Weaponsmith Archive
Thread: whats a big accomplishment for a MWS
Wow hard question to answer. Personally I judge my success on how well I make some base weapons without loot components. Right now I have a list of goals on what I want to acheive.
I want to get a dh17 pistol to a base damage of a 100. My best is 99 without loot components. I want to get my dh17 carbine to do 120 to 240 119 139 atm. I want to get my llc upto 460 min damage. Right now I struggle to get 450
When you get to be a good master weaponsmith. The real accomplishment is to eak out one or two more points.
If what you are asking what the litmis test of quality of a weaponsmith is. You have to look towards ranged weapons. The heavies the t21, or the highend pistols and carbines. Simple reason is to get these to perfection you need to perfect every little subcomponent from power handlers to stocks to scopes to barrels.
Took me over a year to get the highest minerals I could find to get Adv Blaster Power Handlers to 20/40 with no Krayte.
That was a nice day.
while i love to make high end wpns (krayt etc.) i love to see them sell even more 
its also a great feeling when someone buys a wpn and tells me how they love them. and then i see them coming back for more a week or two later.
I had two customers in my shop (no thats not the achievement)....
One was asking if I could make so-and-so....another came in and asked if I had LVA's in...I said they are in the factory cooking now, if you email me ill mail you back when they are done...I added if you them elsewhere thats no probs....he replied "no no..I only buy from you now"....and that is what makes me a happy WS.
I also enjoy hitting my personal best on a weapon or key component.
Be Well, Bob'the Builder
I feel that the accomplishment is all based on happy customers for one, and your base expirimentation secondly.
For the most part I'm only happy with a weapon if I can get the exp. on them over 25% before the expirimenting starts, that is a good sign of all quality resources.... Of course with some weapons (mainly those requring various types hard iron)that is near impossible, or at least on my server.
I feel that lastly is the money that is made... If steps one and two fall together, the money just flows in . As for rare drop-made weapons, I belive that you can't knock them either, If you are a dedicated MWS, after you have achived your status and money, it is time to step it up with krayt, acklay, and gorax lines.
Currently I'm in the process of turning out my second krayt and acklay line (the gorax are hard a hell to get a hold of :/).... but overall the biggest pleasure to me is when you don't shout in cnet or even advertise in any way, but still sell over 3 mil in a couple of days... to me that is the true level of achivement 
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Ryde wrote:
Took me over a year to get the highest minerals I could find to get Adv Blaster Power Handlers to 20/40 with no Krayte.
That was a nice day.
funny how the game hasnt been out of beta for a year yet
Those don't have anything to do with weaponsmiths, they're regular weapons that were sliced 4+ times through a smuggler exploit. Same thing with the 90% resist 0 enc armor pieces.
Protteus wrote:
Best acomplishment I ever saw from a WS was an 800 dmg scatter and a 900 dmg FWG5.
LLJK_Griz wrote:
Those don't have anything to do with weaponsmiths, they're regular weapons that were sliced 4+ times through a smuggler exploit. Same thing with the 90% resist 0 enc armor pieces.
Protteus wrote:
Best acomplishment I ever saw from a WS was an 800 dmg scatter and a 900 dmg FWG5.
Hum,,,depends. Some+2xx tissues were looted on my server and 2 of them were made into FWG5's. The better sliced version came out at like 740 once powered up. Now, it's no 900, but if some +300 tissues were looted, it can happen.
Not everything with crazy stats is exploited.
LLJK_Griz wrote: Those don't have anything to do with weaponsmiths, they're regular weapons that were sliced 4+ times through a smuggler exploit. Same thing with the 90% resist 0 enc armor pieces.
check this out (unsliced, thanks). 90%0ham armoris quite possible with one slice.Not sure on the scatter (I haven't seen it) but the 900 dmg FWG5 is legit, was made with a legendary feed mech and some +90ish tissue, with a very good damage slice. There was a post about it on the forums months ago when it was made, with pics of it unsliced (I believe it was a little over 500 dmg unsliced and unpowered, so with both it broke the 900 mark).
Oh and btw, 80% kinetic on 71% base armor is retarded....why would you cap the most important resist at 80% when you could just slice it higher (potentially up to 90%, where the damage getting through is halved compared to 80%)? I'd rather wear slightly lower base armor with electrical layers anyday.
For unenhanced crafts, which is what I think you're talking about, I can make 414 dmg T21s (did 427 on patch day), and 234 jawas (hit 249 on p-day).
Message Edited by Lurax on 06-01-2004 05:01 AM