Artisan Archive
Thread: Best crafting xp
for artisian? =p --> crafting tools
for medic? --> advance BE's... last i checked =x
Crafting tools, untill you can make the personal mineral extractors, then make those untill youre done. I think those give the best xp. At least untill you make master. I cant believe how much xp the vehicles gave me! Every time I make one of those, My xp traker weaponsmith takes a huge jump! I've only made a handful of vehicles, but I'm almost to weaponsmith. 
If your still novice (No skills yet), I would suggest going x/x/x/4 first, then using your tremendous surveying skills, you can easily find the best resourses for your grinding efforts (I actually did this last, so use your best judgment). Then I suggest going 4/x/x/4. Or at least 3/x/x/4. I believe its at 3 that you gain the ability to craft the extractors. Anyhow, once you gain the ability to craft the harvesters, then go ahead and fill in the rest as you please, since it all goes off of general crafting xp, you can get it all by grinding the extrators. My biggest problem when grinding was that I never had enough resourses. I would go and buy resourses, doing combat missions for money. A waste of time that was. If you finish the survey tree first, then you can gather your own resourses efficiently without worrying about buying them (Of course if you do the engineering tree first, you could make your own extractors. Its all a trade off.)
Whew! My finger is tired! lol