Fencer Archive

Hi Everybody!

Back from a 2 month vacation. Good to see everyone again and I see lots of new names as well. Sad to see Raph go.

Rancor Teeth drop from Bull Rancors. I got 7 of them last night. The thing about the teeth is this. I fought bulls for nearly a month solid and never got the first tooth. Last night I hit the jackpot on the third one I fought. We killed half a dozen Ancient Bulls and they didnt drop anything.

Some people are getting the bile drenched teeth from Jabba's new mission rewards. I'm off to do those tonight. I wonder if he still gives a Rantok? Somebodyhelped themself tomine while I was gone.

As usual, Rancor teeth don't mean a whole lot for swords. What little extra damage they can inflict was offset by large HAM increases on those weapons. Bile drenched stuff could be handy if you could get a nice disease DOT added to your sword. It sure comes in handy on my gaffi and I would love to have something to replace it with when it is all used up.

Entropism: That's some nice base damage there. I guess the norm is what? 165 max? I would like to slice that but with my luck, it would hit for speed.....

Will do. Thats all we do anymore is treasure hunt.

Btw,we have a little group of 2 TKMS, myself, a TKA, a Pikeman and a couple swordsmen. (awesome melee group!)We can get Bull Rancor lairs on the mission terminals. They pay about 18k a pop. Usually north - northeast of the science outpost. Careful though.... they will pop Ancient Bulls as well. 35K HAM's worth of high kinetic resists and disease / poison dotting fun!

keep this up towards the top

There's a new form of enhancement on the block. In the Geonosian caves you can find Geonosian sword and reinforcement cores and core schematics. With the schematics a WS can build cores that are allowed two "power-up" items. The first, a required element, is power cube. These guys can come with bonuses to min and max damage or bonus to HAM usage (the best damage boost I've seen is +16/16). The second is a slot for an enhancement item. The only enhancement found so far is Geonosian Solidifying Agent. This stuff boosts max damage (the base appears to be +10 and the best I've seen is +16).

Now the Geo sword cores are used in scythes and these cores can be used in various Swordsman weapons. However as it is possible to boost damage on these a bit above what a normal weaponsmith is capable of, I think players will find these particularly attractive for fast, lower damage fencer weapons. The sword cores might go into curved swords and the reinforcemnt cores into stun batons.

I may be doing this for a fencer on TC soon and if I do I'll make sure to get the results posted here.

Also, another option for fencer enhancements are Nightsister Vibro Units. These drop off of the nightsister Axkva Min. They can have much higher damage and better speed bonuses than regular vibro units (I was able to obtain some that were about 43 min and 51 max higher damage and .55s delay faster than my regular vibro units). If put into a vibro blade these would have really rocked (instead I used them for the Energy Lance schematic and an LVA which was also very nice). I would guess that something along the lines of a 90-195 damage, 2s delay would be possible for a vibroblade, pre-slice.

Of course you will have to fight with Pikeman over this as the Nightsister Energy Lance is really cool and requires these vibro units.

StGabe.

Heh I've got 6 of those NS vibro units sitting in my bank. I was told that you can only use them in the energy lance. Now youre saying thats not the case?

answered that in youtr other thread

Thanks for that info StGabriel!

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shifted wrote:

Okay a few days ago i found some VERY nice rancor teeth at a vendor that were about 16-116 damage and .456 speed or so and not that high HAM. Very nice wound too. So i asked my guild weaponsmith what i should do with them and so i made a 1 handed curved sword.

So i made the sword and it turned out great. He got about 4 amazing successes and 2 slices of 30% for damage.

The best one i got looked like stats about this:

45-317 damage

3.7 speed

50% wound

0 ideal range modifiers

36/34/40 HAM

With a compensation generic power up which is about 32% mind 16% max damage, the damage goes up to 327 and mind clost down to 27.

What do you guys think about the result?

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Um, hate to tell ya but I think it sounds exploited. 2 Slices on 1 Weap? That's a big no no!

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HitManWA wrote:

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shifted wrote:

Okay a few days ago i found some VERY nice rancor teeth at a vendor that were about 16-116 damage and .456 speed or so and not that high HAM. Very nice wound too. So i asked my guild weaponsmith what i should do with them and so i made a 1 handed curved sword.

So i made the sword and it turned out great. He got about 4 amazing successes and 2 slices of 30% for damage.

The best one i got looked like stats about this:

45-317 damage

3.7 speed

50% wound

0 ideal range modifiers

36/34/40 HAM

With a compensation generic power up which is about 32% mind 16% max damage, the damage goes up to 327 and mind clost down to 27.

What do you guys think about the result?

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Um, hate to tell ya but I think it sounds exploited. 2 Slices on 1 Weap? That's a big no no!

Rancor teeth are crap in my oppinion since they don't enhance but actually replace.

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He had multiple swords made, two of which got 30% damage slices.

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HitManWA wrote:

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shifted wrote:

Okay a few days ago i found some VERY nice rancor teeth at a vendor that were about 16-116 damage and .456 speed or so and not that high HAM. Very nice wound too. So i asked my guild weaponsmith what i should do with them and so i made a 1 handed curved sword.

So i made the sword and it turned out great. He got about 4 amazing successes and 2 slices of 30% for damage.

The best one i got looked like stats about this:

45-317 damage

3.7 speed

50% wound

0 ideal range modifiers

36/34/40 HAM

With a compensation generic power up which is about 32% mind 16% max damage, the damage goes up to 327 and mind clost down to 27.

What do you guys think about the result?

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Um, hate to tell ya but I think it sounds exploited. 2 Slices on 1 Weap? That's a big no no!

Rancor teeth are crap in my oppinion since they don't enhance but actually replace.

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Think he means two swords ere sliced for 30%

were*

Heh I've got 6 of those NS vibro units sitting in my bank. I was told that you can only use them in the energy lance. Now youre saying thats not the case?

Yes, I am saying exactly that.

StGabe.