitable items to craft in each profession. I would then check those items against their listing in GW2BLTC and see the estimated number sold in the last 24 hours. It doesn’t matter if something is very profitable, based on low ask Vs crafting cost of raw mats, if nobody is buying them.

Be aware that GW2Spidy refreshes the profitable list at a much slower rate with current sale prices so that’s another reason to crosscheck with GW2BLTC.

Also word of advice, make an amount relative to the amount that is selling. That is don’t flood the market, that tends to cause rapid undercutting.

Behellagh’s advice is excellent (as usual).

In general, crafting isn’t profitable the way it is in other games — the specific items that are worth crafting change with the market. The sole exception are items that are limited to one/day (or crafted with items that are) — these are nearly always profitable (again, being careful not to flood the market).

The wiki’s list is current as of Halloween’s updates:
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Server_reset#Crafted_items

(it’s missing the stuff you need for a certain special mini, which are also limited to 1x/day)

T7 mats still yield some profit although they generally stopped being worth it since LS3 started up.

I’ve made some money with rare purple dye but dyes are low volume items. You’ll have to collect your own grapes from the Fields of Ruin grape farm (southeast corner).

At one time brown pigment was valuable so I would gather potatoes from Loreclaw, make brown dye, and salvage.

Promoting bronze to iron ingots works pretty well, again you need to gather your own copper, there is a rich copper vein in the ettin cave in Queensdale where the oak event used to spawn.

You can also make the T7 mats. I got lazy and I let nearly 100 of each mat accumulate, I dread the effort to convert them to gold.

See the common thread in these? You have to go to the effort to collect mats and somehow add some value in order to get some profit.

Cakemeister.5792:

I’ve made some money with rare purple dye but dyes are low volume items. You’ll have to collect your own grapes from the Fields of Ruin grape farm (southeast corner).

At one time brown pigment was valuable so I would gather potatoes from Loreclaw, make brown dye, and salvage.

Promoting bronze to iron ingots works pretty well, again you need to gather your own copper, there is a rich copper vein in the ettin cave in Queensdale where the oak event used to spawn.

You can also make the T7 mats. I got lazy and I let nearly 100 of each mat accumulate, I dread the effort to convert them to gold.

See the common thread in these? You have to go to the effort to collect mats and somehow add some value in order to get some profit.

Even then it is not guaranteed that the result is actually profitable. For example even though Sheet of Charged Ambrite requires a time gated component making and selling it actually causes you to lose a bit of money each time. At one point I think spiritwood and elonian leather were in a similar situation or it was just barely profitable like a handful of silvers.

Cakemeister.5792:

See the common thread in these? You have to go to the effort to collect mats and somehow add some value in order to get some profit.

Not entirely true. There are some markets in which you can buy the raw materials and convert them into items that yield profit. Such as the market for Ancient Staff Shafts. As of right now if I bought Ancient wood logs, converted them to ancient wood planks and then converted them into Ancient staff shafts I can make 14silver profit per shaft.

skyhawk.5149:

Cakemeister.5792:

See the common thread in these? You have to go to the effort to collect mats and somehow add some value in order to get some profit.

Not entirely true. There are some markets in which you can buy the raw materials and convert them into items that yield profit. Such as the market for Ancient Staff Shafts. As of right now if I bought Ancient wood logs, converted them to ancient wood planks and then converted them into Ancient staff shafts I can make 14silver profit per shaft.

Which then sell very slowly.

“can make” vs “will make” profit

for a while I was getting a decent profit from scribing sigil/runes but then I got bored with it.

Flipping on the Black Lion will always be the quickest way to make money. Easiest as well. A seasoned flipper turns a 100g profit using 200g to begin overnight.