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With the FD nerf (another prime example of us being flat out lied to), I'm just wondering what we have left. Can anyone please tell me what useful abilities we have now (from the point of view of the base profession itself, without supplementary templates), because as far as I see it:

--Underworld: Entire tree all but worthless. You can understand Lekku (great for Twis), you can sell junk to Jawas (costs more to ride there).

--Slicing: Vaguely viable, but most people buy pre-sliced weapons, especially with the upcoming vendor changes

--Dirty Fighting: Last bastion of hope (but only if you have speed and accuracy from Pistoleer)

--Spices: What are they?

Thing is, if I really work hard, I can do something with all the abilities listed, but the problem is that it takes unbalanced amount of work to make a dispropportionate amount of headway with the profession. I mean, the crafters can simply go out and craft, fairly safe in the knowledge that what they make they can sell. Combat profs simply go out and kill stuff, it works fine. The healing and entertainment profs can even make a living now (organised crafting docs are some of the richest people I've known), and do what they do.

So, before I shoot my avatar in the head with my own DE-10, can anyone tell me what we still have that's any real use to us or the rest of the galaxy?

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Errathe Afi
Professional Scoundreless
Smuggler till death

"I aim to misbehave!"
"Business is always personal..."
"I'm a smuggler; sarcasm is the only content I got left!"

/sigh

/shakehead

/pout

Iakko Qel-Dentari
No one special.
Just a smuggler.
"I do what I do, for I am what I am."

Permetheis
A little bit special
Jedi Knight
"Wonder...is the seed of knowledge"

Amen

Cael Broden, Master Smuggler.
I am Jack's Ignored Profession
"I don't have saber envy. I have patch envy. 2 years is unacceptable."
"Wars not make one great. AFK-grinding on wookiees on Kashyyk make one great!"

Renn JeretuJoraan Stormwing
Elder SmuggleruElder Jedi
Smugglers' AllianceuArkon's Havoc Squadron
Eclipse - Dark Lotus Ninja

What did you say your other prof is?

Then maybe I can answer your question.

Easier, cheaper and quicker to get in space.

So, all in all, it seems like we currently just about got nothing that's much use to anything... and I'm still waiting for a dev change to smuggler that doesn't break the profession even more. Oh yeh, I forgot, we can make furniture and our FP caps have been reduced. Wow...that must have been 5 minutes of work that some Dev managed to sneak in before they all went back to daily meetings on how to improve Jedi and BHs...

Btw, those stupid gambling tables still don't work. How much time can it cost to attach the same code from the Jubilee Wheel machines?

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Errathe Afi
Professional Scoundreless
Smuggler till death

"I aim to misbehave!"
"Business is always personal..."
"I'm a smuggler; sarcasm is the only content I got left!"