Get to crafting mastery level 50 making only rares

[elarium]

Here's a more interesting crafting loop that will help you get to ML 50:

1. Rare craft. Repeat until inventory is full.
   • Normal Armor
   • Rare (!)
   • Level 19
   • Two attributes of your choice. Preferably whatever essences you are low on since salvaging will on average return you more than the craft cost.
2. Salvage crafts.
3. Gold farming. Darkhold Citadel 4-43. About 130k+ gold in under a minute for a run. Repeat this until you can afford one or more of the 250k gold Resource crates sold by Ruby.
4. Buy Loaded Resource Crate (250k gold each).

Highlights:

• This crafting loop helps keep things a bit more interesting, instead of being stuck on and spending more time on the crafting interface only. Crafting the L19 rare will net 37+ XP, which is about twice the perpetual no-loss L14 craft.
  
  
• Essences involved in the crafting will increase. Even though only lesser essences are used in the crafting, salvaging can occassionally return you full or even greater essences (!)
  
  
• Gold farming in DC is likely something everyone does anyway, so you might as well incorporate it into your crafting loop.
• After salvaging the only material cost are two units of basic materials (cloth, iron, leather), which can be replenished from the Resource crates sold by Ruby. The 250k gold crate has 200-340 of each basic material.
  
  

[LodWig]

What’s the total cost in gold?

[elarium]

What’s the total cost in gold?

Did not calc total cost, but it is ~20% (435g per pc) more than L14 armor pc (360g). IMO this still seems a bit more efficient since you get almost twice the crafting xp, in exchange for some extra gold runs.