Leveling 400-500 Armor Crafting
Usually you buy the insignias (usually obtained from salvaging exotics from fractals)
Here’s a guide that compares TP prices of materials
Bloodstone bricks, dragonite ingot and empyreal stars are a cheap way of levelling.
Also join a guild who has the crafting bonus tavern upgrade, it stacks with all other crafting bonuses.
Use crafting boosters and then make exotics until you hit 450. Craft T7 materials until 473ish and then get to 500 on exotics.
My alts are pretty much all at 475 and this is what I did for them. It only took about a month of making T7 mats. Many of which you were likely going to craft anyway or can just sell.
This is why leather and cloth prices are wrong. The prices are all balanced around Ascended Armor crafting. True, those are all roughly the same gold cost now after recent events, but the leveling up of leatherworker (and tailor, still) is grossly more expensive than armorsmith or any of the weapon crafts. That’s what the costs of the materials should be balanced around, but this is a personal opinion.
As far as tips? Have patience and slowly amass all the materials yourself. Play the game normally, you’ll like burn out on ‘farming’ for it.
Wait, there is one tip I remember. Complete the original Personal Story on as many characters as you can. The later episodes (in Orr) gave me a fair bit of gossamer and hardened leather compared to any other play style I’ve done. Farming for it will just burn you out since you’d probably get more gold doing something else to just buy it with… which just ends up driving the price higher.
ah, thanks a bunch for that link!
Typically it’s best if you were to make a set of gear you’d use anyways; maybe for a new build or new character. That’s how I usually did it. http://gw2crafts.net/ is very useful.
Also, the cost for crafting to 500 is peanuts compared to actually crafting ascended armor. If you’re having trouble with leveling up crafting, then I would recommend reconsidering pursuing this until you have more gold and instead farm some more materials. We are talking thousands of gold here. If the idea of 10g for an insignia troubles you, then well…
for there you have been and there you will long to return.
(edited by ArchonWing.9480)
400 → 425 : refine T6
425 -450 : craft exo
450 →475 : refine T7
475 → 500 : craft exo
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