I despise crafting in all games, what crew skills should I take?

I took slicing, but it's been nerfed to bits since swtor launch to the extent that all lockbox missions lose money.

Two of three gathering skills (archaeology, bioanalysis, scavenging) and slicing. Yes slicing has been nerfed so that running lockbox missions cannot make you millions, but grades 1 through 6 are still slightly profitable and so is the grade 8 rich mission. Further, the lockbox nodes are still "free credits".

Of the three gathering skills, I would recommend Scav and BA over arch simply because you can scavenge droids and BA beasts you kill, arch has no such lootable NPC.

Two of three gathering skills (archaeology, bioanalysis, scavenging) and slicing. Yes slicing has been nerfed so that running lockbox missions cannot make you millions, but grades 1 through 6 are still slightly profitable and so is the grade 8 rich mission. Further, the lockbox nodes are still "free credits".

 

Of the three gathering skills, I would recommend Scav and BA over arch simply because you can scavenge droids and BA beasts you kill, arch has no such lootable NPC.

what about Treasure Hunting as an alternative to scavenging? Cos I've levelled it to about 250 now from lockboxes, was thinking that companion gifts might come in handy? and sell well on gtn?

grade 8 purple sliced parts also sell for a pretty penny.

i wonder who would buy them though because I ran a purple 500 slicing mission and i made a measly 1k profit and some purple + blue parts. but the mission dissappeared afterwards!