Smuggler Archive
Thread: DEV's Can We Please Get A Review Of The Smuggler Tools Loot Drop Tables
Iawo wrote:
FCT's and Trandoshan infraframes are common in the middle of the invest tree, it's just that nobody stays in the middle of that tree long enough to become a true supplier. They need to just mix it up and let all of them drop on MBH missions, along with increasing their drop rates on high end PvE like nightsisters, mauraders, and such.
Shock aborbent paddings are just plain rare. They are now 340k+ on Bria, and there's really only around 50 of them on the vendors total. That won't last long at all with all the armor break slice requests I get.
With all due respect to the resident BH/smugglers here - I don't mean to give offense, and I'm glad you got a steady supply of slicing components, but your experiences when looting them are pretty irrelevant for most of us. I suspect that BH/smuggler wasn't too common before the CU, and even though it's FOTM since then, I doubt a lot of people will want to change half of their template and take up a profession that otherwise wouldn't interest them just to get access to these components.
Unless I misunderstood the OP, the request is for looking at theloot tablesfor the rest of us, all the poor non-BH folks for whom drop rates of these items are usually well below 1%. When they implemented these slices SOE announced that they might have to tweak the drop rates further down the line (I think it was GM who said that).
Well, we are now FAR down the line already, and it should be pretty clear that drop rates for all non-BH's are extremely poor, and downright inacceptable compared to BH missions.
Again, in no way intended as a flame, just trying to put things in perspective here 
I de-crated and salvaged 5 armor upgrade kit crates I've had lying around forever. I got
6 shock ab pads
9 Trando Intraframes
9 Powered Motivators
11 Reactive Microplating
10 Finely crafted toolkits
80 Simple Toolkits
None taken. I think what Iawo was trying to point out is that at least the finely crafted toolsets are harvested by BHs en masse and thus should be readily available to Smugglers. Whether it is a good idea that Smugglers rely on BHs for Smuggler components is another question entirely. Problem with components dropping as loot is that noone except us Smugglers holds them into high regard. So all non-Smuggler loot who... hunters will object an increase in dropping numbers.
Landlubber wrote:
With all due respect to the resident BH/smugglers here - I don't mean to give offense, and I'm glad you got a steady supply of slicing components, but your experiences when looting them are pretty irrelevant for most of us. I suspect that BH/smuggler wasn't too common before the CU, and even though it's FOTM since then, I doubt a lot of people will want to change half of their template and take up a profession that otherwise wouldn't interest them just to get access to these components.
Unless I misunderstood the OP, the request is for looking at theloot tablesfor the rest of us, all the poor non-BH folks for whom drop rates of these items are usually well below 1%. When they implemented these slices SOE announced that they might have to tweak the drop rates further down the line (I think it was GM who said that).
Well, we are now FAR down the line already, and it should be pretty clear that drop rates for all non-BH's are extremely poor, and downright inacceptable compared to BH missions.
Again, in no way intended as a flame, just trying to put things in perspective here
Message Edited by Aendracon on 09-29-2005 09:12 AM
ther34p wrote:
I de-crated and salvaged 5 armor upgrade kit crates I've had lying around forever. I got
6 shock ab pads
9 Trando Intraframes
9 Powered Motivators
11 Reactive Microplating
10 Finely crafted toolkits
80 Simple Toolkits
You mah friend are a very rich man!
Aendracon wrote:
None taken. I think what Iawo was trying to point out is that at least the finely crafted toolsets are harvested by BHs en masse and thus should be readily available to Smugglers. Whether it is a good idea that Smugglers rely on BHs for Smuggler components is another question entirely. Problem with components dropping as loot is that noone except us Smugglers holds them into high regard. So all non-Smuggler loot who... hunters will object an increase in dropping numbers.
Landlubber wrote:
With all due respect to the resident BH/smugglers here - I don't mean to give offense, and I'm glad you got a steady supply of slicing components, but your experiences when looting them are pretty irrelevant for most of us. I suspect that BH/smuggler wasn't too common before the CU, and even though it's FOTM since then, I doubt a lot of people will want to change half of their template and take up a profession that otherwise wouldn't interest them just to get access to these components.
Unless I misunderstood the OP, the request is for looking at theloot tablesfor the rest of us, all the poor non-BH folks for whom drop rates of these items are usually well below 1%. When they implemented these slices SOE announced that they might have to tweak the drop rates further down the line (I think it was GM who said that).
Well, we are now FAR down the line already, and it should be pretty clear that drop rates for all non-BH's are extremely poor, and downright inacceptable compared to BH missions.
Again, in no way intended as a flame, just trying to put things in perspective here
Message Edited by Aendracon on 09-29-2005 09:12 AM
Yeah, that's definitely what I meant. I have no objections to increasing the drop rates on non-BH mobs, in fact I would prefer it. I used my respec because of those drop rates on non-BH mobs. They simply need to obtainable during smuggler missions instead of BH missions, that's all there is to it. Unfortunately we don't have smuggler missions yet.
Iawo wrote:
Yeah, that's definitely what I meant. I have no objections to increasing the drop rates on non-BH mobs, in fact I would prefer it. I used my respec because of those drop rates on non-BH mobs. They simply need to obtainable during smuggler missions instead of BH missions, that's all there is to it. Unfortunately we don't have smuggler missions yet.
