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Agreed with penatbater on most everything, with one exception: Take Leatherworker as a Thief, not Tailoring, as Thieves use Medium Armor.
The best way to go about getting crafting materials is to: a) gather every node you see, and b) salvage items you don’t need. The prices you get from the merchant for semi-rare and rare items are typically negligible, and you can get some good amounts of crafting materials out of it.
You’ll also need some other ingredients, called “Collectibles.” These are dropped from various monsters around the game, and obviously the weaker enemies drop the earlier “tiers” of crafting collectibles, whereas stronger enemies will drop higher tiered crafting items. These don’t auto-sell when you hit the “Sell Junk” button at merchants, and you can hit the little gear icon in your inventory and hit “Deposit All Collectibles” to make them go to your Collectibles screen in your bank. (If you haven’t seen it, when you’re at the bank, it will be a little tab below the standard bank tab, and it contains a slot for every collectible in the game—so they don’t use your bank space and you can teleport them there anytime you want.)
The nice thing about GW2 is that you get an impressive amount of experience toward your actual combat level when you craft, which stands as a nice incentive to do it (in fact, I think some of the first 80s were big into crafting, as it helped them get a few along the way). So I’d recommend crafting just based on this.
However, there’s also the matter of runes and gear modifications and food buffs and a host of things you can get out of crafting, so I’d recommend it for that as well. I’m sure it is going to be a situation at end-game where you can go into a dungeon and get better gear than a crafter can make, but so far the gear I have been able to make has been comparable if not better in some cases to the gear I could obtain through random drops and event chests.
I’d definitely say go for it!
Kessex Hills guide is up! More to come soon!
This is a little series I am doing that shows precisely how to get every vista in the game.
I include click-able annotations laid over the world map in the videos so that you can jump directly to whatever vista you want to view.
I’ll be churning out a new video every couple of days, until every single zone in the game is covered. Let me know what you think, and if there is any way I can possibly improve the videos through editing or whatnot!
And if you like them, go ahead and subscribe! I’m looking forward to some other video projects for Guild Wars 2 that will be more community-based and less “Here is where I ramble about the game” -based.
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