Exmortis's Crafters Levelling Guide

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  1. Exmortis Well-Known Member

    Good day folks,
    I have stated many times in chat for guildies my experiences in levelling up crafters from 1-50. I have now 6 journeyman crafters (53 Tailor, 53 weaponsmith, 52 artificer, 52 carpenter, 52 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, so 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 is my leatherwork, now working his way up, using this process. This is not a walk-through, but an over view of my levelling.


    Step 1: IoD character creation/start
    • Level 1-10 Just so the IoD quests, I fully recommend you start ALL characters you intend to craft with on the Isle. IoD is the best place to start a crafter, but not absolutely needed.

    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/starter cities all have trainers (Tanvu, Khal, Tursh, and hubs of Ahgram and New Targonor). You need to do your crafter specialization quest, essentially this is where you decide our final crafting class (i.e. blacksmith becomes weaponsmith).

    Step 3: Do your continental style quests
    • Now it is time to get the other two continental styles. You do not have to do the style for your home racial continent (i.e. If you started on Thestra you only need to do Qalian and Kojanese style quests). Never get more than one of the quests at a time.
      - Qalia: See Sajin Callash in Ahgram.
      - Kojan: See Milakesh Noradu in Ca’ial Brael
      - Thestra: See Linnike Velra in New Targonor

    Step 4: Do tier quests
    • You must now do all three continental amateur tier quests so you can make any continental styled gear. Never get more than one of the quests at a time.
    • Best to visit a major hub city, craft trainers should give you the quest to visit the proper quest NPC.
    • Every time you enter a new tier you will have to do the tier quest for each continent (levels 11, 21, 31, 41 currently)

    Step 5: Work order start to set skills and achieve 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. Each crafting skill should be kept as close to each other as you can. Remember to set your opposite specialization skill to minus (i.e. if you choose to be a weaponsmith, set armorsmith to minus).
    • 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. Oupost list at bottom, outposts give better faction and better selection of Work Orders.

    Step 6: 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 early and again after level 21.
      • Tursh/rindol field - You may need to do some WOs for faction two of the best items are here for low level crafters, so blast off a set of WOs in Tursh then pick up local quests.
      • 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). May want to hit this up after Ahgram or both lower and after 22 level.
    • 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. I always recommend Batch WOs and make sure to do them to A grade each time, so pick a difficulty you can achieve A grade.

    Step 7: 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 Artisan faction with.
    • Do as many batch WOs as you may get lucky and get a few Silver Sigils.

    Step 8: Banishers/Society Quests
    • Now that your 26/27 time to hit up the banishers and helo defeat the Cartheons and Suza, You can get starter in Veskals Exhange, Lord Tsangs and Qa Rioverbank. If you want to, you can do all three lead ins, just do not visit the commander to finish them.
    • Every 2 or 3 levels hit up the WO circuit again to set skills, use XP pots to help levelling. This will be needed to set skills, I did it every 2 levels, and blasted through one full XP pot with rest XP.
    • NT and Ahgram each have three societies when done banishers, you can join one per city.

    Step 9: The grind
    • Now that you’re 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 pots if an american holiday is close, they stack with bonus xp weekends.
    • You will need 44/45 before your done, I recommend 45.

    Step 10: Dawns Sign and Shandrel
    • 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 11: The short Grind
    • Now you need to bring to 48 or 49, i recommend 49.
    • Again focus on least faction continents until you have 5k artisan in all three.
    • Batch WOs for sigils recommended

    Step 12: Magic Hold (this can be skipped, just go to Step 12)
    • At 48 you can do the magi hold crafter quests.
    • 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. Rather difficult to do under 50.

    Step 13: Maybe Grind
    • You must hit 50 now.

    Step 14: Genesis
    • NT craftring area is where this starts. This is a must do, not only a great quest line, the gear is out of this world.

    Step 15: The future
    • POTA has some quests, but you need to have access, thus 50+ adv
    • KDQ has some, but same as POTA, though with recent changes may be doable (I have not tried yet).
    • What ever else they add to the game

    Thats it!

    TIP: To get item upgrade recipes post Tier 2, you must buy them via a quest with Masterwork Sigil handins. They are rare rewards from batch WOs of A grade. Recipes cost 8 sigils when you buy them at the same tier as you get the quest (i.e. your 23 and get T3 recipe quest for sigil hand in), however once you achieve the next tier quest the recipes cost 2 less sigils (i.e. at 33 and get T3 recipe quest for sigil hand in), or 6 sigils. You have to get the quest when you achieve the tier, if you already have it just abandon and reget it for the new value to take effect. If you are two Tiers ahead, you only pay 4 Sigils for a recipe.

    Thestran Crafting Outposts
    • Fsher's Pen, Southwatch , Veskal's Exchange, Wardship of the Sleeping Moon, Konathari Point, Charbrook Village, Deebs, Isle of Martin.

    Qalian Crafting Outposts
    • Refugee Camp Jarru Flats, Tar Janashir, Desert Sun Outpost, Western Winds, Afrit, River Valley Outpost.

    Kojani Crafting Outposts
    • Tawar Galan, Varryn Dunes, Deebs.

