Thread: Is it ok to only level 2 crafts of a prof, ignoring 3rd?

My Loremaster is historian and wants the scholar craft, plus a bit of farming is helpful. She doesn't need to make weapons. So can she completely ignore weaponsmith or will she restrict herself in any bad way if she does?
Thanks

Most people do ignore the craft you are not putting in the guild

Im also a Loremaster, and I levelled Scholar up to Westfold and farming up to Superior to grow weed for our rezz...until it was removed XD I stopped levelling Farming since and do not touch Weaponsmith.

Scholar Guild is a good guild and Scholar it's self relies on no other proffesions materials its ok to just focus on it

A character can only be in one guild. In your case this seems to be scholar (farming doesn't have a guild). It's actually a good idea not to put any effort at all in the craft you are not going to be guilded in (weaponsmith), as he wouldnt be able to make the best weaponsmith stuff. It would be more effective to make a different character your weaponsmith so he can be in the guild.

Altogether, you need 7 different characters to be in all the guilds.

The problem nowadays is that this also requires you to pretty much level them all to lvl75 because many recipes are rep gated and in high level areas.

I kinda dropped out of the idea of having all crafts after that, I'm not going to level 7 characters to cap, but many people do have them. Back in the day before guilds you could have every craft with 4 characters and you didn't have to level all of them to the cap (so long as you got a friend to help you kill a mob or two in certain crafting quests).

So big word of warnign if you want to be a crafting completist, the goalposts have shifted, and can shift, massively, and a lot of work on third professions has been negated/wasted, which is what puts me off, its likely that you'd level 7 characters, work on all the professions, guild them all and then have some new change introduced and see a lot of effort go down the drain.

Ok cool so can ignore weaponsmith and concentrate on scholar like I want, with some effort into farming just to help my cook. As for other crafts, how high can they help each other well enough without being guilded? Just thinking if I want to rely mostly on my own efforts instead of needing help all the time? I know that's what kin and friendship is all about but I prefer to self-rely where possible. Oh and yeah I do have several alts and enjoy the change in play style but wasn't thinking of going to highest guild level with all crafts, just high enough to be useful.

While joining the associated crafting guild makes a few things available, and makes others easier (i.e. you get recipes to directly make what you could only make with a critical success if you're not in the guild), I don't agree that you need to be in the guild in order for the craft to be useful. If you're not in the guild and really want the critical success version of a recipe, you might have to make three or four tries to get the item you want, but that's not difficult so long as you have plenty of materials. Besides, even the non-crit results are quite good through the early and middle part of the game.

As others have said, it's not necessary to level up all three of your professions. There's no limitation on your scholar or farming skills based on having weaponsmith skills. Indeed, if someone is playing just a single character and doesn't want multiple alts, then it's generally best to stick with the two professions that complement each other and ignore the one that doesn't. However, if you have other alts anyway and any of them have the prospector profession, so you have access to gathering and processing ore into ingots, then your historian could be a useful weaponsmith even while concentrating primarily on being a scholar and joining the scholar guild. At least he could if you want him to. It's up to you. Either way works.

Originally Posted by Alex53

The problem nowadays is that this also requires you to pretty much level them all to lvl75 because many recipes are rep gated and in high level areas.

Other than cooking, there are hardly any rep gates anymore.

Originally Posted by Catisa

Other than cooking, there are hardly any rep gates anymore.

Did Turbine take the reputation gate off the Lothlorien, Mirkwood and Dunland recipes?

mirkwood and lothlorien are hardly necessary or that useful now with level cap rise and itemisation changes. Dunland has 2 recipes that are gated that i can recall off the top of my head, repaired cloak clasp and draigoch cloak recipes, everything else has guild auto crit version that require no rep at all.

The Dunland wild flower field and wild pipe weed field recipes are rep-gated farming recipes. Those aren't exactly vital, but my scholar would love to be able to use the wild flower field.

The Golden Host Crossbow of Force from Mirkwood rep is still the preferred ranged weapons of most Guards and Champs.

The major rep-gated item currently is definitely trail food though. I have to bug someone in my kin for that every 3 weeks or so, although I'm slowly leveling my Tinker alt who has mostly mastered cooking and will finish it off when he gets to Dunland/GR/Rohan. My Tinker is actually the only toon who has levelled his 3rd craft, but that's mostly because cooking is so easy to level.