Guild Wars 2

lukemon, I’ll sorta repost what i said in another thread.

As you’re leveling, you will do a little grinding. I’m not talking insane or anything, but mobs that have been alive longer have better loot tables and xp. Let’s say you’re in a cave and you want the nodes in there. Say there are spiders in there. Kill one. If you get bonus xp, Kill every single one of them you can find, you’ll get a lot of venom sacs because its been a while since someone last killed them. Grinding- and I use this term losely because this grind is absolutely nothing compared to other games, in such a fashion will, i promise you, eliminate your problems. Just make sure that if you kill a mob and notice he dropped some crafting mats, or say you kill three buddies together, and get mats dropping, just go medival on them and slaughter them all. I know you have some sort of AOE weapon that can get this job done quickly. Grand total, i’ve spent probably an extra hour while I was leveling doing this, and because of that one hour spaced out, i’ve never had to buy mats. Just try it.

I’m sorry but I’m going to call it like I see it.

All I hear is someone who is crying over spending 2g getting his crafting leveled, WHEN, if he had just killed a few extra mobs while leveling, he wouldn’t have been ripped off by the trading post.

I have 400/400 Armorsmithing and Jewel crafting. They were not hard to level, JC being a complete joke in my mind. Armor smithing was at times, I admit, a little frustrating. However, i quickly learned my folly. Whenever I was leveling I would bee line it straight for hearts and other objectives, only doing the bare minimum to get completions. I caught on very quickly to this being a horrible idea. Instead, I slowed down a little bit, and in my normal course of play, if i happened to find a spot where mobs were dropping some crafting materials, i would tear them all apart. Literally took me like 5 extra minutes, tops, and all of a sudden, I have more crafting mats than I know what to do with.

Nothing is wrong with the game. I’ll even throw you a tip- mobs that have been alive for a long time have stacking loot tables and experience. If you kill a few mobs and you see mats dropping like crazy…guess what. It’s been hours since someone killed them… SLAUGHTER THEM FOR GREAT JUSTICE AND LOTS OF MATZ. But instead of doing logical things, you impulse bought and now are raging about it. That’s not healthy for the community and it’s not the sort of “dumb things down for me plz” attitude anyone respects.