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Thread: Crafters Armour ?
face it.. you are a crafter NOT a combatant. I kind of like the idea of a crafter armor... but not sure SOE has that in mind for us. Their idea was "hire thugs to protect you" well.. how easy is it to hire thugs to run factories and harvesters all over thr galaxy? some people don't mind.. but then again.. many get bored. or aren't around all the time... but simply put.. crafters aren't meant to have armor or mitigations, part of the downside to being a crafter I imagine. so that being said... just get used to the one hit incap or load your alt and escort your crafter thorugh his runs. about the only sure fire way to do it
Jinxwolf wrote:face it.. you are a crafter NOT a combatant. I kind of like the idea of a crafter armor... but not sure SOE has that in mind for us. Their idea was "hire thugs to protect you" well.. how easy is it to hire thugs to run factories and harvesters all over thr galaxy? some people don't mind.. but then again.. many get bored. or aren't around all the time... but simply put.. crafters aren't meant to have armor or mitigations, part of the downside to being a crafter I imagine. so that being said... just get used to the one hit incap or load your alt and escort your crafter thorugh his runs. about the only sure fire way to do it
I understand what you are saying. If I have the opprotunity to grab someone for a group I do. Most of the time there is no one around that isn't in a group or headed off to go grind and can't be hijack buy my whimpy butt just so I can run abck and forth between my shop and my factories... that is about the only time I ever get messed with is running back and forth the 300m between my shop and factories. Surveying I always spam in guild chat until someone can group with me while I do my surveying duties. I can't see the harm in some sort of an armor for MASTER level crafters.
Better yet I would hope that grouping with my combat droid would do the same as me grouping with a player. If grouping wiht my combat droid would blanket me in his class 30 uberness... I would have ZERO problem with things staying as they are with no crafter armor.
Aroogala wrote:
I'm master armorsmith, master merchant, 0-3-0-0 tailor, and novice carbines. It works out pretty well. I'm just strong enough to give me time to get away.
I have played around with the prof calc a lot trying to work out a way I could pick up a nov elite prof... I am stuborn I like being Master artisan so I can make my alt all the goodies he needs (bikes and power ups) I need to have master merch so I can use my barker droid (only use it when a good hide spawn is going... I can't find reliable rangers for contracts and I have bad luck posting on my trade board) The last thing I will ever do is drop my FS crafting skills. Once I get off my lazy butt and finish my last branch of FS crafting I can drop my xxx4 DE boxes and pick up some marksman to get my Cl up to 13 or so and that does remedy most of my running to factory aggros but I feel for the CL1 pure crafters out there.
It does get annoying so I ended up giving my combat toon the ability to survey on the other planets and access to all my buildings so she can pick up and drop off anything for my crafter can make.
The other option is to have a droid active and on guard following you. At Level 30 it will protect you well enough up to Level 20s and above. At one point I was working at my factory and didnt even notice a level 11 scyk was approaching me. The droid took it out in seconds. This was the reason that droids got a power up , to help us crafters get from a to b.
My DE had (before CU that is) Brawler 0040 which was enough to defend herself. But once the CU came out it didnt help her in the slightest so I transferred it to add to crafting.