Weaponsmith Archive

I must be a really crappy businessman. I have had a sliced and regular vendor for 3 weeks and I am still reinvesting all my money into getting heavy harvesters. I also still dont have all the resources I need (ostrine ore). I've been a master for about a month and a half. Fortuneately, my sales do support my harvesters purchases and maintenance, but the vast majority of my sales are still on the Bazaar.

Firstly, I was one of the first three masters on my server, and I was always the cheapest. There was a time where I sold over 1500 weapons in a week.

My bank is sitting at about 15M or so. I Sell about 500k or so a day in weapons now (about 100 items a day). I also have a stock of about 75 (100k) stacks of the best resources that has been on the server.

The funny thing is that of the first five or so masters to hit the server I am definately the least rich.

I currently spend most of my money by buying resources from miners, I don't mine for myself much anymore.

Sariff

When I was selling power full time I had 1.3 mil in cash at my high point. Since I've taken upnovice WS I've had about 500K at most, though it goes up and down depending on how many harvestors I need to run, which resources I need to buy because I can't get them myself, buying guns from master WS (cause mine still suck, hehe), upgrading harvestors, etc. Selling power on the side basically subsidizes my WS grind.

Slim Vargo, Corbantis

I float around 1 million credits. Up and down, normally, because I tend to buy my materials, not harvestthe majority myself. I also tend to drop 100k-300k regularly on things that I find interesting... its a bad habit and sometimes takes me lower than I really want to go.

I'm also told I sell cheaply, compared to others on my server, and my shop does get a pretty good flow of business due to my profession combination (Tailor/Weaponsmith).

Nisra, lots of people on Tarq don't have the ostrine. Just a matter of waiting it out, now

I bought up and stored every krayt tissue I could find for a month then put them all into guns (Over 175 tissues at once) and opened a krayt store about a week and a half ago on Tarquinas. Since then I've been sold another 200 or so krayt tissues and made roughly 24.3 million credits. Pretty nice haul for a week and a half of weapon building and selling.

Going to retire and only build privately once I hit about 30 million or so.

~Sickle~ Tarquinas

100k in the bank and 11 harvesters that need maint. I make hardly anything, but i don't spend all my time crafting like sariff and sickle do =P I do mostly custom work and i'm happy with that. I just have to run dath missions alot so i can support my WS habits.

I was going to quit, but i've had several people urge me to stay because i have the 'best weapons'. I don't do alot of research on other peoples weapons, but i'm always hearing about uber fwg this and godlike carbine this from other masters, so i dunno what they're talkin about.

I know sickle has earned every penny tho, i couldn't dream of affording his kinda quality.

Mook

Wow, are you guys kidding? I was also under the impression that every weaponsmith was rich...

On Tempest I've got a little under 10mil but most of that came from being the 3rd Master Architect on the server. (I would have been the first but the first 2 were PA driven, I was self leveled... **edit** them! )

the ones that made a killing are the guys that made master 2 weeks in and sold fwg's at outrageous prices because they could.

I was about 8 or 9 days behind the first set of masters on starsider and i never will forget having customers freak out because they actually found all types of weapons at my shop.

couple of guys on starsider sold nothing but, fwg5's, scouts, dh17's, and dlt20'a for the first 3 weeks. They were getting 15 to 25k each for those guns. You also have to remember that the jaxes and other spawns were crazy during that time and you could sit at the mission terminal and spawn missions and wait 3 minutes and bank your money. Someone else would kill it. I knew guys that were making 200k an hour never leaving mission terminals on endor and dathomir.

Now the ones making a killing are the independent smiths that don't cater to a guild/pa that buy up tissues and sell the guns at 100k plus a pop. You figure you get 60 regular tissues and sell each one at 100k, you just made 6 million. A lot of the ones doing this went imperial and got 3 atst's and used them to farm kryats where they wouldn't have to purchase the tissues.

Most smiths I know have money but are not super rich, or they do like some of us and fund other crafters/medics.

Right now, I have below 100k on me/in the bank. To some people in game, that's a lot, to me it's not. I can spend that much on harvesters, vendor, house, factories maintence in a week.

I made Master6 weeksago, and was master architect3 weeks before that (still am).

I don't advertise because I don't want the business, I only spend 2 hrs a day making weapons, or less. Even less time making architecture. All of my customers are from word of mouth because I make top quality guns on my server.

I generally hover between 14 and 18 million credits. With about6 million units of rare resources.

Why bother being any richer? I want to have fun with my alt. I know people who have 65 million and even a couple who have 200. But they can't really buy what I can't buy.

Getting in early isn't the only way to make a lot of money.

I just started my uber-sliced weapons business 2 weeks ago. I have about 8 million now, after spending 15 million last night to buy out an armorsmithing business. Today 1 guy bought 1.4 million worth of weapons from me.

You just have to offer something that nobody else does.

Travolta

Around 5.6-5.8 mil right now.. slowly rising. I'm not working too hard at restocking my vendors tho, would probably sell for alot more. I hit master at the end of july I think after about 3 weeks of grinding, so I was quite far behind the first guys on Starsider.

Also, I'm just selling plain non-sliced weapons. No Krayt tissue as I'm a rebel. (always go overt on krayt hunts nowdays, always fun to nail those imperials with AT-ST's out there. They get SOO mad, great entertainment. )