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Changing spec from within a craft tree!

Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
edited October 2009 in Items and Crafting
Sooo, I decided to change from Arms - Alien Biology to Arms - Ordnance. given that despite the info saying alien biology was my best choice for crafting, it turned out that Ordnance was actually better.
I wanted to stay within the Arms craft though, which you would think would not be a problem right? well wrong.
I had a message onscreen saying if i wanted to swhich to ordnance I would lose all my ranks in mysticism/science, which was fine as I was already Arms....
I clicked okay

Suddenly I only have 1 point in Arms? thats like serious WTF there o.o
I switched from Arms - Alien Biology to Arms -Ordnance and it reset me to Arms 1???????????
Hello? developers?? what are you doing??

thats another nail in the coffin for this game as far as I'm concerned...

:mad:
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    Sorry, love. Working as intended
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    working as intended? thats like a baker forgetting how to bake bread just coz they went on to baking pastries....
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    It's just the way it has been designed since (as far as I know) the beginning. There are new blueprints to learn under your new spec that I suppose may be the reason behind resetting your skill within the same prof.; even though they're only different in name to what you already have. Everything will have the same stats. somewhat lame IMO
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    Lebrine wrote:
    Sooo, I decided to change from Arms - Alien Biology to Arms - Ordnance. given that despite the info saying alien biology was my best choice for crafting, it turned out that Ordnance was actually better.
    I wanted to stay within the Arms craft though, which you would think would not be a problem right? well wrong.
    I had a message onscreen saying if i wanted to swhich to ordnance I would lose all my ranks in mysticism/science, which was fine as I was already Arms....
    I clicked okay

    Suddenly I only have 1 point in Arms? thats like serious WTF there o.o
    I switched from Arms - Alien Biology to Arms -Ordnance and it reset me to Arms 1???????????
    Hello? developers?? what are you doing??

    thats another nail in the coffin for this game as far as I'm concerned...

    :mad:

    Ordnance can't be "better" than Alien Biology, the difference between sub-specialties is "fluff". There's a functional equivalent for each.

    And the in-game messages all say that if you switch, you'll go down to 1 again, I'm not sure why it would be a surprise...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    How did you get a skill of 1? It should reset it to 0.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    ajo4949 wrote:
    Ordnance can't be "better" than Alien Biology, the difference between sub-specialties is "fluff". There's a functional equivalent for each.

    And the in-game messages all say that if you switch, you'll go down to 1 again, I'm not sure why it would be a surprise...

    Actually the non-custom items are different in terms of stats as far as I can tell. I switched from Ordnance to Fighting Styles and I think Fighting Styles has more melee related stats than ordnance had.

    Granted if all you're going to do is custom craft everything then yes there is no difference.

    Also I managed to skill up to 400 again in about a day and 200G worth of items from the AH. It also gave me a huge stock of supplies to make stuff in the process.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    you dont loose all your blueprints you gained, just the ranks. once you rank them back up you gain access to them again....
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    Mothermoy wrote:
    you dont loose all your blueprints you gained, just the ranks. once you rank them back up you gain access to them again....

    So you could for example get Mysticism and:
    - Level to 400, and get all the Enchated gear recipes
    - Relevel to 400, as Avatars
    - Relevel once more as Arcana

    And keep all the recipes in mysticism?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    Erhnam wrote:
    So you could for example get Mysticism and:
    - Level to 400, and get all the Enchated gear recipes
    - Relevel to 400, as Avatars
    - Relevel once more as Arcana

    And keep all the recipes in mysticism?

    Correct.

    /10chars
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    SOunds good, expensive. But good.
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