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Thread: Combat Upgrade Laser Carbine

GiacomoCagiva
Sat Apr 16, 2005 9:18 pm
#14

What if they just switched the elite and laser around?Made the laser the higher level one so we dont all get hosed
TAfirehawk
Sun Apr 17, 2005 12:34 am
#15






Tycho238 wrote:
We got the E11 Mk. II. Master Cert. It also has better damage than a Proton Carbine.

Message Edited by Tycho238 on 04-16-2005 12:32 PM






You might want to go look at my post with all the weapon stats.....the Proton has the highest DPS by a small fraction.


And this doesn't concern the existing Level 54 Carbines, but the fact that the Laser will be a Level 22 Carbine when it is soooooo much more on LIVE.




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Tycho238
Sun Apr 17, 2005 12:35 am
#16

Yeah...I just got off TC and posted without even thinking or looking around, lol. Definitely like what I see and coming back to to Carbineer after the CU goes live.



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TAfirehawk
Sun Apr 17, 2005 12:38 am
#17




TAfirehawk wrote:

With the change in Weapon Certs, the Laser Carbine is looking to be very weak.....and the first conversion numbers I have seen confirm this problem.


Just to let you all know, voicing your displeasure on this in the appropriate public threads is greatly appreciated.....I am taking it up in the Corr Forum but the more it gets posted in the proper threads the better chance we have of being heard. Please do rant or flame, but simply state the problem of converted Lasers doing half the DPS of lesser quality Elites.


My suggestion in the Corr Forum was to swap the relative power/stats of the Slugthrower and Laser. At this point it is totally unacceptable to me for a weapon that a Carbineer and even BH uses a vast majority of the time basically become a Novice Level Carbine.....we will all be outcombined BILLIONS of credits in this scenario. Not that weapons don't need balanced and other profs will be getting nerfed harder than us, but there is no logical reason for SOE to move the Laser Carbine down in level so much.







Well I got the answer to the Laser Carbine on the Corr Forum, but here is a public RED NAME post on the subject (well that is my post in reply to the Dev post)......Dev response to this problem was so quick my head is spinning...




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DeathToVader
Sun Apr 17, 2005 3:38 am
#18


well i have a 250 min and 500 max (about) elite carbine without a pup. If you want to switch the laser and elite around so you wont lose money, what about me ? Think about others before you want to make it so "you" dont lose out.


If they "really" wanted to make it fair, scrap all weapons and make everyone start over. I would rather have it that way.

Message Edited by DeathToVader on 04-17-2005 06:40 AM






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GiacomoCagiva
Sun Apr 17, 2005 6:28 am
#19

I have never seen an elite that high but those seem like the stats most elite shoud have
TAfirehawk
Sun Apr 17, 2005 6:55 am
#20






DeathToVader wrote:


well i have a 250 min and 500 max (about) elite carbine without a pup. If you want to switch the laser and elite around so you wont lose money, what about me ? Think about others before you want to make it so "you" dont lose out.


If they "really" wanted to make it fair, scrap all weapons and make everyone start over. I would rather have it that way.

Message Edited by DeathToVader on 04-17-2005 06:40 AM






#1 it is about the majority of players, and not even you can say that a majority of people have a better Elite than Laser.....the goal is to "hurt" as few as possible, but "hurt" isn't the right word, this is just a GAME afterall.


#2 the Elite and E11 Mk.2 are not leaving the Master Box because they are Star Wars Icons.....so those two will continue to be the top tier for Carbineer at Level 54.


#3 it has already been decided by the Devs that the Laser will become a Level 50 Carbine, which is up from Level 22 and one tier down from the Master Level.


#4 I would expect a new or existing Carbine to fill in the void that the Laser has left.....but I have no idea what they will be putting in the mid-20 Level range.




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GiacomoCagiva
Sun Apr 17, 2005 7:04 am
#21

Sweet, that sounds pretty good to me.
Antehiem
Sun Apr 17, 2005 7:42 am
#22






TAfirehawk wrote:





DeathToVader wrote:


well i have a 250 min and 500 max (about) elite carbine without a pup. If you want to switch the laser and elite around so you wont lose money, what about me ? Think about others before you want to make it so "you" dont lose out.


If they "really" wanted to make it fair, scrap all weapons and make everyone start over. I would rather have it that way.

Message Edited by DeathToVader on 04-17-2005 06:40 AM






#1 it is about the majority of players, and not even you can say that a majority of people have a better Elite than Laser.....the goal is to "hurt" as few as possible, but "hurt" isn't the right word, this is just a GAME afterall.


#2 the Elite and E11 Mk.2 are not leaving the Master Box because they are Star Wars Icons.....so those two will continue to be the top tier for Carbineer at Level 54.


#3 it has already been decided by the Devs that the Laser will become a Level 50 Carbine, which is up from Level 22 and one tier down from the Master Level.


#4 I would expect a new or existing Carbine to fill in the void that the Laser has left.....but I have no idea what they will be putting in the mid-20 Level range.







I think the developers need to make'standard' and 'advanced' version ofvarious weapons. They said one of the goals with the CU is to stop the'one best weapon' situation, but at the moment it's looking like thats not the case. They could keep the Elite as master 'only' (DE-10 for pistols, T-21 for rifles, etc), but make equivalent versions of the lowerlevel weapons (in power), so at master, a proffession hasthe widest variety of weapons to use. Otherwise the current system will see many weapons fall by the wayside.


And I know the E11 and EE3 are in the original films, but I don't recall seeing the Elite? Unless its in one of the new films?



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Kakherot
Thu Apr 28, 2005 10:58 am
#23

This conversion thing sux.


My sliced kraytlazer converted from a 430 max to a 760 max (which is actually more than I was hoping for). But then I went and bought a clean one of Posli's vendor, and it was a 740 max. No slice, no tissues, and only 20 points less damage. Same costs, distance and elemental damage too. I guess I'll be getting my ADK back after all....





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TAfirehawk
Fri Apr 29, 2005 7:05 am
#24






TAfirehawk wrote:





DeathToVader wrote:


well i have a 250 min and 500 max (about) elite carbine without a pup. If you want to switch the laser and elite around so you wont lose money, what about me ? Think about others before you want to make it so "you" dont lose out.


If they "really" wanted to make it fair, scrap all weapons and make everyone start over. I would rather have it that way.

Message Edited by DeathToVader on 04-17-2005 06:40 AM






#1 it is about the majority of players, and not even you can say that a majority of people have a better Elite than Laser.....the goal is to "hurt" as few as possible, but "hurt" isn't the right word, this is just a GAME afterall.


#2 the Elite and E11 Mk.2 are not leaving the Master Box because they are Star Wars Icons.....so those two will continue to be the top tier for Carbineer at Level 54.


#3 it has already been decided by the Devs that the Laser will become a Level 50 Carbine, which is up from Level 22 and one tier down from the Master Level.


#4 I would expect a new or existing Carbine to fill in the void that the Laser has left.....but I have no idea what they will be putting in the mid-20 Level range.







QFE


Nothing surprising here, this is old news.





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