Weaponsmith Archive

well i finally looted a holo from a rebel surface marshal and it said to master weaponsmith. Any advice on how to get through WS quickly? What resources should io start gathering?

Just a few quick calculations:

Metal staff under Novice WS gives 88exp and with a good macro you can make them every 4 seconds with 42 steel. So starting from scratch you'll need to make 10,182 metal staffs to get to Master. Thats 896,000 exp needed for all 4 lines divided by 88. I'll have to check if other things give you more exp. In order to make all 10,182 staffs, you'll need 427,637 steel or copper. And doing them with a looping macro, every 4 seconds, you'll need 11.31 hours to hit master. I didn't factor in failures.

Good luck

Pistol projectile barrels @ friearms 1 just became your new best friend. Plus you will need alot of steel (450k should do you). Trust me if you go hardcore grinding you will get RSI its that bad so take time out to search for your next holo onthe way through WS.

what is the looping macro i need to do that metal staff thing?

ok i got the looping macro and editied it to work with 8 tools, i got my first WS skill in 40 minutes.. that including talkting to s couple friends. So yeah i shoudl get master pretty quick with it.

The hardest part is obtaining the resources. I personally make projectile rifle barrels, which give 94 xp for 46 units of metal (31 steel, 15 any metal). I never knew how hard collecting resources was until I started weaponsmith and trying to grind these out. I'm 2221, and i'm out of resources. I have a couple of mining installations digging for steel, but these thing collect very little, even at 80% resource sites. In 24 hours, i've collected a little more than 25k of steel, nowhere near the 200k I need. It's disappointing considering how fast I was moving in one day; to go from novice artisan to nearly half way through weaponsmith. I don't envy anyone else who has this profession on a holocron.

What Macro are you guys talking about? i've yet to find one, and yeah i wasn't overjoyed to find i had this in my holo heh. Thanks in ahead.

Ram

I'd definitely go with the rifle barrels. You'll need about 500k steel but that's all. If you can get 8 medium harvesters on a 70ish percent deposit you should be able to mine faster than you can grind (if you aren't playing 18 hours a day anyway).

The macro is in this forum somewhere, I just saw it a second ago.

Go up Melee first. At level 3, you can make Ryyk blades. They require Iron and polymer which is good becuase you wont need all steel. You could switch to Iron+polymer until more steel arrives. Also, its 2 clicks just like the barrels, yields 115 XP, and is only 20 complexity.

Greets ...

Getting your resources is your biggest challenge ... I believe you will need about 450k of whatever you are going to use ... if you *buy* that at current market value of 3-1 you are going to spend 1.35 million credits.

I personally would not advise spending that kind of money and not having anything to show for it.

Let's see what it would take to mine that much.

A new BER13 harvestor on a 75% spot yields you 14k per day ... approximately 32 days of mining would be needed. If you buy 10 harvestors ... at 1.7 million credits ... you will be done mining in 3 days. You have to buy probably 60k worth of power ... plus another 100k in maintenance.

At the end of 3 days you have your 450k of grinding fodder and can then sell your harvestor and recoup almost *all* of your 1.7 million credits you used to buy them :-)

Bringing your total *outlay* to achieve master weaponsmith down to about 160k of expenditures. (50k more to redeed if you pick them up)

Or you could just buy the stuff and be out the 1.35 million credits :-)

Macro ... here is one:

(copied from another post on these boards)

You will have to edit it and do a bit of reading ... but this should get you on your way.

FKEYs
-------
F1 = Macro#1 (toolbarSlot00)
F2 = Macro#2 (toolbarSlot01)

F5 = General Crafting Tool (toolbarSlot04)
F6 = General Crafting Tool (toolbarSlot05)
F7 = General Crafting Tool (toolbarSlot06)
F8 = General Crafting Tool (toolbarSlot07)
F9 = General Crafting Tool (toolbarSlot08)
F10 = General Crafting Tool (toolbarSlot09)

Macro#1 :

/ui action toolbarSlot04;
/selectDraftSchematic 57; (this will be different for you)
/pause 5; (This is where you double click to put in resources)
/nextcraftingstage;/nextcraftingstage;
/createprototype practice no item;/createprototype practice no item;
/pause 1;
/ui action toolbarSlot05;
/selectDraftSchematic 57;
/pause 5;
/nextcraftingstage;/nextcraftingstage;
/createprototype practice no item;/createprototype practice no item;
/pause 1;
/ui action toolbarSlot06;
/selectDraftSchematic 57;
/pause 5;
/nextcraftingstage;/nextcraftingstage;
/createprototype practice no item;/createprototype practice no item;
/pause 1;
/ui action toolbarSlot01; (This calls Macro#2)

Macro#2 :

/ui action toolbarSlot07;
/selectDraftSchematic 57;
/pause 5;
/nextcraftingstage;/nextcraftingstage;
/createprototype practice no item;/createprototype practice no item;
/pause 1;
/ui action toolbarSlot08;
/selectDraftSchematic 57;
/pause 5;
/nextcraftingstage;/nextcraftingstage;
/createprototype practice no item;/createprototype practice no item;
/pause 1;
/ui action toolbarSlot09;
/selectDraftSchematic 57;
/pause 5;
/nextcraftingstage;/nextcraftingstage;
/createprototype practice no item;/createprototype practice no item;
/pause 1;
/ui action toolbarSlot00; (This calls Macro#1)