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Munitions Trader Guide — Weapon Crafting & Resource Optimization

NOTE: Read this guide in its entirety before attempting to cap weapons, if you only read it partially you will make a mistake that will waste your credits.

This guide is designed to help Munitions Traders maximize their crafting potential in Star Wars Galaxies: Legends, with a primary focus on producing capped weapons while maintaining a fully optimized resource-gathering build.

The expertise configuration featured in this guide prioritizes the skills necessary to achieve maximum weapon crafting performance without sacrificing points in harvesting and hand sampling. This approach allows traders to remain competitive in weapon production while efficiently gathering the high-quality resources essential for crafting.

Throughout the guide, we'll explore the mechanics behind weapon crafting, including resource selection, component quality, experimentation, assembly, and the differences between standard capped and overcapped weapons. Special attention will be given to understanding how individual components influence a weapon's final statistics and how to consistently achieve the best possible results.

Resource management is another central focus. Beyond identifying the resources needed for capped weapons, this guide will cover harvesting efficiency, resource quality thresholds, hand sampling, and strategies for maintaining a reliable supply of crafting materials.

Whether you're establishing a weapon crafting business, optimizing an existing trader, or looking to improve the consistency and profitability of your crafts, this guide aims to provide the knowledge and practical techniques needed to produce top-tier weapons efficiently.

Expertise

The expertise build used in this guide is designed to balance two essential aspects of the Munitions Trader profession: crafting capped weapons and maximizing resource collection through harvesters and hand sampling.

Rather than investing exclusively in weaponsmithing or resource gathering, this build combines the expertise needed for high-quality weapon production with the bonuses that make resource acquisition more efficient. This allows a single trader to handle both sides of the crafting process without frequently resetting expertise.

Weapon Crafting

The Munitions expertise tree focuses on improving the consistency and effectiveness of weapon crafting. The most important areas include:

Weaponsmith Dexterity: Improves weapon assembly, helping achieve better initial crafting results.
Weaponsmith Hypothesis: Improves experimentation success, which is particularly important when attempting to produce capped components.
Weaponsmith Advanced Theory: Provides an additional experimentation point, increasing the amount of experimentation available when crafting.
Resource Processing and Advanced Resource Refinement: Improve the effective quality of resources used during crafting, helping maximize results when working with high-quality materials.

These bonuses provide the foundation for producing capped weapon cores and other components. However, expertise alone does not guarantee a capped result. Resource quality, crafting equipment, skill attachments, buffs, and experimentation outcomes remain important factors.

Resource Harvesting

The harvesting portion of this build is intended to maximize the benefits received from operating resource harvesters.

Harvesting efficiency is particularly valuable when collecting rare, high-quality resources with limited spawn durations. Improving extraction rates allows traders to collect more resources before a spawn disappears, reducing the need to purchase expensive materials from other players.

For weaponsmiths who regularly consume large quantities of specific metals, chemicals, and other crafting resources, this can significantly reduce long-term production costs.

Hand Sampling

This build also prioritizes maximum hand-sampling expertise, allowing the trader to gather resources efficiently without relying exclusively on harvesters.

Two important expertise abilities are:

Extraction Efficiency: Increases the quantity of resources collected through manual sampling.
Extraction Techniques: Reduces the time between sampling attempts, improving overall resource collection rates.

When fully developed, these abilities make hand sampling a valuable supplement to traditional harvesting operations.

Hand sampling is particularly useful when harvesting lots are already occupied, when gathering smaller quantities of specialized resources, or when collecting additional materials alongside active harvesters.

Why Use This Build?

The primary advantage of this expertise configuration is its versatility. A trader can focus on producing capped weapons while also maintaining strong resource-gathering capabilities.

This approach is especially beneficial for players who craft weapons regularly, maintain large resource inventories, or operate a player-run weapons business.

By combining weapon crafting expertise with harvesting and hand-sampling bonuses, the build supports both high-quality production and long-term resource independence.

The linked expertise configuration serves as the foundation for the remainder of this guide, including resource selection, crafting equipment, component optimization, and weapon experimentation.

