Guild Wars 2

This might relate to more than just this one crafting skill, but it seems to me I’ve been spending far more on raw materials than actually making money on the finished product? Doesn’t really make sense to me.

Any tips?

I’ve noticed the same thing, sadly. Even though I go out and farm a lot of my mats, I still have to buy runes/thread and those are horribly expensive. (I’m only lvl 125, I can’t imagine how much pricier it will get!) So far, I haven’t found a way around this. I wish that some of the items we needed (like blood, scales, fangs, etc.) would sometimes drop more than one item at a time. It seems like its a lot easier to get things for some other crafting professions – when you find wood, you get at least 3 logs from a tree, you get three or more chunks of ore from a vein, and now that cooking items are dropping, I’ve gotten almost 30 butters out of a couple of hours worth of game play. It seems a little unbalanced, we should have a chance of getting more than one ingredient per kill… it would drop the price down on the trading post a bit, I’m sure.

Prices are only going to get worse since cooking ingredients now drop from supply bags and in abundant supply, too…