Armorsmith Archive

Yay for Wookies! Just make sure that the armour looks like armour you'd find from Kashyyyk or atlest some of it...

Leave the wookie's stats alone, an just make their armor cost mor eham. Geez. Should have known the 'nerf the wookie' cries would come out of the woodwork as soon as they finally let wookies compete in the game. Sorry, only other option would have been to give them 50% resist to all, and AR2, all natural and all the time, give them mas strength in the range of 1200 (Not counting health) and give them a throw attack, that does KD/Dizzy, and moves the opponent from adjacent to a few meters away. THEN they'd look like Chewbacca in the film, stormtrooper blasters firing all over, doing NOTHING, as he tears them apart like ragdolls...

So what if it isn't 'starwarsy' neither is a chef in composite battle armor. The devs trying to balance PVP, and for once, this is a balance that doesn't hurt anyone in any way (come on, a wookie got 400 more HAM than you..that's not even half an attack by most of these pvpers, a joke) and when they announce it, the crying starts instantly. Besides, supposedly wookies will have armor in battle in Ep 3. It only makes sense, they're an honorable warrior/clan culture. No armor? LMAO... umm..okay. They're big, hairy, but they're not stupid.

I, for one, am glad the wookies getting this finally. It's about time. I'd suspect it was partially witheld by lucasarts because he wanted to leak the surprise of wookies in armor, not a gaming company. It sounds like him, lol.

Sounds to me like alot of humans in composite (wanna nerf someone? NERF HUMANS. They get assembly bonuses, they get leadership bonuses, AND they can top off all their secondaries across the board, and wear composite armor unbuffed. That sounds like an unfair advantage to me.) are peeved because now their easy faction points are all gonna be even on the battlefield finally, and now they're all crying. Denying wookies armor was foolish to start with, I mean, come on. They get about 1800 points to spend...on ALL 9 stats.. that's less than one buff pack for ONE stat. Hardly a huge advantage.

Its funny how when someone gets something someone else wants it nerfed or something nerfed to compensate.

While I don't think wookie armor should have as many resistances as comp it shouldn't have more than 2-3 vulnerabilities. You should be able to get the resists up as high as the resources allow like other armors. If a wookie wants high kinetic resist armor they can have an armorsmith put the layers in. I do think however that the armor should have high HAMS to compensate for the wookie bonus.

I do feel for the trandos now though. Having anytype of armor hole sucks. When that Jedi Adept hits your left forearm for 4000 damage it really sucks. Maybe they can make a species specific covering for these areas...which HAM costs to offset their natural bonus. Or maybe just making only certain types of armor wearable on these areas such as padded or ubese.

ANyways thats just my 2 cents. I just really hate when other players ask for nerfs or "balance changes".

Woot!

Ive only just read this!!

I had actually given up on SWG altogether cos I'm a wook. Looks like I'll be back soon

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NovaSpice wrote:

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Hey, Reptilespit, can I go with you to see Episode III? Because I would pay to see the look on your face when you see hundreds of Wookiees charging into battle (wearing full armor) against the Separatists. (SPOILER!)

And yes, this scene has already been confirmed. And yes, I've read Shadows of the Empire, and yes, Chewbacca indeed wears Snoova's "battle armor."

AsI indicated, onlythe first part about the wookies charging into battle has been mentioned on spoiler sites. Since I obviously missed it, please post me to any link specifically mentioning wookies wearing armor in Episode 3. Not about them going into battle, which is common knowledge and I can find 100 links about. I mean wookies that wear armor in Episode 3.

Also, I hear that the seperatists basically kick all of the wookies butts except Chewbacca, so I'm not sure you want to rely on that to prove their strength.

That's not to say it might actually end up that way in film, but people are going around stating that its a fact that not only do they go into battle, but they wear armor in an attempt to justify giving wookies armor in this game. People are jumping the gun.

And please.....if you're calling a couple of metallic pads 'Battle Armor' that's another huge stretch there don't you think? Are those metallic shoulder pads gonna stop a lot of damage compared to a full set of composite?

If you want to argue about the EU and continuity, you will lose everytime against someone like me or josfe.

Seeing how George Lucas doesn't pay a lot of attention to the EU, I don't know whyI should.

And oh, the Heavy Shoulder Pad is already a craftable item for Tailors. I happen to own one.

Wookiees have armor. Now we will smash you. Everything is in order--Wookiees killing things is definitely continuity.

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Kershakk wrote:

Basing your idea on flow on a single wookiee, Chewbacca, is such a fallacy I can't believe you can even say it with a straight face.

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Seriously all you who are crying about the lizards not having boots and gloves STOP!!! AND NO DONT REMOVE WOOKIES xtra HEALTH!!! Not everyone in the game has to be equal, that would be STUPID, if every race was the same in SWG. I have been a wookie since day 1(day 2 actually) I have had to endure death after death while I watched newbies with composite armor laugh at me. All us wookies really need is a light or medium armor with no resists, nothing fancy, just something to make us tougher, like wookies should be. But in answer to the lizards about their gloves ands boots, I think your feet and hands should just have some kind of light natural resist. I mean hell its not like you could shoot through those scales that easy anyway. THANK YOU FOR THE WOOKIE ARMOR, FINALLY!!!

Yay!

Gwipryc

-Master Corpse-

TH,

I don't normally post in response to your posts and I don't normally join multi-page posts, but this one has moved me to do so:

NO offense to all those that love their Wookies and want nothing but for them to grow and prosper, but this is a sad day for me...I'm not a huge continuity freak, but I play SWG in part because it "feels" like Star Wars...Wookies in Armor is as disheartening for me as Jedi in Advanced Composite or Kryat pearls in lightsabers...(yes, I know, I finally broke down and bought composite..in truth I justified that to myself that I did it so I could get to my FSCS faster...and play a jedi that doesn't wear armor....)

After almost a year as a loyal Fan-boy: this and the "Droid invasion" are chipping away at my faith in the Devs...the game is getting "better (more content, more stable)" and "worse (losing the Star Wars feel)" at the same time. I fear for the Space Expansion...there will only be on starship type, the USS Enterprise

/cheer

*tear*
It's just...It's just so beautiful.

I need a moment.