This article provides a preliminary guide for Crafting and Crew Skills, more advanced content such as related gameplay strategies could be found in this SWTOR Guide.

In SWTOR, crafting and crew skills comes hand in hand. To get a full grasp of how it works, let’s start on crew skills. SWTOR lets you manage your own crew and assign skills to them. While you’re off doing your own stuff in the game, you can assign a crew member to go on diplomatic missions or so. After which, they’ll automatically complete on their own and return to you with the mission completion rewards.

There are three main skill categories that you can assign to crew members which are: Gathering Skills, Crafting Skills and Mission Skills. Starting to get a picture of how crew skills relate to crafting?

Gathering skills include those abilities that are needed to collect the raw materials used to assemble and craft objects in the game. Crafting skills is as the name suggests and then finally Mission skills is about looking for hidden treasures or negotiating diplomatic terms.

Now onto the SWTOR crafting guide (note that this is a preliminary crafting guide to get you started on). There are two main crafting skills which are crafting and gathering.

Gathering offers four sets of different abilities which are scavenging, archaeology, slicing and bioanalysis. Crafting skills also comes in further specializations, which are Armortech, Synthweaving, Biochem, Cybertech, Artifice and Armstech.

You’d then need to mix and match these skills to craft the items of your choice. There you go, crafting and crew skills made easy.

This article is a good starting point to learn about Skill Trees. Check out this SWTOR Guide for more advanced details, insights and gameplay tactics.

In Star Wars: the Old Republic (SWTOR), gamers will quickly become familiar with the concept of skill trees. Before going into skill trees, on a larger scale, here’s how the class arrangement looks for SWTOR:

• There are two main allegiance: the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire
• Within each allegiance there are 4 playable classes
• For the Galactic Republic the playable classes are as follows: Jedi Knight, Jedi Consular, Smugger and Trooper
• The Sith Empire playable classes are: Sith Warrior, Sith Inquisitor, Imperial Agent and Bounty Hunter
• Each of the 8 available classes have 2 specializations (also known as advanced classes) which make it a total of 16 unique classes

What this offers is uniqueness and the ability for each gamer to differentiate their character from the other Jedi Sentinels, for instance. Each class comes with 5 skill trees. Each of the advanced class comes with 3 skill trees, 1 which is shared with the other advanced class.

For example:

Class Jedi Knight has 5 skill trees

Advanced class Jedi Sentinel has 3 skills (2 which are unique)

• Combat: Enables the SWTOR Jedi Sentinel to take on the Ataru Lightsaber form
• Watchman: Lets the Jedi Sentinel take on the Juyo Lightsaber form
• Focus: A shared tree with the Jedi Guardian which enables both the Jedi Sentinel and Jedi Guardian to take on the Shii-Cho lightsaber form

Advanced class Jedi Guardian has 3 skills (2 which are unique)

• Defense: Makes the Jedi Guardian stronger at handling enemy attacks and shielding allies
• Vigilance: Improves single-blade offense attacks of the Jedi Guardian
• Focus: A shared tree with the Jedi Guardian which enables both the Jedi Sentinel and Jedi Guardian to take on the Shii-Cho lightsaber form

And there you go, a fast brief on the class structure, advanced classes and the role of skill trees, which is basically a system used to further specialize a character beyond its chosen advanced class.