Best crafter question

[Ticker123]

<p>I just rolled a SK and which crafting profession will compliment SK more? Armorer or Weaponsmith? Any advance will be appreciated.</p><p>Pascal</p>

[Soefje]

<p><cite>Cantankerous@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I just rolled a SK and which crafting profession will compliment SK more? Armorer or Weaponsmith? Any advance will be appreciated.</p><p>Pascal</p></blockquote><p>Of the two, I think you get more out of armorer (but I am biased).  You can make more pieces each tier that are useful for your SK.  The reality is that in each tier there are legendary sets that are better than anything you can craft.  The MC armor will be your starting point at each tier, but you will replace pieces as you go.</p><p>IMHO, the best crafting profession is alchemist.  Potions help a lot, and being able to make your own spell upgrades are great.  Also, you can actually make money by selling potions/poisons (and they don't all have to be mastercrafted).</p><p>My opinion</p>

[Full_Metal_Mage]

<p>It depends on what your motivation is for crafting. I advise leaving the Craftsman (Carpenter, Provisioner, Woodworker) and Outfitter (Armorer, Tailor, Weaponsmith) to players who play primarily for crafting ('real' crafters) or to players who are bored and just looking for something to do. Otherwise, you're likely to just get sick of it and drop it.</p><p>For everyone else, either no crafting profession is good or, if you're picking up crafting as a sideline to supply yourself with some items and maybe earn a little extra coin, then one of the scholar professions is the way to go. As Kraace pointed out, as a Shadowknight/Alchemist you'll be able to make your own Adept IIIs as you level up and be able to sell potions and poisons.</p>

[Ticker123]

<p>Thanks for the response. Reason I have limited it to Weaponsmith and Armorsmith is because I already have a carpenter, woodwork, alchemist, tailor, and provisoner  between levels 26 and 49. My alchemist is 26 atm.</p><p>I'm leaning toward armorsmith atm cause like you said there is more to craft for myself, even though its only in beginning of each teir. I also solo 100% so I'm not always equipped with the uber stuff from raiding so I think that might best suit me.</p><p>Pascal</p>

[Ghouti]

<p>I took the armorer proffesion along with becoming a shadowknight, but you do have to take into account that devout armor always (except for T<img src="/smilies/b2eb59423fbf5fa39342041237025880.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> comes at armorer recipe lvl x9 (so 29, 39, 49 etc). So you really have to keep leveling your armorer all the time. I struggled doing so mainly between lvl 40 and 60, after which i was able to put him back in front. Although still got 3 lvls to go before i become 72 now ...</p><p>As for the choice of armorer, well i dont regret it, playing solo all the time aswell so no legendary armor for me but MC all the way so far. Just ask a weaponsmith to make your weapons and voila, spells either ask someone or buy them. Next choice will probably be alchemist but we have quite a few of those in our guild so i skipped that one.</p>

[Soefje]

<p><cite>Cantankerous@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Thanks for the response. Reason I have limited it to Weaponsmith and Armorsmith is because I already have a carpenter, woodwork, alchemist, tailor, and provisoner  between levels 26 and 49. My alchemist is 26 atm.</p><p>I'm leaning toward armorsmith atm cause like you said there is more to craft for myself, even though its only in beginning of each teir. I also solo 100% so I'm not always equipped with the uber stuff from raiding so I think that might best suit me.</p><p>Pascal</p></blockquote><p>You will find that in the upper tiers, there is legendary (or at lease armor better than MC) than can be obtained from questing or group instance zones. So, I still maintain that for some tiers, MC is the start.</p><p>And the fact that you have to be x9 to craft the full set is a pain.  What I did is spend a few nights getting my armorer a tier or so ahead of my SK.  Then would do the same thing every time my SK got to around x8 or x9.  Was fairly easy to stay ahead.</p><p>Crafting is so easy to level now, with writs, quests, and XP potions, it is not hard to stay ahead.</p><p>Hope this helps.</p>

[Uggli]

<p>Of the two you listed, the only real choice is Armorer.   More slots to fill that you will actually use.  Just keep your Armorer level a good 10 levels above you Adventure level and you will be all set for rare master crafted devout armor for soloing.</p><p>I would also advise you to look into Tinkering for your secondary tradeskill for your main characters.  Lots of fun toys in that profession adding a lot of utility.</p>

[Ticker123]

<p>Have not crafted with my SK, HAVING A GREAT TIME LEVELING HIM!!! I'm level 31 atm. SK and my Brig are by far my fav. Probably going to make Pascal my loot monger. I tend to use all my rares and collections on my other toons.</p>

[StaticLex]

<p>Armorer is the easy choice.  You can get legendary weapons on the broker dirt cheap in basically any tier, and the ability to make a whole set of rare MC every tier is much more valuable.  Plus you'll have a gear shop for all your metal armor wearing alts.</p>