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Power Leveling Crafting?

cbob312cbob312 Member Posts: 200 Arc User
edited July 2014 in The Academy
Has anyone figured out how to power level crafting? I'd prefer it if I could avoid making a bunch of junk I don't need.
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  • dahminusdahminus Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    What was it...46 million dilithium?

    Atm, the mkvi yields promising results. 600 an hour. It appears to be the best route of you can be on every hour to reset it.
    Chive on and prosper, eh?

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  • generalmocogeneralmoco Member Posts: 1,634
    edited July 2014
    dahminus wrote: »
    What was it...46 million dilithium?

    yes!!! 46,000,000 to 50,000,000 Dilithium to force Level all 7 schools from 1 to 20 :)
  • cbob312cbob312 Member Posts: 200 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    Ok, not doing that, if I just wanted to wait out the countdowns is there any reason I shouldn't just pick the 'just give me XP' choice?
  • shandypandyshandypandy Member Posts: 632 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    cbob312 wrote: »
    Ok, not doing that, if I just wanted to wait out the countdowns is there any reason I shouldn't just pick the 'just give me XP' choice?

    It awards the least xp per hour, but the biggest chunk of xp.

    During the week, I've been running short junk crafts in beam, cannon and engineering, then just before I log off I run a 20 in all 3 schools.

    As dahminus says mk vi is good if you can be on once an hour (which real work precludes me from during the week).
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  • tenkaritenkari Member Posts: 2,906 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    if you plan on levelling an alt. you can at least use crafting to get them weapon types you cant normally get at low levels, thus you can run AP/transphasic builds from level 1-50. and it'll net some XP.
  • cmdrscarletcmdrscarlet Member Posts: 5,137 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    Oh yeah, it'll be worth it too: cheapest Omni Beam sells for about 40 million EC :rolleyes:
  • cbob312cbob312 Member Posts: 200 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    I was under the impression that you can't make those until you have a fairly high crafting level?
  • lucho80lucho80 Member Posts: 6,600 Bug Hunter
    edited July 2014
    Oh yeah, it'll be worth it too: cheapest Omni Beam sells for about 40 million EC :rolleyes:

    That monopoly will soon be over and price competition will kick in since it seems 95% of players chose beams. Doing what everyone else does, bad business, specially since beams are the least good item devs added.
  • woodwhitywoodwhity Member Posts: 2,636 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    cbob312 wrote: »
    I was under the impression that you can't make those until you have a fairly high crafting level?

    Some seem to have had too much dilithium^^
  • tenkaritenkari Member Posts: 2,906 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    Oh yeah, it'll be worth it too: cheapest Omni Beam sells for about 40 million EC :rolleyes:

    actually.... phaser ones are on sale for 27 mil.
  • shockwave85shockwave85 Member Posts: 1,040 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    lucho80 wrote: »
    That monopoly will soon be over and price competition will kick in since it seems 95% of players chose beams. Doing what everyone else does, bad business, specially since beams are the least good item devs added.

    On the upside, it's probably a great time to level a new alt with a beamboat :cool:

    I've got all 7 schools running among four characters. I'll be ready to go wherever I'm needed. Or at least I will be in 3-4 months when they start hitting Lv. 15. Or I could always dump a bunch of Zen into the dil exchange and level myself up right now. Wooooooo, paying to win baby!
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  • cmdrscarletcmdrscarlet Member Posts: 5,137 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    actually.... phaser ones are on sale for 27 mil.

    Oh, well that changed quick. Maybe because they are phasers :P
  • dahminusdahminus Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    Oh, well that changed quick. Maybe because they are phasers :P

    As time goes in, there will be more and more people dinging lvl 15. Prices will plummet in the following months
    Chive on and prosper, eh?

    My PvE/PvP hybrid skill tree
  • k0rsak0fk0rsak0f Member Posts: 17 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    well. its pritty simple but will cost you load's of EC.
    if you have multyple projects just craft mark 12 items.
    buy the components you cant craft. this will give you 3000 xp. wil take 5 hours pro item.
    the 20 hour one gives you 6000 max 7000 as far i have noticed. meaning 10 hours on 1 crafting slot will give you the same. and you still got 10 hours left.
    so why not use those to craft once again :)

    got to warn you tough.. the components are not cheap.
  • mithrosnomoremithrosnomore Member Posts: 400 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    At one time you could run multiple 20 hour missions for the same skill. Someone could level a particular school much faster that way.

    As it stands now, it takes dilithium to really "power level" the skills.

    Energy credits can trim some time off of things (buying either the components to make higher level items or buying the raw materials to make the rare components), but not as much as dilithium can.

    And I suppose if you spend zen on the crafting boxes you may find something to help you speed things along, too, but I don't really know what is inside those.
  • sirokksirokk Member Posts: 990 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    RE: OP...

    Just pick the highest Mark console that you have materials and make components for that won't take longer to finish for the period of time that you'll be logged in for. Before your logout kick off the research task.

    If you are willing, at least your own benefit, record the materials that you generally get for each different mission and location. Eventually you'll be wanting a certain material and wanting to know likely where to get it.

    That's my 2 EC.
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  • valenn1valenn1 Member Posts: 842 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    nevermind... should read the entire post :p
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  • sirtexassirsirtexassir Member Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    lucho80 wrote: »
    That monopoly will soon be over and price competition will kick in since it seems 95% of players chose beams. Doing what everyone else does, bad business, specially since beams are the least good item devs added.

    Yah I was trying to make some items the other day and the one Mat I needed and they had them for way over price. I figure I keep doing the daily xp grind mission until I get up there and that newness wears off and I can afford proper material or find them (it's the purple ones for higher end gear) in drops some where.
  • zeuxidemus001zeuxidemus001 Member Posts: 3,357 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    woodwhity wrote: »
    Some seem to have had too much dilithium^^

    Yeah long time KDF players are mostly in tier 5 starbases now so with nothing really for the KDF since the mogh a few months shy of a year ago now lol. We have nothing really to spend it on but crafting unless they actually come out with something but KDF ships with dev relationship we get one about half of a percent of the time they claim we will get one so I doubt we will be getting any KDF specific ships this year. Much less anything to spend dilithium on besides gearing more alts.
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