Crafting | Basics Guild Wars 2 Guide

In Guild Wars 2 as in the most of MMOs you meet a developed system of crafting. First step is to find components which you can collect by available tools (axes, pickaxes and salvage kit). You can find them in most merchants' offers. During your journey you'll also find an ore and saplings: collect all materials even if you don't need them, you can always trade them. Remember that the resources are available for all players (like chests) so it's impossible to steal the loot from anyone. When you fulfill your equipment, and go to the city sell your loot, you should visit trainers and choose two professions (you can change them later without losing levels, but for a small payment) You can choose from:

Armorsmith	heavy armors, chests, runes
Artificer	magic weapons, staffs, seals
Cook	cooking
Huntsman	bows and fire-arms
Jeweler	jewellery and seals
Leatherworker	medium armors, runes, sacs
Tailor	light armors, runes, sacs
Weaponsmith	melee weapons, shields, runes

After choosing your profession you can use the stand by your teacher and craft your first items. With the advanced schemes, your experience will be increasing what expands available recipes. On average on every 25 levels you obtain few new recipes. If you want more, you can buy them from the teacher (they cost karma) or discover using the bookmark discovery. Use the all available items and soon you discover new recipe.

Discovery bookmark let you craft new items.

Remember that from the production window you have an access to the bank and collections bookmark: there you can store surplus of resources.