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Thread: Kinetic Damage Why the emphasis?

ElvisTheKing
Mon Sep 12, 2005 11:22 am
#1

I understand that Kinetic passes through PSGs, but I had thought that PSGs had limited usefulness. Meaning that as a battle wore on, a PSG would eventually become useless.


I am asking because I just had a very nice elite carbine crafted, and I very much like it alot. It is max 1053, has +59 accuracy and sliced for critical 100%. Needless to say its ADKd, but it seems like there is something else happening with PSGs and jedi that I am not understanding.


I could imagine a scenario where a jedi has a macro to swap their PSGs in and out during a fight, so is that the issue? If so, does that make using an energy weapon a waste of time?


I used to be a pistoleer BH and used my FWG exclusively (i had some very good gorax shards - pre-casing), but the minimum damage was so low that I switched to carbines. Now it seems that kinetic is the only game in town, and I am not sure what I am missing.


Thanks for your help and experience.



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Hav0c
Mon Sep 12, 2005 11:30 am
#2

Sometimes a Jedi will use a PSG if they dont have an uber belt. The smart BH will always have a backup Kinetic Weapon for when you see the green flashes around a mark


/polishes Blackscale Hallsweeper


Otherwise E11 MkII or Elite Carb FTW



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Akast
Mon Sep 12, 2005 11:32 am
#3

my alt has a psg that never runs out and its broke (as in red)



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Hav0c
Mon Sep 12, 2005 11:36 am
#4






Akast wrote:
my alt has a psg that never runs out and its broke (as in red)





what he said too



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Penguinzx
Mon Sep 12, 2005 11:52 am
#5

At the moment I wouldn't be surprised if PSGs are bugged. I was wearing one when my guild made a trip to the avatar platform. I noticed that even though I'd been wearing it the whole time, and it was at zero condition, it was still absorbing damage after about an hour of nearly constant fighting. At least I presume it was absorbing damage, it was still lighting up every time I go shot, and my BH armor(yes I'm an idiot for wearing it up there, lost 20K condition on my pants alone) was absorbing over 50% energy damage, which I don't think it should do at 4500 energy resist.


It's tough to tell if this is the case against jedi though, master defenders absorb so much damage to begin with it's difficult to tell what's bugged and what isn't. I know I was dueling an Mdef in my guild and he was rendering my very nice HLR useless, the very last shot I took after about a 10 minute duel he still absorbed 604 of 806 energy damage. I have to presume some of that was still PSG because I don't think innate armor can reach 75% resist on it's own.





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ElvisTheKing
Tue Sep 13, 2005 12:03 am
#6

So are we to assume that PSGs are bugged? If so, then what have the Devs said about them?



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