143464-lets-talk-about-tradeskills-evil-eye-on-architect

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If you are looking for something simpler, go for Technologist.
Outfitter and Tailoring are the worst.
Can't talk for Weaponsmith, but Armor is similar at the exception that the mats aren't a PITA to farm.
 
Technologist is really your best bet here.	
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So today i gave up on Weaponsmith. Was at the end of journeyman weaponsmith but wanted to try something new!
So i started with Architect! And mixed it up with survivalist since i love the Housing system in this game and to be able to craft FABkits sounded good to me.
But...!
Architect tradeskills is messed up. And you need so many items like wood, flowers,plants, items from nodes etc.
And the crafting for some items is just clicking. Some of them you need to craft multiple items to make one. I'm seariosly thinking of going back to weaponsmith again, or outfitter or...something simple!	
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			Weaponsmith is easy but not a profitable tradeskills, and i thought well FABkits always sells on AH (i buy alot) But i will look up technologist but have to wait one more day to change tradeskill :)
			
				
	Edited October 15, 2015 by Fontz	
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So today i gave up on Weaponsmith. Was at the end of journeyman weaponsmith but wanted to try something new!
So i started with Architect! And mixed it up with survivalist since i love the Housing system in this game and to be able to craft FABkits sounded good to me.
But...!
Architect tradeskills is messed up. And you need so many items like wood, flowers,plants, items from nodes etc.
And the crafting for some items is just clicking. Some of them you need to craft multiple items to make one. I'm seariosly thinking of going back to weaponsmith again, or outfitter or...something simple!
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If you are looking for something simpler, go for Technologist.
Outfitter and Tailoring are the worst.
Can't talk for Weaponsmith, but Armor is similar at the exception that the mats aren't a PITA to farm.
 
Technologist is really your best bet here.
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Eh... Do you think circuit crafting is more complex target board crafting?
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			I am also in the rumble of finding a tradeskill. So far I am farming up alot of stuff for technologist. I am not having the fun I had on Architect but Architect is a pain to trade for mats and all the stuff, about 80% of it can be bought or drop from anywhere, so thats a downside. I am hoping once I get to the gadgets or shields/support systems(when they add them, idk if they did or not yet) it gets better. Otherwise Armorer was great fun leveling but then hit a brick wall when you need token drops from Dungeons to craft new gear. 	
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I just finished Journeyman Architect yesterday, after switching from Outfitter. Was easy, I completed all the TechTree stuff and my house looks great :) Even made some money along the way with FABKits. 
 
Which gathering proffesion did you take? I hope not Survivalist. Most resources you need for architect (so far, at least) are ore, wood and plants. Plants can be harvested by anyone and wood (gathered by Survivalist) is very cheap on the Commodities Exchange. From mining you'll need ore, occasionally crystals. Gems you won't need (so far, at least), so you can sell them (they sell for good moneyz :) ) Sometimes you might also need some Omni-plasm, but that too can be bought from the CE. So, I would strongly suggest to take mining above anything else.
 
You mentioned switching to Outfitter. Outfitter and Tailor are terrible, because the Survivalist gathering profession is messed up. Leather and cloth are not farmed (like wood and ore), they drop from mobs. And a mob will drop one leather/cloth, like, once every four years. Seriously, I was able to gather 150 Iron ore in about 30 minutes. While I was an Outfitter/Survivalist, I was able to gather about 15 Leather in one hour. Messed up and I don't know why the devs wont fix this. Anyhow, Outfitter was a terrible experience. 
 
Anyhow, Architect can be fun if you take Mining as gathering (and don't forget to gather plants along the way). And yes, you'll have to do some buying/selling on the Commodities Exchange. But, as the description of the profession says: "architecture is best left to the enterprising adventurer".  
 
If you don't like it, I guess Technologist is the way to go then :)	
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			I'm seriously thinking about only pick up survivalist and mining (both at tier 4 now) atm just to get all the stuffs needed and start crafting later since im not really sure what tradeskill i will stay with. Maybe i will take on outfitter, since i know i will need good item level gear for later end game stuffs. And when i'm done with that i could switch back to weaponsmith since i way to much ores in my inventory since i've been farming for a while :)	
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I never talked about complexity of crafting schematic.
 
Technologist you can get expert without ever having to farm anything.
Tailoring and Outfitter,  you need to go way out of your ways just to get past each tier.
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