This Gw2 Artificer Guide 1 – 400 is not the average guide. We don’t suggest farming or buying tons of items, because there is a more efficient way in this Guild Wars 2 Artificer Leveling Guide.
Quick Links in this Gw2 Artificer Guide
- Artificer Level 1 – 100
- Artificer Level 100 – 200
- Artificer Level 200 – 300
- Artificer Level 300 – 400
Other Very Awesome, Tubular, Face Melting, Wonderful Links
- Gw2 Artificer Basics Guide is the basics and lots of tips and tricks.
- Gw2 Artificer Recipe List all the artificer recipes.
- Gw2 Crafting Formulas shows why this method is the most efficient way of crafting.
- Gw2 Leveling Guide a review of other leveling guides we recommend trying.
Artificer Leveling Guide 1- 25
Here is what you need to start leveling. The description below lets you know in detail what to get and discover.
1. Buy the Following Materials
Don’t make the components, just buy them from the trading post! It will take 30X more materials to make them yourself. This is mathematically the most efficient guide. Refer to the Gw2 Crafting Formulas for the math behind the highest crafting experience bonuses.
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2. Discover the Following Recipes
The discovery pane will lead the way and the following video shows you how to do it.
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3. View this Video
If you are confused or would like to see some discovery magic, this shows how the discovery pane walks you through everything. There is no need to focus or think at all, yet it is still fun. 
You will quickly notice there is a pattern here when building a Stave, Trident and a Scepter.
Artificer Leveling Guide 25- 50
There are a few extra mats just in case there was an issue of hitting level 50
1. Buy the Following Materials
This one is not tricky but you may not make it to 50 just discovering 13 recipes. Below includes the materials to make 2 additional recipes just in case.
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2. Discover the Following Recipes
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2a. Help I didn’t make it to 50
View all the Gw2 Artificing Recipes and choose an easy one.
3. View this Video
If you want to see it in action – finished with a bang at 50 crafting all the Tridents, Staves, Scepters, Focuses and the Weak Potion of Inquest Slaying.
Artificer Leveling Guide 50 – 75
1. Buy the Following Materials
During this section leveling only took discovering 8 recipes but it may take up to the average 10-13.
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2. Discover the Following Recipes
(yes, they are the same names as the level 25 recipes)
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2a. Help I didn’t make it to 75
View all the Gw2 Artificing Recipes and choose an easy one.
Try discovering a few more focuses…those are easy.
Artificer Leveling Guide 75 – 100
1. Buy the Following Materials
Remember it may only take 8 recipes so you can start by only getting 3 Inscriptions each.
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2. Discover the Following Recipes
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2a. Help I didn’t make it to 100
View all the Gw2 Artificing Recipes and choose an easy one.
Artificer Leveling Guide 100 – 125
1. Buy the Following Materials
It may only take 8 recipes so you can start by only getting 3 Inscriptions each.
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2. Discover the Following Recipes
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2a. Help I didn’t make it to 125
View all the Gw2 Artificing Recipes and choose an easy one…level 100 Tridents are recommended at this level.
Artificer Leveling Guide 125 – 150
1. Buy the Following Materials
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2. Discover the Following Recipes
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2a. Help I didn’t make it to 150
View all the Gw2 Artificing Recipes and choose an easy…level 125 Tridents at this level are nice.
Artificer Leveling Guide 150- 175
1. Buy the Following Materials
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2. Discover the Following Recipes
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2a. Help I didn’t make it to 175
View all the Gw2 Artificing Recipes and choose an easy thing to discover.
Artificer Leveling Guide 175 - 200
1. Buy the Following Materials
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2. Discover the Following Recipes
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2a. Help I didn’t make it to 200
View all the Gw2 Artificing Recipes and choose an easy thing to discover.
Congratulations You are Half Way
Continue on to the Artificer Leveling Guide 200 – 400
This strategy is sound. Instead of buying the components, I crafted them with my gathered materials, reducing the amount of “discovery” needed, and then sold what I made on TP. Ultimately there was no cost in gold because although I had to pay the crafting master for some of the required mats, selling what I crafted covered that cost. I ended with the same amount of gold I started with, but considerably less mats. Either way, the end cost is gold or mats. If you intend to master all of the crafting types, a blend of the two methods would probably be best, dependant on how often and how consistantly you gather the mats needed for each level. If you gather alot of silver but only a few platnium, you’ll be buying the platnium based components and crafting the silver based components. Probably should keep in mind that mats can be used by more than one crafting type too.
Agreed, Many times the cost of purchasing items are too much or purchasing components are horrible. In these cases making a few is a great idea. We offer gw2 farming guides for when these things happen as well. Keep in mind this is the most efficient possible guide, It does not mean it is always the cheapest… To make it the cheapest you have to be careful. Over a thousand people a day view this and get the great idea to gouge the market by jacking the prices up on individual components.
So what do you do when prices are high: Follow the 99 Rule. If you read the article about crafting formulas you will see there is a sweet spot where you can build 9 and discover 9 (on average). By controlling the prices w/ a mixture of farming yields the most efficient guide and the most cost effective guide.
All the other guides say it is the cheapest by crafting in bulk 100s of items. Nearly 95% of the time this is more expensive. Logically this is also less optimal because you have hundreds of useless things left over you cant sell an you end up at max crafting level with very few recipes.
