So i haven't played in a long time about 14 months just came back this week got arms tech up to 450 and I have every thing I want at the advanced stage but the teachable ones seem to stop at the 28 but I see people looking for 31s how do I get these are they a dungeon drop or a rep thing, also is there a updated list of all know schematics and where to get them Edited January 8, 2014 by captinplanet

Dulfy has info on how to craft endgame mods in the gearing guide:

 

http://dulfy.net/2013/04/14/swtor-level-55-endgame-gearing-guide/

 

If you search for "crafting" on the page, you can find what to do. Basically, you need to get the items, take out the mods, RE them and be lucky that you learn the schematics.

Awesome thank you, finally I can make the mk-9 augment slot it sells fast what exactly does that do?

Into augment slots there come in augments, of course.

Awesome thank you, finally I can make the mk-9 augment slot it sells fast what exactly does that do?

 

It adds a "best available" augment slot to any piece of gear.

 

Taking a step back for a moment:

 

At original launch the only way to get an augment slot in a piece of gear was for an armor/weapon crafter to critically succeed. This made demand for orange/custom quality crafted shells with augment slots high at end-game.

 

Apparently at some point later, the decision was made that this was not a good design. so in the summer of 2012 they added augment slot kits of six different "grades" (MK-1 through MK-6) that could be installed into any piece of gear but each grade would only support "level appropriate" and below augments. Further, the cost to install each grade of slot kit increased. So if you installed an MK-1 augment slot - for 1,000 credits - only the very very lowest level augments would fit in that slot. MK-6 slot kits, being the best (at the time) were the most expensive to install - at 24,000 IIRC - but one could install any augment.

 

In order to craft augment slot kits, you needed augment slot kit components. Components come from reverse engineering any item that can potentially have an augment slot. So REing a chest piece or weapon will generate a component but REing an armoring, of hilt won't. You need ten components of the same grade to make one slot kit of that grade. So you need to craft ten items, and RE them to get the components.

 

While all crew skills that craft gear can RE for components, only those crew skills that craft augments can craft slot kits (Synthweaving, Armormech, and Armstech).

 

With 2.0/RotHC, a level cap increase, and a crew skill cap increase came new levels of augments and new levels of slot kits to go with them.

 

To use an augment slot kit, you have to go to a modification station (they are located on several planets and on the fleet station in the Crew skills quadrant), have a slot kit in your inventory (cargo hold does not count), put a piece of gear into the modification station UI, and at the bottom you will get a drop down of augment slot kits to install. Select the one you want, pay the fee, and bam the gear now has an augment slot. Like all other item modifications you can install and remove an augment without using the modification station.

Very helpful info last couple of things, if the mk-9 is for best avaliable slot can I put a lesser mod in there and also if I critical on a blaster and it gets a augment slot does that still generally make it worth more and with it do I still need to mk-9, and finally how is the crafted weapons vs the tiered gear Edited January 9, 2014 by captinplanet

Very helpful info last couple of things, if the mk-9 is for best avaliable slot can I put a lesser mod in there...

Yes you can put a lesser augment into an MK-9 slot.

and also if I critical on a blaster and it gets a augment slot does that still generally make it worth more and with it do I still need to mk-9

Not really. Mainly because the slot may not be MK-9 equivalent. Some top end crafted stuff is notorious for critting MK-7 and MK-8 slots...good but not the best.

and finally how is the crafted weapons vs the tiered gear

Not very good mainly because crafted gear from armstech (and armormech and synthweaving) is static stat (no barrel, mod, enhancement, or crystal) and at best entry level "elder game": a purple quality crafted static stat weapon MIGHT roughly equate to an Artifact quality (grade 28/66) weapon. The problem is that in order to upgrade you have to replace the whole thing. Some of the orange/custom quality crafted items sell for their appearance (players buy them, rip the item modifications out of a tier gear piece and stick them into the orange quality crafted piece).

OK sounds good I crafted a trainable purple level blaster and debating weather to save up coms and buy one or craft another one at this point anything is better than my rakata stuff