Bounty Hunter Archive
Thread: What is your armor repair strategy
Well, I can answer some of the questions, I have a bounty hunter in my group and I run the armorsmith who makes all the armor for him.
First, I don't get any special bonus to repair the armor even though I am a master AS. You have just as good a chance as I do. I bought several repair CAs but from reading the boards, it doesn't seem that they do anything at all at this point.
Second, since the bounty hunters are getting the smuggler loot, trade some of it or pay to have your suits sliced for damage reduction. It will allow your armor to last longer before either having it repaired or buying a new suit.
Third, when you do repair a suit, the majority of the time it will lower the max condition. The number it drops by seems to be aset number or percentage perhaps, something I'll have to start taking notes on anyway. From the repairs I've done, it seems to be better to do it after it drops to about half. I repaired a set of bracers last night and the max condition was 46K which had dropped to 42K, once repaired they dropped to like 34K. The chest of the same max condition was about 17K and moved back to about the same number, 34K or so. So in my opinion, repairing more often will only cause the armor to drop faster into the lower condition range. I'm sure you would have noticed at this point, but the helm decays the fastest, followed by the legs and then the chest. Depending on the phase of the moon, the number of padawans who just got their sabers, or the speed of thewind on Yavin, you can also have twoother results, a flawless repair, where you get your armor back in the same condition it started or a complete failure where youessentially destroy the armor you were repairing.
As an AS, I would have to say that armor is decaying faster now than it used to. For some of my grinders, I find they can wear a suit out in a single session, which is why I started having them sliced, they at least last longer then they normally do. IF you can afford it, ADK at least the main three, head chest and legs, and if you can't at least have it sliced, you'll be glad you did.
SamousNemo wrote:
yass wrote:
my strategy is to ADK my whole armor
On my server ADK's a selling for 8M. For the three to cover my pants, jacket, and helm that's 24M
8K E Ubese suits with 75% AB slice cost about 2 M
In other words, I'd have to go through 12 suits of armor to justify ADK-ing one suit
Now I don't know about you and I don't know about the OP, but I don't think I've gone through 12 suits in even these past two years. Granted, I'm not a hard-core gamer and more often than not I grind with no armor at all, but that's still a lot of ground to cover
When I first started repairing my armor I did notice that I seemed to get a lot of failures no matter what quality of tool I used. However, I have seen a better change in luck when I repair in front of a crafting station. I have no idea if the station has any affect whatsoever on my recent success, but it works for me
My question is, is it better to repair often or repair only when the condition gets below 1k?
Are you serious? I could trash a brand new set of armor in a couple days if I was really active. I usually rotated between 4 sets of armor (storage droids rule) depending on what I was doing. I now however sport ADK head/chest/legs and only need to replace arm pieces, which actually last a lil bit.
Message Edited by CivicBountyHunter on 08-31-2005 11:20 PM
Just a public one. Like I said though, no idea if it does anything or is just luck
Iawo wrote:
Hrm... was this a high end crafting station or just a 0.0 rated public station?
My solution....
I buy dirt cheap armor (especially pre-CU conversion armor) for PvE fighting, and for fighting NPC marks.
The good stuffcomes out ONLY for Jedi marks. (and even then my *good* stuff isnt over 7000 energy resist, as Im not paying an extra million credits to get just a 4% improvement)
Your money is well spent maximizing that first strike period..that is having the PSGs, the synthsteak, the Thakatillo, the fast, high damage weapon, and of course the armor break and decay slices, and bomb droids.
You dont want a prolonged fight, dont engage unless you have at least an 80% chance of maintaining total suprise on the mark.
Best thing to do imho, is wear cheap clothes, pretend to be a Chinese loot farmer, fake bad english and beg the mark for money. Hell get disgusted and turn away, then you unload on his backside :-) - have a cpl friends dress bad as well and follow you around on follow not saying anything.
SWdude wrote:
Is that for real? If your armor gets down to 1/1 it still works? If that is true I'm ticked at myself because last night I deleted four pieces of armor that were all 1/1... and yeah they broke when I tried to repair them.