Armor Set

The recommended armor configuration consists of:

+35 Luck in every standard armor stat slot.
Weaponsmith Assembly in the exotic slots.
Weaponsmith Experimentation in the exotic slots.
Luck in the exotic slots.

This setup allows traders to benefit from substantial Luck bonuses while simultaneously increasing their essential Weaponsmith skill modifiers.

Luck is particularly valuable for improving the likelihood of favorable crafting outcomes, including Amazing Successes and Critical Successes. Both are important, but serve different purposes when working toward capped and overcapped weapons.

Amazing Successes: Especially important during experimentation when attempting to achieve capped weapon cores and weapon skins. Consistently obtaining favorable experimentation results can make the difference between a component falling short or reaching its intended cap.
Critical Successes: Particularly valuable when pursuing overcapped components, where exceptional crafting outcomes can push component statistics beyond their standard limits.

Weaponsmith Assembly improves the initial assembly process, increasing the likelihood of achieving excellent assembly results and increases the likelihood of a socket.

Weaponsmith Experimentation supports successful experimentation, which is essential when working toward capped weapon cores, components, and skins.

Weaponsmith's Toolkit

In addition to the armor set, you can equip the Weaponsmith's Toolkit as your bandolier.

Bonus	Amount
Weapon Assembly	+5
Weapon Experimentation	+3
Weapon Repair	+5
Luck	None

The toolkit provides additional Weaponsmith skill modifiers and complements the bonuses supplied by your armor, expertise, and other crafting equipment.

The modifiers it gives are not going to be hugely beneficial. The experimentation could minimally affect your Amazing Success chance, so if you are on a tight budget you can omit the toolkit.

Understanding Skill Caps

One of the main advantages of this setup is the ability to reach, or come very close to, important crafting skill caps without relying on temporary buffs or jewelry sets (however, in the case of Amazing Success Chance the jewelry set is required, more to follow on this later).

Two notable values to keep in mind are:

Skill	Target Cap
Weaponsmith Assembly	160 is the target for getting a socket, it is recommended to be 170+
Luck (crafting effectiveness)	450 (hard cap for crafting)

Note: The real limit for Assembly: the game only counts +25 total from worn gear.

The 450 Luck value is a hard-cap when it comes to crafting, confirmed by the devs. Anything beyond that is not useful, however, there are multiple ways to reach that cap so you can mix and match the items I've provided in this guide

The Experienced Munitions jewelry set provides +250 Luck, leaving only +200 additional Luck needed to reach the effective 450 Luck cap for Lucky Events. Here are examples of how you can hit that 450 Luck hard-cap.

Method	Additional Luck	Total Luck
Jewelry + 6 Armor Slots (+35 each)	+210	460
Jewelry + 5 Armor Slots + YT-1300 Familiar	+225	475
Jewelry + Giggledust + YT-1300 Familiar	+200	450
Jewelry + Giggledust + 2 Armor Slots	+220	470
Jewelry + Giggledust + Dermal Laminant Styptic (Advanced)	+250	500
Jewelry + 4 Armor Slots + Dermal Laminant Styptic (Advanced)	+240	490
Jewelry + Entertainer Luck Buff (+300)	+300	550

Note: These totals include only the listed bonuses, not the character's natural Luck or other equipment. The 450 cap applies to Lucky Event effectiveness, not necessarily the displayed Luck attribute.*

This guide is not for Reverse Engineering but just to note: having over 450 luck IS useful when Reverse Engineering. Power Bit rolls are not capped.

With the recommended armor and toolkit equipped, traders may already reach these thresholds before applying additional buffs, depending on their character's existing skill modifiers and other bonuses.

Once a skill reaches its effective cap, further investment may provide little or no additional crafting benefit. This is particularly important when deciding which buffs, Power-Ups, or other temporary bonuses to use.

Why This Setup?

The goal of this equipment configuration is to provide a reliable foundation for high-end weapon crafting without requiring an extensive buffing routine for every attempt.

