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I know I'm not a typical-pattern player - I run through the game fairly efficiently. But nonetheless, I have observed something: I always max out my crafting skill at least two or three levels before I can purchase the next tier. Then I accumulate a huge pile of items for disassembly when I finally hit it.
This doesn't seem right. Maybe take another look at the numbers, and do some data-mining on when people are hitting the skill caps?
This doesn't seem right. Maybe take another look at the numbers, and do some data-mining on when people are hitting the skill caps?
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It seems fine to me the way it is now.
Also if you do a lot of Research that also speeds up the skill ups a great deal.
That being said, I found that when II was doing Mysticism I was ahead a few levels, but with arms I am behind.
However, now post L200 in crafting I can see it is going a lot slower - less Epiphanies, more items for a single good experiment. On the upside, post 220 you get the more customisable crafting experience! You may have to take orders for crafting since its flexible!
One advice is to try to always pick an item from your school from quest rewards. Sometimes if you want none of the items, pick youts. If you want the items I sometimes get one that's slightly less optimal than the best item if it's my school since I know it'll be replaced reasonbly shortly anyway.
Also of course, to do research make items! There's no reason to hold on to materials if you're not skilled up. Sure, you can make and sell items for money (if there's anyone buying of course), but in my case I've used every resource found to craft items for researching, even if I needed 8+ items to do the research at 5/5.
That is happening to me too at least at pre-200.
My 19 Science toon has had their Science / Invention skill capped since level 14 and thier bank has just been accumulating science drops to deconstruct.
My two Arms using characters are 11 and 14 and I know the 11 is already capped out until it hits level 21 while I think the 14 is only about half-way there.
I can't remember where my Mysticism character is at right now, but I have two mails full of stuff for them to disassemble that was BoE junk my other characters found that I plan to use for skill bumps that I haven't been able to yet.
Part of why I've been hitting the cap so early at least for the pre-200 crafting is that I've been choosing my mission rewards more on whether I can disassemble them or not then on the actual stats. I may have to go several missions or a level before i upgrade a slot that way, but the difference is usually only a stat point or two before I do find one I want to use and is of the right crafting type.
Then when I reach a new crafting range I tend to have a ton to disassemble and if that doesn't cap me out on both skill and Insights/Profundity/Epiphanies then I find the highest level upgrade I can craft and start Developing batches of them and then Researching them over and over until I have gotten all the skill and IPEs I need.
However, some of how I've had an easy time doing that is that I also have multiple characters in the same level range and they send junk back and forth to research with. I also have friends who have been trading me stuff to research on.
So my skill is capping out a lot faster then it would if I was selling all the upgrades for resources. But I am finding that there is almost enough BoP items to sell to keep me able to afford all the blueprints as they become available.
I'm sitting at 300, just waiting on the 10g to get to the next level.
1-200 skilling up goes really fast. Once you hit about 230 is when it starts to slow down a bit. The BIG problem with crafting though is the profundities. They aren't dropping right even doing 5/5 research, I'm still missing about 12 mild profundities and can't by the skills because of this. Its preety annoying.