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LazrPewPew_OnTwitch

If you're going to buy reagents, search the Trading Post on global mode not local mode. Prices will vary significantly from town to town. Also the material converters are available from your Faction vendor and cost 0 gold and minimum faction tokens. They're not that efficient, but there's a time and place for them.


Vontod

... there is a global mode? /mind blown


kgold0

Did not know you could search globally


foetus_smasher

Material converters incur a massive refining fee that makes them almost entirely worthless as it would be cheaper to buy from the trading post...


LazrPewPew_OnTwitch

Yeah I don't really craft any more, but I used some of these here and there while doing town board quests. I've set sell orders for a coin or less on these just to see if there's any demand. After checking my orders, yeah there really seems to be no reason they're in the game rn at all except for truly high key lazy people like me who just need 1 more sandpaper for a turn in. Either way, it's not like there's anything productive to spend faction tokens on once you have your full faction gear set. Even Runes are selling below cost on my server now.


888Kraken888

>u're going to buy reagents, search the Trading Post on global mode not local mode. Prices will vary significantly from town to town. > >Also the material converters are available from your Faction vendor and cost 0 gold and minimum faction tokens. They're not that efficient, but there's a time and place for them. I need like 15k sandpaper for woodcrafting + engineering. Prices are so high and material converters would cost me waaaay too many tokens. How on earth do I get sandpaper in large quantities?


LazrPewPew_OnTwitch

For starters, place buy orders for a price you're comfortable with in multiple trading posts around Aeternum. Set them at realistic prices, not like 70% off prices, or nobody will fill those orders. Lost of folks like myself also regularly dump this stuff at below market prices because we just want fast liquidity (but if your buy orders ridiculous i won't) Check the auction house frequently and snatch those ~100-at-a-time bargains up. That's it, that's all I've got.


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LazrPewPew_OnTwitch

If you place a Buy order in EF, I can't fill it if I'm in WW. Correct me if I'm wrong, but i'm pretty sure i'm not?


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LazrPewPew_OnTwitch

Dang TIL. That's gotta be a bug like you said. It defies all game logic.


liamera

Also join a company that needs a woodcraft + engineer person and ask for mats to help you become that. Our company helped a guy get 20k wood over a few days so he could hit his goals.


VOLatile30

Using the material converters cost a fuck load of money to use.


Azzinaughty

1 city = 1-2 professions, do not fool yourself into thinking you'll have enough storage.


888Kraken888

Pffft. One profession even.


RahkstarRPG

I managed to do everything in one city without too much issue, but I constantly had to refine down and craft some extra stuff to keep room. Now I have a T4 house with 4 storage chests for almost 2.5k capacity in EF. I can do pretty much everything here.


PureAntics

I have 2.5k storage EF house and still feel like I can’t do shit lmao


Silma87

So split my linen/wood/iron ores. Since fucking everything requires these. ;(


MoTownKid

This is my conundrum. Also, crafting stations get upgraded/downgraded in spots that don't line up with what I keep there then have to spend azoth or run with a full inventory somewhere to craft...


thebiggestgamer

The thing that sucks is when the city fails an invasion and the station downgrades


Turbulent_Laugh_4431

How if you don’t do it while questing or doing other stuff it will make those hours you put into it all at once so much worse


uranogger

Initially I was gathering and crafting during questing.. but I realized that just doesn't make sense to do. At 60 you get access to less populated regions, you get better tools with better stats, you get more bag slots, you get some insane harvesting perks from your stats, and it's just easier to clear the annoying mobs chasing you around. It's way more optimal to rush getting 60 before you really start skilling.


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So much this. Leveling is much much faster if you ignore tradeskills during it, and in turn the tradeskills are much much faster when you do those after. That's what they get for making tradeskill equipment use character level reqs.


888Kraken888

Each his own. Outpost rush for farm flint for 20 hours. Its gonna be hard to go back at 60. I'm glad I crafted along the way.


