Teras Kasi Archive

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VolvoSsixtyTsix wrote:

IMO TKM will be all wookiee proffession after CU. Since once again wooks got pwned with armor, TKM will be the best proffession for Wookiee. As it is right now its hard to even find good wookiee armor, after CU it might get worse. TK will eliminate armor problems and most likely wooks will get some TK/melee bonuses post CU. So all wooks ... you will receive something from CU.

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Funny, just today I was tanking a krayt in80% kinetic composite, and standing next to me helping keep the krayt off the Jedi was a.. Wookiee, and he was taking no more damage than I was. I think Wookiees are doin great now, remember, they didn't have armor for the longest time (though they PROBABLY should have had innate armor).

One thing you're not thinking about is the new armour system.

Now that all armour skins use the same cores as other armours I think we will acctuly see an increase in Wookiee & Ilthorian armours. So much more armour is now going to be custom made as the AS's can just mass produce the cores & keep crates of them for when they need to do certain types. I don't think people will pick up TKA just as they struggle to find armour.

The only difference between wookiee armor and regular armor is the way it looks. Wookiees get the same recon/battle/assault armor with the same stats that non-wookiees get, they just don't have a wide variety of styles to choose from. Same with ithorians.

Wookiees will make the best TKA anyway, because they get 3600 Health or somesuch with a pair of elite combat professions. They also start out with more health, so will find it easier to grind up.

Actually wookiees will have 3250 max health if they max out combat skills, which is actually less than ithorians who have 3300. Trandoshans have 3150 max, other species will range between 3100-2900. Don't forget that HAM secondaries will also vary by species as well, with some of the low health species having really good secondaries which will help with performing special abilities.

This is all assuming this doesn't change before the CU goes live, and these stats were extracted from TRE files, not given by developers.

I'm so glad Im a TKM cause all the new armor is either ugly or I cant wear it with my profs anyway

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Mankind00 wrote:
One thing you're not thinking about is the new armour system.

Now that all armour skins use the same cores as other armours I think we will acctuly see an increase in Wookiee & Ilthorian armours. So much more armour is now going to be custom made as the AS's can just mass produce the cores & keep crates of them for when they need to do certain types. I don't think people will pick up TKA just as they struggle to find armour.

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Sorry to troll here with the other menions of Everquest... but ahhh, your really really really are going to have a hard time finding an Armorsmith post CuRB. We are being dumb'd down into (N)PC Crafters with one line of experimentation. What in the hell is the point of being a 12pt smith having a differentiated product line than a new smith thats a 10pter. We are all going to craft the same exact armor, with the same exact results, with the exact same skins, only to be differed by "Loot Drops." This coming from the people who wanted the game to get away from "loot drops." .... and getting the wookie armor Good luck finding a Ranger with half health to harvest the required Dantooine Avian and normal Bones, and not to mention the required woods from Dathomir & Yavin. Lokian leathery hide will be a major head turner too as it's a key ingredient.

Your best bet for armor is to buy as much as you can now, save it, and use it sparringly post CuRB. Or just become Tkm and forget my whole post.

Ill be out at 0,0 Where us Armorsmiths, Rangers, and now Combat Medics/Docs have been deported to... /curtsey scouts too.

Instead of trolling why not contribute to the armoursmith forums & help give backing to any ideas come up instead of bringing the stuff up in other proffesions forums. It's been stated many many times that nothing in the CU is set in stone. Just as something is like it is now doesn't meen it will be that way in a week. Blix (& the rest of the Dev team) are very good at what they do & listen to feedback so give them time & see what they come up with, I don't know for sure, but I have a feeling they might come up with something.

You have to keep in mind that the devs first focus, no matter what, is to keep balance.

Also even with alot of AS's talking about packing it in, it doesn't meen an AS will deffinatly be hard to find. For every one player on the forums there is a hell of alot more ingame, & I know of quite alot of armour smiths.

I'm not saying I approve of the over simplifaction of AS, I don't, & I really do hope you get something good sorted for you guys, but I do see that balance has to come first right now, even if it does meen over simlifaction. Even if they don't get anything out in time for the CU I wouldn't be suprised if we saw some focus on you guys shortly after. As much as people believe they are, the Devs arn't thick. Just give them time instead of trolling & bringing the subject up in forums where it does not belong.

