Weaponsmith Archive

I have seen quite a few exceptional items posted on just the Chilastra trade forums lately. I remember way back when even finding one seemed like a 1 in a million chance. I personally dont sell many loot component weapons except the genocian dxr6b rifles, as the schem is easy to get and made with white cubes and +12 exp points they come out quite nice usually. As for the rest I make the customer find all the parts and I charge a small assembly fee. Typically that fee really isn't worth my time, but I like to provide a service that keeps people coming back to me.

I can see it now. A squad of fully buffed weapon and armor smiths in full composite hunting giant sand dune kimogila armed with CDEFs and C12 grenades... all because someone had to have some RIS armor.

No.. they will be using loot dropped exceptional T21's to take it down.. Or if they cant find those some uber DoT CDEF pistols...

THe amount of these dropping compared to the number of weapons sales a day is maybe 1 in 500. These exceptional weapons almost always have terrible condition, so they will only be used every so often. I doubt a couple extra Exceptional weapons is going to hurt any of our businesses.

I've seen a lot more exceptional krayt drops recently, and they need WS's to make those weapons.

That isn't the point... The point is SOE outright lied.. Nothing we can do about it now though, except post our concerns. It is too late now to ever fix it in my opinion.

doesnt bother me, people will always need weapons + most exceptional weapons hang on walls

People need to stop phrasing a companies actions as lies.

Developing a game isnt easy, it is full of thousnads of various checks and balances. Sometimes they ahve to swey form the original intent because of other factors. Noone ever sets out to upset a portion of the players, but it is going to happen because of the numerous types of personalities that play these games. If someone says something, and changes what they said, it happened for a reason, and that reason never has to be revealed to the public.

You may not like what happened by a few Uber drops, but they are so miniscule they don't affect my business at all, and I can assure you they don't affect other WS's business on Valcyn, and we have our fair share of uber loot weapons.

And I dont ever rememebr reading Thunderheart or some other official SOE Cronie saying that Uber Loot wont happen, but I do remember them saying that it is going to be a rare occurance, and it has been very rare. The exception weapons that are worth using are extremly rare.

My opinion isnt a popular one, so I dont expect anyone to agree with me. Thing is I have experience in the gaming industry when I did stuff for Mythic, Artifact Entertainment, NCSoft and CCP, I have established very good contacts within those companies, and I know each of them when ever they make a fragile decision and announce it, they expect people to cancel, they expect people to outroar, but they have to stick to their guns, because most of the time the decision was for the good of the game, and on that rare occurance when the player was right about a change, they will suck it up and revert and apologize in my experience.

It's ok to be upset about this, but it isnt killing weaponsmiths, I still make 40-100 sales a day, I sitll get requests ot make krayt weapons, and I still do maybe 5-10 repairs daily. This has been consistant even with these exceptional weapons.

I wouldn't say that its going to "hurt" my sales, I'm not worried about that. It is the principal of the matter that bugs me. I cant "quote" exactly where it was said, whether a dev chat or feature listing, but it was said that the best weapons would be player crafted.

although this is not related to weapons but until 1 month ago i had never looted ANYTHING with exceptional or legendary tag, 1 month ago I looted some 100% ase legendary krayt segments and then a few weeks later I looted some 82% cold resist rancor hide segments . Until then I had never looted any exceptional for then 10 months I had been playing

Gah...I think you guys fail to realize most ppl look forward to loot. Woot, I'll do the Geo Cave. 30 minutes later, yay all done and said..no badge though, but at least I GOT LOOT ! Same goes for the Corvette and the DWB (aka Ghost Town). Alot of ppl play these MMOs to find loot and have cool stuff in their inventory/house. Why would I log onto day in day out if I'm gonna be like normal joe and have normal weapons ?

On another note, expect DOT weapons to get hit hard with the Combat Rebalance. They have been dropping more lately, but I think it's because 1 light bulb clicked "on" at SOE headquarters and realized DOTs were the only thing able to efficiently kill armored/buffed opponents. Once balance is restored, DOTs will be too good and will be nerfed.