110427-beginner-crafting-guide

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Anyone have a beginner crafting guide to share? 
 
I'm looking at my Tradeskills window and I'm like huh?  I really don't want to spam the forum with a bunch of basic questions, so I'm hoping to find a guide that explains WTH is going on.
 
Thanks	
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Uh, just ask away.
Lots of people (read: me and a few other crafting enthusiasts) drop by this forum a lot (read: when they are bored) and probably won't mind answering questions.
 
Anything more general can be solved by Google, if you really don't want to ask. :P	
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I tried Google but about all I found was incredibly vague info from beta.
 
Unneeded gear, salvage for mats or sell and buy mats?
 
On the crafting UI:
--What's the battery looking thing at the bottom for?
--For the chip, what's charge do?  Why wouldn't you always up the value?	
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The UI is different since these are beta videos, but same concept.
 
Basic introduction
 
Circuit Board crafting - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNuBEAurq9k  (using weaponsmith as example)
Coordinate crafting - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7jb_zsGzxs   (using architect as example)
 
 
In-depth long video, also covers tech tree
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUr23EiQSTY   (use the time links in his description to skip ahead. I think his section on cooking is the easiest to understand)	
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This is one I used when I was new to crafting:
 
http://www.tentonhammer.com/wildstar/guides/wildstar-tradeskills-and-crafting-guide	
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Thanks guys, I've made it thru all but the long video.
 
 
What should I be doing with the stuff I craft, salvage or vendor?	
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Quests!
Seriously  most of the crafting I did was for its own sake. I crafted stuff for myself and for dailies but most of my stuff got salvaged so that I could mroe efficiently use mats. Also you can get some nice stuff from salvage.	
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Do the dailies in each zone at least once as most of them lead to getting a point towards leveling crafting (The little star)
Most these dailies will force you through the majority of each tree and by the time you reach expert you should also have it level maxed.
 
I mostly salvaged crafted items so it would give me mats to make more items... being an outfitter.
Other professions can craft mats that the end result vendors for more then the mats so that's a good option	
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			When crafting just to level up, is there any point in adding charges?	
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When crafting just to level up, is there any point in adding charges?
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Nope, absolutely none. Just pump out cheap mass production crap. :P
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http://pwniversity.com/wildstar/tradeskills
 
That aint bad	
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I can do that. :)
 
 
I've heard you can craft in your home instance. Is that true? What all housing items would I need to do that?
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It's a fabkit that will take up a plot plug but there's no vendor or CX access so personally I find it not useful
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They patched in a vendor a while ago.
Still no CX though, true. :)
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If I may piggy back on this...
 
Thanks for the links that helped me a lot.  I just got the game and got my first character to lvl 10 last night, still haven't been to the capital yet so haven't even started on the tradeskill stuff yet.
 
But I have a different question... A lot of MMO's have tradeskills set up so that a given skill goes best with a given class.   Is that true in this game? 	
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If I may piggy back on this...
 
Thanks for the links that helped me a lot.  I just got the game and got my first character to lvl 10 last night, still haven't been to the capital yet so haven't even started on the tradeskill stuff yet.
 
But I have a different question... A lot of MMO's have tradeskills set up so that a given skill goes best with a given class.   Is that true in this game? 
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There are no bonus from Tradeskills, if that's what you're talking about. Other than that, Armorer goes best with Heavy wearing classes, Outfitter with Medium wearing, and Tailor with Light wearing, if you want to make your own stuff. Weaponsmith, Architect, and Technologist are good for any class.
 
BTW: At level 10, you can start your tradeskills from the zone you're in. If you're Dominion, you start at Lightreach Mission in Ellevar, or somewhere in Deadrune (I don't level through there, so I don't know the exact place). No need to visit your main city to start on Tradeskills.
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			Where can i get the fabkit and vendor?	
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