Thanks! i was wondering about that myself since i never got past lvl 10 in beta.

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I thought I'd reach out to the folks who are planning to make crafting an important part of their SW:TOR experience. A few questions for you guys:

• What questions do you have about crafting in SW:TOR?
• What crew skills most interest you?
• Do you consider yourself a "hardcore" crafter or more of a dabbler?
• Are you interested in offering your crafted items or gathered materials to other guild members?
• What resources would you like to see on our web site to support crafters?

I like crafting because it's the only way to create something yourself in game (we can't even put up a nice cupboard in our ships). It's cool to be able to create good stuff yourself. I always regret having to replace crafted stuff with quest loot. Its also cool when people actually spend in-game money on something you've made.

If i have to choose between hardcore or dabbler... i'd say the last one. I don't need a guide for the perfect way of leveling my crafting skills. I don't mind making mistakes and learning from them. But, i can use some advice: the do's and don'ts of crafting in SWTOR would be nice. Things like: make lot's of winter barley at tier 1 farming, you will need it for tier 5 cooking. This example is from LOTRO, i don't know how it translates to SWTORs crafting system. Perhaps like this: start with crafting as soon as you can because the resource nodes for lower level crafting are at the lower level planets, if you start later on you will have to pay for missions and resource nodes are free.

Of course i'm interested in sharing my crafted stuff with fellow guildies. That's what where in a guild for. I'll be happy to create stuff for other people when i can.

I currently play LOTRO. Crafting is a money drain. Selling raw materials on the auction hall (LOTRO's version of the GTN) nets you more money than selling crafted stuff. Most stuff you need to craft for the required xp doesn't sell at all or at the very best for less than the raw materials required. Do you expect crafting to be a money drain in SWTOR?

Is this schema still correct? I remember reading some patch notes about moving stuff from one skill to another after seeing this schema for the first time. I can't remember what the changes where. This schema seems to be conflicting with the info on torhead.

Was slicing still a get rich quick scheme in the last beta? I remember reading about people telling that if you don't pick slicing you'll be poor and if you pick slicing you'll be rich.

I have three toons in mind: my first will be a Sith Inquisitor Assassin, my second an Imperial Agent and my third a Republic Trooper. In this forum post they explain how the cosmetic system in SWTOR works. Basically if you want to choose your outfit you need to get orange items and add blue/purple mods to them. The mods come from crafting. Rather than wearing whatever questgivers throw my way, i want to try out this modding system. For my Inquisitor i will need Synthweaving, Archaeology and Underworld Trading. For my Agent and Trooper i will need Armormech, Scavenging and Underword Trading. Correct?

Last question... does anyone else think that this input box where we 'craft' our forum posts is to small? :dry:

Do we get to have 2 names for our characters? (first and last) or just first? or just last?

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Hey folks. I signed up early in the year but haven't been back since then. Been beta testing and loving the game. I preordered and Im looking forward to December. Now I'm at the point where Im deciding what to do guild wise and such as many of my WOW friends are being very stubborn about joining the game. I'm looking to make some new friends here. In addition, maybe a couple that want to level up one or two toons with me. Since Im in Los Angeles and work M-F from around 9-6 and have the gym or tennis right after that, Im looking for someone who wants to game around 9:00PM Pacific Time and sometimes on either day of the weekend. Id prefer someone to game with that is mature and not looking to power level. Someone who is not high strung either and isn't afraid to sometimes try the PVP scenarious or PVP Lakes even though we will be on a PVE Server. Most of the time, I prefer PVE but I need my PVP fix too :-). If any of you are interested, let me know. Happy Thanksgiving everyone. :-).

I'm in Long Beach Ca so it would be cool to team up with you and everyone that
has replied to this post.

That would be awesome :-). It looks like we are going to all have a quite a nice group of friendly people going here. Hopefully everyone wont be shy and get into Vent :-) lol.

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I just wanted to Add that i am a florida boy that plays late my time, usually starting 9pm PST till usually 1 or 2 am PST. would love a fellow eaterner/florida leveling partner. i am PVE'r that when i am hjigher level i may try some pvp. I am going to be a consular/seer healing.

Florida West Coast (Tampa) here! I'll be doing Smuggler/Scoundrel/Sawbones as my main and Jedi Knight/Sentinel/Ihavenoearthlyideayet as my secondary. Won't be able to do the 9pm-2am PST thing during the week since my job sked is 7am-4pm EST but if you ever want to meet up EST time-wise for quests on Coruscant and beyond give me a shout. :)

now that is a deal! i will add ya

How nice. I made a match with my thread lol.

