Armorsmith Archive

Message Edited by Cybst0rm on 02-15-2004 11:05 PM

This is like post # 4852467343 on this issue but yes i agree, killing 300 GDK that i couldnt even scratch the fingernail on with my armorsmith just to make your first real piece of RIS isnt exactly my idea of a fun time.

First up, yes it's supposed to be rare (but about 1 in 100 drop rate? maybe a little too rare)

Second, it's not supposed to be an easy thing to kill and almost impossible solo- do it in a strong group

Third, in what way does the armour suck? With good resources and 12 experiment points, the stats can be awesome. With mediocre resources, I got a helmet made with 72% kinetic, 51% base and 31/32/180 ham without a slice. I wouldn't say that sucks. A decent slice and that'll be 72/68 (ish) with Hams of a low encumberance ubese helmet.

With great resources and a nightsister shard in the segment, I think an 80% across the board is feasible

Plus it looks the mutt's nuts

/agree

Im due to make a helm the end of this week using 2 NS layers and Janta hide in the segment. Hoping it will come out decent =)

Btw where's the proof GDK scales drop 1 in every 100?

I know people who havekilled hundreds of GDK in kimo city and looted none. I also know someone who used tohunt in a different area andaveraged 2 every 4 days or so.

So who can say?

Ahum not to be taken without a group?

The Gurk King and the Woolamader Harrover are to be solod

The Kimo?

See these screens of me and a guildmate attacking it. We won without dying and only using spice. no buffs

This are his resistst

http://members.home.nl/megatomic/kimoeerst.jpg

These are the hams

http://members.home.nl/megatomic/kimo2.jpg

the fight

http://members.home.nl/megatomic/kimo1.jpg

http://members.home.nl/megatomic/kimo3.jpg

http://members.home.nl/megatomic/kimo4.jpg

http://members.home.nl/megatomic/kimo5.jpg

And my wounds after the pixie wore off. he has one MEAN disease. yet he was already dead an buried a the time.

Harvested 800 hide from it and no scales that time

http://members.home.nl/megatomic/kimo7.jpg

So if you can' t take it bring a friend and use some tacktics

Well, I think that SOE want AS to PAY for components. So this make money go back to player and give some contents to combat classes. I mean, we are among the richest ppl in SWG right? Our guild AS had 176 mil when he left... At 2mil per GDK scales, it'S nothing for him. My plan is to make money and then buy those things.

Marie Novalight
TKM/AS
kauri

I soloed one the other day.

Master doctor, master swordsman

The new mind foods are sweet.

It diseased me on all 3 main stats, I was at -399 on health and action and -1099 on mind.

The thing is, it maxes at your max minus one. Since I buff myself, my action and health were both something like 2500 still. The disease doesn't go into that.

With the mind foods, my mind was still doing pretty good to. I had to pop a muon in there and at the end it was a close thing. I got it's mind bar down low enough to get it to run just as the muon downer kicked in. Then I sat there and waited 2 minutes, dropped another muon and went and finished it.

This was after the bleeds were nerfed, too.

Logo Tomassi

Radiant

yes GDK's aint too tough ffs. Sorry to troll but would you prefer for RIS to require Gnort hide? to solo a GDK you need good combat skills (swordsman, perhaps some tka and fencer) some nice medic skills + GOOD buffs and lots of food. sure it will disease ya but your stats will stop at your max so when you have 3k buffs you will have 3k HAM. it doesnt hit very hard if you wear some decent armour, which as a armoursmith is assume you have lots of. Just keep it intimidated, blind, stunned, burned and any other status's you can and keep COB on. it will take some time but it can be done.

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Cybst0rm wrote:

Well, the hunting party finally got together,. We ended up killing 2 and got 7 scales. I guess we hit the loot rotation just right.

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In case you haven't found out already - those aren't the scales for RIS armour. The RIS component only drops one at a time and looks like a hide container (there are no stats on it - it just says "Scales from a Giant Dune Kimogila").

This is one Master Armorsmith that decided RIS was a complete and utter waste of time. Frankly I'm embarrassed to say it but I fell for the devs cruel prank. I was stupid enough to try to get the Woolamander Harrower bone fragment. After staying at the Woolamander Palace for days and killing 2 every hour I had ZERO bone fragments to show for it.