Weaponsmith Archive

I'm a new WS and have noticed that as far as the bazaar goes I do much better with CDEF weapons on starting planets than any other weapons anywhere else. I try to sell them cheap enough for new players to afford them. I assume 90% are sold to new players rather than veterans since most people want SOME weapons skills at least. Anyway, I have enough skill at this point to make above average CDEFs and sell them at an affordable price to low income players and I'm makingprobably 90% of my income from them. No I'm not raking in 100k a day like many of you are but I'm doing merely allright. Anyway, I just thought it was odd that after making novice WS and finally being able to produce better weapondry I'm still getting most of my income from CDEFs. Any similar experiences?

To be old and wise you must first be young and stupid.

Yeah, I know exactly what you mean!

But of course, a lot of this is because as Master Artisan I had 12 experimentation points... as a Novice WS with only 1 experimentation point my D18 pistols were embarrassingly bad

My solution was to spend about 10 days grinding up the Techniques tree, as was suggested on this board - 10 days for 4 boxes??? You'll be able to conclude correctly that I'm a casual gamer, not a power gamer!!! While it was a complete drag and not something I'll ever do again, it does mean that I now have 7 experimentation points and am at the point where I can sell much better weapons than my ole CDEFs (and of course CDEFs only give you general crafting xp, not weaponsmithing xp, so you're not doing yourself any favours making them).

Now at 1-1-0-4, I find that I sell masses of DL44 pistols, DH17 carbines and DLT20 rifles. The carbines do especially well for some reason - I'm getting about 30-120 @ 2.8 on them (at work now so can't check those figures, might be a bit higher actually on max damage) and they always sell out... even had to check that the buyers were all different people as I was paranoid someone was buying up all my stock to re-sell!

So now I'm 1-1-0-4 I've started my own 'newbs weapons store' outside of Mos Eisley and I'm having a blast. Sure, I only make about 15k a day, but then my prices are ridiculously low... I'm aiming at newbs who are only getting 600 credits per mission, after all!! Before I started the store, though, I spent some time (from about 0-1-0-2) selling weapons on the Mos Eisley bazaar, and I kept a list of everyone that ever bought one of my weapons. When I opened the store, my mailshot went out to about 100 people!

However you do it - enjoy it!

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Aethal Sar, Weaponsmith. Retired from game - probably missing it already!

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