Guild Wars 2

For a mesmer and elementalist? I was going to try tailoring but someone said its expensive to start with, I am also hearing mix things, is stuff I can craft beneficial compared to loot from karma and so on? I did hear the trade post is tough so do not expect to make much money.

Any info is greatly appreciated thank you! And have a great day/night:)

Take this from someone that crafts very little (I’m a pvp freak). I’ve leveled Weaponsmith to 500, Chef 400, Huntsman 400 & Leatherman 400 (all this past month)—for the sole purpose (because WvW is dead and im bored as all hell with sPvP) of going full PvE mode come HOT (I want shinnies).

Basically broke even after crafting and selling the stuff back.

Was it fun to craft? Yep, I enjoyed it.
Was it profitable? Not at all—but at least I did not lose money so I’m fine with that.

Its profitable in the long run.
Like selling bolts of damask or other time gated stuff(like maudrey items).
Also its faster to get ascended armor/weaps.
But it is a gold sink to get to 500.

- Ascended crafting (so you are not limited by RNG drops)
- Legendary Crafting
- Special Items (for exemple Mawdrey or exotic back item)
- Making money (some specific things can yield money, but you need to know what to do and the vast majority of people don’t get their money back from level up their crafting profession.
- Completing everything (there is some achievement for completing crafting profession to 400 and 500).

Out of all the crafting professions I found cooking to be the most useful since I could craft the majority of my Nourishment (food) at a cheaper price than buying it off the post. Otherwise, all the weapon based professions are good for the Nourishment (utility).

Cooking does not appeal to me at all, so since you have to buy the mats for tailor I am guessing that is not recommended any suggestions?

Ryou.2398:

Cooking does not appeal to me at all, so since you have to buy the mats for tailor I am guessing that is not recommended any suggestions?

We can’t recommend anything. It depend on what you want to do. My suggestion would be to wait. At some point you gonna need something that require crafting and you will know what to do.

Thaddeus.4891:

Ryou.2398:

Cooking does not appeal to me at all, so since you have to buy the mats for tailor I am guessing that is not recommended any suggestions?

We can’t recommend anything. It depend on what you want to do. My suggestion would be to wait. At some point you gonna need something that require crafting and you will know what to do.

This does not make sense, if one is more of a gold sink then the other then sure you can recommend something for a new player beyond just cooking and that is exactly what I am asking here.

Ryou.2398:

Thaddeus.4891:

Ryou.2398:

Cooking does not appeal to me at all, so since you have to buy the mats for tailor I am guessing that is not recommended any suggestions?

We can’t recommend anything. It depend on what you want to do. My suggestion would be to wait. At some point you gonna need something that require crafting and you will know what to do.

This does not make sense, if one is more of a gold sink then the other then sure you can recommend something for a new player beyond just cooking and that is exactly what I am asking here.

It does make sense. We can’t recommend what works best for you because we don’t know what you want to do with your crafting discipline. It really does depend on what YOU want from a crafting discipline. Some options are far more expensive to level, but you can also make many more useful (and more expensive) things with those crafts than you can the cheaper crafts.

If you want to use one to level up, then cooking would probably be good to start with; jeweler is also cheap and good for leveling. If you’re wanting a profession that can refine materials for you to either sell or save towards making Ascended armor, then you might want to look into one of the armor crafts (tailoring, leatherworking, armorsmithing). If you want to be able to make weapons to use/forge for precursors, then you’ll want to pick a craft that makes the weapon types you plan to use the most. If you ever want to make yourself ascended armor or weapons, then you should look into leveling those crafting disciplines to 500.

So yeah, it depends on what you want to do with it.

Ryou.2398:

This does not make sense, if one is more of a gold sink then the other then sure you can recommend something for a new player beyond just cooking and that is exactly what I am asking here.

It make sense. They pretty much cost all the same amount. Some cost a little bit less, but not that much and that not what’s important. What’s important is what do you want do to.

If you want to make a legendary, you gonna need specific crafting to 400 depending on which legendary. So for me it could be Weaponsmith and for your it would be Huntsman for exemple.

