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Note that the armor numbers for the protection are in the thousands, a bit like the creature DNA results - but only for SOME of the creature DNA resists (??!).

I had also picked up some battle armor to see what would happen if I tried to put it on. Well, I couldn't. You cannot use any weapon or armor that you are not certified for in the CU.

Anyway, off I went to Dantooine. I had artifically reduced myself to a 'pure' BE to see what level I would be without any combat skills. With unarmed III I was level 5 as a 'pure' novice BE I was level 4.

When I got to dantooine, the first thing I did was go to a mission terminal to see if I could collect any voritor dasher missions. Well, now I am only level 4, I cannot see ANY missions on Dantooine except what looked like artisan missions which was strange since I have no artisan skills. So I decided to set out and see what I could do anyway.

I have not got any form of mask scent so I wanted to see how I would do sampling without it. I saw some dots on my radar and headed for them. However, on the way, I was knocked out of my flashspeeder by a Hurton of some kind - a red dot on the radar and very aggressive:

Hurton Howler does 1085 kinetic - armor (basic) absorbed 154 points out of a total of 1240 damage. I didn't see what level the Hurton's were. I was incapped twice in one or two hits by these guys but finally managed to get away.

I then found some piket longhorns and sampled the DNA of these. One of the pikets didn't take kindly to this and flicked his hoof at me. Picket Longhorn (level 35) attacks Dorelli for 1584 kinetic damage - armor absorbed 225 points out of 1810.

At this point I was in the cloning lab and woke up with a metal arm (this is a known bug). I put on the advanced version of the armor and set off again. The advanced version comes with penalties to movement, fire rate, etc. that we BE's will NEVER be able to get rid of - other classes get to advance in their own armor certification (some of them do anyway) but BE's do not get to use advanced recon armor w/o penalties.

This time, I managed to sample some things but this was more due to the fact that the hurtons were quiet and the pickets didn't mind so much. I was still incapped in one or two hits by a piket but THIS time, the advanced armor absorbed 773 points of damage so I only took about 1100. However I only HAVE 1100 health or so, so this made me lie down quickly.

Conclusion - I'm going to have to get a master combat skill before the CU goes live.

-- Dorelli Deacon master BE Bloodfin

Message Edited by Dorelli on 04-12-2005 06:32 AM