I'm no crafting kind of guy. Yeah - I've always maxed 2 suitable crafting jobs for my WoW main and had at least one endgame alt for corresponding gathering professions. Min/maxing my stats and supporting my raid needs that way. In the ways of fun, crafting was not it. It is tedium. Tedium is like salt to the MMO-dish. Not too little, not too much - and everything has more meaning and purpose.

In SW:TOR, I'm now letting my companions do all the crafting and gathering - that's simply genious. Crafting like a Boss! I craft all-the-time now. Sending off my companion gathering stuff, then have him craft a tonne of items, then reverse engineering the stuff to learn higher tier receipes and getting back some resources. All the while I'm adventuring. If I run into a heroic zone, I'll just keep the companion at my side for a spell.

I believe we'll get 5 companions by the endgame. That's gonna be super sweet managing the crew. Not crafting like a bloody peon. Crafting - like a boss!

Yeah I really enjoy how you send your companion off on missions like Assassin's Creed. Although I'm just tempted to do the 3 minute missions over and over.

Judging by my impressions of the beta this will probably be the MMO that will consume me. I am so looking forward to this... and dreading it.

the only thing i dont like is that actually making anything takes FOREVER.

Coolio .... just a question how many characters you can create per account?

@Aetheldod said:

Coolio .... just a question how many characters you can create per account?

10 per realm, 50 per account I think.

My favourite crafting moment: when you see two gathering nodes right next to each other and you send your minion to snag one, and you run off and grab the second one. I always picture an amazing Power Rangers 'LETS DO THIS!' high five moment in that given situation. :D

@Barrock said:

@Aetheldod said:

Coolio .... just a question how many characters you can create per account?

10 per realm, 50 per account I think.

8, actually. I think it's sad that I know that. Not even in EGA yet, and I have that number memorized. Sigh. Can you tell that I'm excited?

This is essentially an exact duplicate of a thread I started a few days ago, with a more cryptic thread title.  
 
http://www.giantbomb.com/star-wars-the-old-republic/61-24205/how-is-the-crafting-in-swtor/35-527892/