Crafting materials are items that can be used to craft (create) armor, weapons or rare materials in the game. The actual crafting is performed by a Crafter NPC. You must pay gold and provide the necessary materials.
There are two types of crafting material in Guild Wars:
- Common crafting materials
- Rare crafting materials
There are several sources of crafting materials:
- Salvage
- Salvage is the basic method by which crafting materials enter the game.
- Material Traders and Rare Material Traders
- These NPCs sell crafting materials.
- Artisans
- These NPCs can convert common crafting materials into rare crafting materials.
- Trade
- Other players are a source of nearly any item in the game.
- Loot
- Many common crafting materials drop frequently from certain types of monsters (e.g. most plants can drop Plant Fibers and/or Wood Planks). Rare crafting materials can also be obtained from drops, although they are much less common.
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| Common |  Bolt of Cloth •  Bone •  Chitin Fragment •  Feather •  Granite Slab •  Iron Ingot •  Pile of Glittering Dust •  Plant Fiber •  Scale •  Tanned Hide Square •  Wood Plank
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| Rare |  Amber Chunk •  Bolt of Damask •  Bolt of Linen •  Bolt of Silk •  Deldrimor Steel Ingot •  Diamond •  Elonian Leather Square •  Fur Square •  Glob of Ectoplasm •  Jadeite Shard •  Leather Square •  Lump of Charcoal •  Monstrous Claw •  Monstrous Eye •  Monstrous Fang •  Obsidian Shard •  Onyx Gemstone •  Roll of Parchment •  Roll of Vellum •  Ruby •  Sapphire •  Spiritwood Plank •  Steel Ingot •  Tempered Glass Vial •  Vial of Ink
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