Artisan Archive
Thread: How do you grind?
Page 1 of 2
CantinaFly
Fri Feb 20, 2004 5:26 pm
#1
I know about the macros, and about practice mode, but my question is...how do you do it without going insane from boredom? It's the most mind-numbing experience I can imagine in a game, and if you're an artisan, it's the majority of your job. Does anyone have tips for making it more pleasant? I'm tried talking to people, but the time I'm typing is time that I'm not hitting 'enter' to grind more, so it takes even longer. It's like soloing, except without the excitement. I really want to finish up engineering though, so I can become a Droid Engineer. Any advice would be appreciated.
Asteroids
Fri Feb 20, 2004 5:43 pm
#2
Crikey if you're bored grinding Artisan, God help you when you take on an Elite Prof.
I know what you mean though. I tend not to focus on the goal (Master) and just craft until I do get bored, sometimes thats very soon, sometimes I can go on for oooo at least 20 minutes. Then I'll go do something else, even if its only for 10 minutes break. But hey thats me I stopped trying to rush things in MMORPG's after the first one nearly burned me out. (Lots of people make it a race, but I find it just saps the fun out of things, even more so in this game with the Hologrind). I watched someone grind out 8 boxes in Artisan in 20 minutes, as they needed the training. If it wasn't for the survey line he'd have mastered Artisan in less than an hour I'm sure.
I know what you mean though. I tend not to focus on the goal (Master) and just craft until I do get bored, sometimes thats very soon, sometimes I can go on for oooo at least 20 minutes. Then I'll go do something else, even if its only for 10 minutes break. But hey thats me I stopped trying to rush things in MMORPG's after the first one nearly burned me out. (Lots of people make it a race, but I find it just saps the fun out of things, even more so in this game with the Hologrind). I watched someone grind out 8 boxes in Artisan in 20 minutes, as they needed the training. If it wasn't for the survey line he'd have mastered Artisan in less than an hour I'm sure.
Asteroids
Fri Feb 20, 2004 5:44 pm
#3
Apologies for the double post, must be getting late, thats the first time I've done that.
CantinaFly
Fri Feb 20, 2004 5:47 pm
#4
Asteroids wrote:Crikey if you're bored grinding Artisan, God help you when you take on an Elite Prof.
OMG! How did he grind out Artisan boxes that fast? If I could do that I'd be finished in no time.
Asteroids
Fri Feb 20, 2004 6:02 pm
#5
Making the installation deeds you get at eng 3, the personal harvies. You do need enough of the resources available of course and the 8 boxes I saw him do were crafting these. Not sure how long it took him to do the three to eng 3, but from memory it didn't take me that long doing survey tools.
Ackdel
Fri Feb 20, 2004 7:02 pm
#6
It took me less than an hour to grind up to engineer III with survey tools and then grind up the other 9 boxes using personal harvesters as schematics. Survey is a downer. Funny, though, I was an artisan on day 1, and then went to architect, and it took me a LOT longer to master Artisan back then, I can tell you - and survey was the first tree done. Of course, back then no one knew how to make a crafting macro, there was no practice mode, and no one had enough resources to grind a profession like this, but hey. 
verticalis
Sun Feb 22, 2004 5:21 pm
#7
hehe.. well i'm macrogrinding tailor atm simply because i'm too impatient to wait the weeks it'll take me to craft my way through it.. and i wanna be able to make cool clothes now now now!..to make it more interesting i chat to a friend of mine using a voice over IP program similar to teamspeak/ventrilo.. failing that i go to corronet starport, find a quiet corner and maco away whilst reading all the spam 
munhihausen
Sun Feb 22, 2004 5:29 pm
#8
jesus himself help you if you want to master droid engineer or architect
d0qtrX
Mon Feb 23, 2004 9:02 am
#9
I hear that if you macro AFK while you sleep, it's tolerable.
I don't know what's more sad.
1. That you can macro any profession while you get on with real life
or
2. You look at the XP required and feel like you have to.
--Why waste a week grinding med crafting?
TheMalle
Mon Feb 23, 2004 11:06 am
#10
You must mean doctor crafting, as I made lvl 4 medic crafting on a night, without macros But TBH, I was sitting in Coronet using a heal macro to heal a tumble monkey at the same time
But TBH, I was sitting in Coronet using a heal macro to heal a tumble monkey at the same time This is a game, you pay to play it. If you do something you don't find fun, don't do it, do something else instead.
If you don't enjoy grinding, don't do it. It would be as smart as paying to eat sh*t, so to say.
Dejin24
Fri May 13, 2005 1:16 pm
#11
I am MBH/ Rifleman 1100. Just wodnering what you master riflemen did to grind.
Where did you hunt?
What did you hunt?
What weapon did you use?
Thansk in advance!
Nnekk
Fri May 13, 2005 1:17 pm
#12
Dejin24 wrote:I am MBH/ Rifleman 1100. Just wodnering what you master riflemen did to grind.Where did you hunt?What did you hunt?What weapon did you use?Thansk in advance!
I used my mouse and keyboard mostly.
Page 1 of 2