Artisan Archive

I have read on several occasions that there is a rumor around that you have to have a very good weapon to get the high credit jobs for Artisan Missions.

I have proven to myself that this is not the case. I currently go around the planet with a CsDhEiFt Weapon. I have constantly gotten 900cr Missons for 70% or above survey.

My BH friend has given me a Tusken and DL rifle and while I have them equiped I still get the same exact Missions and pay offs as above.

So, do not believe that you have to be uber rifle maste or pistoleer to get good paying artisan missions.

Just My 2cr for today.

Do you have certification in those weapons? I would say no. If you don't have cert in your equiped weapon then your skill with it is essentially 0 and it will give you the crap Artisan missions. Get your weapon skill up and equip the best weapon you can use and you will see that your missions pay alot more than if you have a CDEF equiped.

These are my findings from the terminals in Theed on Naboo.

Mission payouts with no weapon equipped - max 600cr

Mission payouts withLaser Carbineequipped - max 1800cr

This is from hitting the refresh button multiple times. I have Master Artesan and Novice Carboneer. It seems the Artesan terminals are using the same logic as the combat mission terminals. I also did the same test on the entertainer terminals with exactly the same results.

The reason you're not seeing any results is the difference between carrying a CDEF and just bashing things with your forehead is negligable.

You misheard is my assumption. Its not the actual weapon but your weapon skill in the weapon you have equipped that makes the diffrence. For example if have the fourth box in pistol you will get survey missions that have a max payout of 1800 only if you have a pistol equipped. Does not matter what pistol you have equipped it could be a cdef or fwg5 you will get the higher payout missions. You just need theFOURTH rank in any weapon skill and haveANY weapon of that skill equipped to get the higher paying missions.

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Its not the actual weapon but your weapon skill in the weapon you have equipped that makes the diffrence. For example if have the fourth box in pistol you will get survey missions that have a max payout of 1800 only if you have a pistol equipped. Does not matter what pistol you have equipped it could be a cdef or fwg5 you will get the higher payout missions. You just need theFOURTH rank in any weapon skill and haveANY weapon of that skill equipped to get the higher paying missions.

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Exactly. Thankfully they are screwing us more by leaving it this way, but doubling distance for survey... FANTASTIC! NOT

Then the dependency is on the level of expertese in a weapon skill, currently I am only Intermediate Range and Rifle. I can train higher if needed.

I guess my BH friends will need to get some more apprentence points.

'You misheard is my assumption. Its not the actual weapon but your weapon skill in the weapon you have equipped that makes the diffrence. For example if have the fourth box in pistol you will get survey missions that have a max payout of 1800 only if you have a pistol equipped. Does not matter what pistol you have equipped it could be a cdef or fwg5 you will get the higher payout missions. You just need theFOURTH rank in any weapon skill and haveANY weapon of that skill equipped to get the higher paying missions.'

This is my observation as well. My Marksman with 3 boxes in Carbine and a Laser Carbine was getting max 900 credit missions. As usual, they are fixing the incorrect problem.

That may be the way it works for survey missions, but I found exactly the opposite on destroy missions. When I hit the 4th box in pistol in the marksman profession, my payoff went from 1800-2000 down to 900-1000. I had been warned by others that this would happen, but at the time, I wanted the skill more than the extra credits.

i thought that the issue with the destroy missions was because they made the lower end ones REALLY low end, and the higher end ones higher end. there really aren't any middle-of-the-road destroy missions that i've seen, at least in the lower level areas.

example: anchorhead on tatooine, what used to give 1400 before the change now gives 3-400. i couldn't even get missions worth over 1k until i leveled 1 box over novice pistoleer.