New Player Series - Guild Wars 2 - Crafting Basics

[@Inaeth]

I bought this game in 2016, and finally got around to playing it during the Shelter-In-Place order. I've been missing out on great content all these years! Great video to get a late-comer like me up to speed.

[@teekie9290]

same. About 10 of my friends and I have all started this past week. Now we all own the expansions.. Haha!

[@lgx22]

How much did you spend in 2016 to 'buy this game'? Or did you mean buy the expansion? Because it seems GW2 it is free to play...

[@Inaeth]

@@lgx22 GW2 eventually transitioned to F2P. Back in 2016, you still had to buy it. Also, only the base game is F2P, the expansions must be bought, as must the Living Story chapters.

[@bappo8011]

Wow. As a new player. You’re sooo helpful. Definitely subbed! Thanks man!

[@Walican132]

THANK YOU SO MUCH. As soon as I finish the story (and I just got to the last living story section) Crafting is my next goal.

[@michaelcoffey1991]

Solid video as usual, and really glad you have the passion for Gw2 and the mmo genre as this is a huge huge help for anyone crafting. An in GW2 crafting = the best weapons and armor in game unlike many mmo's. Thank you as always Common Tate for the time these quality videos take to edit, script and upload. All the best.

[@jadesmith8106]

I don't make extra newly discovered items and try to only make new discoveries. Also I salvage everything I make for the lower tiers. It grants me extra materials and luck essences. You can use the essences for artificer craft to make higher great essences. As for refinement don't make more than you need as some of them are also used for other craft leveling. At higher crafts you might want to use the magic forge or auction it at trading post. The pact mastery gives you a bonus in crafting. And it might be useful to buy a storage expander as 250 materials are easily filled up. Everything above 500 you can always auction. And you need to max out crafting to be able to make legendary armor and weapons.

[@gscgold]

great video, exactly what I needed after not logging into GW2 in a few years and had a bunch of stuff in my bank and no idea how to craft anymore.

[@craigslitzer4857]

No disrespect intended against other video makers, but this was the first crafting guide that actually helped me as a beginner.

[@kingcrookies]

Man a returning player since season 2 and man... How easy it was to brush over the discovery function. Somehow made it thru with decent exotics and a couple dungon and pvp loot and now, just started trying to craft gear and damn did I drive myself mad trying to figure out how to get these recipes! Wondering wtf was I gonna do with my world bosses materials.

[@shedyemai]

There are also crafting stations in all the starter zones, as well as Ebonhawke :)

[@Kwashior]

Awesome, informative video. As a new player I now feel confident in how the crafting mechanics work. Thanks dude.

[@360foxhunter]

Love this new player series. I started playing this game a couple weeks ago and this helps a lot. Seriously though I can’t believe I never gave this game a chance before and I am loving it

[@rabijamali6321]

I absolutely love this video. I have been playing for a while and have had trouble with crafting but this right here helped me a ton

[@cynistar742]

Extremely helpful guide for a new comer like me. Thank you!

[@valkyrie-randgris]

I haven't played guild wars 2 for 8 years! Getting back into it with End of Dragons, and I watched this video to remind myself what in the HELL I was doing with my level 368 Tailor back in the day! =P

[@Avery.77]

Thanks for the video! Even if it is not the newest one, it helped me a lot to get into crafting. I started with GW2 a few days ago and I kinda like it. :)

[@mikfhan]

A late reminder that Discovery will give you a good deal of crafting XP so like refinements you may wish to prioritize this - it means you'll be discovering all the different armor or weapon types instead of just recrafting the same one over and over, so make sure you keep salvaging the gear you create - also don't rush to the Trading Post for the final components, the intermediate or unrefined base components are a LOT cheaper on the Trading Post if you can keep track of how many you need. You can right-click any component directly from the crafting recipe window to Buy at Trading Post, but you still need to visit the Trading Post to pick up the components you bought. Keep a notepad handy :) and raise crafting 25 ranks every 5 character levels above 10

[@JMS118]

Thanks! I just started playing a week ago and getting a feel for the game.(lvl32) so vids like this are awesome!

