Artisan Archive

ok i have a question,i have read through almost every page in the weaponsmith forum,and the artisan forum.tried searching and nothing.

ok so i understand about wanting a resource with high conductivity and overall quality...right now i have found a good copper that has like 860+ in both of those stats.as i am not a weaponsmith yet,i can only make some junk cdefs.and as i move up the weaponsmith tree the scematics will vary across the board,so i will use the cdef only as an example.when looking at the scematic for a cdef carbine it lists 50% conductivy/overall quality across the board.

now i have my reasources....farily good copper and ok pertro chem(i think thats what i need to make this carbine).

now to my question...experimentation...this is where i get lost.as an artisan i have 10 points to spend on experimenting,and i realize that once i have novice weaponsmith i will only get 1 point untill go upthe tech tree.so here i am experimenting on a peice of crap cdef.do i need to make each of these stats 50% or better to have a decent cdef?if thats the case i dont have enough points for that.if im lucky i can get 50%+ in damage and 50%+ in effectivemess,but the other one i didnt even touch.im not really understanding how this works.

as i said im just using the cdef as an example because im not at novice weaponsmith yet.any advise would be helpfull.thanks