Smuggler Archive
Thread: Making Money as a Smuggler
fishbrains
Wed Jul 27, 2005 5:36 am
#14
Klavistor wrote:I made a new character recently who is now a novice smuggler, but anyway I have been hearing that Smugglers are supposed to be rich? How does a Master Smuggler make money? Slicing doesnt seem to be that great considering the effort you spend doing it. Spices, I dont think that is very good if you dont have a vendor, but like I said I am new and I could be wrong. But why is it that everyone says you guys are so rich, lol?
With the new slicing system those of us that stockpiled old crates of WUKs and AUKs stand to make a killing. However, due to the horrible drop rate on most of the components the new parts are so rare that it effectively gates out new smugglers from getting in on this luctative action. Spices, I sell mebbe a few crates a week. Mainly booster blue and pixie. The rest of my creds scomes from loot hunting.
SithVarden
Wed Jul 27, 2005 6:27 am
#15
I actually made anywhere between 2-4 million a day selling storm trooper faction armor to people before the CU.
I haven't tried it since coming back but I have seen people with vendors sell faction armor for about 1.3 million a pop.
Which I had to sell it for at least 1.7 million to make a nice profit.
The best part is that I am a rebel
EmonOkari
Wed Jul 27, 2005 7:13 am
#16
I'd recommend dropping Smuggler. There is not the money in it that some believe. Little in slicing, unless you already have a stockpile of components...and almost NONE in spicing. No missions to take, nothing. Just a half-working 'root' to help your main profession. That's all.
fishbrains
Wed Jul 27, 2005 1:38 pm
#17
EmonOkari wrote:
I'd recommend dropping Smuggler. There is not the money in it that some believe. Little in slicing, unless you already have a stockpile of components...and almost NONE in spicing. No missions to take, nothing. Just a half-working 'root' to help your main profession. That's all.
Concussion shot is far from a 'half working root'. I'm sick and tired of smugglers that pitch a fit cause 'it does not work right'. Good lord, coupled with panic Shot it's the single most effective CC combo in the game. When my group of friends and I go raiding I'm the first one targeted (well and my good friend who is master enhanser..for some reason FR3 and stasis (basicly concussion shot) are not liked). Yeah it hurt us in the solo game but made us 100 x more usefull in the group enviroment.
ApollyonTB
Wed Jul 27, 2005 1:42 pm
#18
fishbrains wrote:
EmonOkari wrote:
I'd recommend dropping Smuggler. There is not the money in it that some believe. Little in slicing, unless you already have a stockpile of components...and almost NONE in spicing. No missions to take, nothing. Just a half-working 'root' to help your main profession. That's all.
Concussion shot is far from a 'half working root'. I'm sick and tired of smugglers that pitch a fit cause 'it does not work right'. Good lord, coupled with panic Shot it's the single most effective CC combo in the game. When my group of friends and I go raiding I'm the first one targeted (well and my good friend who is master enhanser..for some reason FR3 and stasis (basicly concussion shot) are not liked). Yeah it hurt us in the solo game but made us 100 x more usefull in the group enviroment.
Not all of us....like to wander about Lok yelling "Master smuggler LFG PST!!!!"
Its our nature to ....hunt solo...or with an small group of less than three people, we are smugglers....not jedi
fishbrains
Wed Jul 27, 2005 1:45 pm
#19
ApollyonTB wrote:
fishbrains wrote:
EmonOkari wrote:
I'd recommend dropping Smuggler. There is not the money in it that some believe. Little in slicing, unless you already have a stockpile of components...and almost NONE in spicing. No missions to take, nothing. Just a half-working 'root' to help your main profession. That's all.
Concussion shot is far from a 'half working root'. I'm sick and tired of smugglers that pitch a fit cause 'it does not work right'. Good lord, coupled with panic Shot it's the single most effective CC combo in the game. When my group of friends and I go raiding I'm the first one targeted (well and my good friend who is master enhanser..for some reason FR3 and stasis (basicly concussion shot) are not liked). Yeah it hurt us in the solo game but made us 100 x more usefull in the group enviroment.
