Guild Wars 2

I’m making my fourth character and it is currently level 15. I’m wondering if anyone knows approximately how much money it would take to level him the rest of the way AND get some decent gear (let’s just say exotics with sigils, runes, jewels, etc.)? If it only costs me $20 to get him 80 and “geared” then I’d be interested, but I’m not sure how much it would really cost me.

Right now it looks like roughly $10 for 800 gems for about 50g
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Leveling cooking would cost me roughly 10g to get 7 levels, but I’ve read that’s one of the least expensive crafting disciplines.

I need 65 more levels, so that’s over 9 crafting disciplines that need to be like cooking but they all give varying amounts of levels and require varying amounts of gold to powerlevel.

I’m thinking the gear would be about 3g a piece so 14 × 3 plus w/e for the runes, sigils, etc.

Are there better ways to level than crafting if you’re going to pay for it?

Finally, I’m aware gear varies greatly in price so I’m just looking for a baseline.

One way to level “relatively” quickly is by jumping into WvW and zerg running for a week. You could use WXP and karma boosters to help out. Another option is the boring old Queensdale champ train (I can’t handle that one for long, but some do it all day?). You could craft the cheaper crafts. If you have a crafting booster that helps. Also use gw2crafts.net. That shows you exactly what you need and how much it will cost.

Good rule of thumb for gearing is about 40g, but that was before ascended armor came in. I think exotic armors are cheaper now. You could also use karma to get exotics. I hope this helps.

Craft leveling is not really worth it anymore, its so expensive to max out a crafting profession now, compared to like a year ago. Its going to cost you probably a couple hundred gold…

^thats only if you go to 500, which you dont need to, if you go to 400 on the most expensive profession its maybe 30g, 0-400 cooking is about 5g, leatherworking/huntsman is also fairly cheap compared to some of the others

If you take him to the LA events and get found belongings you can buy Tomes of Knowledge for 100 Found Belongings and 30 silver, worth one level from a vender. A guildie bought 12 levels for an alt doing this.

If you don’t want to spend that much, running him through the events for the exp might be worth looking at.

Temple armor for karma is “free” but you need a fair amount of karma.

Thanks for all the responses fellers.

The idea was to do as little work as possible to get to the state of “ownage.” Ideally there would be a gem store option to pay $20 bucks to get your character to lvl 80 but sadly there is not (I probably haven’t thought of all the repercussions/implications of this non-existent feature). Then just pay for some more gold/gems to buy gear, so that essentially I could get there in say 5 minutes and a lot of dough.

Well truly if throwing gold at it works for you then you can craft each dicsipline to 400 in about 4 hrs. Then see above ideas for getting to final levels.

I think for 20 dollars u can get lvl 80. U would need approximately 7 crafts at 400 to reach 80 from lvl 15. Maxing 7 crafts will cost about 110g. If u use a crafting booster and craft on thursday (wvw artisan bonus) u can make it cheaper due to the critical crafts.

About full exotic gear, depends on what stats u want, but will prolly be around 30-50g for all the stuff (not taking special skins into account).

So getting to 80 fully geared will cost around 150g = 2400gems = 30$

for fast guides: http://www.gw2crafts.net

Not incluiding crafting it took me about 15G’s to get my engineer up in exotic gear, runes incluided, however this was buying the gear in WvW, so you need the badges of honor, wich are easy to get in the edges.