[@wolflahti412]

Get your materials together, then apply regular and guild crafting boosts. *Then* craft.

[@Cobaltbear]

Thank you for the great info. This video has helped me understand the basics alot better. Before I just followed a guide. Now I have a better understanding of what is going on. Thanks again.

[@safiyyahraedellinger1992]

Just wanted to say you sound so much like Hiccup from How to Train Your Dragon and this made me subscribe and enjoy the video all that more. Plus, VERY informative, which was awesome and much needed. Thank you~ XD

[@CommonTate]

That what I'm told but I only kind of hear it. Happy to help!

[@bestmilioplat754]

Thanks a lot for this detailed and well presented guide, definetly helped a lot

[@flibbernodgets7018]

I had no idea you could discover in bulk! That would have made it so easy

[@daan9094]

TYSM i’m really getting into GW2 and this is very useful

[@raphaa16]

I appreciate this video so much

[@MerakiGrace]

nice guide! helped me as a new player to understand how it works but I still don't know which 2 crafting professions to learn hahaha

[@elosyyy]

The first time i read "Crafting Babies", was like "Wait wot?!"

[@michaelcoffey1991]

we all were crafting babies once upon a time :)

[@askaidda4118]

I hope you add the links to several crafting guides bc you can cut the price in half with certain guides

[@sinjunart49]

Super helpful, thank you sir!

[@MinkuMusic]

A good guide as always. Keep up the good work!

[@dskins16]

Nice guide. Thank you very much!

[@niceguy3388]

I really like your intro

[@alexsnel9686]

Do a video of legendary weapons on the weapon crafting window

[@iNioiiviiaiNie]

Dude u should have way more views and subs...nice and informational vid mate

[@Jyotishjyo]

Very nice thanks

[@PJBearstein]

World of Warcraft players would have little or no difficulty learning and playing Guild Wars.

[@welder008]

just started crafting a legendary kamohoali i kotaki. i missed something about what how to salvage the carcharias . just made a big mistake doing a nice thing and crafted an ascended mistbreaker for my son, and couldn't give it to him. no more time consuming mistakes. any help bro thx

[@stefanciltea3186]

awesome guide, keep it up *tumbs up*

[@VictusPrime]

I'm finding crafting fairly difficult as a new player, the fundamentals of it seems a bit confusing being new. But more importantly, I can't seem to level up my crafts because the raw materials that you get outside of harvesting / mining / lumbering never seem to drop from mobs, or very little of these mats come from salvaging gear. After like a few hour session of the game just leveling and collecting mats I can only seem to increase my crafts by like 2-3 levels. Am I doing something wrong or is this a normal pace?

[@CommonTate]

You can get some of those mats from salvaging gear too. You will need to gather if you don't want to spend money on the mats off the trading post. If you aren't power leveling a craft, I'd make it a weekly activity. Build up mats and get a few levels later. I usually just use GW2 craft.net and use gold to get it done

[@bacIsInDaHouse]

I have the same feeling. It would've been fun if I could've crafted some low level gear and use it as my character was lvl 10-30. But I never had enough materials! Now my character is already lvl 80 and only craft low-level stuff because I need to level up my profession to craft better gear... Tbh, it doesn't feel like fun, more like a chore. Besides salvaging, harvesting and buying from trading posts, what might help is looking at the map and hover over certain areas to see what materials you can get there. Problem is you level faster than you can get your materials together. 😅

[@omuriloribeiro]

Nice explanation!

[@Sendoh32]

What level should I really start crafting? New player here

[@CommonTate]

If you're crafting for character levels I tend to wait until around lvl 30. Just know you'll have to buy the higher tier mats of the TP. If you just want the craft to make weapons or armor, just level them as you level your character.

