Weaponsmith Archive
Thread: The Penultimate Guide to Weaponsmithing
Is it me or have the recent patches totally messed up the above macro's? I try and use the macro to make blaster rifle barrels now and I get 0 exp.
Or is it just me?
Just wanted to post my feedback. Yesterday, I printed out the crafting macro listed above. I had some difficulty when typing in the FIRST two commands.
I went to Toolbar 1, and I put my Weapons Crafting Tools in slots F5-F12, as described in the first post.
I didn't want to type in the ENTIRE macro at first, because I like to go by the K.I.S.S. rule (keep it simple...). So I created a Macro with just the first two lines in it, and placed the Macro in F1. I wasn't sure what it would do, but I assumed that it would at least boot the Crafting station.
I hit F1... nothing happens. At all.I hit F1 again a couple seconds later. Nothing happens... again.
Okay. I wasn't sure if maybe I had the wrong data schematic, so I changed the number to 00. Hit F1 - nothing. I would think I would at least get the WRONG schematic, but something either way. Nope.
After changing the numbers a bit, Ithought that the command:
/ui action toolbarSlot03
booted the Crafting Tool in slot F3... so I put a Crafting Tool there. However, when i did so, when I hit F1 fto start the macro, I saw F4 darken and lighten... but nothing happened from my Crafting Tool from F3. The command actually starts the crafting item in slot F4... not from wherethe instructions tell you to put the first tool, which is F5. This is why it wasn't booting the crafting station, and therefore never even getting to the schematic. I then changed the macro so that all of my crafting items in the macro started from:
/ui action toolbarSlot04
and then continued through 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, and 11. Once I did this, and was eventually able to pull the right Schematic (#156 for me), I eventually got it working. I set my middle-mouse button for Double-Click, and then removed all metals from my inventory (into my backpack) except for the Steel I was grinding with. Doing this, I was comfortable with the /pause set to 3, and the 2nd pause at 1. 
So... Remember this:
Slots F1 through F12 are NAMED:
toolbarSlot00 through toolbarSlot11.
F1 = toolbarSlot00... F2=toolbarSlot01... F3=toolbarSlot02... F4=toolbarSlot03... etc. through F12=toolbarSlot11.
Make sure that your macro is set for the same Toolbar buttons that you have your Crafting Tools in, and vice-versa... and it should boot the Crafting Tool for you, and it should be easy-going from then on. I hope this helps!
~Pousto
I'm NOT too proud to ask for help replacing these lost resources.
Pousto wrote:
Just wanted to post my feedback. Yesterday, I printed out the crafting macro listed above. I had some difficulty when typing in the FIRST two commands.
Honestly, that Macro Guide wasn't written myself. But it was being heralded as a good guide, so I decided to use it. As a Master Weaponsmith, I'm very outdated on macros and couldn't write a good macro guide to save my life.
If you can write a better guide or have any suggestions to make the aforemented guide more easy-to-follow, please feel free.
Don't take my post negatively... I had seen the macro elsewhere, also... namely in the "Super easy and super uber grinding macro" thread, as well as others across the Internet. They are generic steps for anyone to use for grinding.
I just posted to share my difficulties, in case others experienced the same problem. Looking back at it, it is an obvious mistake... but to a newbie macro crafter like myself, with no knowledge of what the numbers and buttons were for, how to find the schematic, and other questions, I was puzzled for a while. I hope my post answers some questions of other newbie grinders.
The text in the "Super easy and super uber grinding macro" thread seems to be accurate so that all a newbie grinder would need to do is create 2 macros, copy/paste the appropriate text, put their crafting tools in the slots which the post names, and then find their schematic #... and have at it. It is the same macro, just broken up into smaller pieces, and the Function/toolbar buttons are labeled according to the script text.
But thank you, Logix... You and others like you have paved the way to make professions like Weaponsmith easier, and answered MANY questions before we even decided to take up this calling. /deepbow
~Pousto
FYI: Penultimate means second to last.
Example: The penultimate author on a paper is the second to last author listed.
Soonlan wrote:
FYI: Penultimate means second to last.
Example: The penultimate author on a paper is the second to last author listed.
Read my post, three posts down.
That is a great guide... one thing that either I got lost in it while reading, or it didn't mention and I am sure it didn't only because it is not necessarily part of any guide... but does anyone have any idea how to either get an autofire gamepad/joystick to work, or a program that can simulate autofire on a mouse with w2k. I swear all these games with crafting are just loooooking for a major carpal tunnel lawsuit heh.
