Artisan Archive

Ex Master Ranger here. Talking about maskscent.

It's an awesome skill. I know it very well and there are 2 big advantages having it. The stealth and the milking ability. Both are extremely worth. I'm an expert user of this skill. Remember it works only vs animals, not npcs.

Unfortunately with the CU, but in a certain way also pre-CU, the maskscent is CL based like 99.9999% of the stuffs in this game. So if I drive on the swoop and I find myself among red dots over CL60, the scent breaks and after 2-3 secondsI'm hit by 5k damage. I agree I'd better turn around the red dots. But sometimes lag causes red dots to spawn everywhere and on you or all around you. Happened I was setting mineral harvesters and at the 3rd dropping a spawm of canyon corsairs pirates popped all around. Cloned! I was able to redeed my minerals only 5 days after that.

I think the real solution is that lok and dathomir have to be avoided by low level crafters. I don't have these problems on Endor or on dantooine. Yavin 50%.

Zeppo

What are the names for the better combat droids? When I look in the Bazaar I only see names with NO descriptions of what the droids do. I don't want to pay out 10-30K credits and get a droid that is only used in preparing food, hehe.

Thanks.

Not to toot my own horn hehe, but me and my droid can take on most anything. I have even dueled level 80s and almost won. I just have novice pistoleer, I can clear nearly everything that will give me trouble around my harvestors and factories. One word of advice, if you get a droid, DO NOT grop with it. Grouping with it lowers it to your level.

word of warning on the droids. Combat droids have a bug right now were you can't program them to attack or guard so be sure to find out if the droid you plan on buying has this problem. (See Droid Engineer forums for more info).

I am from the old school so I got MCH to have a ready supply of bodyguards in the form of pets.

-Indene-

one of my toons is a dedicated crafter, i had a few boxes of pistol preCU to protect myself around my houses and factories. i respec'd to TKM for a bit, but being 54 didn't help me enough to make up for the skills i'd given up for it, so now i'm back to pure crafter.

my major advice is that it really helps if you get in the mindset that dying doesn't matter. if you have stuff that don't want to decay (for me, that's my +experimentation outfit and +15 crafting tools), don't leave your house without stashing it in your droid. that way if (ok when) i die, it's an inconvenience but i don't lose anything but time. i've had terrific luck finding people in theed to heal my wounds, on some servers that might be harder.

i do always take a bodyguard with me when i'm going out to place harvesters, since it seems 80% of the time when i find a good spot there's a lair around that needs to be eradicated before i can place anything.