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Meat - by crafting stuff.

Potatos - Find the wholesale crafting instance in your home village. Join it, enter and start crafting things with the items you collect while harvesting nodes.

There is a great quest you can do for a guy in your wholesale guild that will take you to lvl 9 as a craftsman and also get you a cool 10 slot bag, a +skill vest and all the recipe books from #3 to #9 for free! In addition, the guy will give you money for completing the tasks he gives you AND let you keep the stuff which you can thensell for more money! It is a win win win situation. Have fun!

They took out that question as it is misleading. You are always both and there is no difference in archtypes. You are just both.

10-20 are some of the easiest levels as a crafter. You have to remember, you are getting recipes from three different areas of expertise. So in one recipe book for an outfitter, you will have probably 5-6 new things to create, which will give you great xp if you make each of these at least once. I strongly recommend not sticking to just one item. Try to make all the items in your recipe books at least once to take advantage of the bonus xp a first time pristine offers. Plus, most of the weapons use the same things (hilts and edges; pommels and crossguards). The armor is the real PITA. That will take some time to get used to, but does grant good xp. I don't want to scare you off of TSing, but if you think it's a grind now, wait until the 20's

B-b-b-b-b-baby, no you aint seen nuthin' yet...

After a polite scolding from my guild who infomred me that an alt in the guild is already a medium level weaponsmith, I logged one of my other alts who had only done the IoR crafting, deciding to work my way to woodworker.

I was pleseantly surprised when I started the Artisan quest and began making items for huge amounts of lowbie exp. In no time I was level 8 when I had to log. I guess there's a piece of armor awaiting at the completion, but I am already nicely equipped.

Seems the hardest to make so far has been /con blue items, especially armor and weapons. THose things jsut don't want to get to pristine, even with me carefully timing the buffs.

You have to get extremely lucky to make a pristine before you get to level 10. At that point you get a new set of buffs that add durability, and the getting pristine percentage turns on it's head - it's almost impossible not to get it. The ones you have now only add progress, and one of them comes at the expense of durability.

When you get the new buffs, keep the old ones up so you can move progress when your duirability is good. This is my standard buffing pattern: You can tell when you have a new round when your bars move and the numbers float up over the crafting station. You can hit up to 3 buffs here and have all of them take effect. Then stop and wait for the next round. At this point I start out by hitting all 3 of the buffs for either progress or durability, depending on my condition. I start by using all progress and switch to durability when the last durability bar goes below 30 - 40%. If progress gets to the third bar and durability is over 50% on the last, I go all progress to sprint to finished.

The beginning of a new round is when you'll see an event possibly pop up. That's why it's good to wait for each new round to hit your buffs. You don't want to get a failure or miss a rare event because you spammed the wrong buff. Hit the matching buff first to react, and wait for it to poof grey before hitting anything else. If the reaction required the last buff you had been spamming in your pattern, you might not have time to get all three out. Seeing an event and reacting to it correctly is a good thing becasue it's supposed to guarantee you a good round. I say supposed to because it only works 95% of the time - possibly due to lag.

When I'm low on power I switch to using only the two buffs that use no power to let it come back, unless I'm in an emergency durability situation. As always, remove all power enhancing gear and do anything possible to improve power regen, like using good drink or grouping with a bard or enchanter.