Just kidding but honestly with ct, ugh my hands get so sore after 20 mins let alone hours of this grinding... the macro has helped considerably but mouseclicking is still horrible too so any help would be absolutely wonderfully greatfully appreciated.
Thanks,
Z'rak on scylla (aka horrible name billvader as everything I kept trying to use was already in use supposedly... so finally got tired and got stuck with this horrible name hehe)
Just a quick tip to add to the thread. I just made master on Infinity using a similar macro to the above and grinding projectile rifle barrels. It's painful, mind-numbing work, but it works. I did make it a little easier, however, by programming one of the buttons on my mouse to do a 'double-click'.
I had the macro set with pauses so I was doing 12 barrels a minute on four different crafting stations in practice mode, which equates to approximately 1.1K of XP a minute. The scary part is not actually doing it, but looking back afterwards and realising you spent more than 13 hours just double-clicking resources!
Hat.
Master Artisan, Master Weaponsmith, Novice Carbineer on Talus, Infinity.
Just reporting back...
After some tweaking, the macro is working great.
I found that if you put all 8 loops in the macro (for tools in slots F5-F12), it will be too long, and the macro will get cut off at the end. So I trimmed the macro down to just 5 stations/slots,in slots F5-F9. Once I did this, it's awesome.
I'm using a P4 2.8GHz (OC'd to 3080MHz), 1GB of PC3200 ram, on a DSL (1.2Mbit) connection.... I have my scroll-wheel set to "double-click". I was able to trim the first Pause down to 2.5, and the 2nd pause to 1 second. This allows me to craft 14-15 Projectile Rifle Barrels in 1 minute, for 93 xp each. Yay!
Now... getting a hold of a sh*tload of low-quality steel is gonna be the hard part. I'm too busy mining high-quality (900+) materials, that I haven't been mining low quality steel. If ya'll have a bunch to sell, find me in-game. 
Pousto
Tarquinas Server: Ailie Ireland[Master Artisan, Novice Weaponsmith, Novice Rifleman]
Thanks for this! 
I always wanted to become a weaponsmith but last night when I qualified for Novice I felt numb. I can't handle only have 1 experimentation point when I've been used to double digits on Aritsan!
This should help me progress to better things though it hits hard when your used to crafting high quality items only to find you feel like a newbie again when crafting weapons. 
Awesome guide! And a help not only for me but for many kind of crafters
Let me add somethig I had experienced by my self. It applies to Weaponsmithers and general crafters, and that's because we use a crafting tool that mades almost all the schematics you can do. It's all about the /selectDraftSchematic XX command.
I've noticed that in the datapad, we have a section where we can see all the schematics we can do. After type a thousand numbers to get my schematic selected, something inside me told me to use my brain (Icould feel that more often ) and try to look fora better way to get the schematic for future needs. And my brain started to work ...
I realized that the schemes were randomly showed on the datapad, not following any kind of order (general, food, weapons ... nothing but chaos order) but I realized that they were the same order as I was making them show. I was trying to make metal staffs, so I decided to give a try to my poor intelligence and I counted the number of schematics in the datapad till i reach the one I needed. 134 was the number, and I typed /selectDraftSchematic 134 and ... I failed. Hell, I was disappointed. Very disappointed indeed. For once I use my brain!
Far to give up, I gave it a second chance. And I make it work again. As I saw in this guide, the command it's /selectDraftSchematic 00 ... How if I count the schematics starting by 0? that would make that schematic num 133 not 134. I typed /selectDraftSchematic 133 and ... Bullseye! I got it.
So resumeing, Count the schematics on your datapad from left to right, from up to down, till you reach your desired schematics. Sustract one to that number and you have the right number of that schematic.
Disclaimer: This doesn't work when using other tool that the weapon and general crafting tool, but I'm working on a way to use it on other tools, as I would like to become a master armorsmither also.
Too long for a simple thing, I know, but I was bored at work lol
bigbadish wrote:
Is it me or have the recent patches totally messed up the above macro's? I try and use the macro to make blaster rifle barrels now and I get 0 exp.
Or is it just me?
It is not you. There is a bug where certain items crafted will not give any experience. Mine was projectile barrels, and I grinded using blaster barrels instead. Try to hand craft an item & verify you are getting xp before firing up a macro.