Armorsmith Archive
Thread: For all who wanted RIS easier
i was all for making this easier but this is perhaps a bit to easy
Message Edited by GarVa on 07-01-2004 08:57 AM
- Mandalorian is a joke to get due to the difficulty of the DWB.
- RIS is/was a joke to get due to the 1% chance of getting a GDK scale. All the other components had reasonable drop rates.
- All "rare" armor is not worth wearing due to the repair bugs/implementation.
- Uber rare stuff can still be aquired through legendary enhancer/component drops.
All those who say "it won't be rare," are just selfish people who want to have everything for themselves. Grow up and realize that everyone needs a shot at the less the easy to come by items. Heck, the geonosian pistol and DE-10 schematic isn't as much ofa pain in the but as the RIS or mandalorian is.
TechBoss wrote:
All those who say "it won't be rare," are just selfish people who want to have everything for themselves. Grow up and realize that everyone needs a shot at the less the easy to come by items.
No, we're people who put in the effort to make these items (and help others make them along the way) and resent the rules being changed to make something that was revered and cherished just slightly less common that other drops.
If I'm so selfish why did I write up a guide to hunting GDK's after I got good enough at it to find random spawns with no tracking skills within 15 minutes of hitting Lok? Why did I answer all the questions I could here and in game about finding the items, and about crafting the armor in general. Look at all of the posts some of us have made helping others out on their own RIS quests - if we were selfish do you think we'd share any of that?
Anyone would be upset if something that they had worked months for and were exceptionally proud of overnight became something that could be obtained in a couple days of hunting.
DirthNader wrote:
TechBoss wrote:
All those who say "it won't be rare," are just selfish people who want to have everything for themselves. Grow up and realize that everyone needs a shot at the less the easy to come by items.
No, we're people who put in the effort to make these items (and help others make them along the way) and resent the rules being changed to make something that was revered and cherished just slightly less common that other drops.
If I'm so selfish why did I write up a guide to hunting GDK's after I got good enough at it to find random spawns with no tracking skills within 15 minutes of hitting Lok? Why did I answer all the questions I could here and in game about finding the items, and about crafting the armor in general. Look at all of the posts some of us have made helping others out on their own RIS quests - if we were selfish do you think we'd share any of that?
Anyone would be upset if something that they had worked months for and were exceptionally proud of overnight became something that could be obtained in a couple days of hunting.
I agree. it is not selfish when we put so much time into getting our components and now they aremaking it exeedingly easier. Think of it this way. If you worked all your life to become a CEO and finally got there, and then they took some kid off the streets and made him one you would be pissed. It is the same thing. We wasted untold hours on getting our RIS components one at a time... now they are raining down on us. Does that really seem fair to you? I hope not.
DirthNader wrote:
No, we're people who put in the effort to make these items (and help others make them along the way) and resent the rules being changed to make something that was revered and cherished just slightly less common that other drops.
If I'm so selfish why did I write up a guide to hunting GDK's after I got good enough at it to find random spawns with no tracking skills within 15 minutes of hitting Lok? Why did I answer all the questions I could here and in game about finding the items, and about crafting the armor in general. Look at all of the posts some of us have made helping others out on their own RIS quests - if we were selfish do you think we'd share any of that?
Anyone would be upset if something that they had worked months for and were exceptionally proud of overnight became something that could be obtained in a couple days of hunting.
Its just like buying a brand new model of a car that just came out. When they first come out the prices are a lot higher, if ya wait a while, they will become a lot cheaper.
For all you that made your full suit of RIS, you had the privelege of showing it off for several months before everyone started hearing about it.
A recent scale sold on Starsider for 7-8million also, I think the devs want people to actually, get this, WEAR IT. 90% of the people getting the loot drops also aren't even armorsmiths, they are out collecting the pieces for a suit for themselves. How is this an Epic quest for us Armorsmiths then?
Ryche_Mykola wrote:
Its just like buying a brand new model of a car that just came out. When they first come out the prices are a lot higher, if ya wait a while, they will become a lot cheaper.
For all you that made your full suit of RIS, you had the privelege of showing it off for several months before everyone started hearing about it.
A recent scale sold on Starsider for 7-8million also, I think the devs want people to actually, get this, WEAR IT. 90% of the people getting the loot drops also aren't even armorsmiths, they are out collecting the pieces for a suit for themselves. How is this an Epic quest for us Armorsmiths then?
I would agree with this BUT Thunderheart stated very clearly that the drop rate on RIS components (in particular the GDK scale) WAS NOT going to change. Serialed loot drops in sets of 1 to 11. I'd say an average increase in drop rate of five to six times more than before is a change in drop rate.
If this is a bug, it needs to be fixed. If it is not a bug, well then, I see no need to participate in a profession that is blantantly lied to.
Armorsmith
Even though the Giant Dune Kimogilais the hardest and rarest of all the creatures that drop RIS components, its drop rate is by far the lowest.Will the drop rate for the Giant Dune Kimogilascale be raised so as to becommensurate with the other RIS components?
RIS armor is equivalent to “epic quest” armor and as such, the drop rate is one of the only ways to control difficulty.RIS armor is meant to be this difficult to acquire.