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It should not be combat rebalanced... It should be able to get to its maxes before the Rebalance then they have stated some place that they will nerf all armors at the same time... bring it down so that RIS is the Best in the game and then composite/Hunting...

I dont remember the thread that it was posted in... but I do remember reading it... I think it came from Cinco Barnes

Character Name: Chalvooka WOOKIEE FROM DAY ONE!! still a wookiee even after a small break from SWG!!! A Wookiee from before wookiee armors and ROTW or RTOS!!!!

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( Maybe one day these ideas will be considered or implemented. Bump it, please? )

NO NO NO! Here is what we do... We take armor out of the game! that way wookies will be realistic because they are naturally armored! with higher ham!

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.

Brutas / Raah
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Well I suppose I should have said I was upset, meaning at first. I made quite a bit of cash being an AS when the armors first came out. But the main thing I meant to stress on in my other post was that they would add:

Now granted it wouldn't be as "barbaic" looking as the Wookie Armor created for the game but what about Rodian's larger eyes or a Mon Cal's huge fish like head?

I meant no disrepect Brutas, I was trying to add some wishful thinking into different armors.

Who is the first ones wiped out in PvP? Wookiees. Fast regen rate? Who cares when you are getting hit by a AP2 rifleflurry shot. We need armor cut and dry. If you are not a wookiee, don't spam an Armorsmith forums about not fair. I am a wookiee armorsmith, and it is hard. Wookiees are wookies for the pride and the challenge. Pick up a bowcaster and wear wicker armor into a PvP battle and see what is fair, before you spam. All we have is honor and pride.

Tecar

that wasn't a direct slam at anybody, just tired of hearing about how we shouldn't get armor and then next minute getting ridiculed about how wookiees get pwned in combat. I went AS for the challenge, just as I did for a wookiee. but it will be nice to last more than 1 min in a battle.

Tecar

Flame thrower in one hand-armor crafting tool in the other

I think the Wookie armor is fine as it is, and should not be improved, with the exception of having an additional layer, or exotic segment option added. Wookies, your armor is really not to blame for apparent PvP ineptitude, the ludicrous Doctor buffs are. Your racial advantage ( which far outweighs any of the other race specific traits ) was suposed to have been the higher HAM ratings. This would have been a viable advantage had it not been for the fact that theerrantly planned and naively implimented Doctor's buff systemhas entirely scrapped that advantage for you. You all know, but it bares repeating, that a 2500k+ HAM buff for all players utterly negates your advantage, and renders you a prime PvP target because it exposes your primary weakness... lack of high-end armor.

However, if you were granted high-end armor, this then would allow you to exploit all other race's primary weakness...lower HAM.

You cannot have it both ways. Either lose the HAM bonus, and acquire a more nominal racial advantage (say +10 defense vs knockdown), or settle for less than optimal armor options. To put you all in a Composite equivelent would do little more than imbalance the game for the remainder of the player races.

Ultimately whatI would like to see is a major nerf to Doctor buffing, and in particular to Secondary stat buffing which is where the crux of yourcomplaint really rests. Without the benefit of easily buff-wearing any armor they like, regardless of encumbrance, non-Wookies (races without stout HAM) would be forced to make some realistic choices and severe comprimises to their Primary pools in order to be resist stacked. The average Composite wearer would then have to average around 700 per Primary pool to get into such armor, which would in turn make the Wookie points matter for something, so long as buffs are reeled in dramatically.

To this end I would propose that Doctor's buffing do no more than double the PRIMARY player statistics (base), and do not affect Secondaries at all. Let illegal drugs do the Secondary buffing exclusively, and those only for a short duration. Also, armor encumbrance costs MUST be compared to (and only to) the base numbers for the player, and any armor donned while buffing are auto-removed from(or cause severe detriment to) the player wearing them after the buff wears off. Lastly, allow all damage/hit bonuses for weaponAP to affect everyone equally, in effect causing any AP0 hit to an unarmored opponent to score a +125% damage total, instead of the silly way it is implimented now with unarmored players taking less damage from AP+ weaponry at lower rates than players who haveonly nominal resist to that damage type.

I think that if these points were implimented, we would actually see a Wookie advantage emerge without making them superior to other races.

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:

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More likely than getting 3 specials in one set of armor, would be kashyyykian armor that has slots for layers. Stun seems to be a damage type than we'll never see natural. (Tantel hardly counts.)

I just hope that ceremonial still has a purpose after they introduce higher-level armors.

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I think everyone else should be stripped of their armor, that way it puts them back on the same level as wookies. Humans shouldnt have 80-96% comp... it should be 45% MAX CAPPED AT LEAST! They should also have speed encumberances!

Wookies are naturally armored and it should be reflected that way, not by giving them this armor! Also imo, wookies die first in pvp because everyone wants to kill the wookie lol... idk why, maybe its because of the armor, but I do it just because its fun to attack wookies, in a funny way I suppose...

I fought a wookie BH the other day, I was in disabled stormtrooper armor, and he had his armor on... it was a tough and close fight, he almost got me! but I got him just in time...