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Thread: lightsaber colours
mesan
Sun May 29, 2005 8:47 am
#14
Saber colours are basically blue, green, red, purple, orange , yellow, brown (another yellow type really) with variations of light and dark with certain ones. The "rare" ones are the special named colour crystals such as Sunrider's Destiny and Bane's Heart which are a quest reward and loot drop respectively. The Sunrider is a nice teal colour and the Bane's is a red crystal. The Jedi themselves are supposed to use mainly green and blue. Blue for Jedi Guardians skilled in using Jedi combat techniques, green for the JediSentinels who are more adept force wielders and yellow for Jedi Consulars, a more diplomatic type of Jedi. The red sabres of the Sith are supposed to derive from the synthetic crystals crafted by the Siththemselves rather than the naturally occuring ones used by the Jedi.
Steno Raldian <BEAST>
Jedi Padawan
Farstar-European
Balzan
Sun May 29, 2005 9:39 am
#15
mesan wrote:Saber colours are basically blue, green, red, purple, orange , yellow, brown (another yellow type really) with variations of light and dark with certain ones. The "rare" ones are the special named colour crystals such as Sunrider's Destiny and Bane's Heart which are a quest reward and loot drop respectively. The Sunrider is a nice teal colour and the Bane's is a red crystal. The Jedi themselves are supposed to use mainly green and blue. Blue for Jedi Guardians skilled in using Jedi combat techniques, green for the Jedi Sentinels who are more adept force wielders and yellow for Jedi Consulars, a more diplomatic type of Jedi. The red sabres of the Sith are supposed to derive from the synthetic crystals crafted by the Sith themselves rather than the naturally occuring ones used by the Jedi.Steno RaldianJedi PadawanFarstar-European
Errrrrm Yellow is a rare natural crystal. Blue is also natural though more common. Green can only be created synthetically. Red is a synthetic crystal that is created by Dark Jedi by them using the dark side to manipulate their crystals making them more powerful.
Windu's purple saber in AotC and RotS doesn't use crystals. I don't know how his works though
ArsMoritoria
Sun May 29, 2005 9:45 am
#16
mesan wrote:
Saber colours are basically blue, green, red, purple, orange , yellow, brown (another yellow type really) with variations of light and dark with certain ones. The "rare" ones are the special named colour crystals such as Sunrider's Destiny and Bane's Heart which are a quest reward and loot drop respectively. The Sunrider is a nice teal colour and the Bane's is a red crystal. The Jedi themselves are supposed to use mainly green and blue. Blue for Jedi Guardians skilled in using Jedi combat techniques, green for the JediSentinels who are more adept force wielders and yellow for Jedi Consulars, a more diplomatic type of Jedi. The red sabres of the Sith are supposed to derive from the synthetic crystals crafted by the Siththemselves rather than the naturally occuring ones used by the Jedi.
Steno Raldian
Jedi Padawan
Farstar-European
Just as a quick note, I'm pretty sure you got Sentinels and Consulars backwards, at least according to the literature on KOTOR. I have no idea where any of this info is found elsewhere, either from the writings of the Mad Prophet (ie. George Lucas), or in the EU.
mesan
Sun May 29, 2005 10:02 am
#17
You are absolutely correct I did get them the wrong way round. The KOTOR background states:
"Blue are for "Jedi Guardians" who are great fighters and users of the physical espects of the Force.
Green are for "Jedi Consulars" who have great skill in diplomacy and are advanced users of the Force.
Yellow are for "Jedi Sentinels" who have an excellent awareness and have moderate skills in both physical and other uses of the Force. "
Another EU (I know its significance is limited in terms of SWG) source states:
"Before the battle of Ruusan, Jedi had access to that world's crystal deposits and crystals of every known hue. With the detonation of the Sith thought bomb, Ruusan crystals became unavailable. During Attack of the Clones, Jedi could only use crystals retrieved from the caves of Ilum. As a result, the blades of their weapons were always blue, or green--the only colours those crystals could produce. Of course, Mace Windu, and later, Luke Skywalker, used an ancient force tradition of imbuing regular crystals with the power of the Force, causing a variety of colours. "
So there you go, this is correct as far as I know. As I said though EU canon is not 100% applicable to SWG and nor should it be. Lets face it we all play the game to have a fun and get a bit of excitement in a Star Wars environment. Who cares about the background accuracy to the nth degree? Its all the mad ravings of a bearded wierdo in a ranch in America somewhere isn't it?
Steno Raldian <BEAST>
Jedi Padawan
Farstar-European
HornedSandRanger
Sun May 29, 2005 10:06 am
#18
ChosenWon wrote:
White lightsaber crystal - Most rare, found only at /waypoint 0,0 on Dathomir.
Its a random loot drop from one of the NPC's there...
Check it out
OMFG!!! ROFLMAO!!!
KillerInCamo
Mon May 30, 2005 4:23 am
#19
what is easy that drops crystals tho. me and a friend went killing today we did mokk and janta shamans none of theme dropped anything i think it has changed since cu tho.
umm what is the easiest thing to kill that drop crystals we got owned by easiest type of krayts lol why are they so strong now ye anyway ty.
mesan
Mon May 30, 2005 4:30 am
#20
Tuskens at the tusken fort were always good for dropping colour crystals, also marauders on endor and various faction npc's. I even got them off meatlumps in the past. Basically any npc should drop them but as I said, the most success I ever had with colour crystals was tuskens.
mesan
Mon May 30, 2005 4:43 am
#22
Yes any type. I've not been back after CU as I amassed a large collection of every hue prior to the upgrade. Its the power crystals I want!
TarkanArrant
Mon May 30, 2005 4:46 am
#23
mesan wrote:
Saber colours are basically blue, green, red, purple, orange , yellow, brown (another yellow type really) with variations of light and dark with certain ones. The "rare" ones are the special named colour crystals such as Sunrider's Destiny and Bane's Heart which are a quest reward and loot drop respectively. The Sunrider is a nice teal colour and the Bane's is a red crystal. The Jedi themselves are supposed to use mainly green and blue. Blue for Jedi Guardians skilled in using Jedi combat techniques, green for the JediSentinels who are more adept force wielders and yellow for Jedi Consulars, a more diplomatic type of Jedi. The red sabres of the Sith are supposed to derive from the synthetic crystals crafted by the Siththemselves rather than the naturally occuring ones used by the Jedi.
Steno Raldian
Jedi Padawan
Farstar-European
Glad to see you got your info from KOTOR lol, well sorry to say but you already messed up. Sentinel=Yellow Consular= Green, but colors don't mean what your "rank" is, cause then the whole consul would be using green sabers then right? Colors are chosen from liking not forced upon. As for the sith, I do not recall them doing that, Sabers for the Sith don't mean anything, as long as they have a saber they won't go "oh you know what, I don't like my green saber, I think I am going to go look for a red one."
Lord_Zain
Mon May 30, 2005 4:54 am
#24
I've got one thats Orange, still havent run across someone with that color.
Sephiroth686
Mon May 30, 2005 4:59 am
#25
Im a bit dissapointed that the two special colour crystals give a larger elemental damage than all the standard colours.
I only have sunriders destiny so I am now stuck to that one single colour, unable to change unless I want to take a damage reduction to my already crappy saber.