By maximizing Luck and the relevant Weaponsmith modifiers through permanent equipment, traders can dedicate their consumables and temporary bonuses to areas where they provide the greatest benefit.

This becomes particularly valuable when mass-producing weapon components, experimenting with expensive resources, or pursuing Amazing Successes to consistently produce capped cores and skins.

Critical Successes also play an important role when attempting to produce overcapped components, making this configuration useful for both standard capped weapon production and more advanced crafting projects.

The objective is to maximize the consistency of Amazing and Critical Successes, reduce reliance on consumables, and establish the strongest possible foundation for producing capped and overcapped weapons.

Weaponsmith Experimentation

Weaponsmith Experimentation determines the number of experimentation points available during the crafting process.

For every 10 points of Weaponsmith Experimentation, the trader receives one experimentation point.

Weaponsmith Experimentation	Experimentation Points
100–109	10
110–119	11
120–129	12
130–139	13
140–149	14 (currently unattainable)

The goal is to reach at least 130 Weaponsmith Experimentation, granting 13 experimentation points.

Currently, reaching 140 Weaponsmith Experimentation is not possible with the available combinations of expertise, equipment, and buffs. However, should future updates make 140 attainable, traders would gain access to a 14th experimentation point.

The +25 total from worn gear rule that applies to Assembly also applies to Experimentation, this means that any mods on gear past +25 total is wasted

Why the 13th Experimentation Point Matters

When crafting weapon cores and skins, our primary focus is on two experimentation lines:

Maximum Damage: Our highest priority, which we aim to bring to 100%.
Minimum Damage: Our secondary priority, receiving the remaining experimentation points after Maximum Damage has been completed.

It is not possible to maximize both experimentation lines with the points currently available. Instead, the objective is to reach 100% Maximum Damage and achieve the necessary experimentation results on Minimum Damage to produce a capped weapon core or skin.

The additional Amazing Success Chance provided by the Experienced Munitions jewelry set is critical to this process.

Buffs and food

Pieces Equipped	Luck	Complexity Reduction	Weapon/Armor Assembly	Amazing Success
Each Piece	+20	-1	—	—
3-Piece Set Bonus	+50	—	—	—
4-Piece Set Bonus	+100	—	+10	—
5-Piece Set Bonus	+150	—	+25	+6
Full Set Total	+250	-5	+25	+6

In addition to expertise, equipment, and jewelry, several consumables and temporary buffs can further optimize weapon crafting performance. These bonuses are particularly valuable when attempting to achieve the Amazing Successes necessary to produce capped weapon cores and skins.

The recommended setup focuses on maximizing Luck and improving experimentation outcomes through a combination of familiars, Power-Ups, spice, and food. You truly can choose how you get to that 450 Luck cap.

Entertainer Buffs
You have a few options for entertainer buffs depending on your present stats. The one stat you will always ask for if you are crafting weapons or weapon components is Amazing Success Chance, this is absolutely critical. This will use 10 of the available 20 points for the Entertainer buff. For the remaining 10 its really up to you as long as you already have every other stat capped that we've talked about in this guide. You could put 10 points in Luck (if you have little Luck), you could put the points into Movement Speed (which is what I do personally), you could put the points into Harvest Faire if you are about to place harvesters, you could put the points into Hand Sampling if you're about to go collect resources.

Luck Familiar

A Luck familiar is an important option to any optimized Weaponsmith setup.

The YT-1300 Familiar is the preferred option for this guide if you want to get your Luck bonus through a familiar.

While other familiars offering Luck bonuses may be used, the YT-1300 is the recommended choice.

Make sure your familiar is summoned and its bonus is active before beginning any important crafting attempts.

Luck Power-Ups

Luck Power-Ups (PUPs) provide another way to increase your Luck during crafting.

With the recommended armor configuration, expertise, and other bonuses, it is possible that your Luck is already at or above the commonly reported effective crafting cap of 450 as I've previously mentioned.

As a result, Luck Power-Ups may be redundant/useless depending on your existing statistics.

Nevertheless, they remain an option for traders who have not yet reached the hard-cap.

