Artisan Archive

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twc wrote:

Okay i have always been a PvP er and always did combat professions.Now I created a new chrachter and want to be a armorsmith.When I first got novice artisan I listed to that little droid and was totoaly consfused.Can someone plase explain to me what the profession dose, and how to gather resouces(it says some wierd thing like you can only gather 1 recourse at a time)?

Thanks im really confused

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OK, you need a crafting tool first. A Generic will do to start with, because you can use it to make a Weapon/Droid/General tool. The Generic crafting tool can't "experiment" (to improve it) on what you are building, but the WDG tool can. (Note: you must be near a Weapon/Droid/General crafting station to get the experiment option.) The quality on crafting tools runs from -15 to +15. Once you have a WDG tool, you can run through several "generations" of tools, experimenting each new one higher than the previous generation. The limit on this is the quality of your raw material. For crafting tools, the quality of the tool depends in the Conductivity of your material - so you'll want to make them with some high CD metal like copper.

Next, you need survey tools - you can make these with a Generic or WDG tool. Don't bother experimenting on them, their quality doesn't make any difference as far as I can tell. At the very least you will need a Mineral and a Chemical survey tool. The first time you use it, you will set its scanning range. As you go up the Surveying boxes in Artisan, you can reset your survey tools to greater range. The survey tool display has 2 windows and 2 buttons. The right window shows all the resources of that type (Mineral or Chemical) available on that planet. Select one and press the Survey button. The left window shows the local concentration of that resource; also a waypoint is produced on the highest concentration. Go to the waypoint and survey again. Follow this procedure to find the "peak". Press the Sample button to try to get a sample, then examine the sample to see its stats: OQ UT SR HR DR CD etc. Different stats are important to different products: powerups only care about OQ, melee weapons only care about SR, CDEF guns care equally about CD and OQ. Sampling is a slow way to mine, but it gets you useful quantities of material with time. (Better yet, run missions and just buy the stuff on the Bazaar.) At Engineering III and IV, you can build Personal Harvesters which, given power and money, will do the mining for you.