Weaponsmith

Weaponsmith is the Elite Artisan profession behind every player-made weapon in Star Wars Galaxies. Aside from looted NPC drops and the basic Artisan-crafted starter weapons, virtually every blaster, vibroblade, rifle, grenade, and heavy weapon a player wields comes from a Weaponsmith’s crafting station.

Role

The profession lives and dies by two skill mods: Weapon Assembly and Weapon Experimentation. Combined with high-quality resources, these determine whether a finished weapon ends up baseline or top-of-the-line. Weaponsmiths often work closely with combat players to spec weapons for specific damage types, ranges, and SAC costs — which makes the relationship as much consulting as production.

Skill tree highlights

The tree splits into four branches:

• Melee Weapons I-IV — vibroblades, swords, axes, polearms, vibro knucklers, gaderiffi batons
• Firearms I-IV — pistols (DH17, DL44, DX2, FWG5), carbines (DXR6, EE3, E11, Elite), rifles (T21, Tusken, DLT20a, Beam), heavy weapons (flame thrower, rocket launcher, lightning cannon)
• Munitions I-IV — fragmentation, cryoban, glop, proton, and thermal grenades; mines; the Imperial Detonator
• Techniques I-IV — weapon components, scopes, stocks, power-handlers, barrels, and the Weapon Upgrade Kit

Mastery requires 92 skill points (29 from Artisan prereqs), about 896,000 weapon crafting XP, and 31,050 general crafting XP.

Best trained at

Weaponsmith trainers are widespread — over 20 locations galaxy-wide. Major stops include Coronet, Tyrena, and Kor Vella on Corellia; Theed, Keren, Moenia, and Kaadara on Naboo; Mos Eisley, Mos Entha, Mos Espa, and Bestine on Tatooine; plus Narmle and Restuss on Rori; Dearic and Nashal on Talus.