If your Luck is already capped, additional Power-Ups will provide no further benefit. Keep this in mind when deciding whether the additional expense is worthwhile.

Glimmerdust Spice

Glimmerdust is the recommended spice for this crafting configuration because of its Luck bonus. (if picking this as your Luck generating buff). It gives +150 Luck & lasts for 15-minutes.

Used in conjunction with your Luck familiar, armor, and Power-Ups, Glimmerdust helps you easily get to that 450 Luck cap.

Because achieving Amazing Successes is central to producing capped cores and skins, maximizing Luck is a priority throughout the crafting process.

Be sure to activate Glimmerdust before beginning your crafting session and monitor its remaining duration to avoid losing the buff during an important experimentation attempt.

As with Luck Power-Ups, additional Luck beyond the effective crafting cap may not provide further benefits.

City Expertise

It is imperative that you become a resident of a city with expertise in the Resarch Center field, which gives 5% Experimentation Increase per point up to 15%.

Bespin Port

Bespin Port is one of the most important consumables in this guide, as it improves the likelihood of favorable experimentation outcomes.

Unlike Luck buffs, which contribute to your overall crafting setup, Bespin Port should be used strategically during the experimentation process.

For our three-roll method, Bespin Port is especially valuable on the first and third rolls, where obtaining Amazing Successes is critical to producing a capped weapon core or skin.

Recommended Bespin Port Usage

Experimentation Roll	Bespin Port	Reason
Roll 1 — Maximum Damage	Yes	Amazing Success required
Roll 2 — Final Maximum Damage box	No	Only one box; Great or Amazing Success is sufficient
Roll 3 — Minimum Damage	Yes	Amazing Success required

The goal is to use Bespin Port when experimenting with multiple boxes, where the result can have a significant impact on the finished component.

What If the First Roll Is Not an Amazing Success?

If the first Maximum Damage roll does not produce an Amazing Success, the ideal three-roll method has already been disrupted.

However, if you decide to continue experimenting rather than abandon the attempt, Bespin Port should still be used on any subsequent roll involving more than one experimentation box.

For single-box rolls, Bespin Port is generally unnecessary under this method because either a Great Success or an Amazing Success can provide the desired result.

This approach prioritizes using Bespin Port where it has the greatest potential benefit while avoiding unnecessary consumption.

Recommended Crafting Buff Checklist

Before beginning a serious crafting session, make sure the following are in place:

Luck Familiar: YT-1300 preferred, summoned and active.
Luck Power-Ups: Equipped if additional Luck is needed.
Glimmerdust: Active for its Luck bonus (if needed).
Bespin Port: Available for all important multi-box experimentation rolls.
Crafting Equipment: Luck armor (if needed), Weaponsmith exotic modifiers on Chestplate, Shirt, and Weapon, and Weaponsmith's Toolkit equipped (if wanted).
Jewelry: Experienced Munitions set equipped

Final Considerations

The purpose of this buff configuration is to improve crafting consistency while minimizing unnecessary expenses.

Although consumables can improve the likelihood of favorable outcomes, they do not guarantee Amazing Successes. Producing capped weapon cores and skins still requires appropriate resources, components, and successful experimentation rolls.

Luck bonuses should be maintained at their effective maximum, while Bespin Port should be prioritized for the experimentation attempts where its benefits matter most.

The objective is to maximize the chance of Amazing Successes on the first and third experimentation rolls, conserve consumables when they are unnecessary, and improve the overall consistency of capped weapon production.

Pet

Unlike the equipment, jewelry, and buffs discussed in previous sections, pets are largely optional for an optimized Munitions Trader.

The Munitions Helper Monkey is the only specialized pet ability worth considering for this build. However, its relatively small bonuses, acquisition requirements, and limited practical benefits make it difficult to justify the investment.

Munitions Helper Monkey

The Munitions Helper Monkey is a special ability obtained by completing the A Posed Stormtrooper Crafting Quota collection.

Once unlocked, the ability must be trained by a Beast Master to a compatible simian creature, such as a Squill, Woolamander, Mamien, or another eligible species.