If you want to craft ascended armor/weapons you will need specific crafting. If you are a staff Ele you want Tailor and Artificer, but if you are a Greatsword Guardian you gonna need Armorsmith and Weaponsmith. You can reach 500 in those crafting and craft your armor, or you can just accumulate ascended boxes and only reach 400 in those crafting so you can change the stats of the ascended stuff you get in the boxes.

It really depend on what YOU want to do. But when you are a new player, you don’t really know. You may change profession, maybe you gonna drop an item that will push you toward a crafting profession, maybe you gonna like something that need you to have a specific crafting profession, etc. That’s why you should wait until you figure out what is best for you.

Trying to figure it out now will probably push you toward completing something that might not be that useful to you.

Practically any of the crafting professions are gold sinks. Yes, you can make money through the TP or save money by crafting items yourself (vs buying them outright), but that has the potential to change radically at any moment.

Specifically to a Mesmer or Ele: tailoring would be useful to both classes since they are both Scholars and use the same armor categories. Weaponsmithing and Artificing are both useful for crafting their primary weapons though you’ll need a few weapons from Huntsman as well for a Mesmer. Artificing can also be use for crafting slaying potions.

Jewellery crafting is universally useful for any class as everyone make use of trinkets. Currently, the craft is limited to exotic quality items but will advance to Ascended after the expansion.

The only ones I can see not being immediately useful for you are Leatherworking and Armorsmithing as neither of your toons can make use of the majority of the items that are crafted from that discipline.

Otherwise there are a bunch of one-off type items that require a random crafting discipline.

Again, we have no idea what you’re after so it’s going to be pretty difficult to point you in a direction. If you’re ultimate goal is making of the post though, you won’t find many people willing to part their money making secrets as those flipping techniques/secrets are what’s making them money.

As I clearly said what would be useful for a mesmer or cooking folks stop being an elitist please and actually read the original post. And if it actually did make sense you would of said they all cost nearly the same in the first place!

savacli.8172:

Practically any of the crafting professions are gold sinks. Yes, you can make money through the TP or save money by crafting items yourself (vs buying them outright), but that has the potential to change radically at any moment.

Specifically to a Mesmer or Ele: tailoring would be useful to both classes since they are both Scholars and use the same armor categories. Weaponsmithing and Artificing are both useful for crafting their primary weapons though you’ll need a few weapons from Huntsman as well for a Mesmer. Artificing can also be use for crafting slaying potions.

Jewellery crafting is universally useful for any class as everyone make use of trinkets. Currently, the craft is limited to exotic quality items but will advance to Ascended after the expansion.

The only ones I can see not being immediately useful for you are Leatherworking and Armorsmithing as neither of your toons can make use of the majority of the items that are crafted from that discipline.

Otherwise there are a bunch of one-off type items that require a random crafting discipline.

Again, we have no idea what you’re after so it’s going to be pretty difficult to point you in a direction. If you’re ultimate goal is making of the post though, you won’t find many people willing to part their money making secrets as those flipping techniques/secrets are what’s making them money.

Thank you this is all the info I needed yet it was so hard for everyone else to look beyond there own ego and suggest something.

Because you are playing light armor classes, i reccomend you tailoring. Although its expensive, you can make ascended armor with it(best armor in game). You can take one of the weapon making professions, but you didnt say what weapons you use.

savacli.8172:

Practically any of the crafting professions are gold sinks. Yes, you can make money through the TP or save money by crafting items yourself (vs buying them outright), but that has the potential to change radically at any moment.

Specifically to a Mesmer or Ele: tailoring would be useful to both classes since they are both Scholars and use the same armor categories. Weaponsmithing and Artificing are both useful for crafting their primary weapons though you’ll need a few weapons from Huntsman as well for a Mesmer. Artificing can also be use for crafting slaying potions.

Jewellery crafting is universally useful for any class as everyone make use of trinkets. Currently, the craft is limited to exotic quality items but will advance to Ascended after the expansion.

The only ones I can see not being immediately useful for you are Leatherworking and Armorsmithing as neither of your toons can make use of the majority of the items that are crafted from that discipline.

Otherwise there are a bunch of one-off type items that require a random crafting discipline.

