Crafting Skills

I just hope BW lets us get more skills (at least one more) down the road. Poor Teran, I bet he is flaming out, no Cookiebaker. I see him boycotting the entire game. Good for you Teran, don't let BW bully you around!

hahaha..he'll be ok, the dark side always has cookies laying around the map, like powerups

sweetness
been try to figure what one to choose but ty to you guy i figure it out

I am a little confused. So, Armormech does not create its own mods like Armstech, but instead Cybertech gets to?

In the image here - it says that Artifice goes hand in hand with Archaeology and Treasure Hunting, not Underworld Trading.

Which is it - or do we not know yet?

That's more of a recommendation ... but that doesn't mean you can't take another Mission Skill. Imo it's about preferences. I personally was not satisfy with Treasure Hunting in Beta ... was getting only gifts ... but who knows at higher lvl.

Fawa,
Archaeology and Treasure Hunting are definitely the most useful gather/mission skills for Archaeology. Later on, Artifice will probably need a few ingredients that are gathered through underworld trading, but archaeology and treasure hunting are still your main source of mats. Trust me, someone advised me to take arch/underworld with artifice in one of the beta weekends, and I was having a lot of trouble because my artifice recipes were starting to require gemstones (which come from treasure hunting). I didn't send my companion on an underworld trading mission once because I didn't require any of the mats those missions would give.

This might be a bit of a stupid question. But I've had some confusion trying to figure the crafting skills out. Synthweaving in the codex (in game) says that it's for Force Users. And, unless I'm mistaken, it says Armormech (in game codex) is for Non-Force Users. My intuition tells me Synth. is light, maybe some medium armor and Armormech is heavy armor, maybe some medium. But the I don't know yet factor is bugging me. I plan on making a Jedi Guardian and I want to be sure I'm leveling the right crafting skill. Also one last quesiton. Can crafting produce the Orange Modable items at all. Or are they not obtainable through crafting. Any help in clearing this up would be greatly appriciated. Thank you.

You can check this map here : Crew Skills Map: Force/Non-Force Classes Usage & Dependencies - OldRepublic.NET
Synthweaving can make light / medium and heavy armors for Force users.

Hi Kajatae. Synthweaving is for all force users, including Juggernauts/Guardians, which wear heavy armour. You can craft willpower light armor, strength medium armour and strength heavy armour. Armormech is for non-force users. You can craft cunning medium armour and aim heavy armour.

Orange items can indeed be crafted with both of the armour professions. The trouble is in getting schematics. I believe that Underworld Trading yields custom gear schematics, but you are probably better off trawling the GNT. Good luck!

Thanks to both of you. That was an area of confusion for me for a while. I've been playing the game, trying out diffrent classes and am sure now that I'm going Guardian. So this will be a big help. And a big thanks to oldrepublic.net, this is a very useful site. I've been surfing since the game came out trying to find a decent source of info on the game. For how new it is, there's a great amount of info on this site already. Best I've seen so far. And you guys are adding stuff all the time. I appriciate it.

I have 2 questions gentlemen,

1) can you learn all the recepies from the crafting trainer or do you need to find the good ones?
2) in biochem does reverse engeneering give you the chance to make better stim, adrenals, and implants?

thanks,

Originally Posted by dacto

I have 2 questions gentlemen,

1) can you learn all the recepies from the crafting trainer or do you need to find the good ones?
2) in biochem does reverse engeneering give you the chance to make better stim, adrenals, and implants?

thanks,

1) No, you cannot learn all the recipies from your trainer. Only a fair few, in fact.

2) Yes. RE (as it is known) gets you better recipies (first blue, then you RE those for purple). There is debate about whether REing in stacks yields a greater chance to discover a new recipe. My Biotech has had better luck REing stacks, but that may be due to the greater chance due to the larger quantity. (i.e. say you have a 20% chance to discover a blue recipe when REing one stim. A stack of 5 gives you a theoretical chance to have 100% chance. No, you really don't have 100%, but 20% times five stims.)

Careful though, you can RE an entire stack, so make sure to split the stack before REing anything that is stacked or you will lose the entire stack. Most crafting skills can't stack items so this is a quick way to waste a large amount of mats.

Good luck!

(Edited for spelling

ok, I am quite confused and getting discouraged by my ignorance, so I break down and ask for help.....swhould have done so sooner.
I ahve selected armstech and I can't craft anything, I don't see where the recipies are, or if I need to earn them or learn them someplace. I am a BH merc. other skills are gathering and sclicing...which I picked due to Mako's inherent skill here. I am thinking of switching to cybertech as my crafting skill.
My questions then are; where are the recipies for armstech?, how do I know if I have all the stuff I need? will it just populate the list when I select an item to craft?
Alternately, where do I go to switch from armstech to cybertech?

First, you craft by clicking on the little diamond icon on your top menu....select skill, then select item. If you have the mats to craft it (YOU do not craft it, your companions do all the crafting), it will show how many you can craft, or a zero if you need more lats. The mats are shown for each item.

To drop a skill, open crafting menu, and click the little X there, it will give you a confirmation. Say Yes and you drop all knowledge of that craft. (If you pick it up again you start at zero).

LEarn new skill from trainer at fleet.

The recipies are learned from the skill trainer, but many others (the best ones) are self taught thru reengineering already crafted items, forst blue, then purple, sometimes you get an exceptional crafting hit (a crit, use the companion with the highest skill crit), and you might get an augment slot on that item too.

See official boards, or crafting guides here and other support sites.

Good luck! (Even if you are an Imp)