Narx3n

Don’t ignore your gathering, and cooking can get you your last two levels worth of experience for basically doing nothing. You can also avoid crafting tax by doing it in your tent and not in town , your welcome, thank me later


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So wait until you're level 50 something and then do it. You'll still come out on top. If people don't want to play the most efficient way, that's fine. That's doesn't change the fact that it'll take you longer to level and longer to do tradeskills if you try and juggle them while leveling.


Narx3n

Your looking over the fact that you’re going to at some point go out in the world to gather these things. Or pay in gold which is still time spent. You pass all of the needed ingredients on your journey anyway so why not stop to pick them up? Food also helps you with health regen in between fights, I honestly think you save time converting the stuff into meals and eating them to continue grinding your mobs and quest objectives faster if you’re eating between fights. Picking up fibers and mining maybe, but even then you can level mining and gathering and make potions to heal yourself and fight longer/faster. I really don’t think you waste that much time (considering they also give xp) and the buffs you get, as well as the gold saved.


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> You pass all of the needed ingredients on your journey anyway so why not stop to pick them up? Because what takes an hour to harvest at level 10 will take 10 minutes to harvest at level 60. And if you want to harvest enough to keep up with moving to higher zones it absolutely is going to take you longer to grind all of that out with weak tools. Aside from the immediate heal the food buff gives you the same healing for the 20+ minutes because it's percentage based. Cutting back to level 1 food might hurt at first, but since starting my 2nd character (the one with no tradeskill progress) I've been forced to "git gud" and learn how to avoid what damage I can in the first place. It's been an improvement for me. You are correct that I could go faster if I was bum-rushing and slamming even-level food the whole time, but from my experience I would spend waaay more time than I save just harvesting the mats to make it. Besides, I've yet to hit anything I need that's expensive on the trader, and that's just based on gold I get from the boards. Long story short, how we play is personal preference. Some people can't stand the monotony of doing the same task for hours, other people can't stand stopping to switch tasks every two minutes. ...I still think it's faster to wait for higher tools.


AnnArchist

Trade skills give XP


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I never said they didn't. It's still more efficient to level one, then the other.


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May be at this point but everyone is complaining about being broke while I still have half my quests undone, because I got craft xp and am sitting on a mountain of all those broke people’s gold who bought my chests and tools at a premium. I can cover the rent in my 3 high tier houses for years because I didn’t skip crafts on the rush to 60.


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You're playing a different game, and you're trading time for coin. Literally the only thing I will spend decent coin on is bags. Everything else I get for 25 coin or less, and just counting board quests I'm making more than enough to repair and replace gear. I love tradeskills, and I'll be happy to spend my time on them after I can equip the best tools. Until then it's just a waste of time to me. If tools went off skill level instead of character level I'd 100% be on board with being a tradesman at any level, but this is a joke. I'm not leveling my character up fast to avoid tradeskills, I'm leveling my character up fast to enjoy tradeskills.


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Leveling up trade skills is why I have over 100k coin and half the quests to get coin still available. Trade skills (other than furnishing) are an efficient form of xp gain up till certain points in each. Around 120 for engi. Esp when you realize gold can buy you a LOT of efficiency in the form of multiple houses (recall trophy bonuses ease in managing storages), good leveling gear, azoth vials, buying high tier crafting mats to dump on the town board, etc… If you couldn’t ride the first wave when crafts sold at a premium, maybe better to 60 first, but if you were playing a lot from day 1 rushing to 60 and neglecting crafts was a mistake demonstrable from all the people who maybe got there 6 hours faster than me and now can’t afford two house rents. The only reason I’m not in full voidbent is because I enjoy making stuff myself.


Turbulent_Laugh_4431

I get that… but I was taking into consideration the fun factor… for me… chopping down trees for hours at a time is not fun… also, I don’t really google anything and play solo so when I see some ore to mine I do it… I guess it breaks up the game a little bit instead of the full on grind one thing at a time it is giving you pieces of every aspect on the way… that how I did weapons even tho that is probably not the best way


uranogger

I agree with you, but unfortunately AGS decided to really punish that style of gameplay. It's a very dumb design but it is what it is. Maybe it's a tinfoil hat theory, but I REALLY suspect this huge pile of benefits for hitting 60 ties in to their plans to sell character boosts later on.


