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I started the FS quests a couple days ago and had 3 free unlocks. Well I took Melee speed and melee acc right off (master pikeman as well as master smuggler). So I was looking for something that may go along with the Master Smuggler side of my template. So I saw this luck tree...and I mastered it (I figured all smugglers need some luck). So now I have this luck +4 deal, at first I noticed nothing as I was just fighting sith pirates and such and they always drop those weired resources. After a while I started fighting the normal NPC's and everyone...everyone of them dropped loot and/or credits. I killed a miner at Mining Outpost on Dantooine and recieved a Mind Poison Vibro Knuckler with 749/750 condition on it. I have never had this much success at geting loot.

I have not had the opportunity to try out my luck on anything else (such as PvP) but I am looking forward to seeing what else it will do. And I know there is probably a detailed explanation of the luck skill somewhere, but I always like to experiment first hand and figure things out on my own.

I am also thinking about mastering persuasion as well...as it seems to be more like the underworld branch on smuggler. Maybe it is at least halfway useful :-p.

Well I just thought I would share my blind smuggler luck with you all and maybe share a bit of knowledge to any of you who are thinking about what skills to get in FS.

*Gives smuggler community secret smuggler handshake*

Jigan Sterling
Master Smuggler/Master Commando
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Hrmm, that is interesting. I do agree with Hoenir, they did change the loot so you pretty much never get "You find nothing else of value on the selected corpse" message any longer.

I'm highly curious,though, to know if anyone else has seen more/better loots with the Luck skills. I think I read somewhere that was what Luck was to be all about. And if that is the case, maybe I'll let that creepy old man visit me.

Nerro Elyst
Master Smuggler ~ Rebel Colonel
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Luck does increase the ammount of credits looted.

The stupid 'One Resource' (which do not, god only knows why, even combine when they are EXACTLY the same!) drop off every sith pirate.

they upped the NPC loot/credit drop rate to 100%, so that every single npc you kill will at least drop a couple of credits.

my personal theory is they did it to reward the attended gamer, as afk'ers would either have to let some rot without looting or risk getting overwhelmed by the damage and dying (death of a thousand needles lol) from the contant respawn

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I am not talking about a "couple" of credits or crap loot (broken stuff).

I am talking about rare loot drops and hundreds of credits from normal run of the mill green con NPC's

I know they increased the loot drop rate...and still I have noticed the increase in my own personal loots since getting the luck skill.

Jigan Sterling
Master Smuggler/Master Commando
Smuggler Alliance Ace Pilot
M'hael of the Pirates of Obroa-skai
Captain of the Cha Faile
Proud member of The Syndicate
Member of The Tribe Multi-game community
www.thetribeclan.com

have you tried slicing at all since u ppicked up luck? perhaps you can actualy get consistent slices? ive not got fs mods on my primary so i havent been able to test with smuggler at all.

stealth

i havent tried the whole loot thing... though now i wil ahve to.. since some of that stuff is selling for some good prices...

what i have noticed is in slicing... i did an order last night b4 reset.. 68 t-21's.. not bad since i had just bought a suit of wook armor... well.. i would say that over 80% of those slices were over 25%... of those.. prob half were over 30%... i had 3 slices that were below 20%... with slices like that i have been considering raising my prices some. i have already started to add that im a master smuggler with luck IV.. but no one quite understands that yet.

has anyone else noticed an increase in their slices?

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Not yet, but, I, too, am doing the luck skill tree for the same reason. I had thought to do the same with Persuasion...perhaps it will mean something to our prof....

/prays

Im just glad to hear there are vibroknucklers out there with mind poison...Man those are priceless...never seen those before, but there won't be a safe miner at the minig outpost again,,,lol

I took melee accuracy and speed for my freebies and will try and do the luck tree in next phase. I hope you are correct in this. I would definitely like to get some cool loot.

WookieCrisp
TKM/Master Smuggler
Col.Imperial Army

I havent tried any of the Luck tree yet, and am currently still working on getting ranged accuracy 1! But I did notice that I was getting 'unusual' armour slices. I have only been master smuggler for a month or so, but these were the highest slices I've had so far. This happened yesterday, and I havent had a chance to do anymore experimenting. But did wonder if either there was some inate FS skill that was giving me these results or some 'stealth' change in last Publish?

Full suit of Stun armour - All sliced encumberance (in fact not had an effect slice yet since FS/Pub). Lowest 29%, majority mid to high 30s, with 3 40+ %!!! (never hada 40 before!).

I then tried with 6 VKs and 3 laser rifles - seemed no change there and had 'regular' results from 17%-33% on spd and dmg. Lastly tried a helmet, as ran out of clamps and shutdown 2 mins away, and got a 35% encumb slice!

What u guys thinks? Have I just bin lucky? Or just glowing well!?

Nacouwem