Armorsmith Archive

Ah but as a master BH I am able to obtain many BH armor schematics and the process of obtianing rancor hide is just a question of me going out there and hunting down rancors for the modded loot hide so I have no problem in having none ADK armor. and the money is like everything else in swg something that either takes alittle time or a keen sense of marketing and sales of what you have and are able to obtain.

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Willvas wrote:

1 million for non layered... its a rip off... dont do it... especially if you are providing everything

as for the stats of the armor... i would highly suggest making your assualt armor full kinetic layered.... i get mine to 8100 kinetic resist...

if you go energy i get it at 6100 for energy... but really assault is not good armor for energy attacks...

if you go against jedi i would suggest using recon or battle and most are ranged now and most use energy attacks... as Recon i get up to 8100 and battle 7100 on energy resist...

for no layer i charge 350k for armor for layered i charge 700k... i only sell layered rebel faction so that is 2mill....

so you can see the kind of prices... but however i do have the best armor on the server...

and if its no layered dont pay anything over 250k if its not maxed and 4 socket armor

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Krayth-x wrote:

Ah but as a master BH I am able to obtain many BH armor schematics and the process of obtianing rancor hide is just a question of me going out there and hunting down rancors for the modded loot hide so I have no problem in having none ADK armor. and the money is like everything else in swg something that either takes alittle time or a keen sense of marketing and sales of what you have and are able to obtain.

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Its great that you can go out and collect the stuff yourself. However, when your chosen armorsmith uses your looted enhancers they will still have to invest a significant amount of their gaming time making your layers, segements, cores, final assembled armor. If you want to get a high health bonus on each piece then you have to use enhancers at the segment stage as well as peko feathers at the final assembly stage, hence the smith has to start from scratch to make your suit with multiple handcrafted stages.

I have crafted health enhanced suits for several customers, RIS, BH, Tantel, Mabari. It can take several hours depending on the type (value and number of same serial) supplied. I can be doing plenty of other things instead of making those suits with my alt. Looting components, running quests, grinding faction, or just hanging out with friends etc etc.

My preferred method of doing this sort of business is to agree a trade with the customer and then craft the armor for free, credits really don't work for me, its time I want to get back. The sort of trades that I do are for health enhancers, RIS components and BH schematics.

I know each server is different, but on chilastra I charge flat rates for making BH armor. I charge 775k for non layered and 1,050,000 for layered. I use to do it for my basic costs of 325k and 600k respectively, but was getting inundated with orders. I sat one night for 6 straight hours doing nothingbut bh armor. This got old real fast. So I instituted a 325k+450k assembly cost(50k per peice) to make it for non layered and the same for layered. This was done to still allow for customers to get what they wanted, but also if im gonna spend all my time to make it, then im going to make just a little more for my time.

The truth of it is, Im still doing alot of these armors. I make between 10 and 20 sets a night still. So, in the end, armorsmiths are going to charge what they think is fair, and players are going to pay for what they consider quality work.