119478-help-with-archivos-cw-5-does-the-cw-4-needs-to-be-unlocked-to-make-a-cw-5

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			I am a weaponsmith. I have unlocked the CW-4 claws. But I haven't unlocked the CW-4 sword. If I obtain a CW-5 sword schematic, will I be able to make a CW-5 sword even if the CW-4 sword was not unlocked on my weaponsmith tree?	
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			NVM! FYI I posted my findings. I was able to get the schematic for the CW-5 sword. Fortunately, I didn't need to unlock the CW-4 sword. The Archivos schematics will unlock once you get the pattern. Thus isn't needed to fully unlock all the CW-4 weapons, which makes sense. It would be very hard to unlock the full Research tree before accessing Archivos weapons.	
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			It basically means theres no reason to mess around with the first four tiers of research gear.  It will soon be seriously outclassed by veteran dungeon drops with the proposed drop 4 itemization changes, and with Archivos schematics being BoE you can get raid level schematics without raiding, or needing to open them up.  At least they added Expert Technologist Research, so that people have something worthwhile to spend data fragments on.  Until they nerf the armor pierce gadget that is.	
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