Hey guys, this may be common knowledge to some people, but based off I've talked to in-game, I think this will help a lot of newbie crafters.
A higher level gave me this piece of advice a couple weeks ago, and now i'm nearly 45 BS/Clothing just from thieving in my spare time once or twice a day.
If you don't do the
Velyn Harbor quests (Malabal Tor), the town stays hostile, in turn making it easy as pie to steal just about a full inventory of gear/weapons and in turn deconstruct them 5 feet away, then rinse and repeat if you wish!
The NPCs are lvl 32 but not hard to kill at lvl ~20 even, plus there's almost always other people killing them already.
If you have done or do the quest line, I don't think this is a viable option since you'll get caught wide out in the open I presume.
This is also a decent money maker to a certain point as you get 200x stacks of materials pretty quickly.
Obviously some of y'all are aware of this, but hopefully it will help some people