Using tradeskills to cast nanos: BAD IDEA!
Hopefully Im not the only one who thinks this. Its a bad idea because then you get a situation where one profession dont need to make the same investment to cast nanos as everyone else does. Thats not balance. In fact its quite the opposite.
Using tradeskills to build bots: GOOD IDEA!
Now this is something that makes sense, engineers building their robots using tradeskills instead of summoning them using nano skills.
From the start of AO I have always wondered why engineers summons their robots instead of building them. The answer is ofcourse that its much easier to implement a summon than creating a set of complicated tradeskill processes. But if Funcom opens up for this now then the engineer profession has a lot of potential for the future.
Here are some of my ideas: