Weaponsmith Archive

As a novice, I do metal staves since they are just all metal... and give decent amounts... what should I go for next so I get a faster grind? Thanks.

I agree, I went almost all the way on Proj Rifle Barrels.

projectile rifle barrels. all steel, no crafting station. 94 ex per while experimenting. get yourself about 450K steel of it and your set!

Projectile Rifle Barrels giveapprox 2.03 XP per resource, but are quick. Blaster Pistol Barrels give 2.25 XP. Weapon Upgrade Kits give 5XP per resource, if they get used when you are on the same cluster as the Smuggler. I did Tech 1-3 with WUKs, happened in no time. Each Smuggler needs around 200 WUKs which is 60 XP + 90 UXP * 200 = 30000XP per smuggler. Takes about 90 mins to sit with one and grind together. Uses 4k of metal and 2k of chem.

PRBs give 96XP and you can do 1 every 7 secs, so 30000 XP takes around 40-50 minutes, and uses around 15k of steel.

If money and resources isn't not a problem nor concern.

Then grind whatever it takes to get master firearms.

Factory produce boatloads of blaster power handlers, and rifle barrels.

grind practice xp making heavy particle beam cannons... 500xp+ per build. Grinds just as fast as anything else. But is very resource and factory production intensive. You could probably master weaponsmith in a day like this if you had enough factories going.. or stocked up well enough ahead of time... But you get the picture. Not a grind for the poor by any means though. But it's certailnly fast.

You can do a whole weaponsmithing line in a hour or two easy.

I know about the proj rifle barrels, but I read here about something about when you get to Melee crafting 3, there is something better to grind. Anyone can fill me in?

All the way to master?!

Okay... so Rifle Barrels until Gunsmith then crank out poop versions of the HPC that I can give out or sell at the bazaar... Sounds great! Thank you very much for all of your input.

Only problem i would see with doing HPC's is that you won't be getting expfor all the power handlers you will have to make, plus the time involved on each carft is significantly higher for blaster rifle barrels as well as HPC's, as far as number of crafts go yeah it will be a hell of a lot less combines this way. But if thats the case why not just make Heavy warheads /shrug