Crafting Issue - Corsairs of Umbar Release

[LittleSunnyGirl]

The fastest way is to go to the store. You can buy an item that will auto-complete most of the tiers. The next fastest way is to buy the materials you need on the auction house. You can get some rapid crafting potions from the store to speed it further if you like.

I'm pretty sure the release notes specified that when you drop a profession you lose all progress related to it - all titles and recipes and guild rep - so be very careful that you don't drop the wrong one when you pick up the new one. I was also aware that your new profession starts at zero, so you need to level them up all over again - you can't just move progress in a profession from one toon to another.

Thank you for the helpful replies from both of you.
I never ever thought of shifting crafting progress around between any of my characters, I don't really wish to either as I prefer to keep the progress at the level of where my characters are at in the game. BUT... I did buy an item from the store which raised the crafting levels and I just bought 1 and used it on the profession I'd swapped to, just so I could have a look how far it raised the progress of the profession to.
To My horror, the item had raised the crafting levels (tiers) all the way to Umbar! (right from the very first tier, apprentice) I wasn't happy about this at all. :-( :-( So I decided to cancel it and take it right back to the very start again. It costed me all of 24.99 for this. Looks like I wasted myself a bit of cash. :-/

I do wish there was an item I can buy where I can just raise the crafting progress to the same levels of where my characters are at currently in the game. Couldn't find any such thing. :-/ This would be very handy if there was too I think.
Anyway, I did manage to buy some crafting mats from the auction house, and I may use some pots of rapid crafting too, if I can find any.
Also, I know there are crafting scrolls (scrolls of crafting lore or some such) which speed up the crafting progress a bit too. So it looks like I'm stuck to using those, which I can just about manage I think.

 

[Hildegaladriel]

There is nothing wrong with advancing crafting alts to the highest tiers. I have many crafting alts, who've done little else, hovering around level 50 but they're now master Umbar crafters. I've levelled all my gatherers to Umbar so I don't need to level them if/when I decide to learn that class and actually play it. My level cap toons (& others I play) supply crafting mats to my crafting alts, and this isn't problematic for me lore-wise. They work as a team. They're just colleagues who help each other, despite being different races and classes.