Scout Archive
Thread: can you still craft camps without novice artisan skill?
And if you go Ranger, you will only need the Weapon, Droid crafting tool to create your many fun gadgets. The experimenation points on particular items (Camo kits at the moment) are accumulated as you progress up the skill tree. So your Artisan experimentation points mean nothing.
So, no, you do not need Artisan to be a Scout or Ranger. However, Surveying can give you an added monetary boost, by either mining your own resources to sell while you are out in the wilderness. A great time passer is to sample (survey xp) while camping (camping xp) while crafting (crafting xp) with you favorite portable droid crafting station. A three for one xp shot.
And currently surveying would be useful for the new camo kits, as it requires an ingredient that cannot be gained any other way than by sampling, that is until we can come up with a better ingredient.
Good luck and enjoy the revert to the solo harvesting totals,
"Am I just not skilled enough to craft better camps"
You are using the proper crafting tool (a We.D.G.I), so you are set there.
But, as you have already guessed...
- Survival IIIgives youtheskill to use an Improved Camp kit
- But not the skill to make one yourself.

So in order to craft improved camps, I may have obtain Survival IV or higher? Let it be so! (I am assuming that no amount of artisan skills will help me craft camps. It's go ranger or bust, correct?)
"So in order to craft improved camps, I may have obtain Survival IV or higher?"
Yes, you should receive the schematic for the Improved Camp kit at Survival IV. ![]()