Weaponsmith Archive

While I agree that I would prefer a little more control over my own destiny, meaning I would like more differentiation in how weapons could be crafted, when all is said and done there are still other factors that weed out the weaponsmith-wannabes. Yes, the difference between old and new polysteel copper isn't what it used to be, but for other resources it's still the one that spawned in September that produces the better weapons...

Don't care about five damage points? Well, try keeping up a full inventory of resources so you can provide a full spectrum of products to customers. And with three factories going non-stop, I only have room for five harvesters, so that BER13 sure does come in handy...

The bottom line is that, at least on some servers, the population of weaponsmiths is already weeded out sufficiently. On Tempest, on my home planet of Tatooine, a quick glance shows very few serious weaponsmiths. For Tempest as a total, there really are less than ten weaponsmiths that provide a fairly good array of serious weapons.

Maybe everyone is chasing holos or tired of finding Axidite Iron, but for whatever reason there aren't enough serious weaponsmiths around on our server. While greater differentiation of products would be desirable, there's already enough challenges out there to keep it interesting...

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CivicExR95 wrote:

I seriously doubt we'll see better resources than those for a looong time.

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Bah! You'll see some next week. Quit your bitching.

I had the feeling for a while but now I'm pretty sure of it:

what is wrong with resource shift is that it (really) seems that when a resource spawns, i.e. kammris iron it'll increase the % that a new kammris iron spawns within next few days

I mean currently or 1-2 days ago on Wanderhome as irons we had :

2 kammris

2 axidite (of which we didnt have any for months)

2 bronzium

3 polonium

1 dolovite (and had another dolovite last week)

also we didnt have any colat iron for months and recently had at least 3 within 2 weeks or so, didnt have duralloy steel for months and recently had 2 and having a 3rd currently, for a whole month we had at least 1 polysteel and 1 platinite copper all the time,I dont think it's coincidence, I think that there's a problem and instead of having a resource that never spawned for ages show up we have the current or recent resources spawn again and again

causing 2 problems, 1st we have the resource quality issue, obviously since when you have 2-3 spawns there's good chance 1 of them is good quality and 2nd we can still wait on long waited resource to spawn as we're always getting the same ones

it might be intended that way but it's bad for the interest of WS'ing to me, we need so many diff resources I dont want to see 2-3 ofa few resourcesfor weeks before I can see 2-3 of a few other resources for weeks aso.....

just my observation and my opinion though

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Wynan wrote:

it (really) seems that when a resource spawns.. it'll increase the % that a new(resource) spawns within next few days

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This trend happens on Sunrunner aswell. We had Gall gems for weeks, then we had another type of Gall gems for more weeks. On easy to reach zones on starter planets, I especially see this.

All the good resources are hiden in the Twighlight Forest. The secret is out.

Oar

Resource rarity is critical to our profession. If indeed something has changed, and it appears it has on Wanderhome, this is very, very bad. It's not fun when there's no advantage to hunting to down the rare resources.

The only thing rare in a game after a year from release is the Weaponsmith who is still a weaponsmith. Resources over the long haul are the same for everyone who waits for them. On Bria, it looks like Krayt tissue is back to under 100k for the base again. It used to be 30k for a base tissue.

This week on Bria, the Ditanium Steel and Polonium Iron for the T21s is just a fraction of a hair higher in value, so we may be able to squeeze 1 more point of damage into it.

Being a weaponsmith, you have to love something about it, or frugal enough to want the best weapons for your combat toon without shelling out the dough. I chose weaponsmith because of the bowcaster. Sure, a laser still beats it hands down with AP2, but its exciting enough to know I can hit something with my 50+ ideal range bowcaster and have 300 max base damage, and not even have Novice Marksman. Of course, then the shauput eats me alive in 3 hits, but I hit it!

Its been a good year to have been a weaponsmith. I miss everyone who has retired, but some of us still live on.

-J

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BruSwillis wrote:

Good post, this is exactly what I said we would be saying after crafting changes were taken out of the game due to the vocal minority (coupled with a stupid previous correspondant) shouting and complaining about something they never even tested.

Had the Devs ignored the vocal minority and let us keep the crafting changes, there would be a lot more difference between Weaponsmiths and what the public wanted from their weapons (especially after the CU when HAM and speed will come back into play) making weapons (in fact all crafted items) individualistic to the crafter.

It's a pity the blinded voices of so few have screwed up the game for us in the long run.

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seems to me that those changes increased the quality of everyone's goods equally and even allowed alot of stuff to reach 100%.

If everyone is making 100% stuff, then there is 0 difference between smith A and smith B which sounds worse by your argument not better.

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dsurfman wrote:

I think that each crafter should have a different voice, a signature weapon, to be the one person everyone says "you want that go see him." I believe that we dont have that now. The resources either suck as a whole or get good as a whole. I know I have been hoarding for over a year now and alot of stuff I take like 10k and that is it because what I got is so much better. At last count I have well over 150 resource containers. I dont need to harvest at this point. Ofcourse, my guild has created a crafting enterprise that we call Lethally Dark Industries and we share resources, factories, roadoiactive, harvesters, and lots for storage and such, so that helps!

Also, I dont think a new WS should rank with an "old timer". Sorry I dont. You are the new kid on the block find a niche to first work your name into then build from there. That is what myself, and every other WS who does this for the love and had been here 14 months plus has had to do. I dont think it is fair to me, sticking it out as a WS that you an collect and match me for resources in a week...I also think there needs to be logevity exp bonuses for WS and other crafters wo stick to the profession for more than a few months. Now at a year as a weaponsmith to be able to have +14 exp points wouldnt be so bad. And I know scream about how unfair it is to the new guy, and that no one would buy there weapons with that...

Hell what advantage do I get for doing this so long? Shouldnt I get something?

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How about your good name, most weaponsmiths if they stick with it for long enough will develop a reputation and a certain degree of fame on their server.

I do wish it wasn't so profitable to sell resources so that a new weaponsmith would have to go through the four months of collecting reasources like I did before I could even make some weapons; let alone good quality.

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Ybagi wrote:

seems to me that those changes increased the quality of everyone's goods equally and even allowed alot of stuff to reach 100%.

If everyone is making 100% stuff, then there is 0 difference between smith A and smith B which sounds worse by your argument not better.

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