Crew Skills & Boxing

[Starbuck_Jones]

Once you reach 50 tradeskills are a joke. Everything you do just piles in the credits and with 5 companions you can max out any tradeskill, in a single session of play. The mission ones take longer, but not by much. If you really want, start with something like artifice, max it out on everyone while doing dailies and a few easy hard modes like BT and BP for the crafting mats. Build your Bind on Pickup Rakata items like the relics and dump the skill. Once you have all your end game items, then finish with biochem because it's the only tradeskill that requires you to actually have the skill to use the items.

[Riiker]

Thanks for the input lyonheart and starbuck!

I think I'm going to have bio on two, cyber and artifice on the other two. We'll see how it works out. When I get to 50, then I'll do what starbuck was talking about.

[OldRod_KS]

My problem with tradeskills (except Biochem): anything I can make is generally inferior to what I loot or obtain from quests. Granted, my highest level characters are only 36, but in Synthweaving, Artificing and Armortech, anything I skill up to be able to make is inferior to what I am already wearing at that level. Does this get better by 50? Or is it always the case? Maybe there are schematics I don't have - I only have gotten a couple from various quests, so that could make a difference.

I haven't had much luck Reverse Engineering items either. Aren't you supposed to get schematics from doing that?

[Pyro_box]

I was able to keep (2) characters crew skills current before I transferred servers; pretty much kept my companions running missions full time as I did not need them to aid in questing.

With the arrival of (2) fresh SWTOR CD’s arriving tomorrow thanks to Amazon my plan will be changing to have all my crew work on the same skill, max out, and then drop leaving Bio-chem for last.

[Dezeral]

My problem with tradeskills (except Biochem): anything I can make is generally inferior to what I loot or obtain from quests. Granted, my highest level characters are only 36, but in Synthweaving, Artificing and Armortech, anything I skill up to be able to make is inferior to what I am already wearing at that level. Does this get better by 50? Or is it always the case? Maybe there are schematics I don't have - I only have gotten a couple from various quests, so that could make a difference.

I haven't had much luck Reverse Engineering items either. Aren't you supposed to get schematics from doing that?

Yes, you get schematics from reverse engineering. Here is a lengthy discussion that explains in great detail how RE'ing works.

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=45866

[OldRod_KS]

Yes, you get schematics from reverse engineering. Here is a lengthy discussion that explains in great detail how RE'ing works.

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=45866

Wow... my head hurts now after reading that. Especially trying to follow the flowchart

I can see I'm not RE'ing nearly enough.