How long did it take for you to level?

[brian14]

How many hours of crafting did it take for you to get to levels 30, 40, 50, 60? I mean, in one school?

[Bigrtt]

Never rushed into crafting, got a couple of levels on its initial release then stopped. However once I decided I'll get it up a bit, through about 2 weeks of constant collecting and deconstructing pretty much all the loot I pulled I managed to get 32 arcane 34 divine and 24 elemental.

[moomooprincess]

I am almost level 50 in all three schools on one character(Level 49 arcane, level 46 divine, level 48 elemental). Crafting levels is an epic grind for me.

I do not buy ingredients from anyone except I check the AH for cheap ones. Rarely do I find any.

When I get to around 500 lesser essences on one I go in and craft. I then use up all of them when I am in there and take them to the point where I need essences. Then I go deconstruct my shards to help replenish and back out to world of questing and Blood Stone hunting.

I prefer to run quests and explorer over crafting. I would rather find a bloodstone than craft.

I shop hard on the crafting to get the most bang for my essences. I now send all collectibles to my crafting character instead of my collectible holders. I am to the point now of 10-80-? or 6-32-9 if I can find them.

Remember you get EXP for deconstructing.
Remember to deconstruct your shards to put back some of the essences you used.

Divine is the slowest school of the three. Arcane is the fastest.

I have taken two vacations since crafting came out, the last one was almost the entire month of June. The family was in Europe. I am not fond of big European cities. I did like when I left the big cities of London and Paris. I don't like big cities in America either.

[maqiaoer]

http://i386.photobucket.com/albums/oo310/chuihuar/craftingcapped.jpg
10ish hours per day and 20ish days w/o doing anything else in game

[Habreno]

http://i386.photobucket.com/albums/oo310/chuihuar/craftingcapped.jpg
10ish hours per day and 20ish days w/o doing anything else in game

Good lord. How fast do you think you'll hit 125 or 150 when they come out?