Artisan Archive
Thread: Apprenticeship Experience?
I would think, that since the Trainers cost so much, its much easier to find people to train. That's probably what the game creators thought of. Not everyone will have the money to go to the Trainers. I gained experience and then waited until I could find someone to teach me.
I think you should be allowed to gain some sort of experience for teaching languages. It shouldn't be a lot, but some. At this point, you don't gain any.
Aazhia Kurano
Novice Artisan
Restuss, Rori
Teterack wrote:
I yell all the time that "I can train Artisan skills for free 4|1|2|3" and nobody ever comes up and asks me to train them. I can never find anyone that is advertising what they need training in. I have gone to the many hot spots that people tell me to goto and they are usually filled with people shouting things but I of course still have no luck in getting someone to let me train them. Are you supposed to offer them money or something? Sounds kind of stupid having your teacher give you credits to train you.
A little advice if I may, I maxed out on AP's a while back:
1) If you feel the need to advertise training, offer to pay the student.
2) Make friends, Lots of friends
3) Go group hunting, even if you dont have a combat skill you might try healing or just making food for the group and pets.
4) When hunting in group, behave. Dont get greedy. Read up on the millions of posts and guides on hunting etiquette.
I have found that the more social i become in the game opens the opportunity to teach, in fact HELP other players. And thats what the apprenticeship points are all about.
I recently became Master Artisan. It took me two days.
I had some already built up from teaching here and there. When I was ready, I paid up my housing and harvesting maintenace and headed to Theed on Naboo. I hung out at the starport and started shouting everything I could teach. I had a few people come up for training within about two hours. It took a while. I started offering money to teach but that didn't help a whole lot.
I ran into one newbie who didn't understand training at all. She had marksman experience but had never trained as a novice marksman. I took her to the trainer, had her learn novice marksman and then trained her in Pistols I and II. It helps to know more than just artisan. I could have trained faster if I had used all of my 250 points.
After the second day I was almost there. I ran into someone wanting to buy a vehicle. I told him I could do it if I gained enough Apprentice XP to become Master. He agreed and let me teach him some skills he didn't really want just so I could make Master. Afterwards I learned Master from someone else standing around and in 10 minutes I had sold my very first speeder (for half price cuz he helped me out). Sometimes people are holding off on training because they don't really want the skill. Try bartering with them to get them to let you train them.
The easiest way I hve found, as has been mentioned, is to just watch your spatial chat when you travel through a city. There is always someone in Coronet, Bestine, Theed, etc looking for training. When you see the request, jump on it immediately. If you are going to miss your shuttle due to training someone, 10 minutes is a small price to pay for getting the Xp and you may just get another trainee while you are waiting for the shuttle to come back.
Pay attention...that is the key.
Maybe some people don't hang out in cities around other people a lot?
Oktip wrote:
I have never understood why people complain that they cannot get App XP.
viper4986 wrote:
OK it is a neat concept but there are many things about it i dont like.How do people who are slower at getting the skills the people you are teaching who do they teach? it will be really hard for them making it harder to becom master artisan or any proffression that branches off from artisan. As the game moves on and there is less and less new people who do we teach?
Easy. You exploit the game by teaching Ranged Support I over and over to someone who doesn't have ranged support, but happens to have a huge cache of combat xp and nothing to do with it.
If you have some spare skill points and friend (Or second account) with spare xp and some time...
Get Novice Entertainer, Learn Image Design 1 and then have them get Novice Entertainer and Get ID experience and teach them, they drop it rinse repeat, slow boring but if you are desperate it will work, you could probably bribe people to it if you really need to.
Personally I would like to see some sort of quest system put in place.
When you are ready to become a master each trainer of that profession would send you off on a quest that involved making some items for him and teaching someone (an NPC) that would get you apprentice XP. If it was limited to once per trainer (Location not type) then it means people would have to travel and it would still take a reasonably signiciant time, but you are not dependant on someone wanting to learn what you can teach.