How to Craft Fast in SWTOR

Crafting in Star Wars: The Old Republic allows you to create all kinds of items, and levelling your crafting levels all the way from 1 to 700 can unlock schematics like augments and re-useable medpacs that are incredibly useful for high-level combat.

If you’re new to crafting, you might want to look at the How to Craft Guide, which goes over things like which crafting skill to choose, and guides about the individual crafting crew skills.

Fast Crafting Guides

• Armormech Fast Crafting Leveling Guide
• Armstech Fast Crafting Leveling Guide
• Artifice Fast Crafting Leveling Guide
• Biochem Fast Crafting Leveling Guide
• Cybertech Fast Crafting Leveling Guide
• Synthweaving Fast Crafting Leveling Guide

Fast Crafting Tips

• You can easily craft any of the crafting crew skills levels 1 – 700 in a short afternoon if you gather up your materials first, and hang out near the crew skills trainer to pick up new component schematics as you gain access to them as you level up.
• There are technically faster ways to level if you craft the other types of items along the way, but components are incredibly easy to keep track of, are fast to craft, and are worth a lot if you decide to sell them on the GTN – or may wind up being really useful if you decide to craft lower-level cosmetic items in the future!
• The whole process will go faster the more high-influence companions you have who can craft for you, because a companion with high influence will craft each individual item faster. For example, my companion who is Influence level 50 can craft a component in 30 seconds, versus my Influence level 1 companion who takes 1 minute and 34 seconds to craft the same component.
• Subscribers can load up their companions with multiple crafting instructions rather than submitting them one at a time, and you can give your companions up to 5 orders at a time.
• At level 80, you can send up to 8 companions out at a time, so the fastest crafting would come with 8 companions each at level-50 Influence, and to save yourself time you can queue up to five item orders per companion, for a total of 40 items queued up – and you can even cancel orders as your crew skill levels up.
• Are specific materials too expensive on the GTN? Don’t forget you can use Jawa Junk!
• If the dot and number beside your crafting item is grey (instead of green, yellow or orange) it will give you zero crafting points.
• Use the Fast Crafting guides below if you want a shopping list of what to go pick up for crafting materials before you start, and at what levels you can swap to the next component!