    Happy Crafting!!!
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  2. Enkur Well-Known Member

    Excellent guide!!
  3. Vedrix Member

    The banisher's quest is level 10... you can get it in Tursh.
  4. Azzariah New Member

    +1 Thanks for this Exmortis. Great guide!
  5. Exmortis Well-Known Member

    Yes it is level 10, but again my guide is about XP maximization, and Banisher's XP scales, and at 27 you will get max XP from start to finish..
  6. Vedrix Member

    Ah true true... Yea I was thinking the banisher XP was cranked up a lot... It got me from 10-20 in a matter of hours ...
  7. Cynosure Member

    You've surely got a good start here.

    It may be beneficial for a few people who know of the quests in 'Step 6' to post write-ups about them.

    I currently have level 17, 13, and 10 crafters (not something I got into until recently) and I find myself stuck. On the 17/13, I've essentially be grinding work orders from the start; I've stumbled upon a few quests online but the ones I've tripped over thus far aren't worth the rewards and don't give much experience (and are quite trivial tasks). My level 17 is currently in the Rindol Fields area attempting to locate an outfitters bench to get faction up in order to be offered a couple of quests. I started the Banisher's quest on both my 17/13 characters but was suggested mid-quest to hold off until level 23-27. My level 10 has been a blast to level and the quests helped slash some of the tedious grinding, though he was started on the Isle.
  8. Sucuri New Member

    awesome guide, they should sticky this :D
  9. Danathor Active Member

    I am wondering why are suggesting holding off on Banishers until mid-20ies? I have done them all starting at level 13-14 and they easily got me through to 21-22 on all of my 3 crafters and netted me a great gear set in the process to make WO grinding much easier. I also did sosiety quests as soon as they became available (@25 and @28) for jewelry. Do these quests award larger XP if you do them at higher crafter levels?
  10. Trebori Member

    Yes, The exp for these quest scale with your level. I didn't get around to them until 30ish( my craft level when I returned to the game) and I was getting on average 270k exp per quest.
  11. Danathor Active Member

    I have decided to give this guide a running try with my brand-new shammy leatherworker. She was fresh off IoD crafter's quest as of last night. Done WOs in Tursh to lvl 15 to set skills and gain rep (only Single-item WOs to max rep (had to travel to Fisher's to reset WOs)/

    Done all Novice/style/Amateaur quests for each of continents.

    Done all local quests except Hathor Zhi - that one needs tin claws and some kind of staff - i.e. not general combines.

    Let me note here that I have both artificer and blacksmith already, who are at lvl 30 albeit not not smart enough to follow this guide.
    Vast majority of quests require inputs from crafting profs other than yours, so unless you have guildies/your alts/friends to help you out, you gonna miss out on most. Since I had other profs ready to support me, I had no issues.

    I did a few of single item WOs to set skills in the process, and ended up with 2-3k faction for each continent. yes, I am not mistaken, 2-3k faction and I am level 20 crafter.

    I will go and finish off 20-21 AN/NT city quests tomorrow and will report on my progress to recommended lvl 26 for Banishers.
  12. Exmortis Well-Known Member

    Did you hit up lomshire? Great gloves there.

    Be interested in how you compare it to your other crafters.
  13. Danathor Active Member

    Thanks for the tip on Lomshire, got the gloves there, they are on par with hunter's from banishers.

    Ok, I levelled to 27 on WOs and went thru the whole Banishers qline. Contrary to what I have been told in craft chat. bonus xp potions do not affect the xp gain on these, you get exactly 25% XP of your current level for each quest you do, so I went to level 34 by the time I was done away with Suza. Interestingly, the XP scales with your level, but the difficulty does not, so it was a breeze. I did society quests too, and gained lvl 35. It looks like a long WO grind road is ahead of me now... :)

    All in all, I agree this is by far the most efficient way to level your crafter, I wish we had more double XP days too :p. Also, if you can afford to buy crafting gear off the exchange, you can consider holding off on Banishers even longer - till lvl 33-34 by doing WO's while they still yield decent XP and accumulating sigils so that you hit 41 and buy upgrade recipes at a discounted rate (6 sigils for tier below you, 4 for tier -2).
  14. Exmortis Well-Known Member

    Thanks for your feedback.
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  16. Bowdacious Member

    I've been following this thread with great interest. Like Danathor, I have using this guide on a new toon but I have only got up to level 14 on this toon so far.

    I have incorporated a lot of the comments and links provided here into the relating wikia articles. Also, I`ve added links to articles on the quests and outposts mentioned within the leveling guide.

    http://vanguard.wikia.com/wiki/Crafting_Leveling_Guide

    http://vanguard.wikia.com/wiki/Crafting_Attributes

    http://vanguard.wikia.com/wiki/Crafting_Stats_Guide
  17. Glenzig Well-Known Member

    Man this thread makes me want to strap my apron back on. It's been years since I tried to lvl a crafter in VG. It was a lot of fun til I got to the mid 20's and then I just kind of fizzled out. I think I might revisit it now though. This doesn't seem nearly as daunting if you have a good progression layout. Thank you Exmortis. By the way. Now that we have all starter areas basically evened out with IoD on the adventuring side, why cant they just rework the questlines in starter areas for crafting and diplo to line up with IoD? That would be really nice.
  18. Exmortis Well-Known Member

    Then get to Glenzig, more crafters means more voices screaming "GIVE US LOVE"!!
  19. Nayzle New Member

    Great Guide mate, i will be using it in the future :)
  20. Exmortis Well-Known Member

    Thanks very much! if you hit a snag, feel free to look me up.

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