Guild Wars 2

So I am trying to lvl up both my leatherworking and huntsman profession. But, for some reason it has being difficult for me to obtain the mats unless I buy them, which cost some good money. I started on Caledon Forest as a Sylvari and I want to know where and what should mobs should I be farming? I do know all and if not most of the mats do not drop directly but mostly savaging items which I have being doing. But for example Rawhide Leather sections, i have only found 6 after nearly 4 hours. Do know right now I am lvl 27, so i went to Brisban Wildands and I am farming there Lurke and Boar but at most all i can get are Tiny claws. I did get like 4 Tattered Hide which savages to rawhide leather. But I am still having difficulties getting that one good location.

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance.

You can also salvage leather armor for leather pieces. That’s a good source of materials (same with cloth and chain armor for cloth/metal straps).

I have not ran into a lot of issues with crafting materials. As long as you level mostly by discovery, then you should not need such a large amount of materials.

That’s exactly the thing with crafting: armor and weapon smithing is easy to level up. Copper, iron, silver, platinum are everywhere. My friend went from 0 to 300 in a few minutes using materials he gathered over a few days of random playing, while I’ve been collecting leather from the start of the head-start period to get my leatherworking up, only to get it to 60 before the trading post went live.

In Caledon Forest, the Bandits give up a good amount of leather scraps in the bags they drop. Also the Drakes in the lake areas drop leather scraps. I have not found Caledon Forest to be a great place for leather drops.

I’d move to Queensdale and farm the Bandits and Centaurs for leather.

At Vakarisj, I know what you mean, so much mats and I am only still at lvl 23. Now, Kal2376, i have savage, white, blue and green all kinds of armor, and mostly either i get some type or ore or jute scraps, which i need but i get lucky. At most i get Ore. I know what GW2 means now by having no need for profession. It is extremely difficult. Again, it might be only me, I might be just looking/farming the wrong areas. There is no truly yet website that has an accurate mob names with drop rates/location. But though, some people could have suffered my pain and have found some cure.

Don’t forget tattered hides ….

Nukum.4502:

In Caledon Forest, the Bandits give up a good amount of leather scraps in the bags they drop. Also the Drakes in the lake areas drop leather scraps. I have not found Caledon Forest to be a great place for leather drops.

I’d move to Queensdale and farm the Bandits and Centaurs for leather.

The bandits, ohh those bandits Scotta Bandits, I was there on Tuesday, 3 hours, got 46 bags of goods and like 15 bags of something else, not one had a leather. Did have a lot and i mean a lot of cooking mats. How much luck is that? lol

leather should be as easy to farm as ore is to farm…

IE put the stuff on mobs at a higher drop equal to how many ores are in the zone…

for example: if i am able to farm up 25 ores in a single zone in under 30mins, i should be able to kill mobs in that same zone for 30mins and also get 25 leather (or scraps that will give me 25 leather)…

Crica.1503:

leather should be as easy to farm as ore is to farm…

IE put the stuff on mobs at a higher drop equal to how many ores are in the zone…

for example: if i am able to farm up 25 ores in a single zone in under 30mins, i should be able to kill mobs in that same zone for 30mins and also get 25 leather (or scraps that will give me 25 leather)…

If that’s an idea you are giving, that will be great. Because the truth is that is not true at the moment. Right now, I just finished reading a thread that says anyone grinding/farming for too long the drops rate and loot quality will be reduce to prevent any botting or any of that matter. If this is true, then this sucks.

Also, how does Discovery actually work? i am reading many threads in regards to it but no one really explains how it works or what i should be doing?

Discovery generally works like this. You have the basic recipes to make all the armor pieces. So what I do is create the pieces (ex: boot soles and boot upper) then make an insignia (like Malign Jute Insignia) and then you go to your discovery tab and you put each of those pieces into the slots and it will say “This looks like something. Press craft to discover the recipe.” or something along those lines. Press Craft and it will create the item and show you the recipe. You then will have that recipe in your Production tab. You can make the same kind of boots with all the different insignia types to discover all the boot recipes. Then you can do gloves, helms, coats, leggings.

Discovery mode gets you a lot more xp than just produces what you already know. So it is the key to leveling up your crafting.

One thing to consider about discovery mode though…early on. If you are trying to craft a level 10 item. Just craft it. If you craft it through Discovery it turns it into a pretty nice level 15 item, lol…nice, but useless to your up and coming level 10 toon.

Normally not a problem unless you’re short on mats.

Raf

Ok cool, i will give Discovery a swirl, maybe it will help me doing some much grinding/farming for mats by trying to use the current recipes.