Does crafting still use mech to determine how difficult patterns/recipes you can do? If I leave all my mech as mech and start over in blacksmithing does what I can craft go by zero blacksmithing or my mech?

yes, you won't be able to make much, but you can learn it from zero ranks. What I did, for characters who are keeping their mech ranks intact, waiting for alchemy and /or enchanting - to get it moving was to use the stuff that drops <bars and nuggets should all be forgable in a crucible> to make ingots.

Then once you get it up to a few ranks, you can start doing the workorders, they will be given to you according to your forging ranks.


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