Guide to Leveling Crafting

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Note: this was written prior to a game update that revamp the Banisher's quest line and integrating into The Artisan's Saga. This highly outdated and much of the information has changed, please move to the ancient info archive
_{original content by Exmortis, taken from the Vanguard Forums}

I have stated many times in chat for guildies my experiences in levelling up crafters from 1-50. I have now 5 journeyman crafters (53 Tailor, 53 weaponsmith, 53 artificer, 53 carpenter, 53 armorsmith, 46 leatherworker), and have over that time refined my levelling process. It is based entirely on quest XP maximization, the XP for making quest items is often so low or zero I do not even consider it.

I am not saying it is the best nor the only way to level up, but it is how I have come to level all my crafters, and my lowest Scrotal is now working his way up, using this process. This is not a walk-through, but an over view of my leveling.

Step 1: IoD (I do not know if non IoD new starters give the same gear or not)

Level 1-10 Just so the IoD quests, I fully recommend you start ALL characters you intend to craft with on the Isle.

Step 2: Get your specialization and styles

You need to get Level 11, so work a few WOs to get the XP needed.
Go to a city with trainers on your home continent, Hub cities all have trainers (Tanvu, Khal, Tursh, and hubs of Ahgram and NT), as well as Racial Starter cities.
Now it is time to get the other two continental styles. Visit the starter towns listed above, of the two continments you are not from, there you will find the style quests.

Step 3: Do amateur tier quests

You must now do all three continental amateur tier quests so you can make any continental styled gear.

Step 4: Work order start to set skills and acheive level 16

Now you need to get your level and set any skill points. Make sure you watch progression, locking skills when they get too far ahead.
I recommend outposts here, you need 5k faction with all continental artisans so may as well start building it here, you will need to focus on Thestra and Qalia if you started on IoD.

Step 5: Local quests

You now need to hit up the local quests around the game to really grab all the best gear. Every city has some but here are off hand the best of the best:
- Ahgram - Some are 21+, but great quests, revisit after 21.
- Tursh/rindol field - You may need to do some WOs for faction two of the best items are here for low level crafters
- Bordinars cleft - decent quests
- Hathor Zi - has a decent gear item quest
- Tanvu - A must, there is a great item here
- Ca'ail Brael - Fiend hunters, awesome tool quest, also can do Tawar Galen local
- NT - difficult to navigate but there are good quests here in the crafters area and Docks (aside from banishers)
You will need to do a few WOs here and there to help set skills, you may level faster then you assign them, especially refining.

Step 6: Get level 26/27

You will most likely not hit level 26 or 27 in the above so at some point you will need to grind a few WOs
Focus on continents you have the least faction with.
Do as many batch WOs as you may get lucky and get a few Silver Sigils.

Step 7: Banishers/Society Quests

Now that your 26/27 time to hit up the banishers and helo defeat the Cartheons and Suza,
Every 2 or 3 levels hit up the WO circuit again to set skills, use XP pots to help levelling.
NT and Ahgram each have three societies when done banishers, you can join one per city.

Step 8: The grind

Now that your you in your 30s it is time to hit the outposts for WOs, housing areas are also great places.
Remember focus on batch WOs for sigils.
I only use XP pots here, so no more then 1hr of grinding per 6hrs of day time per character.
Save some 100% pots if an american holiday is close, they stack with bonus xp weekends.
You will need 44/45 before your done.

Step 9: Dawns Sign and Shandra

Once you hit 44/45 (I recomend 45 as you can just do it all) you have another small set of quests to do.
Hit up NT docks for the Dawn's Sign, few quests but close to a million XP to be had.
After that head to Ahgram (45 needed), and do the catalyst quest from Nelon.

Step 10: The short Grind

Now you need to bring to 48 or 49, i recomend 49.
Again focus on least faction continents until you have 5k artisan in all three.
Batch WOs for sigils recomended

Step 11: Magic Hold (this can be skipped, just go to Step 12)

At 48 you can do the magi hold crafter quests, I am currently doing.
If you are not 50 adventurer, have a bard run you in, or die and be dragged.
Some of the quests need u to visit NPCs in the hold, if you less then 50, you can die and be corpse dragged/rezzed at each mob.

Step 12: Maybe Grind

You must hit 50 now.

Step 13: Genesis

NT craftring area is where this starts. This is a must do, not only a great questline, the gear is out of this world.

Step 14: The future

POTA has some quests, but you need ot have access, thus 50+ adv
KDQ has some, but same as POTA
What ever else they add to the game

Thats it!

TIP:

recipes cost 8 sigils when you buy them at the same tier as you get the quest (ie your 23 and get T3 recipe quest for sigil hand in), how ever once you achieve the nest tier quest the recipes cost 2 less sigils (ie at 33 and get T3 recipe quest for sigil hand in), or 6 sigils. You have to get the quest when you acheive the tier, if you all ready have it just abandon and reget it for the new value to take effect.

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