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I'm a zebrak.

I don't have all my stats in front of me since I'm at work, but here is my delima:

Health 1200/1200

Strenght 500

Stamina - 700

Action 1000

Const - 700 (I think)

err cant' remember this one - xxx here

Mind 600

Focus 368 (Or around those parts)

Last one can't remmeber either - 600-700 though.

Here is my problem. I want to be tough, I'm a novice swordsman with 2 intermediate skills (Offense and Defense). I can go to lok and fight for some time, problem is with armor (which does help slightly) but it kills what I can do damage wise. For instance, if I put my armor on, I can hit for 600 damage with my 2h curved sword. Without armor I can hit for 1.5k! I have tried plenty of different armor combinations; bone/marabi/ubese/padded which is about everything the armor smiths can make atm.

So for a brawler, it's a lose/lose situation. I have nothing that can completely stun the enemy to keep him from hitting me, so if I wear armor I can't kill the thing, or if it does die, and i'm in a group the marksmen get all the xp, or I can take the armor off and fight straight up, get mad XP but be hurten after the fight.

Marksmen can go on and on, brawlers suffer, and they're the ones who need the good armor and not the suffer to the damage.

Anyone else noticing this issue? Or, am I missing something all together?

-slipmat

slipmat (swordsman) - Ahazi galaxy

Hey Slipmat, I play a Zabrak Swordsman, too. Well almost to Novice, I'm too busy making money and getting faction...

Anyway, I've noticed a bug with Zabraks and armor, when I and several other Zabs equip armor, it detracts from our non-HAM stats. HAM is completely uneffected by the armor but stats like strength take the hit, which is pretty major because the HAM penalty was meant to go against HAM stats which are on average pretty high (600-1300's) but our other stats are much lower (i.e. your Strength is 500). So imagine a Health penalty total of -200 from your armor being applied to your strength, this would almost halve your strength.

I'm not the only one to notice this bug or whatever it is, an Armorsmith friend of mine also has seen this plus some of her ZAbrak customers.

Check your stats with and without your armor. In the stat migration page, it shows the max of all my stats as normal but the actual values as being severly penalized even with no wounds.

Wookies..bah! Walking carpets all of you

Duo

Aspiring Swordsman

Bria

Shoulda made a wookiee

Even with your pretty armor i hit harder than you and take the same damage lol

Has nothing to do with being a Zabrak. Armor detracts from your secondary stats. I don't think Strength has any impact on damage. All Strength affects is how much health action is required for actions that draw on health.

Hey Repo! **edit**!

secondly. it does detract from strength, i have a great armor smith called sil on akaya server or whatever the name. He's working closely with me.

With his armor on, my strength goes down (it's been tested with all available armors up to padded). With strength going down, my damage goes down drastically. Tested with multiple melee weapons up to Clever. spliced and non-spliced.

So now i'm a pretty good lucking swordsman wearing a nice bright red robe, but get no protection from armor since I can't hit for squat with it on. So I leave it off and lay damage all over the place (with repo's help ofcourse.. ahole!) hehe..

Any Other comments?

I'm sorry ticket, as the only use for armor that I can see would be in PVP.

-slipmat