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I hear stuff about enhancing your rifle with krayt tissue, gold, energy, etc.

Is there a list somewhere on how to enhance each weapon, how much enhancement to expect, how much it will cost on average, how long it lasts (if not permanent), and in all ways it alters your weapon (maybe it wears down the weapon faster or something)?

I'd be very interested in knowing more about this as I have both a T21, a Laser Rifle and a Spraystick that probably could do well with some modding.

Well, to enhance a wepaon with Krayt tissue, the tissue needs to be incorporated in the crafting stage, so it's not possible to mod a weapon with krayt once it's been crafted. By 'gold', the only thing I can think of that you might be referring to is muon gold, a spice which massively boosts your mind and mind substats, and so enables you to special away all day. I could be wrong there, thoug.

As far as I am aware, the only mods that can be done to a crafted weapon are popping a powerup on (increase one stat by up to 33% and another by up to 16%, with a third up to 7% if you're very lucky), and getting it sliced (improve either speed or damage by up to 35% if you go to a master smuggler). Both of these dramatically increase the rate of weapon decay, in particular powerups, but with a good slice and a complementing powerup, you can easily double a weapon's max damage or halve its speed. If you combine, eg, a damage slice on a T21 with a powerup that reduces mind costs, it can approach the stats of a sliced laser, and becomes very powerful indeed, in my experience.

Hope this helps!
Yours,

a base T21 outstrips a boosted laser any day. for a laser to equal a T21 the laser has to get a high end roll and the T21 has to get a low end roll. anything else and the T21 beats a laser.

weapon add-ons on top of slices degrade the weapon so much that it is practically useless in PVE. good for PVP tho. unless you dont care about the weapon lasting more than a day or two attachments are fine.

properly migrated stats make HAM costs a non-issue less your into using armour. i can spam HS3 for a VERY long time at 93 a pop. i dont remember the last time i ran myself out of mind. i dont use spice and havent had the patience to sit in front of a dancer for ten minutes for the stat increase either. my stats are 600/400/400 600/400/400 800/1100/700

if i do any PVP i find a doctor and get a few health action boosts.

Aye, my point wasn't which is more effective (once your rifle speed mod is high enough, T21 just shines), but that laser stats generally look better on paper than T21 before you take the AP3 and tighter damage range into account.

Eg, standard top-end Bria laser seems to be in the 45-400 damage mark, whereas top-end T21's don't seem to go much higher than 340 or so. With specials multipliers, that's a few hundred points of damage more that the laser can do, compared to the T21 - if you don't include the AP and average damage and all that jazz.

My biggest problem with T21's is, natch, the monstrous HAM costs - species will obviously affect this, I'm guessing you're human Barb as there's no way in hell i could ever get my mind substats that high, not even with spice! So with that in mind, the laser can be the vastly better choice in some situations cause you can bust out specials willy-nilly, whereas trying that with a standard T21 would just kill you in a couple of shots. Then again, personal experience here, heh.

I'm just rambling. Servers back up yet?

Yours,