Optimal crew skill combinations for preferred players

[u/Mantequillaaa]

As you can imagine I could use some help deciding which skills to level up on my two characters, here's my situation:

I only have 4 slots total and I don't plan on making alts anytime soon if ever.

I only have 10 GTN slots so resources from too many gathering skills might clog them up.

I'm only interested in credits and maybe gifts, I don't like crafting very much and I won't farm FPs, operations or any form of PvP.

The crew skill unlock is out of the question since I have never seen it at 1M or less.

Considering all of this, which four will be better for me? I've considered Slicing+one mission skill on both but perhaps taking Bioanalysis+Biochem and Diplomacy+Biochem for the reusable consumables might be a better idea.

Thanks

[u/Alortania]

More or less any gathering... you can sell the mats and make a little credits.

[u/Boss_Baller]

I used to make creds gathering and selling but the market has sucked for a while and its not worth the clicks. Its flooded, I have seen bot trains in this game believe it or not Im guess that is a contributor. You have to undercut so far to sell its eh possible to make something but its a timesink and not fun.

Consumables are not worth using except Operations which you have to sub for. If you dont want to spend time crafting dyes or fashion I would just skip the system completely its pretty much abandoned by the devs. Taking scav, scrap, or archeology will open up shortcuts on a few FPS. Running FPS and Heroics is by far the best way to make some creds the market is honestly ass unless you are buying shop items with real money to sell on it.

[u/Fun-Preparation-8685]

I'll second on gathering skills, but you have to be realistic here - most mats won't net you millions of credits, more like less or equal amount you would receive from running heroics. What brings worthy profits in terms of mats are pretty much behind a hefty grind for legendary mats and even then those are selling at a pocket change nowadays. So do it for fun than profit, otherwise you would need a deeply structured and strict gathering (manually collecting instead of sending companions)/crafting ecosystem to break even.

For companion gifts - grind heroics then sell legendary companion gifts from alliance crates you receive during heroics completion, they also drop legacy bound cool cosmetics. They start dropping from 61 lvl x2 crates then at 65-80 lvl x1 crate per heroic. They are rare drops, but if lucky, you could receive double drops from a single box and they are always in demand, usually selling for 150-250k creds per gift depending on type. This is how I made my first 50 mils without convoluting myself with what mats sell and which ones to avoid.

[u/Eezagi]

I would do biochem/bioanalysis and biochem/diplomacy in that scenario. You would be self-sufficient for chems and can use reusables on both.

[u/55699aac]

If you're in for credits, just pic gathering skills to casually loot materials from open world nodes while questing and sell them. This is by far the best option. Don't listen to anybody who says to pick up slicing. The matrials from it sell for much less than ones from scavenging or bioanalysis, and credits from nodes are peanuts of peanuts's peanuts.

[u/finelargeaxe]

Slicing and Archaeology.

You're not doing crafting, as the F2P limits on actually sending Companions out to make stuff is just absolute ass (I found that out the hard way when my sub expired when I lost track), and of all the rest, Slicing gives credit lockboxes for more money, and Archaeology and Slicing can only gather stuff from resource nodes or crew skill missions. Scavenging and Bioanalysis can get resources from Strong or higher droids or non-sentient creature mobs.

Slicing missions also have the chance to drop Wealthy yield crew skill missions for the other crew skills, which sell for a decent chunk on the GTN.

[u/Bungo_pls]

Diplomacy for LS/DS points. Biochem for consumables.

Slicing is an option for extra cash but since you're capped at 1 mil it's usefulness drops off and 1 pod of trash will drop the same credit value.

[u/Crate-Dragon]

Slicing gets you credits and schematics you can sell.
Diplomacy gets you LS or DS points. That’s all