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Nice to meet you. Im going to be a Jedi Consular with a DPS focus and Ryyven is going to be a Jedi Shadow with a Tank focus. You are always welcome to group with us, as is any guildie. However, Ryyven and I have an understanding that we are looking to level together from the beginning and will only level those toons when we are on line together. When we are not on at the same time, we will play alts..which will also be looking to level with others :-). We are not going to be rushing to level 50, thats what the alts are for lol. Our motto is to enjoy the experience rather than rush to the end. :-)

Thats cool. I plan to roll a jedi knight alt too, so probably will see you guys around. Even though you're both rolling consulars, when doing class quests, alot of the class instances will allow only one consular per group, as with other class quests. So yeah sometimes good if you have another class on hand :)

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But I tend to be an obsessive powerleveling demon,

sounds hot!!!

Ohh you have no idea!! :P

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If you need to kill a few minutes, I'd recommend watching some of the back story.

http://www.swtor.com/info/holonet/timeline

I love this. You know who's voice that is right!? Remember Bishop, the android from Aliens (Lance Henriksen). :laugh:

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Yes, I know what you mean. I almost feel like a 6 year old waiting for Christmas morning.

LOL I just said the same thing to Aldente... but it truly is a great analogy.

If you need to kill a few minutes, I'd recommend watching some of the back story.

http://www.swtor.com/info/holonet/timeline

In the STO guild, we have some GREAT writers that have written stories within the Star Wars universe. Some with toon or some with their own fictional charactes. I was just wondering if we had some Star Wars guild mates that were also into that.

I'm an no fiction writer, so I won't be doing any. Most writing I do is reporting for the school newspaper, and that is as far as I go.

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Don't forget to pick up the 3 datacrons before you head off them.

You'll also want to head over to the other starter planet at some point to pick up the ones over there. Many Sith (Jedis) pick up the ones on Korriban (Tython), but they don't travel to Hutta (Ord Mantell). Non-force users make the opposite mistake.

Good point!! Thank you for pointing that out. I'm adding that to my list of leveling objectives since I tend to be a completionist. It drives me crazy to think I missed something! :P

I remember having a quest on my Sage that took me to Ord Mantell around lvl 15 I think?? Maybe that's why that quest is included so we have a reason to go to the other starter planet. must... find... datacrons...

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You are so helpful I want to Empire just to hang with you. But alas the dark side is not for me. But you won't kill me right?

As long as you don't get annoying or someone doesn't place a bounty on your head... :whistle:

Yes, I know what you mean. I almost feel like a 6 year old waiting for Christmas morning.

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Nah I liked the starter planets, just not the crowds. but now I feel stupid/bad for not finding the datacrons!!

Also, smart for doing esseles a few times, the extra exp and social points wouldnt hurt at all

Don't worry I'll be like the nagging mom in guild chat "did you get your datacrons?, don't you leave that planet till you've collected them all" :evil:

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Yikes! I think I'm the only one who liked the starter planets. We aren't on them long. Don't forget to pick up the 3 datacrons before you head off them.

I also liked Esseles and want to do it a couple of times. In the last beta I ran it back to back 4 or 5 times on my smuggler.

Nah I liked the starter planets, just not the crowds. but now I feel stupid/bad for not finding the datacrons!!

Also, smart for doing esseles a few times, the extra exp and social points wouldnt hurt at all

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i think i want to get off of tython and corscant asap. THEn slow it down a bit

This!!! It was horrible on the starter planets on the beta weekends. Much better once passed them.

Exactly. and the spawn rates are horrible as well i was in general beta for many many months. and every new batch of people really made leveling slow way down lol.

Yikes! I think I'm the only one who liked the starter planets. We aren't on them long. Don't forget to pick up the 3 datacrons before you head off them.

I also liked Esseles and want to do it a couple of times. In the last beta I ran it back to back 4 or 5 times on my smuggler.

I can't wait to see you all online startibg tuesday. I'm in texas, and will be playing either late night, or random times during the week. See you all soon.

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You are so helpful I want to Empire just to hang with you. But alas the dark side is not for me. But you won't kill me right?

Oh hon, you can take your Republic toons down the dark path. Both sides can play light or dark. In beta I took my Jedi Knight down the dark path and it was very fun and interesting. Here's too tossing helpless engineers out into space! mawhahahah

We don't know yet, apparently they are going to update all the guilds on Monday so hopefully we will find out then.

With early start beginning for some on Tuesday they have to get it sorted so keep checking the forums I'm sure it will be plastered everywhere once we know