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I read these boards a good bit, and everywhere I look I see "Well the 2h curved sword is AR2 .... blah blah blah... AR3... blah blah blah ... AR1."

I can't figure out what AR means!

Can someone please tell me and put me out of my misery lol.

This is taken from the Armor guide which you can find by clicking on Advanced Guides on SWG frontpage:

Armor Rating:

Our bone gloves have an Armor Rating of Light. Armor Ratings have four possible values: None, Light, Medium, and Heavy. Personal armor always falls into the Light category with None being reserved for those with no armor and the other two values being reserved for armored vehicles and especially nasty critters.

Armor Rating expresses the minimum Armor Piercing value of a weapon needed for the weapon to do its full damage. If the armor's Armor Rating is equal to the weapon's Armor Piercing, there is no effect. If the Armor Rating is higher, however, there is a 50% reduction for each level difference. Therefore for the bone gloves against this CDEF Pistol's Armor Rating of None (fig. 2), damage is reduced by 50% off of the top. But in the case of the Power Hammer (fig. 3), its Armor Piercing is higher than the Armor Rating. It therefore does 25% more damage. Note that the 50% reduction or 25% increase occurs for each level. So if that CDEF were to be used against an AT-ST whose Armor Rating is Heavy, there would be a three level difference. So damage would be reduced by 50%, then another 50%, and another 50% for merely 12.5% of the initial damage.

Greetings

Gorecki

Thanks Gorecki

People should be talking about them having AP2 (armor piercing 2), not AR2. Weapons dont have armor ratings - but no one seems to care much

Yeah. The AR (Armor Rating, kinda makes sense when you think about it... okay... only partly) is the punching power of the weapon... Like a arrow would do fifty damage, but have no power to go though armor types (For every AR level of 1, the damage is changed by 50%. IE a weapon with 1 ar against somting with 0 would do 50% more damage)

I think this also stacks, so that a weapon with AR3 agasint ar 0 would get 150% damage bonus... but I dont think that's exactly right.

Oh And Gorecki, why do you say Greetings at the END of your posts?