1-400 mats:
1 Garnet Pebble
1 Jug of Water
2 Green Focus Core
2 Hearty Iron Plated Inscription
2 Honed Iron Plated Inscription
2 Mighty Bronze Plated Inscription
2 Pillaging Iron Plated Inscription
2 Ravaging Iron Plated Inscription
2 Rejuvenating Iron Plated Inscription
3 Green Focus Core
3 Healing Bronze Plated Inscription
3 Malign Bronze Plated Inscription
4 Berserker’s Elder Inscription
4 Berserker’s Hard Inscription
4 Berserker’s Mithril Imbued Inscription
4 Berserker’s Mithril Plated Inscription
4 Carrion Darksteel Plated Inscription
4 Carrion Elder Inscription
4 Carrion Hard Inscription
4 Cleric’s Darksteel Plated Inscription
4 Cleric’s Elder Inscription
4 Cleric’s Hard Inscription
4 Cleric’s Mithril Imbued Inscription
4 Cleric’s Mithril Plated Inscription
4 Explorer’s Darksteel Plated Inscription
4 Explorer’s Elder Inscription
4 Explorer’s Hard Inscription
4 Explorer’s Mithril Imbued Inscription
4 Explorer’s Mithril Plated Inscription
4 Healing Green Inscription
4 Hearty Seasoned Inscription
4 Hearty Soft Inscription
4 Hearty Steel Plated Inscription
4 Honed Seasoned Inscription
4 Honed Soft Inscription
4 Honed Steel Plated Inscription
4 Knight’s Elder Inscription
4 Knight’s Hard Inscription
4 Malign Green Inscription
4 Mighty Green Inscription
4 Pillaging Seasoned Inscription
4 Pillaging Soft Inscription
4 Precise Green Inscription
4 Ravaging Seasoned Inscription
4 Ravaging Soft Inscription
4 Rejuvenating Soft Inscription
4 Resilient Green Inscription
4 Strong Seasoned Inscription
4 Strong Steel Plated Inscription
4 Valkyrie Elder Inscription
4 Valkyrie Hard Inscription
4 Vigorous Seasoned Inscription
4 Vigorous Soft Inscription
4 Vital Green Inscription
6 Green Scepter Rod
6 Iron Trident Head
6 Piles Of Shimmering Dust
6 Soft Scepter Core
6 Soft Scepter Rod
6 Soft Trident Shaft
7 Green Scepter Core
9 Darksteel Trident Head
9 Green Focus Casting
9 Green Staff Head
9 Hard Focus Casting
9 Hard Focus Core
9 Hard Scepter Core
9 Hard Scepter Rod
9 Hard Staff Head
9 Hard Staff Shaft
9 Hard Trident Shaft
9 Seasoned Focus Casting
9 Seasoned Focus Core
9 Seasoned Scepter Core
9 Seasoned Scepter Rod
9 Seasoned Staff Head
9 Seasoned Staff Shaft
9 Seasoned Trident Shaft
9 Steel Trident Head
10 Bronze Trident Head
10 Green Staff Shaft
11 Soft Focus Casting
12 Elder Focus Casting
12 Elder Focus Core
12 Elder Scepter Core
12 Elder Scepter Rod
12 Elder Staff Head
12 Elder Staff Shaft
12 Elder Trident Shaft
12 Green Trident Shaft
12 Mithril Trident Head
12 Soft Focus Core
12 Soft Staff Head
12 Soft Staff Shaft
19 Pile of Glittering Dust
You may want to go through this guide again and revise some things. I don’t think that buying all the stuff is actually the cheapest. It literally just cost me 2+ gold to go up 25 levels
Unfortunately the way the market (TP) fluctuates makes the prices natural moving targets. The best way to do this is use this concept as a base and use a bit of real time research. Each section provides an alternative recipe list where you can easily explore what recipes you can discover (if possible) and craft in bulk. By knowing all the recipes, you can just to a quick price check to see if there is something cheaper yet equivalent.
On a side note this brings up a great point; In some cases this guide literally is the cheapest and sometimes it is the most expensive. Think of it as a blueprint or a template of a guide where you find what you need given the best tools possible. Since Arenanet did not implement a interface for us to gather real time data no guide can truly boast ‘cheapest’.
We did the guides this way because it yielded the greatest bonuses possible and requires the least amount of mats. Mathematically it is sound. Actually and theoretically, it follows a basic supply and demand curve of the components used.
You should put a shopping list for each craft that has all the mats required so you can pre buy it all in 1 big go
i cant find the green trident staff or the recipe for the staff anywhere.
The green trident staff should be learned immediately when you get the artificer trade. As an alternative you can purchase these from the TP.
well i made a fresh 2nd artificer and he didnt get the recipe either, maybe they removed it? the tp doesnt have them either unfortunately
doesnt matter much as i only miss a couple recipes now.
It was a typo. It is the green trident shaft. I looked at that several times and I can’t believe I missed that. lol
tx for figuring it out, problem solved
Didn’t cost me as much as 8g for tailoring, but close to 6, possibly 7. However I didn’t really use this method until 120ish so I wasted quite a bit early level buying raw mats and making the inscriptions.
I’m currently stuck at 350 artifice as the inscriptions I need (master) are anywhere between 6-11s each and I need at least 12 to get to the next stage…
I’m probably going to end up asking this on all your amazing guides, but how much does this cost?
FYI It cost me 8 gold to get 400 tailor