Guild Wars 2

“Crafting is not profitable, but…”

Should be even on low lvl, but it’s not. You can buy bag or craft it buying rune of holding and gathering/buying resources. Amount is similar, if you already have resources – yes, you can earn few silver, but… oh wait, paying fee/tax and you earn almost nothing! Scraps? You refine them, but price on trade market is the same, so even refinement doesn’t work. Why bother then? Armors? Come on! Rares and exotics demand from player super-rare and super-amount of mats. You need lot of farming to gather them or buy it, ok… so why bother in crafting, can buy it now.

But… if you gather everything around you if you have new character you can get lot of exp and let’s say for cooking, which is probably most profitable for your own good – you have free potions and boosts. Cool!

But#2… if you want money you should sell ALL mats you gather. Easiest way imo is farming Centarus in WvW, cuz they’re dropping Heavy Supply Bag (4s each) and they drop it pretty often, so in hour I would dare to say you can earn around 1G just from those bags, not to mention other loot. It’s sad that PvE standard area can’t give you that (for instance best tier crafting gossamer can’t be earn other way than 100% map completion high level areas or… WvW).

It’s my opinion, and I’m not even playing 2 months, so I may be wrong, just my view after few weeks of playing.

Summary

Craft is fun in some ways but by all means not profitable as it should be, would dare to say not profitable at all if you’re not 400lvl and have tons of super-rare mats from wasting time on farming them. Why we have to buy spools and runes of holding? If I’m good at crafting and someone’s not, why he has more money from selling mats than mine refinement, investment in crafting tools and time. No crafting=more money, period. Unless you’re chief which can produce nice boosts.

Had it twice, it’s very annoying cuz I had in in Arah Story and Fractals, so I simpy couldn’t restart the game in the middle of the dungeon.

As above I have same problem, but what really made me mad was last mission. Not to mention last fight was a joke, in the middle of the whole run sound crashed and it sounded like a alarm in a loop, even when I alt-tabbed the game. It was lasting forever so after completing annoying and worst mission in history of games ever I had to restart the game.

And I know this thread’s last post is from 2 month ago, but since nothing has changed I post it now, a little angry after last mission.

After lot of exploring and leveling tailor I crafted my first armor set and as it is weaker than my current gear I wanted to use transmutation. But I can’t, I’m choosing all stats and still button is grey. I’ve already have Heritage looks on my current gear but I thought that transmutation could be done always and it doesn’t matter that has been already transmuted once before..