Weaponsmith Archive

There are seveal things that can help improve the chance of success when crafting the weapon:

1) Be a master WS.
2) Live in a city that has an assembly bonus
3)Make your char amon-calamari, they get +10 to weapon assembly
4) Buy assembly tape-- it's a lot cheaper than experiementation tape !!!
5)Eat food, there is pollian cake, and vespin port (I've spelt these wrong I'm sure)

With the above5 things, I seem to get"great" success about 90% of the time. I have +30 weaponsmith assembly tape. I'm not sure if the mon-calamari bonus is in addition tothe tape, some people say it's maxed at +125 (mine reads +140). So maybe you just need +25 assembly tape and race doesn't matter.

The food makes a noticable difference. The problem with the food though is you get full, so sometimes you have to wait around a while -- and some customers are impatient about that. I always eat both food and drink before crafting anything that I absolutely want to turn out right.

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Xieflow wrote:
if you don't like failing, supposedly WoW is going to have no failures... although I don't think it's going to have the absurdly complicated SWG crafting system with resource shifts, resources with 2 to 6 stats

I don't think there will be another MMO with a crafting system as good for a long time

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Okeefe wrote:

1) Be a master WS.

I am

2) Live in a city that has an assembly bonus

I live in a MFG center, for the bonus

3)Make your char amon-calamari, they get +10 to weapon assembly

Too late...

4) Buy assembly tape-- it's a lot cheaper than experiementation tape !!!

Can never find any of these, or they are horribly expensive.

5)Eat food, there is pollian cake, and vespin port (I've spelt these wrong I'

I do.

The problem is with the entire 'crit failure' system. What idiot thought that failures were more fun than successes.

If I made the system I would have NO failures. I would limit the number of great and amazing successes instead. That way you, and I could make our nominal level of goods all the time, and once in a while we would get that rare amazing, or two and viola! a rare awesome weapon/armor, whatever, and we are ECSTATIC, rather than being pissed off every time the dice rolls wrong.

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I understand that Jedi don't lose their pearls and crystals now when they get a crit fail. It would be nice if all the crafting professions could be set up so that special enhancers aren't lost on a critical fail. Doubt that will ever happen for us, though.

Slim Vargo, Corbantis