Guild Wars 2

Direwulff.2396:

The drop rate on “fine” crafting materials is fairly low. that being said I think you just had bad luck or were not in a good spot for those items. you will not be able to maintain 2 crafts at once from your first characters farming effectively. What i recomend is to wait till later levels and then work on 1 craft to max. later on come back and do a second probably with purchased materials from the TP or alts. I am waiting to do crafting on my current alt untill about 60-70 because crafting from 1 to 400 gives you 10 levels of experience… I would rather get 10 big levels of experience instead of the starter levels that go by so fast.

That’s some good insight, one I hadn’t considered myself. I always thought it was important to get started early in the game, but maybe it doesn’t have such a huge impact.

Thank you for your help, I’ll definitely consider this.

I have a level 15 mesmer. I am finding Guild Wars 2’s crafting system pretty frustrating and complicated at the moment, mostly because it seems as if the drop rate on the fine material that I need in order to advance in tailoring and artificing is very, very low.

I’ve searched the internet far and wide for information on where and what creatures drop the things I need, and when I then go there to farm, I seem to leave the area with almost none of the materials I sought in the first place, but with a lot of junk that is only useful for being sold.

Take this for example. A YouTube guide suggested a place in the human starting area that spawns mobs which drop Tiny scales, tiny claws and weak blood vials, all of which I need for articifing. After 30 minutes of killing the mobs that are supposed to drop these things I have, in total: 1 tiny scale, 1 tiny claw and 1 vial of weak blood.

Am I being unreasonable for feeling like having wasted 30 minutes of playtime?

I have the exact same problem with finding materials for tailoring.

Is this a common problem amongst players or am I doing something wrong? And if so, could you please tell me what I’m doing wrong so that I can do something about it?

I am level 12 and 15 in articifing and tailoring, respectively. I feel as if I’ve made very little progress and would like to speed it up a bit.

Thank you in advance!
Errol 246