Here’s a few quick tips and some helpful information to get started in crafting.
Gathering Tools
Right now, the best place to find these are on basic merchants in the starting zones. Purchase a set for a small gold fee and double click the item in your inventory to equip it. Rumor has it these will be added to the crafting npc merchandise.
• In Queensdale, talk to Horatio [Merchant] in the Shaemoor pub. • In Ashford, talk to Kaladrian the Greedy [Merchant] in the Village of Smokestead. • In Wayfarer Foothills, talk to Odgrim [Merchant] near the Horncall Waypoint.
When you complete a Heart, the Heart NPC will turn into a Karma merchant, some of these merchants have improved Gathering Tools for purchase with Karma. For future events, we’ll be sure to get them on more merchants in the big cities so they are a little easier to find.
Taking a Crafting Discipline and Tutorials
To learn a craft, talk to a Master Craftsman in the craft you are looking to learn. Once you’ve learned their craft, you can talk to the trainer again to ask him/her various questions about the craft. These should help you learn a little more about it if you are getting stuck on something.
Active Disciplines
You can have two crafting disciplines active at once. When you deactivate a discipline, you simply set it aside without losing any of the progress you have made. Reactivating a discipline is as simple as speaking to the trainer of the discipline you want to reactivate and ask to learn it again. There is a small gold fee associated with reactivating a discipline.
Salvaging
Basic Merchants sell salvage kits which can be used to break down many items into crafting materials. This is the primary way some materials are gathered, such as leather and cloth.
Refinement
In order to craft anything, you’ll need to refine some of the raw materials you’ve gathered. Refinement recipes are found in the Production Tab on the left side of your crafting UI.
Storing Materials and the Bank
For many crafting materials, you can right click and select to “deposit collectible”. This sends that material straight into your crafting material storage in the Bank. Visit a Bank in any of the major cities and click the collections tab on the left of the UI pane to access your crafting material storage.
• In Divinity’s Reach, the Bank is next to the Ministers Waypoint right outside the Central Plaza where the Asura Gate is located. • In Black Citadel, the Bank is in the crafting area next to the Factorium Waypoint. • In Hoelbrak, the Bank is on the Upper Balcony located above the Trade Commons, on the other side from where the Asura Gate is. • In Lion’s Arch, the Bank is right next to the Trader’s Forum Waypoint.
Cooking is considered our advanced craft. It will cost you more money, karma, and time traveling the world than any other crafting discipline.
Pro Tip: Every cooking recipe in Guild Wars 2 is a real recipe for real food in real life (or a basic approximation). If you think you are close to figuring out one of the combinations, google a recipe for the food you suspect it might be, and odds are, you can find a bunch of recipes for things like that to try out.
