Given the changes that just happened go cybertech.. there is no reason to be a synthweaver anymore I would say i made over 20 million creds before the patch on my purp gear the reason is it had the aug slot... now that orange gear has it you can buy the orange gear once with aug slots and never need a piece of real crafted gear again.

I once posted how crafted gear was superior to mod gear given that the epics at level 50 were better because of the aug slots. its what actually made them a sellable item. there was a reason aug slots were not put on orange pieces of gear because with that bonus slot they would be better . Right now you don't have to level synthweaving past level 15 armor and learn the first orange recipes.. you can crit craft a level 15 recipe even though it looks like crap and slam all the level 50 mods you want into them. Yep so for under i would say 5000 credits you can get all your orange aug slot gear and never need anything these 2 crew skills offer. I mentioned this before thanks for the fail have a nice day.

Hello... Anyone out there wanna do heroic modes.. I think posting on the forum's I will have more luck convincing someone to level a toon to 50 gear up and do HM then spamming on the station/illum/belsavis for the past 2 days...

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So given that people have been ************ for 2 months now how bad R/E has been the dev's looked at their data and discovered WOW... it is bad. I would love for the dev's to post the discussion they had about now raising the rates.. or is this just a current bug in this latest patch. Do tell... Do tell... since i have been destroying epics and hundreds of pieces of epic metal and cloth in your system. I was probably working with oh a 3 percent success rate maybe 2 percent. So what you going to change the rate to now... 10 percent , 20 percent chance?

I suggest you do some digging and how much I have educated people on here how their little crafting system works.

Umm... yeah this tells me you don't know jack about how the crafting system works. any 1 item through R/Eing can result in 14 different epics by the end of the R/E tree. its getting the proper one with the correct stats thats actually sellable.

The point is every idiot in the world can craft orange gear with no effort.. they didn't have to spend millions destroying things for the recipe.

So they are going to put augments on Orange gear now... so basicly all the work i went into R/Eing over 60 level 49+ patterns will now be lost to someone that can get that bonus bump from orange items with augments that any moron now can pickup off the GTN for 2k. You better change the mats on orange items to include MASSIVE amounts of the epic item then. Oh look this orange gear i can crank out for 4 uparicrystals/artifacts and crit all day. Fire your crafting staff and hire some people that have PLAYED MMO's for years to actually have a true implementation scheme for it. Just when i was finally getting people convinced that crafted gear was better then orange gear , your just giving it right back to the Oranges.

Yes crafting the right piece of gear is important... you have to ask classes what their stats are they are needing.. just because you get an epic recipe doesn't mean you make it... some stat combos are bad. DPS with shields and defense you know the drill. The big thing is educating the population of your server how crafted epics are better then mod gear and even Normal epic drops even some hardmode drops.

I have a question... You mentioned Primeval... Not Redoubt primeval or Veracity Primeval. If your just making the rare ITS NOT GOING TO SELL... Why.. cause your competing against MOD gear and free epic upgrades. Level 50's get them by doing dailies and they are way better then any rare you can make. R/E up to epics for any chance of sales when competing against MOD gear at level 50.

Then i suggest you get to that GTN and buy things for you and your next 3 alts while things are basicly dirt cheap.

My profit margins i am making are between double to 4 times my cost to make them. Mastercraft 4 to 8 times. As for Cash i find it hard to believe you are selling things for 40k... your telling me i can buy your epics for the 15 min it takes me to run 4 dailies... your economy and cash flow on your server is really that BAD?

I find this kind of funny really... there are alot of complaints about the validity of crewskills being useless. Now lets see usually people find things useless because there is nothing to sell because things aren't worth buying. Now the prices yes mats do fluxuate server to server I live on a server where UWT missions run from 20k to 30k on average and mandalorian iron is 10 to 15k a piece. Take that into account on my prices... if your server is double these numbers , then double my numbers for your respective gain. This post and my other on Crafted gear being better then raid gear is driven to educate the populous that not all Crew skills are useless and have no reason. This is not a post about the flaws of crewskilling that are spamed 20 times a day of Already learned recipe... R/Eing is horrible I know i have over 50 epics level 49+... I destroy epics trying to get the better tier epics.. Smashed 72 mandalorian iron today to learn Hawkeye sentinal bracers... go go BIS BOE even rivaling HM drops. And if you think my numbers are inflated your server must really suck at doing their dailies since you get paid 80k from the hour it takes on illum if even that much time.

Second day in sales http://i41.tinypic.com/10f5kko.jpg 510k for 6 sales not bad for a monday ... Raid day tommorrow..

The Mastercraft item depends on a couple things First how well is the non aug slot item selling.. if its a big seller i might do 3 times the normal price Generally its between 175k and 225k is the breaking point where people pass on them If it isn't a fully upgraded item yet has an aug slot again depends on the stats bracers and belts i can get alot more for where helms chest, legs not as much because aug doesn't add as much stats as the next teir upgrade. Can still add a good 20 to 40k though

Right now for artifice really i see is getting your hand on the purple crystal recipe and charging a ton to hit the craft button. That and crafting the offhand items craft the right one of those and people will buy.

I know you can craft those special peices and get an aug slot... as for artificing I don't know and most don't have the mats to try multiple times.

theres no pvp augments because there is no PVP crafted gear. Though would be nice if they made PVP crafted gear and mods ONLY PLAYER MADE.. none of this free mod crap.

Level 49 and 50 Crafted Epics.

I run all my own UWT missions i usually snag them anywhere from 10 to 20k a mission I will pickup Archelogy missions for under 10k If i can find deals for stacks of artifacts/crystals i will buy them since this seems to be my bottleneck at times and never pay more then 60k a stack which is good for 15 pieces of armor Then of course theirs all the R/E i do.. but once you get the right piece i can say i am getting anywhere from 200 to 400 percent profit compared to the cost of mats on the AH.

Queuing missions like Trade skills would be alot better and less freaking micromanaging. instead of having a phone amp. I can queue 45 min armor pieces, why can't i do that with 36 min missions? would prevent me from swapping toons every half hour to setup crewskills.. oh joy. Swtor = SWapping TOons Repeat.

http://i43.tinypic.com/dy61wx.jpg Yeah absolutely no profit in me making armor.. none whatsoever.

So to turn around the dementia of people saying crafting isn't worth it. I shall update this thread for a week with every day's worth of sales of my synthweave crafted items. Also i should mention I'm unfortunately republic so my sales would probably be double or triple given my servers population imbalance.. i need to get an empire toon over their to advertise on the Nar Shaddaa GTN.. perhaps this weekend. Devs realy need to put a Fence GTN on the stations would be much better. not one item over level 40 on my server. Day Number 1 800k worth of sales http://i43.tinypic.com/dy61wx.jpg Second day in sales http://i41.tinypic.com/10f5kko.jpg 510K Running total 1.31 Million credits in 2 days. Vyxen Lord Praven

I will be posting a screenshot of all my sales that happened today... get ready for a surprise. all the items were crafted items.