Tailor Archive

I will be surrendering master tailor in the near future. While it was fun in the beginning, and although business was very good,I got burned out, bored and frustrated.

Should tailors get usage decay and their experimentation back, I may return to the profession. But I'm not holding my breath.I long for the day that the tailor who works hard to get the best resoruces will rise above the one who uses whatever grinding quality garbage spawns closest to their house and sells master garments at 3cpu. Without experiementation effecting the decay rate or itegrity of the garments, all tailors are essentially a dime a dozen. While good business practices have kept my books well into the black despite the obsticles, I find the profession utterly unfulfilling now that the novelty has worn off.

I was constantly up to my eyeballs with custom orders. Unfortunately, those custom orders were 50% of my income. Quite frankly I don't think being a slave to your customer's whim is a fun way to make ends meet. Sure, I could have said no, but then I wouldn't have a cushy bankroll for large advance purchases of bio tissue and hides. The worst exaple is when a customer practically ruined my character's anniversary night with her husband (I do a fair amount of RP) buy turning a 5 minute job into an hour long wait. Of course she wanted to see me just a few minutes before my character was to close up shop and meet her hubby at the Lake Retreat. So much for a romantic evening out on their anniversary.

The only real lesson I have learned with tailoringis: don't do custom orders if you want to stay sane.

Adios my friends.

Go droid engineer , I have high hopes that SOE will fix them but good in the near future. Might be a good time to get in, before all the flavah players swarm it .

I'm going armosmith actually. I've been a resource quality whore since day 1, and I really enjoy seeing a valuable piece of armor in my hands as a result of scouring the galaxy for the best resoruces the server has to offer. Since I've closed my shop to work my way up the armorsmith skill tree at my leisure, I've also had plenty of time to collect the appropriate resources. I still have a few left to go before I can start producing armor, but I hope the profession is more fulfilling than tailoring. And this time around, no custom orders.

lol, I'm going that route too , got the resources to make some **edit** spanky ubese, tho my composite resources are teh suq. Just gotta get in gear and do the grind, bleh .

I'm still waiting for a good axidite iron spawn for the Ubese, as well as some decent gemstone for the layers. So far no luck finding the right quality stuff. For Composite I've only got 50% of the resources on my long list.

Good luck with the armorsmith profession - I think it combines some of the nice things about tailoring (colors, and some of it looks darn cool) plus you can really differentiate yourself by the quality of your product. Hopefully some day tailoring will have that aspect!

Ri'a

That's the nice thing about SWG: the crafting professions all provide different activities. In tailoring, materials do not matter (unless you're doing BE as well); it's all about style and color. For weaponsmiths, all that matters is quality of the materials. Armorsmith is kind of a combination of these two.

For all three professions, the same holds true though: wear your title and you'll be bugged to no end. The difference would be that picking armor or weapons is a lot quicker than picking an outfit.

I do like custom orders, but some customersinsist on trying the limits of my patience, or they insist on being served at inopportune moments. If you have a problem with such customers, learn to say 'no'! If a customer is taking way too long, I do not mind telling him "Please make your selection sir; there are other customers waiting". Some customers think that it's fine for them to bother you for 45 minutes, and then settle on a 500 credit pair of shoes. If I am doing something else, I'll just tell customers to email me or come back later. If they have a problem with that, than that's their problem, not mine.

Subcriminal,

You've long been an advid supporter of the profession and are a credit to us all. You will be missed. I share your concerns about the profession, and probably only laziness has kept me in tailoring this long as I loath another long grind up another profession tree. I honestly think that while other professions are getting better and better with fixes, new abilities, new schematics and so forth, tailor is getting worse and worse with all the merchant and bazar problems and nerfs and now the possibility of the color stuff coming down the pike.

Take care my friend,

Art

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Srednii wrote:
Go droid engineer , I have high hopes that SOE will fix them but good in the near future. Might be a good time to get in, before all the flavah players swarm it .

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I'm actually taking a real long look at this myself. If I do switch professions, it will likely be to that, as it would seem to me to have the most fun stuff coming down the pike, and perhaps the brightest future.

yeah, if even half of whats being talked about gets put in DE's are gonna rock. If they add DE only combat bots then DE's stand to become the only combat capable crafter which would be heIla cool all on it's own.

Oh no. I have a feeling you'll get the itch like i do now and then. I gave up master tailor long ago to see what the non crafting side of SWG was like and every so often I get the urge and wish i was a master tailor again. Myabe being in another crafting profession you won't get that as much but i know it hits me every now and then.