Armorsmith Archive

Peko Peko Albatrosses can usually be found in the Northern Part of Naboo... often just to the north of the cliff, anywhere fromTheed to the Kadaara area.

It seems that no one has any idea what the Bio-Mechanical Cartridge or Armor Appearance Enhancements are yet, so either Achem's Razor (the theory that "all else being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the correct one") is in place, and they just AREN'T in the game due to a bug, or they're out there, but we just haven't found them yet. I have a little bit of a hunch of what they MAY be, so.. here's my theory. I could be completely wrong on some of this, but it's a thought:

Possibilities for the other two enhancements:

1) Loot Drop - I kind of doubt this, as someone probably would have found one by now. I went throught the "items and loot" board and didn't find anything.

2) Crafted by another profession - I checked through all the skills in the other profs and didn't find anything that looked right. Besides, Feathered Appearance Enhancements aren't in ours either.

3)Purchased schems, like faction items - wouldn't make sense they can be used in regular armor by both imps and rebs.

4) One-time quest reward (either a schem or individual item) - again, probably wouldn't make sense as those are always the "end product", and not a component

5) Permanent quest schematic - to me, this makes the most sense. I can't think of anything else it could be.

It appears that Master AS's do not have the "Feathered Appearance Enhancement" schematic unless they've done the RIS quest. If anyone has completed the RIS quest since the CU and has had the schem added to confirm this, we could be sure. But... assuming that's the case, we know one of the three "enhancements" is obtained via an armorsmith quest. This one appears to be connected with RIS armor, which, if I'm not mistaken, is listed as Battle Armor. I find it a bit strange that an "elite" permanent AS schematic would be confined to just one of the three armor classes. So.... we have two armor classes left out, and two missing enhancements. hmmmm!

My guess... is that there are two new AS quests out there somewhere. If that's the case, I'd bet anyone 100 credits that at least one of them is on Kashyyyk. For those who haven't been to Kashyyyk yet, a great deal of it is quest-driven. Ok, so if one's on Kashyyyk, where's the other one? It seems like SOE really wants to get people up flying around, so... maybe it's part of a space quest of some sort. Or, maybe they just threw one or both in the middle of nowhere on the existing planets, but... that wouldn't give us the incentive to go get the SWG expansions, would it?

Ok, now that I've done the brain-dump on what I think they are, here's a though as to what they might do:

We know (if it's working), that the Feathered Appearance Enhancement adds to health. Maybe the other "enhancement" (Armor Appearance) also "adds" to the stats, perhaps Action. The final one (Bio-Mechanical Cartridge) seems to have a different sound to it, so, for some reason, I doubt it adds to... say.. the mind pool. If you look at all the other foods/stims/buffs that are out there, they seem to concentrate on Health Pool, Action Pool, and..... Regeneration. Bio-Mechanical........ regeneration..... sounds somewhat related. I highly doubt that either of the other two enhancements would add to the armor's resistance stats, as the powers-that-be seem to be pretty keen on keeping things as even as possible in that area. As to what components would go into these new schems, I have no idea. It would have to be a somewhat "rare" drop similar to Peko Feathers (I've heard they are dropping less now - I looted 25 of them in 30 minutes once on a 5x spawn)

So.... my suggestion would be... if you're driving around, and see a NPC that doesn't look familiar with an "i" over his head, and he hasn't 1-hit capped you, stop and talk to him. Hopefully, we'll figure this one out soon.