Weaponsmith Archive

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Rafguardian wrote:

thanks a lot mate.Dont spose you know what particular resources i need?

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Rafguardian wrote:

thanks a lot mate.Dont spose you know what particular resources i need?

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After you grind Metal Staffs or whatever to get Munitions II which gives you Heavy Warhead ability, you will need to make 1,105 Heavy Warheads. Each is comprised of:

• 180 Units any metal (198900 units)


• 40 Units Thoranium Steel (44200 units)


• 80 Units Skevon Reactive Gas (88400 units)


• 50 Units Radioactive (55250 units)


• 10 Units Polymer (11050 units)


• 10 Units Hydron-3 Inert Gas (11050 units)

You should be able to snag the metal at 2CPU and I have seen Thoranium on the bazaar at 3CPU. The Skevon Reactive always seems to be the real pain to get ahold of or pay for. Assume you will spend 8CPU on Skevon at the least unless you find a good soul willing to sell it cheaper. Radio at 2 CPU (1.5 if you look), Polymer at 2 CPU and Hydron-3 I have seen at 3CPU. If you buy all the resources at the prices I have listed, expect to spend 1.3 million credits. You will save loads if you luck out and find a Skevon Reactive Gas spawn and drop your own harvesters on it.

Hope this helps.

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Rafguardian wrote:

can you tell me a macro for WS please.i have has one before but i never really understood how to use it.Anyone help?

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The tricky part of the macro you probably had is getting the correct schematic number for the item you wish to grind. It is dependent on what schematics you know at the time and changes when you learn new ones, so you will be tweaking the macro. Though I lucked out and the Heavy Warhead schematic was like number 4 on my list out of 100+, so the odds were very low that it would get bumped. And it did not.

Here is the macro I am currently grinding WS with on my wife's toon on Ahazi. BTW, if anybody from Ahazi has 24k of Skevon Reactive Gas, I would love to buy it from you. I really don't want to grind my last 3 skill boxes on metal staffs or advanced power handlers. To use it you must have a WDG Crafting Tool in the first toolbar slot.

In fact I will share my entire system here. I use my last toolbar "set" (you know, ctrl-6) and place WDG Crafting Tools in the first 7 function keys (toolbarSlot00 - toolbarSlot06). Then I created 7 macros that correspond to each tool. The macros are named Crafter1, Crafter2, Crafter3....Crafter7. You could probably use 2 more tools and macros, but I built in a delay at the end of 7 so I would not get Carpal Tunnel.

Here is Crafter1:
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/ui action toolbarSlot00;
/selectDraftSchematic 3;
/pause 10;
/nextC;
/nextC;
/nextC;
/createPrototype practice no item;
/createPrototype practice no item;
/pause 1;
/macro Crafter2;

Case is absolutely important here. Do not use a lower case letter where I have upper and vice-versa. The ";" are essential as well. This may be difficult for you 1337 dUdZ, but bear with it.

Note the line "/selectDraftSchematic 3;" The 3 is variable, meaning that on your toon it may, and probably will be different. Start with this number, and run the macro, noting what schematic is actually pulled up. Now do a ctrl-D and see how far away from the desired schematic you are. This means start at the 4th icon and count schematics until you get to the item you wish to grind. Then adjust the 3 with the difference, run again, and if it matches great, you are ready to go until the list changes order again (when you learn more schematics). If it does not match, repeat the ctrl-D and counting thing until you get the right number. (there is a scientific method, but this post is way too long already).

Then I created a macro named Crafter2:

Crafter2
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/ui action toolbarSlot01;
/selectDraftSchematic 3;
/pause 10;
/nextC;
/nextC;
/nextC;
/createPrototype practice no item;
/createPrototype practice no item;
/pause 1;
/macro Crafter3;

Note the pattern? On the first line, I changed the "toolbarSlot" to 01 from 00. 00 = F1, 01 = F2, 02 = F3 and so on. Also, the last line says"/macro Crafter3;" instead of "/macro Crafter2;". We need to repeat this process for all the crafting tools we placed in the toolbar.

Crafter3
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/ui action toolbarSlot02;
/selectDraftSchematic 3;
/pause 10;
/nextC;
/nextC;
/nextC;
/createPrototype practice no item;
/createPrototype practice no item;
/pause 1;
/macro Crafter4;

Crafter4
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/ui action toolbarSlot03;
/selectDraftSchematic 3;
/pause 10;
/nextC;
/nextC;
/nextC;
/createPrototype practice no item;
/createPrototype practice no item;
/pause 1;
/macro Crafter5;

Crafter5
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/ui action toolbarSlot04;
/selectDraftSchematic 3;
/pause 10;
/nextC;
/nextC;
/nextC;
/createPrototype practice no item;
/createPrototype practice no item;
/pause 1;
/macro Crafter6;

Crafter6
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/ui action toolbarSlot05;
/selectDraftSchematic 3;
/pause 10;
/nextC;
/nextC;
/nextC;
/createPrototype practice no item;
/createPrototype practice no item;
/pause 1;
/macro Crafter7;

OK. We are doing something slightly different on Crafter7, so pay attention to the last 2 lines.

Crafter7
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/ui action toolbarSlot06;
/selectDraftSchematic 3;
/pause 10;
/nextC;
/nextC;
/nextC;
/createPrototype practice no item;
/createPrototype practice no item;
/pause 25;
/macro Crafter1;

The last macro calls the first macro after pausing 25 seconds to give you a rest and allow the first tool to finish. You could elect to shorten this, but you must allow enough time for the first macro to finish. In my experience 15 seconds would be as low as you could go. Or you could as I said before place 2 more tools and macros (8 and 9) into this process and get Carpal Tunnel. You can also shave some time off of this process by tweaking the "/pause 10;" and making it a little lower. This pause is necessary to allow you to choose the resources, and I don't recommend trying under 8.

Also, run this while you are away from lag...I.E. not in Theed or Coronet or on Dantooine. Doing so will mess with the timing.

I drag Crafter1's icon into the Shift-F1 slot on the toolbar and use Shift-F1 to start the process. It will run forever until you type into the chat line the command "/dump".

Final note: These macros are designed to work near a crafting droid or PERSONAL crafting station only.

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Rafguardian wrote:

wow thanks a lot for going to the trouble to write all that out

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