Profession Dilemma - Looking for input

[theothersteve7]

I'm leveling my second character as Biochem, so I'll have the gathering professions either way. It seems that the crafting professions are ironically the easiest to level, so the important thing is to have a good mix of crafting professions between your characters.

Since mission clocks keep ticking if you aren't on a character, and high-end missions run around a half hour, what we'll see in a couple months is people cycling between their characters and running upwards of twenty missions simultaneously across a network of companions.

I personally plan to switch to biochem if they haven't nerfed it in a month. That's when I project that I will be pushing hard into endgame. In the meanwhile, I enjoy the flavor of artifice.

[Maugrim]

Dunno if it's been posted in any of the other threads.. but it's possible to crit on orange item when a craft them.. (atleast weapons) dunno if it's becuz the orange item got mods in it when ya craft it.. but i've saw a guy selling an orange blaster pistol with an augment slot in it.. sadly i'm currently not in possession of a SS of it..

i have yet to manage a crit on a craftable orange armor piece yet.. but maybe i'm just unlucky on my streak..

besides.. each armor proffesion can create Tier1,3 or 1,5(rakata) belt and bracers (dunno how it's sorted yet tier wise) anyway.. my current plan on my 1st alt is.. getting armormech to 400 craft the rakata pieces..(pref. with a crit for the xtra slot) and then prolly roll with Biochem.. since that seems like the best of both worlds.... (BiS bracer + belt.. and best stims adrenals)

[frmorrison]

You can crit craft weapons and then sell them (they go over 2 million credits on my server), however you cannot crit craft armor. It is planned to change in patch 1.2 to be able to crit craft armor.
Doing your progression of Rataka armor then biochem is the best way.