New 2 it: what skill too choose..

[Roth_Trailfinder]

I dont really know much about the hand skills
What is a good one too choose to help me out and what ate the benifits.

Actually, crafting is an "all or nothing" affair. You want all your crafting classes leveled up, if you are going to level any one of them up, for the cross class skills and the cross class materials refinements.

The Specialist system was intended for single class crafters to be able to compete with the omnicrafter (someone who has all of the crafting classes leveled up) but it failed horribly at that. Omnicrafters get better results at lower stats than someone using the Specialist skills to compensate for a lack of cross class skills.



So, take them all to 15, then decide whether to level them concurrently or one at a time. Regardless, take them all to 50, then take them up one or two levels at a time (the penalty for attempting a higher level recipe than you are is much bigger in HW than it was in ARR, so for materials purposes, you want to keep the classes fairly close together).

[Bdyer]

Lvling crafting classes can be extremely quick depending on available funds

[ToasterMan]

Once you get all crafts to 60, you will eventually have to obtain the HQ Ironworks set and pentameld it to achieve a stat rating of 995 craftsmanship and 955 control. Depending on your server this will cost you about 10-20 Million at the most. The melding is what keeps the majority of people out of the high level crafting game.

[Silverbane]

Once you get all crafts to 60, you will eventually have to obtain the HQ Ironworks set and pentameld it to achieve a stat rating of 995 craftsmanship and 955 control. Depending on your server this will cost you about 10-20 Million at the most. The melding is what keeps the majority of people out of the high level crafting game.

You don't have to penta-meld everything, and you don't have to hit 995 craft/ 955 control. For example, if you use Seafood Stew HQ, 995 craft/924 control is sufficient. If you use Baked Onion Soup, 967 craft/ 955 control is sufficient.

Also note that a complete set of Scrip gear (iL200) wuth Heavensegg Soup hits the requirements for 4-star crafting, even without the boost from a Soul of the Crafter, but with terrible CP (391).