Weaponsmith Archive

Starting a new character I found what I figured were a few bugs. One: I receive no experience for making weapons, but I do get experience for making the parts (i.e. I get experience for making barrels and sword cores, but I don't get experience for making a D18 pistol or a Sword). Two: I also noted that the new wookie weapons, which fall under the Artisan Engineering tree, use weapons experimentation for some odd reason instead of artisan experimentation. Of course I submitted a /bug as soon as I verified that the problem was not resolving itself, and after 3 hotfixes and no fix to the problem I sent in a CSR ticket. The response was as follows: Weaponsmithing is currently working as intended. Of course my response was "please clarify, are you saying that I am not suppose to be getting experience for a finished product?" and "You've got to be kidding". No reply as of yet from the CSR on clarification. I do not understand for the life of me why they would change weaponsmith to where you don't get experience for making a finish product such as a rifle or pistol. That would be the equivalent of removing experience from armorsmiths for making a completed chest piece or a DE for making a droid. Neither of which they have done btw, I have checked. So why do it with weaponsmiths. There have been too many "unannounced" changes to the crafting field, from faction armor, which we were all waiting for, costing 20k Faction points for a full set of schematics, to the fact thatbeast petsdon't take exp from you anymore, but combat droids do. Please, whoever is the go between here, tell them to announce the changes as they make them, so we can vent then instead of finding out the hard way and being even more upset. I can understand not explaining changes to a dungeon or something similar, but we are talking about a crafting professions core skill here.