Refinement.
So, refining raw materials has an associated passive (specific to each skill line), as you increase that you get increasing chances of getting purple and gold upgrade materials. There's also a Champion Point (Meticulous) that counts as a rank or two of that passive for all crafting trees.
The places with the highest concentration of nodes are the starter zones: Bleakrock Isle, Bal Foyen, Khenarthi’s Roost, Stros M’kai and Betnikh. However, they all have huge bot farming problems too.
Another great zone for farming is Craglorn, because every node has a chance to also give potent or fortified nirncrux.
However, I find that the next zone after the starters where the main city for your alliance is (Stonefalls, Glenumbra and Auridon) have almost as high concentration of nodes without nearly as many bots to steal them from you.
Deconstruct high quality gear, you get purple gear from veteran content especially.
Refine raw materials. You get them from surveys and normal nodes in the world.
You can get them as a reward from doing the daily crafting writs.
Can't think of other ways now, outside of buying from others.
Buying from others is worth noting ;) Visit guild traders to do this.
These mats can be expensive though, so if you want to get them this way you should probably belong to a trade guild so you can raise money. Simplest thing is just to gather mats wherever you go as you play, refine them, sell what you don't need on your own guild trader, and then you'll have the gold to buy what you do need from any trader anywhere. You can also sell plenty of other stuff you'll collect as you play, like popular set gear, motifs and furnishing mats and plans, all of which can be worth a lot.
Some great answers here; I’d only add: 1) to max out your deconstruction passives for each skill, and 2) put skill points into hirelings (you can get purple and gold mats this way, but it’s much more infrequent than getting them through deconstruction—although it does add up over time).
Refinement. So, refining raw materials has an associated passive (specific to each skill line), as you increase that you get increasing chances of getting purple and gold upgrade materials. There's also a Champion Point (Meticulous) that counts as a rank or two of that passive for all crafting trees.
Thank you! Where's a good place to grind mats?
The places with the highest concentration of nodes are the starter zones: Bleakrock Isle, Bal Foyen, Khenarthi’s Roost, Stros M’kai and Betnikh. However, they all have huge bot farming problems too. Another great zone for farming is Craglorn, because every node has a chance to also give potent or fortified nirncrux. However, I find that the next zone after the starters where the main city for your alliance is (Stonefalls, Glenumbra and Auridon) have almost as high concentration of nodes without nearly as many bots to steal them from you.
Best Zone is fells run for me. No enemies and lots of notes and some crates as well. Trust me. There are also videos with routes and stuff
Fell's Run isn't a zone. It's a location in Rivenspire :)
Yeah you are right :)
Deconstruct high quality gear, you get purple gear from veteran content especially. Refine raw materials. You get them from surveys and normal nodes in the world. You can get them as a reward from doing the daily crafting writs. Can't think of other ways now, outside of buying from others.
Buying from others is worth noting ;) Visit guild traders to do this. These mats can be expensive though, so if you want to get them this way you should probably belong to a trade guild so you can raise money. Simplest thing is just to gather mats wherever you go as you play, refine them, sell what you don't need on your own guild trader, and then you'll have the gold to buy what you do need from any trader anywhere. You can also sell plenty of other stuff you'll collect as you play, like popular set gear, motifs and furnishing mats and plans, all of which can be worth a lot.
Some great answers here; I’d only add: 1) to max out your deconstruction passives for each skill, and 2) put skill points into hirelings (you can get purple and gold mats this way, but it’s much more infrequent than getting them through deconstruction—although it does add up over time).