[@PrinceoftheDeadd]

Thank you so much

[@tatianasearle3470]

Nice video, but you've made 2 errors. Firstly, Jewelcrafting is useful for any level, as jewellery are buff-giving items which go into the "trinket" slots. Secondly, Scribing is also not level-dependent at all. The trainer NPC's are located in Guild Halls and the profession allows you to craft Guild Hall decorations, so you need to be in a guild first, but other than that, there are no differences between it and other disciplines.

[@sir_ladykiller1803]

You have to own an expansion for scribe as well

[@philiplee1119]

im new to this mmo and i gotta say everytime i've picked up materials i just didnt know what to do with them. i would either sell them or destroy them to make room for armor and weapons. right now im sitting at level 26 and i JUST realized i can right click and store them under the bank tab. after that i was wondering what the fuck i do with a bottle of cum, so here i am watching your video! thank you for the in-depth explanation, Also, about what level should i start crafting?

[@yaminolotus6714]

Are you able to level all of the crafting classes in one character like FFXIV?

[@tracyboyall2631]

Very useful thank you

[@lgx22]

I found out scribing there is some crafting like pen paper and ink. You can skip the house decoration part if IKEA isn't your kind of game.. ;D

[@BlackLotusV1]

Thank you

[@butterflysrage]

Is there any reason to have the same crafting profession on more than one character?

[@CommonTate]

Convenience? (Not having to switch to character with crafting leveled) and even though I've done it, I wouldn't recommend it lol

[@jpy3292]

at least he didnt mention the hours of farming to get how much he has or he probably bought it from the black market

[@Proxyincognito]

i only have white and red items to craft, im screwed now :|

[@CommonTate]

You should still be able to craft something for exp. Try the discovery tab

[@Proxyincognito]

@@CommonTate You're right,.. i didnt find out till i made a new character and started over T.T

[@telepathy90]

This game, although I love it is very confusing!

[@davidtaylor8406]

How are you able to hold so many of each ingredient?

[@taegiseoktrash8874]

Through the gemstore you can purchase something (not sure what its called from the top of my head but It wouldn't be too difficult to find when you look at the gemstore) it allows you to expand your material storage from 250 to 500, you can buy it again to get to 750,1000 etc and I believe 2000 is the max, personally I've been playing since 2012 and never bothered to get it, I think if you have an abundance of gold (to convert to gems) it might come in handy, it's more a QoL thing and not really necessary

[@davidtaylor8406]

@@taegiseoktrash8874 Thanks! I logged in after asking the question and investigated. There are three, I believe, bank upgrades. You can get extra slots, extra shared slots and expand the amount of each item you can carry.

[@internetcitizen4289]

i dont get it. i just wanna have a larger bag. (i am level 37 and can only craft 8 slot bags). i cant discover shit. coz my materials are not shown in the discover tab. i dont even see a 10 slot bag recipe. and no one fucking says how to get it. i guess by leveling up crafting, which i cant, coz trading is restricted for 3 more days. even tho i gathered every material i went by i cant level up.

[@leblabbiy7489]

Making 15 to 20 Axes in Discovery Tab is simply stupid. Making 2 (3) of every type with different inscriptions unlocks the recipes. All you do is push the crafting level, but your profession gets worthless. You are simply not able to craft anything but your "preferred" item later. Your "saving" in materials isn't real, because you need to go the complete discovery line for a different item again, as soon as you want to produce it for a twink in example.

[@wolflahti412]

One word: gw2efficiency.com/crafting/calculator (Okay, so that's not one word...)

[@internetcitizen4289]

i cant make a stupid steel ingot either. i have the stupid materials. but the game doesnt let me craft fucking steel ingots.

[@barbarapedon5480]

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[@barbarapedon5480]

Fachiu

[@SD-de4do]

doesn't work, fails at step 1: open up after pressing F. The fucking shit is blank. No recipes. No options to click. Not even recipes for things I can't make. Just. Empty. God fucking damnit.

[@fatiguejras]

Too much (tm) :>

[@barbarapedon5480]

LoL

[@Thunder-Sky]

0:55 - Got it, this game isn't for me then.