Not all of us....like to wander about Lok yelling "Master smuggler LFG PST!!!!"Its our nature to ....hunt solo...or with an small group of less than three people, we are smugglers....not jedi
if you are looking for a solo game you might want to try I dunno...a FPS? This is a MMO...it's based around people. PEople working together. One of the main goals iof the CU was that people would get away from the solo game and start to group. If you want to solo, you still can..it just takes a little longer. And if you are having to wander yelling 'smuggler LFG' then you might need to add some folks to your friends list
ApollyonTB
Wed Jul 27, 2005 1:53 pm
#20
ok...yeah...ok let me stop playing a game I have been playing for two years, because you said that it deosnt comply to my play style.....
/points at subscriction date
Ive been here the whole time man......Im not about to change my play style because one of our specials changed....
fishbrains
Wed Jul 27, 2005 1:56 pm
#21
ApollyonTB wrote:ok...yeah...ok let me stop playing a game I have been playing for two years, because you said that it deosnt comply to my play style.....
/points at subscriction date
Ive been here the whole time man......Im not about to change my play style because one of our specials changed....
I just fail to see how people say that 'the solo game is dead. Smuggler is FAR more effective in stand alone combat than we were pre CU. We have a great array of specials. I'm just sick of people acting like we suck in combat.
fishbrains
Wed Jul 27, 2005 2:14 pm
#23
Noffo wrote:
But I'm a smuggler, not a group combatant.
I'm sorry, I must have missed it in the manuel where it said 'Smuggler is a highly powerfull combat profession designed to solo large hords of creatures'. I'll go back and look for that. /sigh
ApollyonTB
Wed Jul 27, 2005 2:19 pm
#24
fishbrains wrote:
Noffo wrote:
But I'm a smuggler, not a group combatant.
I'm sorry, I must have missed it in the manuel where it said 'Smuggler is a highly powerfull combat profession designed to solo large hords of creatures'. I'll go back and look for that. /sigh
what are you saying? ....Go try to solo anything over 81, or an elite over 80...as a smuggler with only the smuggler specails...then come back and say something. You dont get it, we never said taht we shoudl be able to solo a Krayt, or a high lvl nightsister, we only said that we dont wanna group all the time....sheesh. Yet you are implying that WE wantto solo everything ....? enlighten me with your point of view because I seem to be missing it...
have a cold beer man.........................and maybe Ill give you some pie
Noffo
Wed Jul 27, 2005 2:20 pm
#25
Did I say anything about soloing hordes? I'm not a rifle toting, grenade throwing, hard armor wearing, goose stepping combatant with a stick up his nether regions.
I'm a smuggler. I want to smuggle. I want to be able to have a chance to get away should I be caught smuggling. When I've smuggled, I want to go to a cantina and sit with friends and drink beer and eat pie.
I don't want to be responsible for keeping 7 other people alive and getting them through their levels. The only time I want, as a smuggler, to be responsible for lives other than my own, is when they're my cargo.
I'm a smuggler. I want to smuggle. I want to be able to have a chance to get away should I be caught smuggling. When I've smuggled, I want to go to a cantina and sit with friends and drink beer and eat pie.
I don't want to be responsible for keeping 7 other people alive and getting them through their levels. The only time I want, as a smuggler, to be responsible for lives other than my own, is when they're my cargo.
fishbrains
Wed Jul 27, 2005 2:27 pm
#26
ApollyonTB wrote:
fishbrains wrote:
Noffo wrote:
But I'm a smuggler, not a group combatant.
I'm sorry, I must have missed it in the manuel where it said 'Smuggler is a highly powerfull combat profession designed to solo large hords of creatures'. I'll go back and look for that. /sigh
what are you saying? ....Go try to solo anything over 81, or an elite over 80...as a smuggler with only the smuggler specails...then come back and say something. You dont get it, we never said taht we shoudl be able to solo a Krayt, or a high lvl nightsister, we only said that we dont wanna group all the time....sheesh. Yet you are implying that WE wantto solo everything ....? enlighten me with your point of view because I seem to be missing it...have a cold beer man.........................and maybe Ill give you some pie
you have enough skill points after mastering smuggler to master a full other ranged profession and dabble in a third. Yeah, the smuggler specials are geared almost totally toward CC, but it's not like we are riding the short bus like some think