Guild Wars 2

What’s a good way to gather copper ore in Queensdale? Trying to level my weapon/armorcrafting. Also, can you sell items crafted by you?

You wont sell at a profit before 400+ and even then its not by much, I would sugest you just salvage it to get back materials to craft more.

Yeah, if you’re just starting out in the game, I’d just save everything you gather. Make sure you have the highest level gathering tools you can use, and gather everything as you’re mapping/leveling. Deposit it all to your material storage, and let it sit there until you’ve amassed a good number of mats and currency. Once you’re further along, then you should try out crafting.

I’m level 25, I’ve started doing crafting, I’m 38 on armorcrafter.

In the north east area of this map there is path that goes to a cave with a good supply of copper ore.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Heartwoods

Slightly southeast of Godlost waypoint is also nice. Usually one or two copper nodes there and sometimes a rich copper node. A bit further in Bonegrinder gully is another permanent rich copper node. The area near Vale waypoint often has a lot of copper nodes as well.

The most time effective route is to start from Scaver WP, and head counter clock wise to the Troll cave/Ettin tunnel by Vale WP, then across the lake at Claydent falls, past the spider tunnel (backdoor into/out of Claypool), out the main ‘pack bull’ gate, round the hill to the Bear caves, then across the Heartwoods to the main Ettin cave and the hill above (with a side trip down to the Skale nests).

From the Hill, hug the hills towards the Monastery, then through the swamp in a counterclockwise sweep past the Fort towards the door into Bonegrinders Gully (type /threaten into map chat to open the door), then over the vet spider hill by the Hoofmoot Hero Point/POI and sweep round towards the centaur camp passing the vet Basilisk in his overhang lair. From there head towards Beetleton through the seraph/centaur camp and into lake Beetleton and downriver towards the Eastern Dam past the drakes. Then sweep down the hill line towards Beggar’s Burrow, across the main lake to the Skrit caves, before heading back across the lake and home to DR.

On average a full sweep of that route should net you between 148 and 158 copper ore – depending on any gathering bonuses you have up.

[Pauses for breath…]

If you can afford a Clockwork Mining Pick you’ll add to your profit with the sprockets you would get as bonuses as you go. This is a personal call though, since you trade off the ‘pebbles’ (gemstones) you would get from other types of pick, which can be worth more than sprockets depending on the market.

Harvest the green wood logs (and amber pebbles) on your way to offset any WP costs and add to your profits.

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