Crew Skills

Crew Skills are Star Wars: The Old Republic take on MMORPG crafting and professions. You will be able to choose three professions out of fourteen available. These crew skills are separated into three main categories. Beside Gathering and crafting professions SWTOR introduces special Mission Skills which let you send your companions on special missions that can result in rare recipes, crafting components, items or even light/dark side points and affection. Another unique feature is the Reverse Engineering ability. It allows you to deconstruct every item you create to extract some of the source materials. In rare occasions it will provide you with a new schematic, which can be of the highest quality.

Some crew skills supplement each other much better than others. Mouse over any of the crew skills below to see which other skills complement it the best.

Gathering Skills
Icon	Crew Skill Name	Description
	Archaeology	The ability to seek out imbued items like Lightsaber crystals and ancient artifacts
	Bioanalysis	Harvesting genetic material from creatures and plants
	Scavenging	Harvesting materials and parts from old or damaged technology
	Slicing	Lets you access secured computer systems and lockboxes to extract valuable data and rare schematics
Crafting Skills
	Armormech	Lets you create personal armor from hard metals and electronic shielding
	Armstech	Skill of constructing blasters, blaster rifles and upgrades
	Artifice	Construction of Jedi and Sith artifacts
	Biochem	Creation of performance-enhancing chemical serums and biological implants
	Cybertech	Construction of gadgets and components for Droids and high-tech armors
	Synthweaving	Creation of Light Armor and outfits
Mission Skills
	Diplomacy	The art of conducting and managing negotiations
	Investigation	The skill of examining evidence and following clues to discover valuable secrets
	Treasure Hunting	The ability to track down and recover valuable items by investigating a series of clues
	Underworld Trading	Expertise in the trading of illegal goods and services