Again, we have no idea what you’re after so it’s going to be pretty difficult to point you in a direction. If you’re ultimate goal is making of the post though, you won’t find many people willing to part their money making secrets as those flipping techniques/secrets are what’s making them money.

Please show me source on the bolded part no were have I read that jewelery will get bumped to 500, always made me kinda bumed it wasent already upgraded since my first char was jewelery/huntsman

For the long term, I suggest tailoring and artificing. Tailoring will allow you to make the ascended thread and cord(account bound) needed for making Damask and Elonian Leather (ascended, sellable). Artificer will allow you to make the account bound glue and mithrillium for sellable ingots and planks. this way, regardless of whether you choose to craft ascended gear or not, you can still craft the time gated materials and make gold from that. You can also craft those at any level, I believe, so if you start early, you can create enough ascended mats for your own gear, plus have extra for selling on the TP.

Also, the fastest, cheapest way to level crafting is via the refinements, then backpacks, then components, and sell the components/insignias/inscriptions on the TP. Use a crafting booster, ALWAYS, whenever you can get one.

Linken.6345:

savacli.8172:

Practically any of the crafting professions are gold sinks. Yes, you can make money through the TP or save money by crafting items yourself (vs buying them outright), but that has the potential to change radically at any moment.

Specifically to a Mesmer or Ele: tailoring would be useful to both classes since they are both Scholars and use the same armor categories. Weaponsmithing and Artificing are both useful for crafting their primary weapons though you’ll need a few weapons from Huntsman as well for a Mesmer. Artificing can also be use for crafting slaying potions.

Jewellery crafting is universally useful for any class as everyone make use of trinkets. Currently, the craft is limited to exotic quality items but will advance to Ascended after the expansion.

The only ones I can see not being immediately useful for you are Leatherworking and Armorsmithing as neither of your toons can make use of the majority of the items that are crafted from that discipline.

Otherwise there are a bunch of one-off type items that require a random crafting discipline.

Again, we have no idea what you’re after so it’s going to be pretty difficult to point you in a direction. If you’re ultimate goal is making of the post though, you won’t find many people willing to part their money making secrets as those flipping techniques/secrets are what’s making them money.

Please show me source on the bolded part no were have I read that jewelery will get bumped to 500, always made me kinda bumed it wasent already upgraded since my first char was jewelery/huntsman

Yes please. I was really bummed to find out my chef and jeweler couldn’t create ascended items.

Ryou.2398:

As I clearly said what would be useful for a mesmer or cooking folks stop being an elitist please and actually read the original post. And if it actually did make sense you would of said they all cost nearly the same in the first place!

Mate, they gave you all the relevant information you needed to make an informed decision. These guys are helpful members of our cummunity.

Calling someone that goes out of their way to inform you elitist is rather rude.

Linken.6345:

Jewellery crafting is universally useful for any class as everyone make use of trinkets. Currently, the craft is limited to exotic quality items but will advance to Ascended after the expansion.

Please show me source on the bolded part no were have I read that jewelery will get bumped to 500, always made me kinda bumed it wasent already upgraded since my first char was jewelery/huntsman

Not only that, but Jewellery is pretty useless to everybody. Ascended trinkets are so easy to get, there is no reason to waste gold to get exotic trinkets. Worst case scenario you don’t have a guild can ascended accessories are expansive, but for 2 accessories you are better off with buying exotic version on the TP. The back item can’t be craft by jewellery so ya. Jewellery is one of the worst crafting profession. There is 4 reasons to get Jewellery. Level up an alt (it’s the second less expansive with Artificer to 400), craft some dungeon recipe (you need to drop them first), complete the achivement or for legendary crafting.

Thaddeus.4891:

\The back item can’t be craft by jewellery so ya. Jewellery is one of the worst crafting profession.

There is a back item that you can make as Jeweler.

RoseofGilead.8907:

Thaddeus.4891:

\The back item can’t be craft by jewellery so ya. Jewellery is one of the worst crafting profession.

There is a back item that you can make as Jeweler.

True. But you can craft one with any profession.

Any crafting that gets you to 500 is handy as you get 8 levels worth of xp.