NCsoft and ArenaNet have revealed details of the operation of Crafts in Guild wars 2.

In Guild Wars 2, there are eight crafting disciplines players can choose.

* Weaponsmith – craft melee weapons, such as swords, axes and hammers.
* Huntsman – craft ranged weapons like bows and pistol, as well as torches and warhorns.
* Artificer– craft magical weapons such as staves and scepters
* Armorsmith – craft heavy armor pieces.
* Leatherworker – craft medium armor pieces.
* Tailor – craft light armor pieces.
* Jewelcrafter – Jewelcrafters craft jewelry, such as rings and necklaces.
* Cook – Cooks can prepare food which characters can eat for temporary combat buffs.

In addition, most crafters can create upgrades for their gear. For instance, a weaponsmith can craft a handle which can be attached to melee weapons to give them a chance to poison enemies.Characters can be proficient in up to two crafting disciplines at a time

Before you can craft new items, you need to get the raw materials needed for crafting. The basic materials needed for crafting depends upon the crafting discipline, but there are three ways you can obtain crafting materials:

* Salvaging kits— Available from merchants, salvaging kits allow you to salvage crafting materials out of old or unwanted items.
* Looting—You have a chance of finding appropriate crafting materials like hides or trophies when you loot slain enemies.
* Harvesting—Ore veins, plants, and trees can be found around the world and harvested for materials.

Characters can gather all types of crafting materials, and gathering nodes in Guild Wars 2 are not exclusive, or used up after a player gathers materials from it, each node can be gathered by every player, so when you see a rare node off in the distance, you don’t need to abandon what you’re doing to try and beat other players to it.

Crafting stations can be found in cities and major outposts around the world. A woodworking bench is used to saw logs into planks, while a sword is created at an anvil. When interacting with a crafting station, you are presented with an interface through which you can combine up to four types of materials. When the correct items for crafting an item are added to the interface, the resulting item can be crafted.

Leveling up your crafting skill uses an experience system—each item you craft is worth an amount of experience. There are 400 skill points in each discipline, though crafting items will often give multiple points worth of experience.  Our intent is that you should never have to make something you consider worthless while leveling a crafting discipline.

This entry was posted on Thursday, March 10th, 2011 at 1:13 pm and is filed under MMO News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.