Force Sensitive Archive
Thread: A little question about force crystals.
Message Edited by TXwarrior on 11-23-2004 03:30 PM
R.I.P. 
interesting.
TigerJedi01 wrote:
color crystals: change the color of the lightsaber, these already have a condition on them, ie XXX/XXX
power crystals: these have the flawless, poor, quality etc ratings i believe these are examined by jedi to recieve these ratings. these are then tuned and in tunning they can still become crap crystals....or great crystals regardless of the quality.
i think this is how it works. can i get a confirmation
in a nutshell, yes. A poor crystal will never tune to the same as a premium crystal. I should have said this above.
I used the example of the quality crystal and the premium since these are both capable of tuning to the same stats.
Three things to note:
1) The best stats you can tune are -10 force (kind of like ham on weapons)and +50 damage (literally applied to the max damage of your saber). I've never tuned a flawless but assume that it is still a risk. I've never tuned a poor crystal better than -2 force and +10 damage. Given this range, you can see my point that making your first generation sabers, which only hold 1 damage crystal, with uber crystals is really a waste.
2) Condition of crystals will have nothing to do with quality. Higher is better, so if you have a premium crystal that is 700 condition versus a premium that is 1400 condition, yes the latter is much better. But if you cannot view the quality rating of the crystal, you CANNOT assume that since the condition is only 700 that it is junk. I have a premium that has a condition of 650 and a poor with condition of 1400. You will learn that being a jedi will mean having backpacks of crystals in a house that are sorted for various needs, PvP crystals, grind crystals, etc.
3) Once you tune a crystal, only you can use it. This is important. My alt is a force crystal hunter, that's just about all I do and i try to gather crystals and trade up. It's tedious busy work that makes the game fun while you're waiting for your visiblity to decrease. But the important thing is that you should tune and then use as needed. Don't take your batch of damage crystals you've been saving up and tune every one. There's also theories about having 0 battle fatigue, no wounds and basically being in the best condition physically when tuning to get better results. I disagree with this but superstition is half of being a jedi, the other half is knowing when to hit burst run, target closest speeder bike and saber toss.
hope this clears some stuff up.