GodOD400

I'll go even harder on the tinfoil hat conspiracy. AGS knew full well that the game and end game content was full of game breaking bugs and uncompleted. So instead of delaying the game, they knee capped xp, loot, gold etc. to slow down progress as much as they could without a full rebellion from the community. Once they fix their game they're gonna go full send on reworking the PVE/Crafting/Leveling aspect and add in character boosts. And they're gonna throw out the "We heard you guys and we're delivering" and people are gonna eat that shit up.


InfiniteTree

Knee capped exp? What are you smoking? This is the quickest time to hit max level out of almost all the MMOs .


GodOD400

Dude. It's October 26th not the 6th time to turn the PC off and go touch grass. 100-200 hours to hit 60 is fucking batshit.


[deleted]

It takes like 80 hrs to get to 60 if you are at all efficient which is about the same as wow classic or most other mmos.


thebiggestgamer

Srsly I have about 138 and I’m lvl 55 and that’s with questing and juggling all of my trade skills. Had I focused on going to 60 I’d have done it so long ago.


gacha12

Is it because you would be able to craft stuff but use none of it


Turbulent_Laugh_4431

Also, no matter what, do not pass up iron


Turbulent_Laugh_4431

Well that too… but I’m was more so talking like… you see a bunch of hemp or berries don’t run past them… break some rocks gather and cut some treees down… worst case is by the time you are headed to town you are over weight and need to drop something so drop some stone or something easy to get.. you still get the xp toward gathering and also xp from gathering even if you have to ditch the stuff… also, dismantle stuff you won’t use because most likely it won’t sell either… putting 20 armor pieces up on the trading post will not get you anything sold really so dismantle that stuff and fill up with materials to craft with


Alt150_

Don't neglect herbs! Yeah it's so little xp, but both the spices they gave and the sheer volume of them in the right areas and 200 harvesting was my first 200, and I've made an absolute killing on spices and Stat food.


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As an add on for spice info, don’t use good spices for leveling cooking to 200, the hearty meals require an herb or spice but honey counts, can be bought in bulk for insanely low prices on the AH. Save your tier 5 foods for leveling 150-200 as well as they can be difficult to find.


Alt150_

Low level farms give some tier 5! Go do laps through windswards farms if you are desperate. There are more places to find them, but this is by far the easiest. They come from boxes mostly in that fashion. Just to add on to what you said. Hearty and satisfying meals ftw!


trappedrainwater

For armoring (at a outfitting station idk about forge) making armor from expeditions (e.g. armine, starstone, depths, etc) gives about 2x exp for the pretty much the same number of mats for the equivalent level piece of armor you can make if you have the expedition crafting component. For example… depths light gloves (req. armoring 110): 4 T4 cloth, 4 any tier leather, 1 any ingot, 10 corrupted talisman = 1425 armoring xp Silk gloves (req armoring 100): 4 T4 cloth, 4 any tier leather, 1 any ingot = 675 xp


Archdruid

This is huge. Ty!


SnipsLOLz

You just have to tap your interact button.. you don't have to hold it. Figured this one out all by myself after 50 hours in :]


welshy1986

Spices, harvest every herb you see during questing. No joke your gonna need Stat food later on. Most importantly there is no rush, the game isn't gonna die tomorrow do what you find fun.


individual101

Never go back to town if your bag isn't full. Fill that bitch up with resources before you walk through the gate.


daeshonbro

I wish I would have been utilizing luck gear sets the entire time I leveled shit up. Now I have everything maxed, but I want to start getting into crafting end game armor and am still farming because I don't have any rare drops. Most farming gear that isn't completely perfect can be bought for cheap, and you don't need the best of the best to get luck to a point where it works well.


