Jochamo wrote: »

Is it viable to have one toon craft all the professions. The character I am thinking of is a retired DK whose skills are reset. Would I have to lvl this toon to 50?

More than likely. In fact, maybe even a little into the VR Ranks to get enough SPs to fully flesh out the Crafting Lines. Use the following guide to determine just how many points you will need. Note, you may not need the Keen Eye passives or the Snakeblood or if you have the traits researched, the Research Passives to actually make stuff. Add up the points you need, see how many you got and figure out if you need to level, or chase Skyshards

http://www.esouniverse.com/guides/crafting/

One thing to keep in mind, if your also going to farm with this character, you really want access to Caldwells Gold, the zones have less farmers in them so mats are easier to find. So, that might have some impact on how far you level. If your going to park them at a crafting hub and feed them mats from your other characters, then this won't apply. Oh, some crafting stations are much easier to get to in other alliance zones than say the one you started in, so there is that too. For example, Ashen Grip is easy to get to for EP, a pain for AD.

Nice thing is, you don't have to use all the skills to make a character that can level. So, invest the SPs you need to make them combat viable, then get the levels you need and the skill points you need, then you can respec out the combat points and assign them all to Crafting. I would only put points into crafting during this time in order to develop the crafting skills (like Extraction and Research Passives). This way your next respec into all crafting is much cheaper. I like to have some combat viability in case they ever need to farm, or collect Crafting Surveys, so even my crafting alt has some combat chops (basically a two skill rotation with an armor skill and a buff skill).

Thank you all for the replies.