Given my play style and lack of money most of the time, I've usually found it easier to do things myself than grind out money and buy something from someone else. Plus, I get a satisfaction from doing it myself, so I am attempting to be as self-sufficient as possible with my new character.

In order to do this, I'm going to have to learn a wide range of crafting skills. Does anyone have suggestions on how to do this the easiest? I've been kind of shooting in the dark this past week and getting more confused all the time. Here is my path so far:

I started with blacksmithing and got up to level 6, then switched to scholar as I wanted to make some spells for myself. Got it up to 13 and decided to try tinkerer. Got tinkerer to level 4 and saw that I needed a better spanner. I happened to have a formula for one, so I switched back to blacksmith to make the tool. Not high enough level No problem, I'll just make/deconstruct some mining picks and level up enough to make the spanner. But I'm not getting deconstruction xp now, I'm assuming because I have tinkerer?

Tinkerer can't get xp from making bars and blacksmiths can't get deconstruct xp any more, so that kinda bites. I posted here a few days back about needing help leveling tinkerer. With the help of that thread and some people in game, I got up to level 12. Someone suggested that leveling miner up quite a ways would help me get tinkerer up easier from there.

So I switched to miner. It's the hardest of any to level so far They can't make/deconstruct tools. I've exhausted all the trainer quests and am stuck at level 13 now. I tried cleansing blighted materials and found out that sometime since I first quit the game 5 months after release, almost all blighted materials are now gone. I found some blighted sandstone out near Tazoon, but there is not a stonecutting bench anywhere near, at least that I could find, so that turned out to be way too time consuming. People in-game suggested leveling blacksmithing first, then level miner My head is spinning...

So, at this point I have 6 levels of blacksmithing, 13 scholar, 13 miner, 12 tinkerer. Somewhere along the way I picked up 8 levels of outfitter. And I'm still not sure what I'm doing

I know there are people here who are masters of multiple crafting classes, so surely someone has some insight on the process. Does anyone have any suggested order for raising multiple crafting classes the most effeciently? I'd like to get all crafting classes to around 20-25. From there, my ultimate goal would be to get all the construction classes up to around level 60. That will let me make all the items necessary to fill my plot with the buildings I have specced out.

So, is it best to do miner/gatherer first? Pick a different one to do first? Raise one to 100 first then go back and raise multiple classes? I've heard all those suggestions and just not sure what to do next.

Thanks to anyone who can help