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are these kills without any buffs or armor? I tried taking on a NS the other day - armor 2/shield 2/the works and she kilt me in a matter of seconds..

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Epitaxial wrote:
are these kills without any buffs or armor? I tried taking on a NS the other day - armor 2/shield 2/the works and she kilt me in a matter of seconds..

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I'm Master Defender, 0404 Lightsaber, 0004 Enhance, and 4200 Healing. I managed to kill Nightsisters just fine with Force Armor 2, don't bother with Shield because they don't use Force powers. Elders and Spellweavers hit pretty hard and I have not been able to solo these at all but I haven't had a chance to fight any of those one on one. I managed to kill a NS protector that was at 1/2 HAM but it took most of my force being used on only healing myself.

I just sent JustG a PM of this exact information taken from TheForce.Net's Unnoficial Star Wars Encyclopedia:

Every lightsaber contained these basic components: a power cell, a handgrip, an activation plate or stud, a safety switch, a blade-length adjuster, an emitter matrix, and recharge socket, a lens assembly, at least one focusing crystal, a power conduit, and an optional belt ring. When activated, internal power cells create photoelectric energy which is focused through one, two, or three multi-facted crystals. In the lightsabers of the Jedi Knights, these crystals were found in nature, a task which required the Jedi to focus their concentration on selecting a stone which would focus the energy and not explode. Early Jedi obtained crystals from the planet Ruusan, but the deposits on the planet were destroyed during the Battle of Ruusan. More often than not, the Jedi Knights of the Old Republic used crystals from the planet Ilum, which emitted blue or green blades. The Sith, however, used synthetic crystals formed in incredibly hot ovens, using their emotional control of the Force to assist in the formation of the stone. These Sith crystals generated a red blade which had the unusual strength to cleave a normal lightsaber blade in two. Jedi Knights of the New Republic era did not know of the Ilum deposits, and so many of them discovered other sources of crystals which produced a wide variety of blade colors.

Note that it says "were found in nature" and not "found on the corpses of thousands of slaughtered ewoks, tuskens, nightsisters, primitive people on Dantooine..." I know that those of you paying attention will undoubtedly say we're not in the time of the Jedi Knights...well, I think it's safe to say continuity is out the window when there is a Jedi Council at the point in time we're supposed to be at in the timeline (and let's not even get into the fact that there's also a DARK JEDI COUNCIL?!). Some of you might also like to point out that it's from the Unnoficial Star Wars Encyclopedia, meaning it's not officially sanctioned by LucasArts...do your own research and see if you can come up with better information from the official encyclopedia that disputes it.

Message Edited by StringereDomani on 06-09-2004 04:30 PM

Even though I am not testing this, as an outsider looking in. I feal its compleatlly retard that jedi cant make color crystals (so they can pick their own color saber). Also crystals and other saber enhansement components should fall off nightsisters, tusken, fsnpcs, kryats, rancors, kimos, genos and other high level NPCs.

BUT... There should be other means to get damage crystals.

NO JEDI SHOULD HAVE TO KILL THINGS TO MAKE A SABER!

but if they did, they could potentialy get high end crystals, pearls, or saber enhansments. They should not have to relay on it. Add a quest with a timer where they could get one damage crystal a day. Not the best in stats, but medium in power.

~20 force crystal hunters before last server wipe = 2 damage crystal

~65 force crystal hunter after last server revamp = 0
~6 high level MOBs on corvette = 0
~80 jantas = 0
9 NS creature tamer = 1 color crystal
~40 tusken = 0
~40 javas = 0
~70 different force NPCs on dantooine = 0

all creature where wild spawns, except tusken, jawa, force crystal hunter and corvette MOBs.


maybe you will get the information needed to tweak the numbers. maybe you might tell us some more info on results from this.

250+ Tuskens = 1 color crystal

@40 ewoks = 0 crystals

@75 tuskens = 0 crystals

Message Edited by SarakKye on 06-09-2004 05:06 PM

Although I killed hundreds the other day with no crystal damage drop I didn't actually count the number killed.

Marooned Pirates 100 killed

15 worthless items dropped

1 color crystal

ZERO - NADA - ZIP - NONE - damage crystal drops

We need these things dropping as much as the Rebel & Imperial plans are on live right now. I want to see the system so flooded with them that they aren't worth 1k let alone 500k. No new player should be able to come into this game and be instantly wealthy and afford all the high priced armor, etc. just by being what appears to be extreamly lucky and looting one crystal. We want a 1000% increase in the drops people!

50+ Jantas Plus stronghold= 0 Crystals

50+ Kungas Plus stronghold= 0 Crystals

6 force wielding archaist (dantooine) = 2 crystals

was so happy

150 + Tuskens = 0 crystals

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JustG wrote:

This is for Test Center and Test Center 2 only.

Great feedback thus far. I am going to try and narrow it down. Please respond with just the creature, number killed, and number of crystals looted.

EDIT: Also stats on the damage crystals if possible@

Example:

• 100 Nightsisters = 4 crystals
  
• 250 Tuskens = 15 crystals
  
• 15,000 ewoks = 27 crystals (I like killin' ewoks...)

We are going for very directed feedback in this thread.

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Thanks for the insult...Almost all Jedi DO NOT WANT SPAWN CAMPING...for our saber components...if you are looking for alternative methods...i.e. a crystal cave where we can get forage for raw crystals to "tune"...and make it instanced...cool...but stop this saber component loot crap...I personally know of 8 to 9 Jedi that have left the game SPECIFICALLY because of this...this is not everquest or shadowbane...do something new...start an in concept thread in regards to this and get OUR feedback...I can suffer through wasting,...WASTING my time in the interim testing this...if you show us you are looking at alternative methods of acquiring our saber components...if you are not...Tell us, so that we at least know you are not...we all hate this loot system crap...it wrecked the economy in shadowbane, everquest, ffxi, and starwars...sense a trend?

This is a harsh post...I won't apologize for it...if I was in person, I would say the same thing....I work in Psychiatry...got over the "ooo don't want to hurt their feelings" thing a LONG time ago...truth is truth is skirt it is to admit foolishness. Woah I just went 3rd grade Zen like...need to stop...Just please...show us something other than this garbage.