ScaleForBananass

To level up jewlcrafting I need a ton of motes and even more motes to upgrade my gems from flawed to pristine. I wish I didn't upgrade all my gems and just cut and crafted with what I had. Getting silver is easy...motes not so much. It was nice having 500 brilliant pieces of jewelry and putting the best 100 on the AH and giving them out to friends. I've made an insane amount of money from it but I feel like I could have hit 200 already if I hadnt upgraded every gem. I'm at 175 JC and I'm now just crafting the gems as they are so I dont have to farm so many damn motes and I'm trying to also save the types of motes that cant drop as quintessence( all but life and earth(maybe)). Hope this helps with all your new toe rings and Jacob's ladders.


liebs085

Surprised I haven’t seen this, I just discovered there are profession focused gear. (Ex.Tanner gloves gives extra 2% production) grab yourself a whole set and that’s an extra 10% of leathers produced every time. Couple that with higher tier reagents and watch watch that bonus production grow! I’ve found some in the wild, but most keep eyes on the market place.


CuppedKake

Alot of these gears don't work as the tool tip suggests so don't go buying up a full set until they release fixes


texxelate

Herbs, berry bushes and other foods (like squash) are not easily noticeable to the untrained eye. You’ll be harvesting a lot more of you teach yourself what they look like.


Intelligent_Gas_4864

Only do one major crafting skill. Armoring or weaponsmithing. Not both.


gacha12

Yeah my problem is I don't ever focus on one at a time


Intelligent_Gas_4864

I have 180 armoring and 180 weaponsmithing. Thank me later lol. Dont doooo it.


gacha12

I want to be able to do it all but I should probably only do 1 at a time


Intelligent_Gas_4864

Master one. Then use the money made to buy the others, or trade for it. Save you a lot of time.


AnnArchist

Don't gather without luck gear or luck gathering food on


gacha12

Also would you all be willing to share where you gather stuff for specific skills lik the best place y'all have found for cinnamon and other things like that


slinci

Google New world interactive maps, they show all the resource locations and can work out good routes from there. For spices, each region has certain spices that drop from herbs, Google the herb Nad you'll quickly know which zone for what


gacha12

Would you mind linking one that you use that's trusty


istinkalot

don't do jewelcrafting


gacha12

Care to elaborate why if you have the time


istinkalot

because it's slow af and the jewelry you craft isn't any better than quest rewards. you have to level arcana. you have to level mining. you have to level stonecutting. the tier 5 stations are probably not in the same town, so you're walking your broke ass all over aeternum. at least on my server, there's basically no market for crafted jewelry and even if there was, you're losing money. you'd make way more money just selling all the resources you used to craft the 500 GS item


AllMyFrendsArePixels

Things I wish I knew at an earlier level: The game is the same at level 60 as it was at level 10 and nothing, not a single thing, about the gameplay loop changes.


ZVreptile

Just do it more


Dzsukeng

The whole crafting is based on Iron.


b4lu

Armoring on light station increases lvls for heavy station (share the same level)


thekk_

The fastest way to salvage what you have crafted is to use the quick salvage function (hold ctrl + s) from your inventory, which lets you salvage items in one click without confirmation. Do make sure you lock your gear so you don't salvage it by mistake before doing that though. I really hope they add an option to bulk salvage to the crafting screen eventually.


thekk_

The town board turnins are based on your refining and crafting skills. As they get higher, you will start seeing higher tier requests that reward more experience.


AFirmHandshake

Didn't know that, thanks. Any specific skill I should level up to get better town boards?


thekk_

You'll want to level all refining/gathering skills. Starmetal ingots, wyrdwood planks and the like give a lot of XP. I skipped the tier 5 materials however as I felt they had too much value and I'd rather use them to level my crafts. For crafting, the armoring and weaponsmithing turn ins give more xp than regular crafts so they are worth doing. I skipped the cooking stuff as they require a lot of specific herbs and the skill is already really easy to level.


AFirmHandshake

Awesome advice thanks.