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Materials - resources | Crafting Guild Wars 2 Guide

Last update: 11 May 2016

Before you start crafting, you need to find proper materials. In Guild Wars 2 one rule should be applied: collect all resources you can find. You never know when you'd like to change your profession and your current materials became useless. Even if you don't plan this, you can sell additional materials via Trading Post or exchange them for what do you need.

Collected silver will be used for few rings and amulets. - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
Collected silver will be used for few rings and amulets.

First and the simplest method of collecting materials is collecting them by yourself from the map. To do so you need tools which can be bought at almost every merchant in the game. After completing mission or killing few monsters you should have enough money to buy copper harvesting sickle, copper mining pick and copper logging axe, what let you collect materials in the beginning locations. To do so, just equip the chosen item (in inventory you have a place for each of them), go to the source of material and press F. Your hero will automatically collect one or more materials. In case of rich metal vein you can repeat it to pick up more materials.

Full set of tools: sickle, mining pick and axe. - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
Full set of tools: sickle, mining pick and axe.

Depending on the place where you want to collect materials, you'll use different tools. Every of them has a different number of uses, so it's worth to carry a spare one.

Icon on the map

Required tool

Number of uses

Materials

1 - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
Mining pick - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
Mining pick

100

Metals, precious stones

2 - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
Logging axe - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
Logging axe

100

Wood

3 - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
Harvesting sickle - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
Harvesting sickle

50

Plants (ingredient)

Besides that it's worth to know that your tools have different levels. The higher level, the rarer ingredients you can get. But using more expensive items on the sources with lower level doesn't give you anything. A type of tools, the materials you get thanks to them and lumps required to ingots (you can buy them also) you may find in this chart:

Level

Tool

Ore

Lump

Ingot

Log

Plank

1

Copper

Copper - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
Copper
Tin - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
Tin
Copper - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
Copper
Bronze - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
Bronze
Green - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
Green
Green - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
Green

2

Iron

Iron - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
Iron
Silver - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
Silver
 
Iron - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
Iron
Silver - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
Silver
Soft - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
Soft
Soft - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
Soft

3

Steel

Gold - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
Gold
Coal - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
Coal
Steel - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
Steel
Gold - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
Gold
Seasoned - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
Seasoned
Seasoned - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
Seasoned

4

Darksteel

Platinum - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
Platinum
Primordium - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
Primordium
Platinum - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
Platinum
Darksteel - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
Darksteel
Hard - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
Hard
Hard - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
Hard

5

Mithril

Mithril - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
Mithril
 
Mithril - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
Mithril
Elder - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
Elder
Elder - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
Elder

6

Orichalcum

Orichalcum - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
Orichalcum
 
Orichalcum - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
Orichalcum
Ancient - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
Ancient
Ancient - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
Ancient

You have to also remembered that while mining ore you can sometimes get a precious stone, needed by the goldsmith. But it's rather random so, as I mentioned, you should collect all materials you meet.

A precious stone mined while collecting the iron ore. - Materials - resources - Crafting - Guild Wars 2 - Game Guide and Walkthrough
A precious stone mined while collecting the iron ore.
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