Armorsmith Archive

ahhh, here we have my favorite argument of all, which basically goes " I never wear armor (except for when I decide I need to), so please "learn to play" without it at all because I usually dont wear it and so that obviuosly means that no one else does either (unless they decide they need to, of course).......

Well with my wookiee characters I have been very successful without ever wearing armor. With my other characters I only wear armor for pvp and then its usually nothing more than a helmet. And mnost of the time that has to come off because of encumbrence issues and the cost that specials occur,

and now, class you will notice how the ostensibly well-meaning trando never mentions his OWN ham bonus in his nerf call, efficiently destroying his own credibility

that might be one case but even with the dosh they at least cant wear gloves or boots. I for one believe that all characters should have the same ham pools to choose from especially with this new wookiee armor or a better suggestion would be to add race specific armor in the game. Everyone has different caps on their secondaries (except of course the smelly humans) which could be accounted for with race specific armor.

Now I dont recall off the top of my head what the wookiee caps are but they are still higher than what most other non human characters can get I say this because of my own wookiee experience and the fact that when my stats were properly migrated I didnt take much damage except BF,

You're surprised Wookies are complaining about the look of the armor? The natural"skin" isn't what bothers most of us... its the shape/style. How would you like to run around having people laugh at you yelling Lost In Space quotes? That armor looks like someone made a 1950's Sci-Fi Robot costume and hasn't painted it silver metallic yet. How would you like it if YOUR armor looked like something Gadget Mouse from Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers built it?

And once again...

Guys, this is just concept art

Concept art rarely ever looks like the real thing

Just wait till sometime this week when they show us actual game models.. THAT will be the Wookie armor... this is just the concept art

I hope wookies cant wear %80, they will pwn all....

wookies havent ever been allowed to use armor they should get good armor too and humans have a distinct 1100 cap on all stats lame oh satronger then wookies eh humans eh wookies havent had armor for months for for the bleeep edi bleeeps who think otherwise wookies should have good armor cause all races ahve had it and a trando cryin about gloves and shoes compared to 0 armor ! except a generator belt are lame you get 10 melee defense they didnt nerf with this newest patch and melee bonus for CLAWS you wouldnt get with gloves on hey go figure? ...

If the game was anything like the movie, i would run around without armor and be able to kill storm troopers with one shot from a blaster. So I think this game has defintely used its creative license, and this is just another adaptation of it.

Read the blurb under the artwork;

"This concept for Wookiee armor incorporates much of what is known about Wookiee culture. Although certainly capable of creating and repairing advanced technology, Wookiees often build weapons and armor using natural resources from the world around them. This concept combines an emphasis on organic components with sturdy functionality that allows the Wookiees to combat dangerous creatures on their homeworld of Kashyyyk.

This armor will be added to Star Wars Galaxies between Publish 7: Droid Invasion and Publish 8: Droids Rebuilt. We're already creating concepts for additional armor for Wookiees, to be added in the future."

This is just the wookiee equivalent of Bone armour, low tech, low protection, will probably give decent energy resistance and mediocre kinetic resistance, the good stuff will be coming along in due course - my guess is they wanted to see how this went and then they'd add more powerful armour, to save creating an uber race in one go and having to annoy the wookiees again by removing it or nerfing it.