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Hello everyone.

I am slowly working my way up to weaponsmith. I want to make guns, lots of guns.

I am a casual player and frequently take breaks to train, teach or help other players. That being said I have heard of master weaponsmiths already and I just made Engineering 3.

These are the strategies I am following to increase my ability:

Survey up to 80%+ concentration, waypoint and then sample like mad.

Craft items that require the most (similar) resources to maximize experience.

Use two crafting tools at one time. Craft while surveying.

No experimentation for better products. Everyone else has surpassed me and can make better quality than me anyway.

I'm about to rebuild all my tools as I heard that this may impact overall effectiveness.

I'm toying with the idea of harvesters but even with double fed-ex missions it's hard to keep them maintained. Especially since I need to save up for training.

Anyway according to my calculations I need to successfully craft 1293 reinforced combat staves before I have enough experience to make a better blaster. Is there anything else I can do to shorten this time? I've given away my craftables but I have not gotten any xp for their use as far as I can tell.

Cheers.