Artisan Archive

sorry for last empty post.

Here is what i did last night, collected my 1K copper from hopper and just it to craft tools (complexity 11) by using 2 crafting tools. and using other resources (200 ) I finished 2 in one minute, each give like 70xp( not exactly sure) in practice mode.I almost finished Eng IV in less than 1 hr.

I dont know about how xp in elite prof, i think it wont be that bad because

1) 99% i succeed creating the item

2) the item finish fast and I can use more than 1 tools to craft

3) no need to destroy item if your inventory full (what a great thing of practice)

I know we need hundreds of thoudsans xp in prof but relatively each item we craft give more xp. so.. I really dont know where people complaining xp grind comes from

Artisan xp does come fairly fast, but it does slow down the higher you go. I'm currently a novice weaponsmith with Firearms 1 and about half way through Tech 1. It's no where near the speed of an Artisan, plus resource requirement skyrocket. 1000 of anything doesn't last very long at all since for example some of the guns I can currently make take around 30-40 or more of just one type of material per itemat that rate I can only get about 50-60 items out of 1000 units of resources, plus the most general crafting you need for an artisan skill level is 6000. Weaponsmith is about the second lowest novice and further up xp requirements, but just for novice weaponsmith it requires 21000 general crafting xp, then the first level skill require 35000 weapon crafting xp. So, it does slow down alot from the speed of xp as an artisan.

What I find funny is that it only costs 13000 GCXP to get an entire Artisan column (Engineering, Domestic Arts, or Business) and 39000 GCXP to get all three, but the Novice skills for the Advanced professions cost:

Armorsmith: 16800

Weaponsmith: 21000

Droid Engineer: 28800

Architect: 33000

Tailor: 19200

Chef: 19200

(Merchant isn't on this list because it doesn't require GCXP)

This is why people are grinding for XP, not necessarily for the base skills. Granted, it became way easier when they introduced Practice.

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Paweh wrote:

What I find funny is that it only costs 13000 GCXP to get an entire Artisan column (Engineering, Domestic Arts, or Business) and 39000 GCXP to get all three, but the Novice skills for the Advanced professions cost:

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actually its less, 500 for tier 1 1000 for tier 2 3000 for tier 3 and 6000 for tier 4 for a grand total of 10,500gcxp per branch.

This is as the Devs have always said it would be. Quick up the Novice Professions and then it slows down as you go up the advanced professions. And what the original poster is describing is grinding, if you sit and repeatedly make items just to advance farther.

The majority of artisans complaining about having no money are the ones that grinded through Novice. Make your powerups, sell them and by the time you hit Eng III you will have plenty of money to run harvesters until you can start selling your better items.

Oops, I thought it was 1000, 2000, 4000, 6000 instead of 500, 1000, 3000, 6000.

And I think that fast crafting XP is good! Why? Because if it were slow, we would never have seen many of the items on the bazaar that are there now. We artisans are the heart of SWG, and we need to keep it that way.

How do you use more than one crafting tool at once? If I'm in a crafting session and I start using another one, it tells me I'l already crafting.

Nevermind...der...use two at DIFFERENT times. Sorry, been a long day!

i think i seem to be the only one getting slow crafting xp... im trying to become a novice weaponsmith but im only getting 20xp per item i build.. and when i need 21k thats a lot of crafting.. is there maybe some particular type of item that would give me more general crafting xp?

For Novice Weaponsmith, I grinded out Weapons, Droids and General Item crafting tools. I think it ended up at like 60 XP each? Turn off confirmation for crafting under the options menu, get 3 of the tools on your hotkeys up top, and just run them constantly. In the amount of time it took me to craft, 3 was the perfect number of tools I needed to not have to pause.

Also, to save time remember you can DOUBLE CLICK the resource instead of click-drag. Also, remember now to turn on the practice box. You should be able to get it in like 2 hours if you have enough resources built up.

something tells me doing stuff like that will cause SOE to think crafting xp is too high and lower it