Armorsmith Archive

If you sell a fair amount of armor you'll use that 30k up fast and then you'll still be in the same position again. So, you might as well bite the bullet and do what you'll have to do anyway, try to buy the good resources in quantity from someone else. If you can't afford it, then make money by selling the resource kits for cash. That way you'll end up with more resources and cash left over.

However, if you only make small amounts of high end armor (say custom RIS, janta enhanced stun composite, NS shard enhanced low ham kinetic composite, etc.) then you might be ok using kits. Only use it on resources that are close to cap though, because those are the ones that will still be useful the next time you have an uber spawn. If you use the crate on a less than perfect resource you know there'll be a better spawn the very next day

If you're going to burn the deeds pre-CURB, (and I'm not convinced you should,) I'd reccomend you use at least one, (and probably two,) on a very high quality Wooly Hide. Wooly Hide, (all hides, meats, and bones, for that matter,) are difficult to acquire in quantity, since you can't just drop a harvester and log off. So why Wooly Hide? Well, because you're going to be making a living off selling Composite Armor. 60k of the best Wooly Hide your server's ever produced, (on Scylla it's called Aggadaote, and it's got a OQ+SR of 1910,) will supply you with at least enough for 5 1000-segments runs of composite.

There's a catch, though: Post-CURB, you're very likely to have a whole new set of recipes for all the faction armor, and I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if you will find that Composite is no longer the VAST majority of your sales. And while hides will still probably be required, I'd imagine you'll need leathery, scaly, or bristley as well. I would STRONGLY reccomend, therefore, that you wait until post-CURB, and then burn them all on exceptional hide.

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FishyDude wrote:

I have a question for people. I have got a few of these resource deeds and actually was thinking of saving them till after the CU for the new armor, but I think I am going to cash them in now. I am runnign a little low on resources for comp armor and what I am looking for has not spawned in several months on my server. Most of my resources ar egood green line material. I was thinking of cashing these in on Kiirum Steel or Berylius Copper but I didnt know how much of a BIG roles these materials really have in the products. those are the only 2 yellow line items with the steel being the worse of the 2. Can someone tell me should I bother for any or either of these 2 or would cashing them in on a better resource besides those 2 be more benificial for me?

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If I were you, I'd stop paying any attention to those green/yellow/red lines next to your resources. Two reasons:

1) Those lines take into account the average value across all experimentable stats, with equal weighting. In reality, you care FAR more about OQ + SR for resists than you do about OQ + UT for condition.

2) Some resources are gated on certain stats. As an example, I'd be astonished if there was a Crism Siliclastic Ore on ANY server that shows as a green-line resource when making stun layers, because the SR is capped very low. I have a feeling that Kiirium steel is gated very, very low on Malleability (could be wrong here, don't have the details to hand), so just because your Kiirium is a yellow-line resource, doesn't necessarily mean that it's bad.