Changing your crafting skill levels to collect materials at different levels

vsrs_au

I found out by accident a few days ago that crafting survey material levels match your crafting skill levels when you switch between armory slots with different skill levels. My character is configured with 2 armory slots, named "Crafting" with all crafting skill lines at level 50, and "Combat/Fish/Antiq" *** for other things i.e. combat, fishing and antiquities, and this latter slot has all crafting skill lines with the "Keen Eye" skills maximised and all other skills at minimum.

After getting a woodworking survey, I went to collect it with the non-crafting slot equipped, and found that all the materials were the lowest level, i.e. maple instead of ruby ash. Without collecting anything, I went back home and used the armory to equip the crafting slot, then returned to the survey, and found it had only ruby ash.

This raises an interesting possibility: if we want to stock up on materials at any level, we can simply forage, or collect surveys, with an equipped armory slot that has the crafting skills at the requisite level. I'm guessing that the material level is determined by the "main" crafting skill for each craft type, i.e. the one that appears at the top of the list of skills for that craft type. That means we would only have to modify those skillls to be able to collect different levels of materials.

Just thought I'd share that! It's probably obvious to some of you, I'm only mentioning it for those less familar with crafting.


*** This was mainly because, for both skill points and CP points, I had too much trouble configuring my character to be able to do combat, fishing, antiquities *and* crafting all in one configuration.

katanagirl1

That is possible, but if you are a max level crafter doing daily crafting writs at the top tier, you get lower level mats in the reward boxes along with rubedite, ruby ash, and rubedo leather. I have had more than enough for any needs like crafting gear for alts.

JKorr

Yes, it is possible. My main character is my main crafter. She'll only ever find rubedite/ruby/ancestor level mats. Several of the other alts have their crafting level set to find the mats I want. It still works out 50/50 character/skill level. If you want a lot of a lower level mat though, it works.

Lumsdenml

Yep, can confirm this works. I used to have (before armory) my main with all of my alts at different levels, so if I need a specific level mat, I use the corresponding character. I found, however, that I don't really use those lower level mats often enough to justify not getting higher level mats for my daily writs, so I leveled them all up. I still get lower level mats at random when I do my dailies, but make a lot more gold because I get a lot more gold mats form dailies and it's easy to just buy what I need.

ghastley

Materials gathered are evenly split between your crafting and using levels. If your character is CP160+, then they use max level, and half will that. The other half will depend on crafting level, which you can control.

vsrs_au

ghastley wrote: »

Materials gathered are evenly split between your crafting and using levels. If your character is CP160+, then they use max level, and half will that. The other half will depend on crafting level, which you can control.

Yes, I noticed that. Because of that, I was quite happy when I finally reached level 50 in all the crafts, because I had loads of the CP160 materials and no longer had to go searching for materials every time I tried to do the daily writs.