Guild Wars 2

so I’m sort of out leveling my crafting skills, I’m a necromancer and I work in tailoring and artificing. When I went to make clothes I found after dozens of hours I couldn’t make a single bolt of fabric.
Am I suppose to buy materials in the market and spam creations I’ll never use just to get my crafting level up or is their a more organic approach?

I think the fastest way to level all professions is to buy the components and discover the items but it is expensive, just gather everything possible, what your not using you can always sell on the trading post.
Also there’s some great guides if you google the profession of choice.

You can also salvage these items and get some of the materials back. I’ve been making new items with the same scrap of silk over and over.

Like MP said, it’s all about discovery. I also leveled up Tailoring and Artifice as my first two on my Elementalist. I always like to pick some skills that go with my first character in an MMO so I can ‘live off the land’ as much as possible. I find that very much a part of my leveling enjoyment journey.

There were 3-4 noticeable times when I stopped ‘pushing’ my ‘leveling’ (looking for new areas and hearts and such) to sit back in past areas to work on my crafting, doing a little material farming by moving around in a zone from group of mob to group of mob so as not to get bit by the DR.

I found that if I started about 3 levels before I needed the items, I’d ‘just about’ get it right. Early on, I was making myself stuff every 5 levels. There were 2-3 times when I fell behind and had to sit and grind out the materials.

Just remember it’s all discovery. And if you can get your hands on any craft xp boosters as you do it, then save up what you want to do until you can get one of those hour buffs on you then let loose.

Also watch the bonus you get from WvW. If you happen to be on a server that does well in WvW, you can get a little bonus there by waiting towards the end of the week to craft. I never worried about that much myself, but I’ve seen it mentioned before by others, so thought I’d include it.

It was a ‘little’ discouraging at first seeing how much standard experience you got from crafting, but running a character now that does ‘no’ crafting (just gathering) I miss it now. I’m finding I need to sneak some ‘other’ zones in as I level to keep pace with the zones they are ‘leading’ me through as part of the story.

The ‘organic’ approach for me was to let go of needing to be in a zone that my level was at. Since I decided that crafting as I went was most important to me, I let that level, and the related materials, and the zones you got those materials in, drive where I was. Once I decoupled that in my mind, I was happier.