Chef Archive

Honestly, if you're going to be a really good chef, I think it takes more time than having two labor-intensive crafting professions will allow. From what I understand, master WS is also rather resource intensive, as is chef.

From personal experience, I can tell you that I spent upwards of 50 million just to get started. Waaay upwards. That amount basically covered my +20 suit and a lot of antique resources. With the time it takes to consistantly run and keep track of components, additives, foods, drinks, resource levels, and harvesters along with always scouring the planets for vendors with resources for sale or for new spawns, I can't see where I would have time for another crafting profession, though I have toyed with the idea of also becoming a master tailor since it's not something that has an incredibly high time demand.

I'm not saying it'd be impossible to do both and be great at both, but you would have to be inordinately good at time management and be extremely organized in keeping both vendors stocked. If I had to choose one over the other, I'd pick chef. Then again, I'm a little biased. lol.

As for making extra money, chef can be pretty lucrative if your products are good. In the end, if you make amazing things you'll end up having to raise the price just to keep from being bought out on day one, so you'll have a constant flow of income.

If you're looking for two complimentary professions, master WS and master smuggler are great together. I know I'm not partial to running all over the galaxy looking for someone to slice a weapon. I'd much rather buy it pre-sliced.

If it's just about the money and crafting isn't a passion, then I'd suggest making your alt a master doc buffbot and running him/her all day without having to do anything.

Message Edited by MaliaMing on 12-19-2004 10:41 PM

Well to be a good chef requires a lot of work and time, especially short after you start.
Hunting down good resources, shopping, finding a BE to make your tissues etc.

Personally i'm Master Chef/Artisan/Merchant and have a few scoutskills too

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TheCro wrote:

Hey Master Chefs - looking for some advice. I have a second account, first account is a Master Bounty Hunter. I was thinking of doing either MWeaponsmith/MSmuggler, or MWeaponsmith/MChef. I want this second character to be able to bring in some cred's and moreover support my Bounty Hunter. Chef would really help big time, but going along with MWS, is it too time consuming or costly to do both, especially in the area of getting the resources or buying extra additives?Would really appreaciate any thoughts on if it is profitable, any Chef/Crafter combos (anykind) experience, or any idea of a good MChef template. My MBH can take care of any hunting needs, if that is less of a worry.

Big Thanks!!!

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Message Edited by Lomier on 12-20-2004 11:38 AM

I read a recent post here about a BH that goes on his missions armed with a really neat combination of food. If you're in the habit of hunting down Jedi's and the idea of becoming a chef is starting to take over the idea of becoming a WS, you can add one more tally to the pros of being able to supply yourself with the best foods for your needs.

Hi, I was in a very similar position as you 8 months ago. I had a MBH and it was expensive for me to hunt Jedi and PVP, I thought well crafters have millions and I could really use that type of cash, furthermore, one of my biggest expenses was food and weapons, so at a min I could make all my stuff and pwn the Jedi. So naturally I decided to create an alt account and my intent was to do both professions MWS and MC concentrating on Brandy for the credits, it sounded like a great idea. I grinded out chef first and once I was a master I began to try and figure out how all these chef's made really good brandy and mine sucked. Not having even finished my WS grind I realized that I was not going to be able to do both crafting professions so I decided Chef only and make brandy to sell and all my Jedi pwning foods for me. So I stated looking at the resource list and I realized that man I didn't think it would take this much, what the hell does 2 identical components from a factory mean? What do you mean quality of resources matter? Why do all these stats have to matter, this is lame, how am I going to make millions? I can't afford BE additives, why are they so much? What the hell is trim? All of this and more added up to ok I can quit and try something else or go for it all the way. And to be a decent chef you will need to make this choice.

So today 7 months later I my badass MBH Master carbineer is now a Ranger/Rifleman/Merchant to gather meats for my chef/ MWS is not a Chef/ BE/ Tailor (you'll find out why the tailor later) So my entire playing time is revolved around a crafter and let me tell you it is a blast I have met a ton of great players and extended my gaming experience by months. You may very well love the profession like so many others I have ran into.

Another suggestion for quick money: Make a ranger/ Meat gatherer my ranger sometimes can make 200 credits per unit on good meat, in one night one buff session I can make millions.

Master chef/master ranger would be SUPER helpful, except that you probably wouldn't have any room for decent combat skills to actually kill the creatures you would need to harvest. At the moment, I'm master chef/master TK with the merchant management/advertisement branches(it changes between two branches, depending on whether I need to get another vendor on the planetary or whether I want my structures to be maintained for cheaper). By whatever means necessary, I'd squeeze some combat and harvesting skills in there with the chef so that you don't have to rely solely on the contributions and hunting habits of rangers, who usually gravitate to whoever can pay them the most (can't blame them when everything in this game revolves around having money). Ideally, the thing that Fish has worked out is really nice. One character for hunting, killing, and selling; the other for crafting (having tailor formal wear 1 for trim helps to make you a little more self-reliant as well), but if that's just not an option, just be sure you have enough merchant skills to be able to keep both a very well stocked vendor, and an enormous storage vendor for all those uber resources you'll be undoubtedly picking up.