Armorsmith Archive
Thread: The Post Formerly Known As Holosmiths, Look Here
Mawock wrote:personal harvester=general crafting xp
AUK's=Armor crafting xp
Oops! Guess that is why i am a newbie...
I'm curious on 'sockets' on which you insert SEAs. I never owned an SEA so I'm unsure how the process works. A friend of mine needed a new left bracer. His former one was made by our guild master armorcrafter and allowed him to insert an SEA. I made one for him and it didn't have the option, or 'socket'. Am I missing something in the creation process?
ZenMaster wrote:
No. Not if you attend the macro.
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Number 7 in the TOS that you accept every time you start up the game:
"you may not use or distribute macros or other programs which would allow unattended game play"
Good point, but technically, the mouse clicking program is a "program which would allow unattended game play," even if that's not what you're using it for (since you're attending your computer while it runs). By their wording you can't even use or email an Entertainer Flourish macro, since that could be used to do unattended gameplay.
Then again, double-clicking resourcescould hardly be considered"game play"; at the very least it's not the type of "game play" I envisioned when I bought the game. On the third hand, you're not really intended to grind, you're intended to gain experience naturally as you craft armor to sell. But, if they really didn't wantus to grind/craft purely for XP gain, why'd they give us a Practice option? (probably to save their database fromthousands ofinsertitem / deleteitem 5 seconds later transactions).
Using a macro program to automate ingame task, especially those not able to be done with the macro system IN Game, are not permitted.
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This is a great how-to thread.
I was an Architect/Tailor before the holos- --- i was actually thrilled to get Armorsmith after spending weeks doing Creature Handler. I look forward to doing some real experimenting and combines after the grind.
Anyway my real comment here is about resources. I just wanted to let thenon crafters know that grinding a master artisan line is not just an investment in time but a heavy investment in credits.
As someone else said you are either going to have to buy tons of harvetsors, then survery, then plop down the harvestors, then pay maintence and desposit power, and then wait while the harvestors harvest. This could take anywhere from 2-4 days depending on how many harvetsors and the quality of the patch you found.
Wth chemicals, it is usually easy to find 80-90% patches. Metals my take a little more hunting for a good spot but dont place harvestors on anything below 75%.
Hide you will probably just have to buy. I havent seen any good amounts of hide for sale in a while and usually have to buy in small chunks off the bazaar.
If you plan to buy everything without harvesting, just be prepared to spend the credits. I bought most of my materials when i was grinding Architect just to save time. I easily spent a million credits.That money is just gone as when its all over you have nothing to show for it
Luckily, i have most of this stuff on hand already and found armor segments on sale fairly cheap.
Naufragus wrote:
Anyway my real comment here is about resources. I just wanted to let thenon crafters know that grinding a master artisan line is not just an investment in time but a heavy investment in credits.
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If you plan to buy everything without harvesting, just be prepared to spend the credits. I bought most of my materials when i was grinding Architect just to save time. I easily spent a million credits.That money is just gone as when its all over you have nothing to show for it
When I was going up master artisan (didn't grind it, just made and sold a lot of stuff), i had two BER2 minerals, a BER2 chemical, and a few wind generators, all placed within 1000m of coronet or tyrena. I'd run pairs of crafting missions from Tyrena to Vreni island, making about 2750 each round trip. After 4 or 5 runs, I could fund my harvesters for a few days. I also sampled overnight for Survey XP, and in the process grabbed another 2k or so metal each night. I never ran out of resources or money.
So it's not the fastest way to get master artisan, but it wasn't hard, and it was fun.