cheers mate this is a great idea

Drax76 wrote: »

Ask some of your guildies to mail you stuff as opposed to destroying it, this should increase the volume of stuff you get to deconstruct and cost them next to nothing.

You could even agree to cover their mail cost by having them add a C.O.D. to the mails.

this sounds class thanks see if someone sent me 50 steel daggers does than give me the same XP thta 50 different weapons would give myself??

The higher the gear the more xp you will get, so of course the goal is to get lots of high level things to deconstruct. My own craft leveling tactics have been:

1) Of course all your characters should always be sending their loot to your crafter to deconstruct, and if anyone is willing to send you their loot to deconstruct as well then that's great, but don't bother with the 0 worth stuff. You won't make as much money obviously if you're not selling anything, but the more you deconstruct the faster the craft will level, so even deconstructing white items may be worth while to you, depending on your priorities. The crafting writs are one way to help make a little money despite not selling loot, and they also give you xp.

2) chest runs - Khenarthi's Roost and Bleakrock have a lot of easily accessible chests for example, and I find I can make a run of the island and get plenty of green or blue items with less time/hassle than grinding in some dungeon or wherever and getting potions, white items, or nothing for my trouble half the time. If you can, go chest hunting with your highest character in the highest zone they can handle - I borrow my husband's veteran character and have him send me all his loot, the progress bar moves significantly with those veteran 1 and above items.

3) as mentioned trading with a crafting buddy, but if it's too much of a hassle to find someone and coordinate with them, you can always create your own crafting buddy by leveling the same craft on an alt of your own. You'll only have the mats you've gathered to work with, but you still get good xp from deconstructing items made by another of your own characters. Have your alt invest in extraction points of course, and keep the tier of materials they can work with the same as your main crafter, but you won't need to spend too many points there since all they need to do is create and deconstruct. Be sure to upgrade your passives to the next tier of materials whenever you can, but remember you'll have to have some character that's capable of gathering from the corresponding zone - whether they're good at sneaking or properly leveled - investing points that you won't be able to get materials for will just prevent you from doing writs.

3b) If you're going to be crafting things to deconstruct or doing crafting writs, you're going to need a lot of materials which means farming and refining. Style materials are what I run out of most often these days (since I'm not into stealing them and thus am not stocking up every time I go into a building anymore). Before a craft-deconstruct session, I scout out the guild stores for large stacks of style materials at 5gold per piece or less if possible, and then just use up whatever style I'm able to stock up on at the time.

4) If you have lots of gold on hand you can also buy high level stuff to deconstruct, but that's probably not going to be worth it.

Aelthwyn wrote: »

The higher the gear the more xp you will get, so of course the goal is to get lots of high level things to deconstruct. My own craft leveling tactics have been:

1) Of course all your characters should always be sending their loot to your crafter to deconstruct, and if anyone is willing to send you their loot to deconstruct as well then that's great, but don't bother with the 0 worth stuff. You won't make as much money obviously if you're not selling anything, but the more you deconstruct the faster the craft will level, so even deconstructing white items may be worth while to you, depending on your priorities. The crafting writs are one way to help make a little money despite not selling loot, and they also give you xp.

2) chest runs - Khenarthi's Roost and Bleakrock have a lot of easily accessible chests for example, and I find I can make a run of the island and get plenty of green or blue items with less time/hassle than grinding in some dungeon or wherever and getting potions, white items, or nothing for my trouble half the time. If you can, go chest hunting with your highest character in the highest zone they can handle - I borrow my husband's veteran character and have him send me all his loot, the progress bar moves significantly with those veteran 1 and above items.

3) as mentioned trading with a crafting buddy, but if it's too much of a hassle to find someone and coordinate with them, you can always create your own crafting buddy by leveling the same craft on an alt of your own. You'll only have the mats you've gathered to work with, but you still get good xp from deconstructing items made by another of your own characters. Have your alt invest in extraction points of course, and keep the tier of materials they can work with the same as your main crafter, but you won't need to spend too many points there since all they need to do is create and deconstruct. Be sure to upgrade your passives to the next tier of materials whenever you can, but remember you'll have to have some character that's capable of gathering from the corresponding zone - whether they're good at sneaking or properly leveled - investing points that you won't be able to get materials for will just prevent you from doing writs.

3b) If you're going to be crafting things to deconstruct or doing crafting writs, you're going to need a lot of materials which means farming and refining. Style materials are what I run out of most often these days (since I'm not into stealing them and thus am not stocking up every time I go into a building anymore). Before a craft-deconstruct session, I scout out the guild stores for large stacks of style materials at 5gold per piece or less if possible, and then just use up whatever style I'm able to stock up on at the time.

4) If you have lots of gold on hand you can also buy high level stuff to deconstruct, but that's probably not going to be worth it.

great information

You never got much from making things, and considering the resource grind, this is a good thing. Also, 0 Value and Stolen items do not give any Inspiration on Decon. The 0 value items never did, and the stolen stuff they just recently nerfed.

Mob Loot is the best stuff to decon for crafting Inspiration. If you decon your mob loot after selling what you need to cover repairs, your crafting skills will go just fine as your character levels.

Steal items and deconstruct them

I recently decided I didn't have anything else I was saving up for so I went ahead and bought stuff to deconstruct, so I thought I'd share my info.

I started out with clothing, woodworking, and blacksmithing at around level 30-35 and decided to try to get them all to 40. I searched mainly for intricate veteran rank 5 and above items for less than 300 a piece. It took some searching (took about a full day), but I did find things. It cost approximately 3,000 to gain 2 levels.