Bounty Hunter Archive
Thread: Lightsaber damage type
Its extremely simply what they need to do in SWG regarding Lightsaber damage.
It just requires some work.
--Make Lightsabers AP3 and its own damage type seperate from any other damage type ingame as of now.(call it whatever you want......."plasma damage"or whatever)
--Then to balance it, introduceextremely, rare, lootablearmorsegments having the properties of the resourceknown as "Cortosis" which is the only known substance that can withstand a lightsabers damage(as already established by the Known Star Wars Lore and Info)
Therefore Lightsabers get the power that they realistically should have and non-jedi have a route to go as far as seeking some sort of protection.
However, it should not only be rare to find "Cortosis armor segments" but also very difficult to get a complete armor set having its special protection "Cortosis" as high as others such as Electricity or Kinetic.
Using say ONE looted "Cortosis Armor Segment" on a Composite Chest piece would add around 13% protection to that piece against lightsaberdamage. This is the same way that one stun segment affects it currently and makes sense.