Weaponsmith Archive
Thread: The Slackers guide to making Master Weaponsmith by building 1,779 weapons.
I aplogize for the 100,000 remark. As I said,see my post at the end of page 2,though not this explicilty, it was meant as an exageration, what it "felt like to me" not what the exact number of actual weapons built was. To be clear, I did not say that it was "what if felt like to me" in the guide, which I should have, and if I had an edit option I would edit the guide to reflect the exact number of traditional method units and clicks that are required.
This number, as posted by Irelphir, is 9,531.91 or 9,532 rounded, Projectile Rifle Barrels.
I am sorry for the confusion.
That said, using the guide and with a Master handy to train you it is a matter of hours to make Master once you have the resources.
From Irelphir's post I take it that Projectile Rifle Barrels yield 93 or 94 XP per barrel and require 2 clicks to create. The Heavy Warhead yields 735 XP and require 7 clicks to create. From the time you get to Heavy Warheads to the end of Master it takes 7,735 clicks, for the 812,000 XP needed, the barrels require 17,276 or 9,541 more clicks.
However, in terms of speed, you are missing the number of screen loads, which I didn't bother to detail in the guide. From the point you begin making Heavy Warheads, you will load the crafting tool 1,105 times, making Barrels and from that same number of XP left to go, 812,000, you will load the crafting tool 8,732 times, or 7,627 more times then the Warheads require. Given the in game lag, number of times you go link dead, and the processing time of the Macro itself, this yeilds a significant speed increase.
So, in summary, the Barrels require 7,627 more crafting tool loads, and 9,541 more clicks. I leave it to the reader to decide which is easier for them.
For me, and I did say this directly in the guide, grinding makes me sick. I meant that literally, I get a sick headache from the flashing of the crafting screen. This doesn't happen on the 1st flash, but at some point, if I grind to long, it will happen. Add to that the finger stress of the additional 9,541 clicks, and Heavy Warheads became VERY appealing to me!
This is a known issue for me, I use a21" NEC FP1375X monitor, running in game at 170Mhz, to avoid flicker, this monitor does not flicker, ever. This matters to me because ever since I turned 45 flicker has given me trouble. Before age 45 I didn't notice flicker, and I started out on the old "green screens" back in the late 70's which did nothing but flicker.
VaMage, my man, you are a golden god.
EngiIV-MWS in a morning.
VaMage,
Thank you so much for taking the time to figure this littlestrategy out. Determining which item yields the most xp per click is no easy task and it is truly amazing. I am halfway to master WS in what seems like 45 minutes with your strat. I was getting a new WS skill (level 1-4, no matter) every 10 mins or less. I had to stop because I could only find 30k skevon gas andI have now run out.
This was several days ago. The reason i make this post is because when the skevon gas ran out, I decided, no big deal, I will do projectile rifle barrels ............
What a mistake that was. It is grueling, and perhaps I am just spoiled by watching the xp bar move superfast doing hvy warheads, but I cant bear to do another projectile rifle barrel. I will now wait til Skevon gas shows back up on Bloodfin and finish MWS in an hour or two, rather than spend 4-5 hours doing projectile rifle barrels. Gettingtens of thousands of xp per WS skill at 735 xp per item is manageable, but at the rate of 94 xp per item its torture.
Many thanks VaMage, now if only you had stockpiles of skevon on bloodfin
Shaaliyah wrote:
well, i got to the medium warhead part, i didnt know you needed to get your own craftin statoin, so i got one, finally saw the schematics appear with my weapon tool, i bought all the resources as stated, and none of them work for that schematic! Is it some special kind, because 'any metal' isnt true... The polymer, the gas, nothing will load up... what am i doing wrong? can someone tell me EXACTLY what resources are thuse needed because i dont not want to waste another 100K on resources... specially when i have to then find skevon and all that rare crap...
just look at the requirements in your datapad or when they appear in crafting tool, it will tell you exactly what is required.
I just wanted to give a testamonial here. I had some extra money to throw at this and if you do too, this is the way to go.
The biggest pain was finding the resources to do this. The Thoranium steel, hydron-3 Gas, and the Skevon gas were the biggest pains. Took me a couple days to find these.
Here is a hint if you can't find someone who stockpiles this stuff. Look on the bazaar, and make sure you are looking at the entire galaxy. It's easier to find what you are looking for this way. You'll have to travell a bit to get the items, but you can purchase stuff on Tatooine from using a bazaar terminal on Coronet.
After you got all the resources, it only took me 5-6 days (macro grinding 3-5 hours per day) to hit master weaponsmith.
