Trade armour to level through deconstruction?

jesterstear · May 2014

It appears that deconstructing items grants far more craft XP than item creation, and deconstructing items made by others grants far more XP than those self made.

For the first tier of clothing/blacksmithing, I just deconned items made by an alt, but now that i'm adventuring in lands with craft nodes > tier 1, this is no longer possible.

So , I joined a guild with 50+ members, with the expectation that the guild store would be full of cheap white armour from folks looking to level their crafting, yet the place was empty. I used up all my spare mats, crafted a set of stuff for every level, put it in the store for the default price (around 50 gold an item around level 30) but a week later nothing has sold, looks like i'm going to loose a load of money on listing fees. This whole week, I've not seen anyone put anything else in store either.

Is this just something that isn't done much or do I need to spam guild chat, send out guild mails etc?

Lupinemw · May 2014

Depends on the guild. In mine we dump loads of stuff into the bank for others to decon and every mucks in. The joy of a friendly guild I guess.

Rosveen · May 2014

It's usually done in direct trading, daggers for daggers, no money involved. Talk to your guildies and find another crafter who'd like to level this way so you can partner up and exchange items.

edit: Or what the person above said. Depends on the type of guild, sometimes not everyone has bank withdrawal privileges so it might not work.

RazzPitazz · May 2014

A lot easier with a personal friend. We swap items, deconstruct, reconstruct and swap em again. You still need additional mats but the progression is quicker.