Hunting with Crafting

[gagan]

Just a quick question (i am gonna post this thread in the mining section)

I am wanting to work on my crafting skills for armour. I have read in hundreds of threads to start crafting in filters and damppers which i have done quite a bit. I have not unlocked BPC but have decided that i want to craft armour.

Would it be more productive for me to skill in :-

A) Crafting and mining

or

B) Crafting and hunting.

My initial thoughts were that at this stage i need iron and lyst or Oil so i should hunt and craft with the Iron i loot from Argos.

But, i am also thinking that later on i will need different ores when i start crafting the higher items so mining would be better.

Any ideas or comments are gratefully appreciated.

[extoo]

If you can afford it do both - hunt and mine the materials you need. Cant say for armor as I dont craft it but I am doing something similar to craft MA101s I use for mining. Some items I mine for and others I hunt for, but I'm mainly a hunter.

Worth remembering a few things -

- Mining gets you engineering skill which is VERY important for crafting
- some mobs drop ore (iron, gazz, erdorium most often) but most you will need to get out the ground or from auction
- if you hunt its no real hardship to hunt certain mobs to get items you need usually (and sometimes works out nicely - hunt a lot of drones for gazz you can sell the dodge skill for much better markup than the gazz)
- its a false economy to think you are "saving" by hunting or mining the items yourself if you are a miner/hunter anyway. What you gain by not paying other peoples markup (e.g. 115% on oil or whatever) you lose by not selling your own oil at 115%.
- Be prepared to get frustrated at not looting/finding the items you want and ending up buying crafting requirements at auction anyway
- if you do find what you need you will end up with permanent imbalances (e.g. you need 1 oil and 1 lyst, you have mined 4000 oil but only 1200 lyst...)
- Mining can become insanely addictive (honestly, I'm not joking!)
- Hunting is almost instantly addictive (worse than crack)
- I'm no expert, just my 2 pecs

[nvcK]

hunting + tailoring works pretty neat (as long as they start dropping ahide again lol)

[dakini]

to sum it up simply
mining helps crafting
you get cheap ores and
you get engeneering, intelligence and computer

not even a debate

[SeamusO]

I hunt, set a specific amount that if exceeded I can allocate the extra towards bombs / probes .. just started crafting with the resources I had found .. so, apparently ..

Hunt to mine to craft to sell to make money to hunt to mine to ....

[Mandread]

i hunt mine and craft.. there is always a critter there wanting the ore's i am trying to get.. when i do my mining i sell the ore's/enmater that i dont need on auction and use the rest to do crafting.. when the ore's and enmatter sell i buy more prob's and bomb's or enmater and ore that i do need.

For me it all works out and i do end up in the ++ most of the time