Crew Skills & Boxing

[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.