Armorsmith Archive
Thread: Wookiee armor
Waste93 wrote:
haun wrote:
prehaps an armor made from the bark of the trees on kashyyyk, mended together with the hides of the animalsnative to kashyyk, lacured togetherand finished off with colorful and bright fabrics like the samurai of old.
samurai style armor with a broad slightly open face plate, large padded and leathered chest plates and arm and leg bindings would be awsome for wookiees!
I hope not for one reason. A bark or hide armor would perpetrate the myth that Wookiees are primitaves. They are very technologicaly advanced, not primitives.
The best solution would be bio armor because of the Wookiees realtionship with nature. However bio armor and weapons do not fit in with Star Wars.
So technological armor is the best solution in my opinion. Though maybe intigrating some aspects of nature or from nature. How they would do this though I'm not sure. Maybe using modern materials the armor would have spines on the back of it like some creatures in the game do. I don't know.
Ummm you skipped the books with the bio technology of the Vong then altogether......
Ok, I did these quest and got the armor. I'm a wookiee. It won't let me equip them. What am I doing wrong?
i hope giving wookies armor isnt the *only* thing that is changing in order to make wookies tougher.
personally i think a combination of both 1) wookie armorand 2) increased ham or natural armor would have been better. wookies are supposed to be very strong, even without armor.
If this change causes wookies to *depend on* armor in nearly all battles, then the change was flawed. I say give them armor but also give them more ham.
Did I complain the last month's when i played a wookie.
NOO.
I made the best out of my situation.
And to be truthfull i dont like the Idea of Wookie Armor.
I would have liked the idea of higher ham (between 2-3k) and some natural resistances.
By the way !
Wookies have never been as useless as all were saying.
Yes I did pvp with my Wookie !
And i died many times when my opponent was highly armored and buffed.
But if a raid is what a raid should be : An unexpected Attack
Than my opponent is armored but i am buffed and than we were nearly even.
I took out TKA's, Bounty Hunter's and Commando's more than one time without problems.
Ok i am Pistoleer/Smuggler and moving all the time while using Last Ditch against my oponnent.
One Request for the Wookie Armor !!
DONT !! DONT !! DONT !! make it look like a comp armor for huge humans !!
Stop i reconsidered that.
Make it look like Comp Armor ! And i will be unique forever !!
The only Wookie in the galaxie that is not using armor
cu all
I didn't choose a Wook because of any HAM 'bonuses' or other racial bonuses - I chose a Wook cos I liked the look of a Wookiee. Out of all the races available it appealed to me the most. I didn't want to be human - hell, I play a human in a million and one other different games...
When I started out and chose my first character I knew nothing about SWG. I didn't know anything about HAM, resists, armour, the skill tree, cloning and so on... So I think it's fairly safe to assume that new players will choose a starting speicies out of ignorance for the most part - just like I did.
As for the 'Star Warsy' feeling that is being repeatedly brought up - I really can't be bothered repeating that which I have said previously.... but I can tell you that 80%+ of this game is based on the Expanded Universe, so any arguments based on the films or 'canon' can be considered redundant. Find me one example of where Dathomir is referenced in a canonical source....
For the PvPers and PowerGamers: Relax, I have no interest in PvP. If I want to test myself against human players, I'll go play UT2003. As someone else mentioned, SWG is about creating a story - my story - and sorry to burst your bubble, but you don't figure in it.
To the Devs: Thanks for listening and I look forward to being able to sample more of the harder content such as the Geonosian Bio Lab, etc.
they will probably solve the HAM problem like they did with trando's.
more HAM less armor pieces allowed so wookiees will have even less pieces available to them.
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".