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Had 7 of these off a rancor a recently. Says it's a melee weapon component and upon inspect (from memory) ups Min Damage by 5 and Max Damage by 50, downside's were increased HAM costs and +1 to speed. Now this would be very sweet on say a stun baton that you'd not special with that much anyway or a curved for mobs that have low kinetic etc., But having given one to a master weaponsmith to try to make something he said he was unable to fit it into any weapon schematic, which suggests it is bugged.

So anyone out there managed to use these yet, or is it a case of waiting for them to be fixed, if so all send a bug report about it.

Also can Krayt Tissue, used in ranged weaps for much better stats, be used in melee at all?

Had 7 of these off a rancor a recently. Says it's a melee weapon component and upon inspect (from memory) ups Min Damage by 5 and Max Damage by 50, downside's were increased HAM costs and +1 to speed. Now this would be very sweet on say a stun baton that you'd not special with that much anyway or a curved for mobs that have low kinetic etc., But having given one to a master weaponsmith to try to make something he said he was unable to fit it into any weapon schematic, which suggests it is bugged.

So anyone out there managed to use these yet, or is it a case of waiting for them to be fixed, if so all send a bug report about it.

Also can Krayt Tissue, used in ranged weaps for much better stats, be used in melee at all? Ah just read the thread in here and it appears not.

Interesting, this is the first report I've seen of MOBs dropping melee weapon enhancers... but it had to be out there somewhere.

Would it be possible to get a screen shot? I've still never seen what these things look like.

Yup will do this eveningwhen I get back home from work (UK time here).

Dont forget to add your data with as much detail as possible to this thread:

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=weaponsmith&message.id=12442

thanks =)

Here you go:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dws/pics/swg7.jpg

The only melee enhancement I"m aware of is for vibro units.

Sword and reinf cores don't have a slot for it. maybe they should.

But geez, HAM increased by 20? that's a lot.

Thanks for the screenie, Riz - added the info to the Data Gathering Thread.

as for 20 HAM.. it's ok, for 50 more damage. IF it could be used on say an Advanced VK (which are only 35/52/35 HAM now after the patch)that would beef up damage from 45-144:2.2 to 50-194:3.2 with 55/72/55 HAM.. which is close to the pre patch ones in terms of cost.. and with the lowered special move cost it aint bad.

Just for example.. i got my 144 VK sliced to 180, i can only imagine that a 194 base would hit 240 max.. add to this the +unarmed from TKA's and you'd have insane damage (unarmedhit2 punching for 1.5k). Speed 3.2 isn't an issue anyway.. since once you get +unarmed/1h/2h speed higher than +50 or so you start to hit the 1.0 speed cap anyway (I'm hitting at 1.0 with my 2.0 knuckler and unarmed speed +75) - just like Master Rifleman pump at 2.0 speed with a 8.0 T21. The speed modifiers play a HUGE role.. hence why I chuckle at people that come with their speed sliced 1.2 Scouts - rather go for high damage myself and get skills to hit the 1.0 cap instead=)

Someone gave me a rancor tooth to try and make a nice two-handed curved sword. Well, the tooth (right now) can only be used in the slot for the sword core component, which is optional on the two hander. Normally I would use Advanced Sword Cores, which I make at about 43-43 damage, attack speed -0.61. When I looked at the rancor tooth, it said 5-50 damage, 1.0 speed. Meaning.... it ADDS to the speed. I made this thing, hoping that it would magically produce a nice sword, but it ended up with a 4.5 speed...which sucks balls. The damage wasn't any better either. It was like 18-234 orsomething..which is also worse than normal ones. This person also claimed that he had a friend that had swords made from these teeth that were 70-350....but I'm wondering if this person's swords were sliced. Either way I reimbursed the person with 25k just in case I was doing something wrong, even though melee weapons are so incredibly simple to make..

Does krayt tissue not work with melee?

Krayt tissue is used with blaster power handlers. On reinforcement and sword cores, there's not even a slot to put an enhancement.

Incidentally, so contrast with the above rancor tooth, and advanced sword core can be likt +35 min and max damage, and make the weapon FASTER by 0.32 or so. So the rancor tooth really does look like teh suck.

I just had a Ryyk Blade made with the same stat rancor tooth honestly you are ALOT better off going with a sliced ganderrfi or however you spell iti have one for 160 241 and 2.6 speed i worked up to master footwork and with a composite suit i can easily take on Master TKAs in duels the batons problem is that its HAM cost is near suicidle if you rely on macros and such this is not for you .

Wait, wait, wait...OK, two questions, I'm still not clear on the first oneeven after reading this thread: 1) Is krayt tissue usable for melee weapons? 2) What kind of HAM cost we talkin' on Gaffi sticks? I think I read somewhere it was heavy on the health, which would rock because my strength is insane. But ehhh anyone know where the HAM cost lies most heavily on a Gaffi stick (if it varies from weapon to weapon, I don't know if it does or not)?

Thanks.

-Rynaurr Rhylin, Thing Commander