125049-q-crafting-progression-only-through-pvp-and-groupcontent

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Hello,
I have a quick question that came up repeatedly in the last days for me: I am a novice weaponsmith and with another char a novice armorer. I earned 3 crafting point/star/thingies and as I understand it, I have to earn 4 to progress to the next crafting level. However, all the remaining things that I can see in the techtree that would give the last point/star/thing are either PvP or GroupContent and heavily luckbased schematic drops.
 
So question: Did I miss something, or am I not allowed to progress further in the crafting when I do not PvP and very little GroupContent?
In case I missed something: What did I miss and how can I do better?
 
Thanks in advance! 	
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Those are talent points, which you spend in a talent tree(just click the Talents tab at the top of the crafting window, and you'll see the tree and where to spend the points :) ), and when you move to Apprentice you'll have the chance to earn more.  
 
If you aren't free trial and you need to earn more crafting experience to get past Novice, just craft more stuff and/or go to the towns that have crafting dailies in them:  Feralplain, Deradune and Lightreach Mission, Ellevar for Dominion.  Gallow, Algoroc and Sylvan Glade, Celestion for Exile.
 
But yes, it does suck to not be able to earn more because of RNG.	
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You can advance all the way to Expert crafter without earning any talent points. So the talent tree doesn't stop you from advancing at all, it just helps you along the way.
 
The only crafter right now that requires group or PVP schematics is tailor (which is broken, but getting no attention). Otherwise, you can attain enough talent points to open the whole tree yourself.	
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