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Mankind00 wrote:
Instead of trolling why not contribute to the armoursmith forums & help give backing to any ideas come up instead of bringing the stuff up in other proffesions forums. It's been stated many many times that nothing in the CU is set in stone. Just as something is like it is now doesn't meen it will be that way in a week. Blix (& the rest of the Dev team) are very good at what they do & listen to feedback so give them time & see what they come up with, I don't know for sure, but I have a feeling they might come up with something.

You have to keep in mind that the devs first focus, no matter what, is to keep balance.

Also even with alot of AS's talking about packing it in, it doesn't meen an AS will deffinatly be hard to find. For every one player on the forums there is a hell of alot more ingame, & I know of quite alot of armour smiths.

I'm not saying I approve of the over simplifaction of AS, I don't, & I really do hope you get something good sorted for you guys, but I do see that balance has to come first right now, even if it does meen over simlifaction. Even if they don't get anything out in time for the CU I wouldn't be suprised if we saw some focus on you guys shortly after. As much as people believe they are, the Devs arn't thick. Just give them time instead of trolling & bringing the subject up in forums where it does not belong.

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We already Have and it really hasn't made any difference. I was just trying to bring a Smith's POV to your statement.....

As far as giving them time, how much time do they bloody need, 5 years instead of 2? This Combat Upgrade should be so polished by now, we shouldn't have to beta test it and find the obvious bugs that inhibit a lot of people from evening playing it (CTD's). In it's current state, there is no feasible way this can be pushed on live servers in less than a month. Further, sense this is a "Combat Upgrade", why did there have to be such a fundamental change in the Crafting Process and not a meare reduction in the maximum stats of armor (in our case). I understand the concept of balance, but i was also led to believe from the get go this "Update" was to fix broken professions, bad specials, insane armor and buffs, and "uber" weapons.


It's funny how nearly all the Corrospondents and Blue Glowies and Veteran Players from the fields (armorsmith, scout, ranger, combat medic, medic, doctor) are up in arms and ready to bail with the "Creative Input" they have given the non-thick devs over the last year and through the private Alpha Testing of the CRUD, i mean Curb.



I urge all of you to Please TROLL our boards and give your insights, it obviously means nothing when we do it.

Message Edited by NalaniKonomohu on 04-10-2005 01:14 PM

Well if this gets deleated, so be it, but at least you read it and know how I (and others feel).

The original post was a POV (Point of view) about wookie armors (relating to your comment).

Im sorry your getting 1hand exp instead of unarmed, but at least your not having your entire game fundamentaly change as a result of a "Combat" ,not "crafting" upgrade. Not to mention we are Losing millions of credits, time, and diversity in our field.

We shouldn't suffer to this upgrade, when our corrospondent and others, have submitted all our creative input to the devs who turned a blind eye at them. I wish you the best of luck, but I and many others are fed up. We (public) have been told too many false statements about this combat upgrade over the course of a year to hold any credit in this dev staff (the correspondents are privy to information, but also held under an NDA).

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Mankind00 wrote:
Instead of trolling why not contribute to the armoursmith forums & help give backing to any ideas come up instead of bringing the stuff up in other proffesions forums. It's been stated many many times that nothing in the CU is set in stone. Just as something is like it is now doesn't meen it will be that way in a week. Blix (& the rest of the Dev team) are very good at what they do & listen to feedback so give them time & see what they come up with, I don't know for sure, but I have a feeling they might come up with something.

You have to keep in mind that the devs first focus, no matter what, is to keep balance.

Also even with alot of AS's talking about packing it in, it doesn't meen an AS will deffinatly be hard to find. For every one player on the forums there is a hell of alot more ingame, & I know of quite alot of armour smiths.

I'm not saying I approve of the over simplifaction of AS, I don't, & I really do hope you get something good sorted for you guys, but I do see that balance has to come first right now, even if it does meen over simlifaction. Even if they don't get anything out in time for the CU I wouldn't be suprised if we saw some focus on you guys shortly after. As much as people believe they are, the Devs arn't thick. Just give them time instead of trolling & bringing the subject up in forums where it does not belong.

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This message should be read by all who are whining about the CU right now