108304-where-to-begin-with-technologist

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Hi Community,
 
Been at level 50 for a few weeks now.  Hitting max EP per week, have a full blue PvP set, and am slowly working on attunement.  I figure now is the time to begin to work on my technologist profession.  However, I am unsure where to begin.  Are there any solid guides you would recommend that cover, among other things I may be missing, (1) how to level up to max level and (2) what the daily quests are and how to do them?
 
Thanks.	
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The first step is to prepare yourself to be extremely frustrated with the most idiotic crafting design you have ever seen. 
 
leveling up all of the crafting skills is very easy. You simply hit K, open up the tech tree tab, select your craft skill level and begin filling out the tech tree.
 
Daily quests and the zones they are in will be pointed out to you in the tech tree as well.	
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			Seriously, save yourself some grief and choose another crafting system.	
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The fastest way I saw was to just do your tier dailies and then go for achievements, espcially ones with stars on them.
Once you hit T-5 however we are currently rather...lackluster.  Our boosts being decent but mildly expensive the only people you'll really find willing to buy them are raiders, and well it's either sell direct or not at all for them.  Most of our field techs are more usefull than you'd expect but highly overlooked.  Power cores?  Meh you can at the moment make starshard and there's gennerally an extremely limited profit margin for them if any. 
However the future does look brighter as there are several changes coming straight up for us and with talks about 'Adventus' CW-5 equiptment and the theoretical power cores going into them...	
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Making your own Power Cores to supply for your own Tailor/Outfitter/Armorsmith/Weaponsmith crafting is cheaper than buying the power cores from the npc vendor. Of course, the ingredients for power cores requires both Relic Hunter and Miner, so there's that.
 
Back on topic, just focus on hitting all the achievements and do the dailies. That should get you to Expert level in no time. As far as materials go, I think Technologist is incredibly cheap since you don't have to buy anything from the vendor.	
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