Crafting material

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:
 * 1) Salvage
 * Salvage is the basic method by which crafting materials enter the game.
 * 1) Material Traders and Rare Material Traders
 * These NPCs sell crafting materials.
 * 1) Artisans
 * These NPCs can convert common crafting materials into rare crafting materials.
 * 1) Trade
 * Other players are a source of nearly any item in the game.
 * 1) Loot
 * Many common crafting materials drop frequently from certain types of monsters (e.g. Chitin Fragments from devourers). Very few rare crafting materials drop from monsters in Tyria(e.g. Glob of Ectoplasm from a Smite Crawler, in Cantha it happens more frequently).