Armorsmith Archive

I've tried to be Armorsmith, because I really really want to be a crafter profession. But my personality just doesn't fit withthe crafter's lifestyle. I'm too impatient......to find resources, to find SPECIFIC resources, to find GOOD specific resources, to make billions of components, to calculate resource use for which component for which component run on which armor, to maintain which harvester harvests what for what armor and components on which planet for which resource spawn, I HATE the resource game...

So after a while, I did Tailor.... and I kicked ass. People liked my stuff, I made money, though component runs were necessary they were not as overwhelmingly complicating as the resource/quality specific professions such as MasterWeaponsmith (tried), Master Armorsmith (tried), Master Droid Engineer (played full time and quit, but was the longest crafter profession I've stayed with other than Tailor), Master Bio-Engineer (tried... and will never try ever again so long as I have breath left in my lungs), Master Architect (tried), Master Artisan (carried with every artisan crafter I did). So I was being a Tailor for a while, and after a bit, it just wasn't....fulfilling, like Architect.

Here I am, picking up Master Armorsmith for the 4th time... just getting the survey 4 box as I speak. Armorsmith is my favorite crafter profession. In 2nd comes DE.

But anyway, here's a little background of me:

I have been playing since launch, originally from Flurry server, after about a week after Shadowfire was brought online, I moved to shadowfire. I was first exposed to Armorsmith by a Holocron... my first Holocron and pretty much the only Holocron I've ever done. I thought, great, a damn crafting profession... *sigh*. I did it, and had a blast making stuff, but soon found out I can't stomach the resource juggle, and dropped MAS and went back to combat profession like I have always been. Ever since then, I've had this longing to craft stuff, sell stuff to people, have people like products that I make!

Anyway... why im really posting this for is.... is there any tips for someone like me..? I'm not rich enough to buy all my resources, maybe some of them, etc. My main problem is the resource game, not just the spawns of resources changing every week or twobut the use of specific resources and quality resources. I need basic help... any help... that I can get... any advice for anything in armorsmithing will help me greatly.

Tried to read the FAQ's again after all this time but everything seems to be pre-CU, atleast on the armor crafting portions.