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Your results at master will be significantly better than this. To prove it to yourself, run 100 tests on a high-level artisan item. Your armor assembly and experimentation skills just aren't up to the master level.

I am master armorsmith with a touch of tailor (0 4 0 0). I have significantly more assembly fails on a complex tailor item (e.g. anything with a BE-enhanced cloth) than I do even on composite.

Following up to the original article. Experimentation errorsdrop dramatically upon reachingTechniuqes 3 and great success or better results can be expected a majority of the time. At reaching Techniques 4, experimental failures almost vanish completely.

A novice armorsmith just beginning their carrer will find experimentation extremely frustrating until they reach Techniques 3. Howerver, for those who are not just grinding the profession for a holo, experimentingprovides insight into how resources, skill, and attributes affect the output of armor production. That said,my feeling is that a novice armorsmith shouldwork on the Techniques tree first. While this may limitthem to bone andMabari armor it provides a consistent platform for understanding the profession. Once the Techniques tree is mastered, than work can begin on the PersonalArmor tree without all theagony of turning out sub-par components.

For those armorsmiths worried that low level crafters can match their abilities without investing energy into Layers and Defelectors, I simply disagree. Outside of defelectors, aprofessional armorsmith needs the Layers tree to make good, consumer grade non-composite armor. Unlike architect, where only a few people will want guild halls and city halls, almost everyone in the game wants to buy composite. Of course, composite can only be made by Master Armorsmiths. Armorsmith, at least to me, seems to be one of the few crafting professions that absolutely requires mastering to be competititve.

I would however, like to see some consistency between the initial assembly and experimental phases of production.A greator amazing initial craft should have animporved chance of producing a great or amazing experimental assembly. Instead we get what appears to be a completely random assignment of success based on skill level.

I fully expected the assembly stats to improve upon reaching level 3, but I didn't expect such a stark change in success rates. Since this is a new profession for me, the next few months will be spent discovering the resources that impact each component the most.

Good luck to all aspiring Armorsmiths.

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Your results at master will be significantly better than this. To prove it to yourself, run 100 tests on a high-level artisan item. Your armor assembly and experimentation skills just aren't up to the master level.

I am master armorsmith with a touch of tailor (0 4 0 0). I have significantly more assembly fails on a complex tailor item (e.g. anything with a BE-enhanced cloth) than I do even on composite.