135515-is-gathering-itself-profitable

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			My gf choose survivalist and architect I started relic hunter and technologist but I was thinking of dropping technologist and just settling gathered materials and selling them on the commodity markets. Is this viable?	
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			stick with Tech power cores are your friend! so are stims!...i would also do a vendor to commodities comparison just to be sure. no point putting something on the CM then find you could've vendored it for more 8/	
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My gf choose survivalist and architect I started relic hunter and technologist but I was thinking of dropping technologist and just settling gathered materials and selling them on the commodity markets. Is this viable?
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			Once the influx of players move out of the early zones or quit, they will be profitible again.	
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Short answer:  No.
 
Longer answer:  It used to be, if only because we could vendor them for decent prices.  Now that the vendor prices have been nerfed into the ground, all we can do is dump the mats into the CX and pray.  You'll notice the incredible amounts already sitting there this early in the game.
 
The only real exception are rare mats - if you have a Signature sub, you might get enough to make a good profit.
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So probably safer to sell power cores, does technologist have any fun things to make that really dont have anything to do with being better at raiding et al?  This trade skill at least sortof looked like a cross between alchemist and engineer lol.
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