predkill29 wrote: »

For a crafting character should I do all the crafting on one character or 2 or 3 on one

I don't think that dedicated crafting characters work. You actually need a lot of skillpoints.

The highest goal of a crafting character is to be able to make all sets. This means you need access to all the maps with stations and want to have finished the fighters and mages questline. You also want to research all traits. That means you need (atleast) 45 traits researched for woodworker to finish investigating. Atleast 126 traits on the clothier and the blacksmith. The issue here is that research time goes up when you level up. At veteran rank level 14 it can take up to 30 days to investigate a single trait

The amount of skillpoints needed in total for a single craft is 12 (minimum) but you likely want more.
Let's look at the passives for blacksmithing (same effects for clothier and woodworking).

You need 12 points in metalworking to make the different levels of gear.
Keen eye ore: this is extremely helpfull in finding resources, but I think 1 point here will do.
Miner hireling: really worth it to get resources, so I'd invest 3 points here.
Metal extraction: also really worth it, so again invest 3 points here.
metallurgy: I'll get to this soon
Temper expertise: a real money saver, so invest 3 points here.

So in total you need 22 skillpoints for a single craft and that means 66 skillpoints for all three. Still I would recommend to do it all on one character. In the end, once you are set up and maxed out, you'll only need 15 skillpoints. you don't need a lot of resources to level, only to craft what you need. So only the points in metalworker and temper expertise.
The most important reason is the researchtime needed. You'll want to limit researchtime as much as possible so, as it takes time, you also want to stop levelling once you reach a certain point. I would recommend to do it at level 40. The researchtime is still relative short. You can do two things per discipline at the same time and you got access to all the crafting stations (except the ones in craglorn) without sneaking through bad territory. So I've parked my character at that level and it will be my main crafter. once she maxed out the trait research, she will be moved on. The skillpoints invested in metallurgy will be refunded then and I only need the main 12 points and the temper expertise for each craft.

Still it is steap in the amount of skillpoints. As the biggest part is doing the research I would recommend doing it on a single character. Just so you know where to find it and where to sent your stuff to to research.

So considering you go 8 toons each toon has 3 slots to research, so you are looking at 24 traits at a time per table, thats huge!!