Armorsmith Archive

---

royalewitcheez wrote:
So, about that armor.... I can't wait. I'm already collecting resources, and when I tracked down the wood veins to the highest concentration, there was already a few harvs there. They were a smith's, could tell from the name of the harv. So people are gonna make it.

1 thing though. I've seen some people say Dant avian bone and some people say Dant animal bone. Which is it ? I'm hoping avian cause animal bone is a pain.

Also can't wait to see some stats. Hopefully this will go live Tuesday ?

---

I would say ask on the Test Center forum -- but, they don't like people that ask questions abouta Test Center publish.

Message Edited by nolan007 on 07-22-2004 03:39 PM

---

Solarum wrote:

Doctors buffs are certainly changing the playing field and marginalize any ham advantages that wookiees posess. However with quests like the deathwatch bunker coming online that multiple groups of 20 elites walk into and wake up in the cloning facility, Removing buffs or reducing their potency will require major rework of certain aspects of the game. So be carefull what you wish for in this regard. If the buff is made less potent it will likely be months before certain quests are rebalanced to account for a nerf of this sort.

Regardless of buffs there is no balance right now for wookiees in PVP or any higher level quests for that matter, perhaps composite for wookiees isn't appropriate but 50% kinetic protection in no way compares to 80% protection pretty much across the board for all other species. Do the math. For those of you that can't here's a simplebest case scenario for a wookiee:

wookiee 1200 health with 50% kinetic armour

human 800 health with 80% kinetic armour

both getting hit by 100 dpstargeting the health pool

the humanloses 20 ham per second meaning that he will last 40 seconds

the wookieeloses 50health per second meaning that he will last 24 seconds

this is not balance by any stretch of the imagination. It's a Wookiee slaughter.

this is how it works unbuffed. the buff increases the other species advantage exponentially. So all you wookiee haters just shut up with your recommendations and ridiculously ill thought out statements about the wookiees innate advantages. Any newb fresh on these days can buy a cheap set of armour that puts the innate wookiee advantage to shame.

At this point I am not in favor of removing buffs, as much of the game will lose its playability. No offense to the designers but this game has been out for over a year now and the trade window still doesn't work right. Do you have any idea what removing Buffs would do to game play at this point in the system evolution??? Teams of buffed people have trouble getting past the entrance to the geonoshian caves. Let alone traversing it. And that is only mid range on the difficulty scale these days.

The bottom line is that wookiees need better armour options. Anything less than 70% across the board resistance is silly. Even the concept that composite couldn't be modified for wookiee use is insulting. Wookiees are bigger and stronger. Most other species should fall before us if they pick a fight. If we're trying for realism that is. If we're trying for balance then some higher resist armour is mandatory.

---

---

Sweere wrote:

I too have a problem with Wookie Armor, seems a bit un-nerving to have the Highest base HAM race now gain armor. Now granted I do like the look and feel that these armors have and only wish that there were other Race Specific Armors.

---

---

Ooblack wrote:

what about another option entirely? I mean, wookies really REALLY need more protection, but wookies wearing heavy armor just doesn't fit no matter how you look at it. What about some sort of either skill enhancing wookie clothing that gave bonuses to defenses, or maybe wookies have the ability to gain damage mitigation 4, possibly 5, with higher and higher defenses, or maybe just make PSGs that don't suck for wookies? something that would even out the races but keep the "chewie" motif going and not turn a badass gunslinging walking carpet into a robo cop?

just my 2 cr

---

---

IceyBlueTundra wrote:

Has anyone seen the stats on this stuff yet? Is it going to be any better then the 1st insult they gave us? If anyone has #'s on the resist's please post them.

---

---

Kershakk wrote:

---

TerasKasiPanda wrote:

---

Sweere wrote:

I too have a problem with Wookie Armor, seems a bit un-nerving to have the Highest base HAM race now gain armor. Now granted I do like the look and feel that these armors have and only wish that there were other Race Specific Armors.

---

I just want to STRANGLE people that say this. THE HIGHER HAM BARELY DOES ANYTHING FOR US. If we're still getting hit for 100-200 damage from weak cretures, and 500-whatever amount of damage by players, what good is an extra 350 health or whatever? It's not...it just delays the time till you fall, and you're DB'd.

---

*grin* Yeah, it's amazing (or perhaps tragic) about how people seem to fail to comprehend or just be so sheerly self important to make statements like that. Sure, the "fact" is wookiees are the highest HAM based race in the game, but in "practicality" it's hardly anything to sing about.

Perhaps we can sell Sweere a solar powered torch. Because hey, it's solar powered right, you don't need batteries right? Who cares about how practical it is, right?

---