When activated, the pet provides the following bonuses:

Bonus	Amount
Weapon/Armor Assembly	+5
Weapon/Armor Experimentation	+2
Buff Duration	15 minutes

Importantly, the Munitions Helper Monkey does not provide any additional Amazing Success chance.

Why the Helper Monkey Is Generally Unnecessary

As discussed previously in the guide, our primary objective is to reach 130 Weaponsmith Experimentation, providing 13 experimentation points.

Since one experimentation point is awarded for every 10 points of Weaponsmith Experimentation, the Helper Monkey's additional +2 experimentation modifier only becomes useful if it allows us to reach another 10-point threshold.

Unfortunately, reaching 140 Weaponsmith Experimentation is not currently possible, even when incorporating the Helper Monkey's bonuses into our optimized crafting configuration.

As a result, the additional experimentation modifier does not provide a 14th experimentation point.

The +5 Assembly bonus is similarly unnecessary if our existing equipment and expertise have already allowed us to reach the 160 Weaponsmith Assembly cap.

Furthermore, because the Helper Monkey provides no Amazing Success chance bonus, it does not directly improve the likelihood of achieving the critical experimentation results needed for capped weapon cores and skins.

Is It Worth Getting?

For most Munitions Traders, the Munitions Helper Monkey is not worth the additional cost or effort.

Our recommended expertise, armor, jewelry, and buff configuration already provides the modifiers needed for producing capped weapons.

While the Helper Monkey can help traders who have not yet reached their desired Assembly or Experimentation thresholds, it provides little practical benefit to a fully optimized Weaponsmith.

Should future updates introduce additional Weaponsmith Experimentation bonuses that make reaching 140 possible, the Helper Monkey may become considerably more valuable by helping unlock a 14th experimentation point.

Until then, it should be considered an optional addition rather than a requirement.

The bottom line: You do not need a Munitions Helper Monkey to produce capped or overcapped weapons. Your credits and time are better invested in high-quality resources, crafting equipment, and the consumables that directly support successful experimentation.

Helpful Hints

Pro Tip #1: The "baked-in" stat, which most people are familiar with being in shirts and chestplates is baked-in when crafting the core NOT the skin; so ensure you are picking the correct type of core for the type of Weapon Power Bit you are using; and always include them in your crafts. This is another optional component that is not optional if you want to make anything of value. Augmentations and Enhancements are included in that as well.

Pro Tip #2: DO NOT use Action augmentations unless they are specifically custom ordered from you. There is a reason they are much cheaper than their Health counter-parts

Pro Tip #3: You can use as low as +225 Health and +25 Crit (one or the other, you cannot use the floor of both in one weapon, they cannot cap) and have them sliced by a smuggler to their respective caps (250, and 30). However, there is less risk and potentially less credits involved if you use at least +238 Health and +27 Crit because there is a somewhat decent chance that you will not have to procure a Simple Toolkit in order for them to be sliced to cap.

More information on Slicing: Slicing has 4 tiers that cost 10/15/20/25% from one 100% pool. Max gain per tier:

Type	Tier	Max Gain (80% Chance)	Slicing Component
Enhancement	1	+1	None
Enhancement	2	+2	Delicate Trigger Assembly
Enhancement	3	+3	Simple Toolkit
Enhancement	4	+4	Finely Crafted Toolkit
Augmentation	1	+5	None
Augmentation	2	+7	Illegal Core Booster
Augmentation	3	+11	Simple Toolkit
Augmentation	4	+24	Finely Crafted Toolkit

Examples of combinations you can use: +25 Crit/240 Health - 26 Crit/235 Health - but 238 caps both in 2 tiers each (50%) if the rolls land at max, but they both can still miss. For a stronger chance I recommend using 243 Health and 28 Crit.

Pro Tip #4: Weaponsmithing is very expensive to get into, that is another reason surveying/harvesting is included in this build. Take advantage of resource contracts and make credits to fund your business.

