Jedi Archive
Thread: Pearls & Sabers *read please*
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Omanik
Mon Sep 19, 2005 1:19 am
#1
Ok so ive been around since day one, never thought i would make jedi let alone finish one. I picked up a bunch of -9 pearls back in pre cu one isa 120/120 others arebelow 100 its a 480 dps 1.3 speed 10 fc 101 sac. I was lucky enough to get the -9s to get a low force cost.. great for grinding and group pvp. But when i fight a jedi that by all means busted his/her @$$ to get flawless pearls and get a damn near perfect saber that has a 600-700 dps i cannon compete with that unless they dont know what they are doing.. im a MLS and i think that this whole pearl drop should be fixed..
I'm aware of what tiggs said and i think its still bs. The loot in this game is f%^*ed up in my opinion. All i see are good pearls off of krayts and they tune pretty bad.. i wish they would just change the name to "bad" pearls... Anywayz my point here is *and i know its been said* what about the new jedi? they get to live off of 28/28 -2's ? i mean seriously they grind all that to hit as hard as a dwarf nuna? I just say this because i want it to be fair. I'm lucky to have a decent saber... *it gets me by* but my only concern here is for others, i hope thats not going over looked.. I think that MLS and MP should hit just as hard and should be more of a choicethan a "have to" ofcourse mls hits better up close and mp hit hard ranged.. but i know thats a lil rough and a whole other subject but i think if you master one of the damage dealing sides of jedi then u hit as hard as a "I got my pearls back when they dropped jedi". just because I unlocked jedi 5 months before the cu doesnt make me better than someone who is going to unlock within the next week.. I think we all worked hard to get it and should be equal at finished template if not equal then should have the chance to be equal, because right now there are no pearls for their sabers that get them even close to 500 dps.. and if it stays like this the older jedi will always win unless ganked by a bunch of dwarf nuna hitting jedi.. get it?
Well thats it...just been on my mind for the past week or so.. dont flame because i dont care!I'm wantingto see if anyone might feel the same way or might have a solution for this problem that comes up for me.its 3 am im off to bed... let me know what ya think ill check the post tomorrow..night everyone
VulcanLionheart
Mon Sep 19, 2005 1:32 am
#2
I am completely with you and agree.New jedis are not equal to precu ones.Only because of this pearl and crystal matter.If this is solved then we are saved.,thats all.
SeeruFlock
Mon Sep 19, 2005 6:21 am
#5
I say remove the pearl/crystal crap entirely and make LS crafting actually have a meaning!
I mean there's not even a noticable difference after experimenting...speed max gives about -0.1, FC goes down about 5 points, SAC 30-40 points and dmg is not worth mentioning at all. Is there another crafting skill in the game that's as useless as ls crafting? Currently for a good saber you need good loot, not good skill. I say make ls craft mean something and like Dr. Evil would say - you canput those pearls/crystals in your blunt and smoke them!
Arkadya
Mon Sep 19, 2005 6:57 am
#7
I'd like to see sabers on par with every others... From Star Wars Canon there has been only one saber that was more powerfull than others, a yelow one that could cut through other sabers. After that all sabers are equal. Now to find some differences, it should have bonuses for combat (based on handling, speed...) depending on how it has been crafted.
The situation with pearls is SO out of control and has been for so long now that I say "the hell with those", let all the jedi be what they diserve to be !
EcadMistflier
Mon Sep 19, 2005 7:04 am
#8
Frankly, I suspect the fix for our light sabers will be answered in the form of a crafting fix. Quality pearls/crystals etc will continue to be extremely rare and the majority of good to excellent post cu sabers will be the direct result of a combination of factors during the crafting process.
MrDecipher
Mon Sep 19, 2005 7:22 am
#9
Well to be honest if they added premium pearls back into the game Jedi would get nerfed hard about 1 month after. Reason i say this is because right now 20% of the jedi have great 700 damage sabers. In PvP you know who they are because they hit real hard and fast. Most non jedi toons are killed really fast by these guys. If 70% of the jedi had sabers like this non jedi would once again not be able to compete in the GCW and would be crying damage nerf everywhere and the nerf would happen.
Kev0r
Mon Sep 19, 2005 7:23 am
#10
If the new NPC AI works out, expect to see better pearls/crystals dropping IMHO. The issue so far has been the ease at which we can kill high end mobs. Once they become less farmable, we will see the devs giving us loot more worthy of our efforts...
MrDecipher
Mon Sep 19, 2005 7:26 am
#11
Kev0r wrote:
If the new NPC AI works out, expect to see better pearls/crystals dropping IMHO. The issue so far has been the ease at which we can kill high end mobs. Once they become less farmable, we will see the devs giving us loot more worthy of our efforts...
As long as avoid incap is in the game everything is farmable.
YarKi
Mon Sep 19, 2005 7:53 am
#12
Kev0r wrote:
If the new NPC AI works out, expect to see better pearls/crystals dropping IMHO. The issue so far has been the ease at which we can kill high end mobs. Once they become less farmable, we will see the devs giving us loot more worthy of our efforts...
High end mobs are no more farmable than they were pre-CU. The pear/crystalsituation is BS.Tiggs'post "explaining" why it will not be fixed is BS.Faced with the fact of the entire population eventually turning Jedi, SOEs solution is to make Jedi as undesirable as possible - with the current "perfect saber" Jedi beinghanded pretty much a permanent advantage.Your only option is to farm endless crappy crystals hoping for miracle tunes to maybe get yourself a LS that will make you barely competitive vs other Jedi. This will soak up a ton of time and will keep you paying your monthly fee despite the general lack of content in the game. That is how it is and if you are going to be a Jedi, you better get used to it, becausethey are not changing it.
EcadMistflier
Mon Sep 19, 2005 7:55 am
#13
Kev0r wrote:
If the new NPC AI works out, expect to see better pearls/crystals dropping IMHO. The issue so far has been the ease at which we can kill high end mobs. Once they become less farmable, we will see the devs giving us loot more worthy of our efforts...
Although I would like to believe SWGwill one day haveloot worthy of the effort we put in to obtain it I just don't think that is the track record of this game. Loot in SWGhas never been either truly significant, diverse,or when desirable immune from nerfage (Sonic blasters, krayt tissues, pearls, etc).
Improvements in crafting would be the most logical and likely mode to improve the quality of post cu sabers. The devs in SWG have never been ones to rely simply on loot drops to provide competitive weapons in game.
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