Guild Wars 2

I bought the game around launch but have finally gotten around to actually playing. I rolled a Norn Ranger which I’m really enjoying, although I may want to try some other professions in the future, and the game is gorgeous! I also really liked the character creation experience.

My main question is about crafting—are there any decent crafting guides for beginners out there? I’ve gotten some crafting items here and there but I haven’t figured out what to do with them.

Second question—RP communities. I enjoy some RP occasionally. Does anyone know where I could find out about RP communities?

I don’t really know of any crafting guides but I think the wiki explains it fairly well, if you haven’t looked at it yet.

For roleplaying, the guildwars2roleplayers forum is probably where you want to look.

It’s not the sexiest site for what it is but I think this is the current go-to for crafting guides:
http://gw2crafts.net/

additionally, this will come in handy one day:
http://www.gw2db.com/

Use this http://gw2crafts.net/ very useful but you have to learn where to craft and how first with wiki/google.

Stay away as far as you can from crafting if you are new even if you getting familiar to the game don’t touch craft if you are poor crafting only use to create end game gears otherwise not worth it beside it give you about 7 – 10 lv per 400 – 500 job.

Look down into community corner you will find the answer better than ask here..

Tips
- Sell everything to Trading Post ( Press O ) for better price
- Deposit all crafting stuff you looted from your adventure
- Don’t sell mats unless you in need of money, they make alot of profit in future
- Don’t feel too bad if you’re not get the answer you want from map chat it full of troll.
- Google Heart of The Mist test all class before you go further – Time is Gold
- Do not listen to any bad cmts about the class you like – Follow your heart
- Find a nice Guild – If you ask many time and no one answer or too few active member ( Check first ) – Just leave and find another Guild don’t waste your Guild Slot.
- Optional ( not recommend ) Find a mentor who willing to teach you everything about the game.

Most crafting guides are about how to level your character the fastest or cheapest way with crafting and not about using it.

If you don’t realize this, on your inventory pane there’s a gear in the upper right, if you click it there are options one which is Deposit All Materials. This will send any crafting mats to your Material Storage tab at the bank which is also accessible at the crafting stations (crafting first pulls from inventory then Material Storage). This way you can empty your inventory of mats for crafting at any time. Material Storage can hold 250 of each material, expandable with Storage Expanders at the cost of 800 Gems per additional 250, up to 1500 maximum storage for each crafting material.

The only confusing thing for me wasn’t it obvious, when I started, that to make an item you first have to craft the individual parts of that item. Now you can click on a known recipe and if you don’t have that element, you can click on that element to select that known recipe, etc. You will still need to experiment to find “new” recipes that are level appropriate for you to craft but once you get the idea of one “type”, puzzling out the others are trivial. As in, you use this tier 2 fine material to get gear with this attribute. So you can switch out the tier 2 to see what other gear or switch out the gear parts, say for sword, and try dagger with the original tier 1. Play around, it’s not that tough once you get the hang of it.