Guild Wars 2

I don’t mind using extra money/karma, but will doing so hinder me much? Jeweler was my other option.

This article convinced me that cooking is awesome. It is definitely worth a read if only for the smiles it will bring. I’ll go ahead and say it is NSFW due to some strong language, but also because your coworkers will probably wonder why you are laughing histerically.

http://www.dragonsworn.net/lets-have-a-little-talk-about-guild-wars-2/

I’ll leave you all with two words: Bay Leaves.

—Trikk

I haven’t seen any issues with it.. I honestly find it helps leveling and whatnot.. then again, I’m only 33.

On a sidenote, cooking is WAY TOO FUN to care about Karma right now for me. :> I’m sure karma will be easier to get higher level in higher amounts anyways.. repeating an event does still give you karma.. so yeah. I wouldn’t sweat it too much I guess?

What I did was go to the official wiki and looked up which 2 trade skills were necessary for the legendary weapon I wanted and picked those. Long as I have at least 1 alt with non sharing trade skills.

cooking is actually great way to lvl ur character, not to mention it is interesting to find out new ways to waste some food irl mixing em together and trying to copy ingame receipts.

I just wanted to point out that even though you can only have 2 active professions at a time, you can actually learn all of the crafting professions. Switching them out isn’t too expensive and you retain all of the recipes that you learned. So if you wanted to, you could level chef and then swap it out for your other choice later on or vice versa. Since it doesn’t really matter, I’d say do whichever one you think is fun. =)

I tried leveling cooking but the gold/mat input was just so high compared to my artificing that I dropped it in favour of another easy profession. I would say no since you require mats from all the areas at all levels, in artificing for example I need 1 teir of wood/ore, and that same teir of the special items (dust, totem, venom etc.). For cooking you need all the crafting mats from the 2/3 areas at your level as well as mats from the teirs below.

On top of that you make a whole bunch of materials which you need, are only good for crafting but don’t go in the collectibles window, this meant that about 60% of my bank was taken up with cooking mats that I couldn’t use because I didn’t have the 1/2 specific things which made something with them as they were from the norn area, or the char area etc.

Cooking to me is something you level with an alt OR you do from max level when you have already spent 60-70 levels collecting a bank full of random cooking mats.

I haven’t seen much of an issue with cooking costing more than other crafts, and it’s very fun. There are certain ingredients you can only buy from an NPC, but a lot of times it is in bulk (10 or 25 of one item) and therefore the price is reasonable IMO. But I’m not trying to store up my karma or coin for anything right now.

I do agree, inventory space does become a bit challenging if you craft a ton of foods at one time. I had to sell a lot of the food I made on the trading post just to get rid of it, and I am constantly consuming something when I’m playing. I just make it too fast and a lot of the bonuses last 30 minutes. The list prices were probably only a few bronze, so don’t expect to profit too much. The only item I saw with actual orders were ones that have a +magic find. I will probably focus on making those foods over others, if I can.

The good news is you can try it, if you hate it, switch to something else. I love it.

I picked it up as one, and now i’m constantly broke, but it seems the easiest to level, as long as you can get the ingredients from the heart people. I also took tailor and i’m stuck at wool level with that, but am over 300 rank with cooking. Gained a good deal of levels from doing it, once i gained three levels from just making so much stuff.

My most often eaten thing is the one that boosts magic find, not sure how good it actually works, but hopefully it does.

ozymandias.5317:

This article convinced me that cooking is awesome. It is definitely worth a read if only for the smiles it will bring. I’ll go ahead and say it is NSFW due to some strong language, but also because your coworkers will probably wonder why you are laughing histerically.

http://www.dragonsworn.net/lets-have-a-little-talk-about-guild-wars-2/

I’ll leave you all with two words: Bay Leaves.

—Trikk

Thank you! That just changed my world. In all the right ways.