Guild Wars 2

am a total noob in the game, almost level 30, i am a noob gamer aswell (this is my first game) so please go easy on me and help me out.

am a human/ranger i don’t know anything at all about crafting, i never crafted an animal i just deposit crafting materials as collectivals so do i really need to craft? how do i do it? were do i do it? help me please. point me the right direction. do a good deed and help this pathetic noob

In every capital city, there are a couple of icons you’ll find on the map – a cauldron for cooking, a piece of leather for leatherworking, a gem for jewelry crafting etc. etc (most of the time they are near to eachother).. If you want to learn, for example, leatherworkng you go up to the NPC who is right next to the station (the icon on the map) talk to him, and you’ll know leatherworking. You’ll need to buy some leatherworking supplies from that same NPC and you’re as good as ready to get going. The same goes for every other profession, as far as I’m aware. I don’t think it’s necessary to craft, although for example cooking could be very useful as it gives some pretty nice buffs. You are a human so in your capital, Divinity’s Reach those stations are in the District Promenade (Ministers Waypoint). Hope I was able to help you out, at least a little. You can have up to 2 active crafting professions but you can, for a small fee, change them and learn another 2 without losing the progress on the previous ones.

Here you go…

http://gw2crafts.net/

Two things I wish I understood from the beginning a bit better.

1. You start with ‘some’ items that you can make for 10th level that utilities animal parts (like claws, fangs, venom, blood, etc). You must ‘discover’ how to make the higher level ones. Once you reach the appropriate level to make the next tier insignias, or whatever they are called for your profession…except cooking, that’s different, to make a tunic, you use that new thing you learned plus two pieces you need to make the tunic of the last thing you made in that tier (assuming you haven’t moved on to new material) and use the discovery to ‘discover’ (and create) the first of that item.

2. With the exception using refinement at each new tier of material to get as much out of that to gain experience as possible, once refinement is green (well, grey, but finishing up green is probably not worth it), it’s all about ‘discovery’ to gain experience. It’s not like WoW where you make 100 items of the same thing and that will get you 15 levels. You get very little experience making something you already made. You get a ‘ton’ when you learn something new. Leveling is about discovering as many (and the cheapest material-wise, to keep your costs down) things as you can until you get to that next level.

The guides from links that people post, like the above one, should be a lot clearer once you realize that. I don’t know how many of the sites sit down and explain why things are the way they are vs just saying “buy 100 of these 120 of those make 5 of these, then use those to make 5 of these bigger things…”. A lot of crafting guides are written for people who are rich and famous doing CoF P1 (until recently) and never crafted before, and want to knock it out in 7.34 minutes.

Oh, and if you get a crafting exp booster, hold it until you got a lot of material to sit down and so as many new discoveries as you can in an hour. Drink up, discover away!

Don’t do it. It’s a noob trap designed to remove all your gold.

Everything you craft sells for less than the cost of materials because the XP gain is worth more to people than the product. It’s an inverted market.

It’s better to just sell all materials and salvage items (at the best price you can get)