Crafting

So, after 3 BWEs and Two Stress tests, I finally decided to take up crafting.

I have to say, this system was quite enjoyable compared to the go buy 500 recipes from a trainer in other games.

I managed to get 100 in a particular crafting discipline. Using the "Discovery" party of the system is how you boost your levels quickly. A word of advice is the basic components, burn through those first, they'll get you those first 20 levels fairly quickly if you have enough. Then discover, each armor piece has a "Discovery" that boosts your levels by large leaps. Just a bit of advice.

Crafting material stacks cap at 250. so, remember to keep your tools on you if you plan to do alot of crafting. It was also pretty decent experience as well.

I'm never a big crafter and I always struggle to commit any real time to it in any game I play. But with GW2 being such a beaut of a game (in my eyes) I may try once more to explore and enjoy this aspect of it.

I have no idea what you're talking about when you say "Discovery". Is it like when you strip back something you already have to find out the recipe?

Is 100 good or is there still a long way to go? :)

I tried my hand at crafting though I didn't get very high, I only got around 25 in tailoring and artifice. I liked the discovery aspect of crafting but felt I never had enough materials.

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I'm never a big crafter and I always struggle to commit any real time to it in any game I play. But with GW2 being such a beaut of a game (in my eyes) I may try once more to explore and enjoy this aspect of it.

I have no idea what you're talking about when you say "Discovery". Is it like when you strip back something you already have to find out the recipe?

Is 100 good or is there still a long way to go? :)

100 is pretty much still low out of what i think is 400 overall.

The "Discovery" is basically new recipes you make from your materials as an added customization method.

If you take, the items you make from a say a Tunic, which would be a Lining and Padding (this is from tailor but most of the professions work like this) you go to the discovery page, place the Lining and Padding in along with an "insignia" this will "discover" a new piece of armor, giving a large boost in your skill.

If you add an Insigna for Vitality, Healing or Precise, you can get a piece of gear that boosts said stat.

Or, the pieces of a ring, you can discover recipies from this. the 3 ring sections in jewelry + certain type of gem, you discover a new item from it.

The system itself is alot easier because past the basics they give you, you create your own crafted items list, instead of just going down and buying a preset list.

I've always loved crafting in MMOs and GW2 is no exception for me. I got to play with it during one of the beta events and I really enjoyed the system. Like bluegamers pointed out, the discovery system is really neat. I enjoyed trying to figure out new recipes, but I bet it'll only be a matter of time before there's a wiki filled with all of the discoverable recipes.

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A word of advice is the basic components, burn through those first, they'll get you those first 20 levels fairly quickly if you have enough.

I read somewhere that crafting basic components only give xp when you create them between level 1 and 25 (and level 100-125 for tier 2, ...). So during the beta i saved up my gathered materials for a while before starting to craft. When i reached level 12 i decided to give crafting a try. Together with the materials gathered from my two other toons (level 10 and level 5), i still did not have enough copper to get to level 25. The crafted armour was level 5. Apparently i'll have to start crafting at level 5. To avoid buying basic materials i'll either have to spend a lot more time gathering or level up 5 toons at the same time.

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Crafting material stacks cap at 250. so, remember to keep your tools on you if you plan to do alot of crafting. It was also pretty decent experience as well.

It's a good thing you can access your bank tabs at every crafting station. You can even access non-crafting stuff. Unfortunately half crafted items aren't stored in the collections, but in your normal bank tab. I guess that forces crafters to buy extra bank tabs.

Yes, when you crafted the basic crafting material (bolt of, or ingot or bar, whatever) for tier 1, experience starts to cut out heavily around level 25 generally due to it becoming a "Trivial" thing. This is when you switch to making armor and "discovering" new things. repeating this process for each new "tier" which the next is at 50, then 75, and 100. until you reach 400 at the end of it all.

I easily went from crafting level 20, to level 70 in a matter of 15 or so minutes just discovering and breaking down. This was if you have a good stack of materials (which come really quickly, so should be no problem early on), and breaking down your disciplines materials.

Them adding the bank tabs available to stations like that is a nice thing. The thing about the materials that you craft is, you really aren't suppose to "keep" them on yourself or in the bank alot. Crafting, Breaking down, discovery, breakdown some more, sell on trade. Thats generally how they want you to keep things a little clean.

But yes, having the small bank, does force alot of different users to buy bank tabs, like crafters, horders, and so on.

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I easily went from crafting level 20, to level 70 in a matter of 15 or so minutes just discovering and breaking down. This was if you have a good stack of materials (which come really quickly, so should be no problem early on), and breaking down your disciplines materials.

With breakdown i assume you mean salvage. I hadn't considered that. How much of the original basic materials do you get back?

Yep, salvage hehe. It isn't a whole lot you get back from it, but if you've crafted alot of items, you can maybe get enough materials back for 1 or 2 more items.Or just save them for later.

Did you manage to get your crafting skill high enough to actually use your crafted items?

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It isn't a whole lot you get back from it, but if you've crafted alot of items, you can maybe get enough materials back for 1 or 2 more items.

At least that is better than having to vender trash it off.

OH yes, I was playing an elementalist at the time, doing Tailoring and Jeweler actively at the time, I had a few 10 slot bags and also crafted myself some armor early on as well.

But yes, their goal like they said for crafting is, everything is useful. Which for the most part is true, even if you craft stuff you don't need you can just salvage it to go into other crafted projects as well. Otherwise, just keep the materials for other crafting disciplines.

Somebody has started to put together a map with the locations of the crafting nodes: http://gw2craftmap.bteamgaming.com/

Takes some of the exploration out of it but if you need something specific it would be useful :)

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Somebody has started to put together a map with the locations of the crafting nodes: http://gw2craftmap.bteamgaming.com/

Nicely done, even with a description on how to get to the farms. I had noticed the potato farm icons on the map but figured it was bugged, it took me a while to notice that there was a floating platform.

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Takes some of the exploration out of it but if you need something specific it would be useful :)

If you need something, it's hard to remember where you have gathered it before.