My wife and I recently tried out the 7-day trial of the game and we both love the game and are going to stay with it (AC accounts being closed soon, and now no plans to buy AC2, AO is better . We don't have tons of time to devote to it but will play as often as we can.
We want to be able to end up making nano formulas and implants, etc for all of our characters. I play a soldier and martial artist currently, and my wife plays a bureaucrat and fixer, and we know these professions are not the ones to be working on tradeskills with. However, with 8 char slots, that's a lot of variation available, (and I have my eye on those huge engineer robots with the big claws hehe) so making 'tradeskill' class characters won't be a problem.
My base question is, which professions are best for being able to create the different items? Is an Engineer the best for making them all, or a Meta physicist, or a Nano technician? Is one best for implants while another best for formulas? What about weapon crafting? Can one profession do it all (trader?) or do we need to make different ones for each type of trade?
Thanks in advance for any and all help