~LVL15 you get your ship from your class story (you can do it later depending on how you play the game).
Companion I got as a Sourcerer at lvl9. He is a levelling companion and also can be used in crafting. You get one with your ship at 15 who is pretty much a servant for crew skills. THe others I'm not sure about as I'm not that far.
In the menu for them, you can set them to go do missions for gathering style skills. Such as archaeology (mining from wow) or biochem (herbalism from wow). Quite straight forward and easy.
They come back generally between 1m-30m from what i've heard. The low level gathering and crafting taking less time, etc.
Compared to WoW from what I've seen is that most gathering skills line up with one or two crafting. Such as archaeology and artifice. Artifice being the "blacksmithing" where you can make items and enhancements. Archaeology being how you gather the mats (mining essentially). Another mission skill is treasure hunting, which goes with the above (I chose these three). It involves sending companion off for anything to lockboxes, to gifts, to rare artifacts and so on.
I've earned no money yet through this. I am skilling up and waiting until the world sorts itself out and people know what they want. I think in terms of making things its always good to be able to craft good stuff for yourself or guildies.
For money making you could chose 2 gathering skills and a mission style one which brings back rewards. I'd read up on it, but I chose my skills as a profession and somehtying i want to keep, rather than earning a fast buck. If it pays off down the line (I'm sure it will somehow) then so be it.
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