Architect Archive

Guys,

A DE calling in here to let you know about a few things we've discovered over the last few days that will be of interest to you as well. Some of you would be aware that both our professions are quite hamstrung in the experimentation points line. - Max +55 at Master, meaning at most 5 experimentation points.

Several of us have collected skill tapes and such over the past couple of months, and with the big patch, they got enabled. After some careful experimentation, it seems that these tapes really do increase your effectiveness and gain you extra experimentation points (they didn't previously).

What you should see in your display is now two ratings. For example I have

Droid Crafting +10/+15

as my indicated modifiers. The +15 indicates that I have skill enhancements of an extra +5 over the base, and this actually works. Several of the Master DEs, that have a +55 rating added tapes to get +60 and they got the extra experimentation point (ie 6 rather than 5).

Now, I've never seen an architect skill enhancement tape, but it will be something for you guys to look for in drops and on the bazaar. Considering that experimentation is now worth something with the harvestors, it would be a worthwhile investment for you.

In return, if anyone here has any Droid tapes and you're on Bria, let me know, I'll buy 'em off you

I can confirm this for Architects. I am now +55/+71 and am consistently getting 7 experimentation points on large mineral extractors.

But here is the question. If+55 gets you 5 points, what does +56-+59 get you? Do you have to get to +60 for the sixth point to show up, or does it round?

Tinkerer, Master Architect, Wanderhome

Where can we get these!!!

Each +10 experiment you have in your skill window gives you 1 experiment point. I have a +25 structure experimentation & +22 2handed weapons speed tape in my gloves that brings me to +55/+80 structure experimentation and gives me 8 experiment points. I'd like to acquire a few more nice +5-10 or better tapes of course to improve things even more.

Thank you for the advice.

I gave up looking for skill enhancers when I could never find any for noncombat. Thinking they did not exist I stopped looking. Now that I know, I will be on the lookout.

Beyond appearing on the bazaar, are these enhancements something that you may find on a killed NPC?

Thanks again.

Jarib

Master Architect

OMNI: 5300, 6100 just south of Kadaara, Naboo, Tempest

You find them as loot. However, I don't think they appear on the normal Thug level loot, only on the higher-end missions.

As an indicator, on the Bria forums, a +28 weapon tape just sold for 8.75 million credits. It's probably not going to be the same for the DE and Arch tapes right now, but beware that as the experimentation comes in to our respective professions that the really good tapes will be worth a small fortune. Those extra couple of points can make quite a difference over your regular master's ability to get good results.