Pro Tip #5: Do NOT EVER craft cores for free. I've seen and heard of people not charging for cores that do not cap, that is absolutely a sure fire way to lose your money over time. The whole point in the first-place of a player seeking you out for a custom order is that it saves them credits versus buying a capped weapon on the bazaar. They essentially are gambling on you being able to cap or near-cap the weapon skin since most likely they will only provide you one schematic. They are NOT gambling with the core crafts because in order for you to move to the skin crafting phase you are going to have a capped core, therefore they are paying you for your time, all of the components, and all of the top resources that it takes for each attempt to get a capped core. The cores are your money maker when it comes to custom crafts, REMEMBER THAT. Do not ever feel pressured to not charge for failed attempts, if anyone is suggesting that, they do not understand all that goes into it.

Pro Tip #6: I know what you're thinking, "Well how will they know that I actually took that many attempts to get a capped core and they owe me x amount of credits"? Simple - every core you craft from the components they provided goes back into their order. They most likely won't have any idea what to do with the uncapped cores but it doesn't matter, that is how you show good faith with this system.

Pro Tip #7: Be willing to teach your customers about how all of this works, it goes a long way in them becoming repeat customers. There is no benefit to gatekeeping how Weaponsmithing works.

Pro Tip #8: Early on, you can make 1mil per pack on Weapon Swap Kits which would be 4x weapons of the same type (1-h, 2-h, Carbine, Pistol, etc.) that are each one of the 4 elements. When making these you do not need to bake anything into the core, you do not need augments or enhancements, you do not need the cores to be capped, you do not even need appearance damage bonus bits or weapon elemental kits. You just need the top resources and capped components. However, check the market before you start pumping these out, because if the market is saturated with them around that price-point then you aren't going to make any credits in the short-term.

Pro Tip #9: Do not expect capped and overcapped weapons to sell quickly. The fact of the matter is is that since Legends does not have weapon decay, most of the people who are still actively playing already have the weapons that they want because they've been playing for years. With that said, it may take time to sell your high ticket weapons. There is some nuance when it comes to certain weapon skins that seem to sell faster than others but its really hit or miss.

Pro Tip #10: If you are attempting to cap cores with Carbine damage baked-in and you end up having uncapped cores take those and craft them into Massassi Guardian Carbines. Why? Because that carbine has a higher DPS cap than almost every other carbine in the game and even when using a uncapped core you can still get the final dps above what is normally the cap for all of the other carbines (1170).

Pro Tip #11: Double and triple-check that you are using the correct resource for each slot as you craft. You should do this until you are 100% confident you have memorized that schematic and what it requires. One mistake will turn you're amazing luck of getting perfect rolls on a core and then a 50mil schematic to realizing that instead of hitting 1403 DPS, you hit 1402 and just lost 25mil.

Pro Tip #12: Don't be afraid to invest in schematics to stock your shop. If people are selling the battlefield token weapons at 15mil for 100 tokens or 20mil for 150, that isn't a bad deal, take it, get one of those schematics and go for cap/overcap. That could easily help you get the ball rolling.

Pro Tip #13: Profit Margins are much larger on Melee Weapons if you cap them. This is because the augments and enhancements for melee weapons are WAY cheaper than the ranged ones. This is because not a lot of players will use melee weapons primarily, however, the capped ones still sell at a decent rate. The uncapped melee weapons though... not so much.

Pro Tip #14: Even though it is extremely enticing, don't keep the capped/overcapped weapons for yourself if you are just starting out OR they are using a rare schematic. It's more important for you to start building your stock, and you can operate with weapons that are near-capped until your business is further along. At the end of the day a 1166 or 1168 DPS carbine is not much different than a 1170 dps one. In order to be successful, you have to exercise self-control.

Weaponsmithing Guide (Video/Visual Aids In-Progress)

Weaponsmithing Guide (Video/Visual Aids In-Progress)

Expertise

Gear

Armor Set

Jewelry

Buffs and food

Pet

The Three-Roll Experimentation Method

For Resource Gathering

Resource Quality and Why It Matters

The Chain of Events to Cap a Core -----> Skin

Overcapping

Helpful Hints

FAQ

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The Chain of Events to Cap a Core -----> Skin

Overcapping

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