easy way to get all the things needed to level up crafting is to not make yourself new gear. Don't bother upgrading anything either. Save all your mats while you level and you will be amazed at the stockpile you will have. As you level you will get drops which will be more than enough to equip your character thru your journey and when its outdated you can deconstruct it.

As you quest, stop and collect any harvestable nodes you come across and save them. All the drops you get ...deconstruct them. Once you level a craft to a high enough level to put points into the "get more out of refining" passive, do so and refine all the mats you have collected. It will increase your chances of getting purple/yellow tempers (altho many will say GL on getting the tempers cause they are more rare than a mouse in a mouse-trap factory).

Lastly the best way to level quickly is to get a buddy and have them craft stuff (level appropriate) which you then deconstruct. For whatever reason the dev's made it so it counts for more exp. I guess as a way to foster "community".

Do writs...the turn in inspiration is pretty decent. Another thing I found to do that can help is to not read books you come across in bookshelves till your skills are like 40+. Some (random) bookshelves grant +1 to whatever skill (destroy staves, Sword and shield, Blacksmithing, etc) Its nice at level 1 to get a quick bump, but its more cost effective to do it later in levels when it takes much longer to skill-up.

Alchemy, Provisioning you can level in a few hours to max,

Enchanting is the most difficult to level..

What i did with my main, a sorc was the following,
I levelled clothing and woodworking ONLY,

Studied traits on all the others as i got them,

When i reached vet i had more skill points to allocate and then went into crafting more seriously

Craft as you go, the problem with waiting until later is that your skill is so low you can't spend points to use the mats in your current area, so you might find yourself having to go back to earlier areas to gather wood, ore or whatever of the tyupes you can use in order to get your skill up. Unless you join a nice guild who will give you the stuff you need or you can buy from the vendors of course. Once you have a supply of mats its surprisingly quick to level the skills to 50, for example I never bothered with Provisioning and have just gone from zero to 50 in few days, but that was only possible by raiding our guild bank where people had stashed lots of ingreds.

Jaeysa wrote: »

For researching traits: Try and keep your research balanced, so instead of having 5 traits unlocked on chests, you have one each on chest, hands, feet, waist and legs. This is for two reasons. 1. As you research more traits per item, the time to research increases significantly. 2. In the world there are crafting stations that will allow you to create set pieces of armor. To do so, you need a certain number of traits unlocked.

Third reason: you get to 8 or 9 traits and can't use all your research slots because you only have traits on two items left.

I split it up, I have 2 chars, now at vr16, but by the time they were 50 they had plenty of points to each do some crafting.

1. Does all smithing, woodworking, and clothing so only one char has to learn the motifs.
2. Does Enchanting, provisioning and alchemy. This one is my main and thus reaps the benefits of the alch/prov passives.

edit: my keyboard is weird

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Oh, and your question: I would level them up while levelling the character, but only put points in them when you have spare or absolutely need to (like if you want to craft level 30 gear, but can't yet because of passive).