field crafter

I know Squez or someone had a handy guide/checklist for getting this but my search fu is weak- HALP!


I'm actually going to try for it on Crafticus in pursuit of his goal of saving Paragon City from his master by emptying it of salvage.

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oh wait this should probably go in the badging forum. =/

I have the accolade on two toons; although there may be a more effective strategy and guide out there, here is what worked for me:

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Gaining_..._Crafter_Badge

I chose to focus on one enhancement type across recipe levels for the sake of simplicity (and future profit on the sale of the enhancements). I chose taunt, heal, resist, hold, end. red., recharge, acc., damage and run.

I opened the recipes in tabs in my browser (along with the guide) and placed my salvage bids to fill quickly - I wanted the salvage NAO so I could just crank out the enhancements. Back-end profits will easily compensate any excess expenditure.

It was useful to do it in Talos - I could fill up my salvage, hop to the base portal, and then craft & store in the SG base quickly and easily.

I filled up 2 enhancement bins and found it useful to have a couple extra salvage racks to help the process flow.

Even after crafting all the required enhancements you will be short of the 4th invention badge by a good number; I chose to craft level 30 and 35 damage and accuracy enhancements to fill the gap - they are VERY profitable, especially after you have the recipe memorized.

It takes a couple of hours and some attention to detail throughout but it's definitely worth the effort.

Thanks for the tips!

I'm planning on working my way through the stuff I can sell now for a profit, then getting the accolade a bit later after I build up a nest egg. Somebody had a printable checklist they'd made up years ago, I was hoping it was still floating around somewhere...

Also anything that you craft for an sg base counts, even if you never place them.

Anything crafted from an empowerment station also counts. so basically whenever you log the character in craft as many empowerments as you can for the toon and that will help.

Squez did it, in this forum, but it was pre-forum-changeover and it looks like got mulched.

The paragonwiki page doesn't have what you need?
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Gaining_..._Crafter_Badge

I've got a printable 3-page list of all the recipes, their ingredients and little checkboxes to tick every time you craft something. My source was an ASCII list in the old forums which I cleaned up and formatted.

The wiki is great, but I find having a paper checklist convenient. You'll be grinding this over a few days, and the progress bar in the badge window won't tell you if you need 2 more level 25 or 2 more level 30 or one of each.

Does anyone know a good place to host a file like this, it's an OpenOffice document or I could convert it to a PDF.

Oh, and the extra salvage slots and the crafting table are fantastic, totally worth the effort.

anonymoose:

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http://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTEwMTA2NjEyOQ

*EDIT* Oh, yeah, thread relevant stuff. I decided to go for Field Crafter this weekend to Nethergoat, and I'm simply shocked at how much return there is in common IOs. I'm mostly chasing the +2 salvage inventory badges though, and will probably get bored with it before I see the whole of Field Crafter through.

Here's the thing: If you get bored, you can always come back to it later. I recommend starting with (for instance) a couple of 45-50s and 35-40s. The 10's and 15-20s go really fast.

I need to do this on a few more toons. I have it on four or five, but I market with about twenty toons. And I haven't done it in over a year so I think the bad memories have nearly all faded...

There used to be a handy one-page summary checklist; "IO Memorization Badge Tracker" by MadScientist. It's hard to find.

More slots are good. I've only done the full crafting route on Mouse Police, but she has 34 recipe slots and 22 market slots. I like that! (And I forget how much salvage slots -- 80?)

Hosannas to Panzerwaffen for the checklist, it's PERFECT!

And also thanks to everyone else who gave advice, now I'm ready to begin the assault...

*bow*

I did my 45-50 recipes by just crafting whatever dropped so that my only real investement was salvage and the crafting. I actually broke even or made profit on most of my 45 or 50 level recipes. 10-30's I basically slotted on my army of alts. I gotta say that overall I doubt I actually lost money. (although I won't be so bold as to say that I made money. I didn't track it close enough for that.)

Alright looks like you've got something already Nethergoat but I'll still link to my checklist.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ca0455yjys4lvpy

I'd be interested in that 1 page list from Panzerwaffen...

So far so good, five badges down and made a serious profit...of course I'm cherry picking the 'good' stuff, but it's pretty amazing someone paid me a million inf for two level 15 defense buffs (that were listed at 25k).

I've been bidding ahead for the next day's badge and at the lower levels I've been able to pick up all my recipes for ~100 inf. Salvage is variable, but I've been doing pretty well.