Weaponsmith Archive

Hi,
I am trying to evaluate a possible nerf on Test Center. I had wanted to get some more data, but as Test Center has been down for 2 days now I will go ahead and post this now.

So, I am a master melee weaponsmith on Test Center. I don't make any guns and so I don't know anything about them at all.

Now I have noticed that some of my melee weapon expermentations have gotten a little bit worse. I've noticed a few things, but the most comprehensive thing that I have noticed is that I seem to get worse results on poorer quality materials.

Before the recent patch I noticed the following:

On poor quality materials I would start with a low %'age weapon and a lower cap for each experimentation category. Each experimentation point would give somewhat less than on a better quality weapon, but I would still tend to have a couple of points left over (if I was getting all great successes) to spend on range or HAMs.

Now I notice the following:

On poor quality weapons I star lower and have lower caps. On great successes I tend to always get exactly 1/10th of the way to the cap. I have yet to craft a single weapon (starting from qualitie 22% to 29%) where I could ever do anything but barely max out damage experimentation. It seems basically impossible that, with 10 exp points, I should be able to get top damage experimentation and have points left. I have started with 29% and a cap of 99% and 10 great successes later I am exactly at 99%. I have started with a cap of 22% and a cap of something like 84% and 10 great successes later I am at exactly or just under 84%.

Now my question is, which of these matches your experiences? Am I experiencing a nerf? WEre my prior results just weird? Is there the possibility that I am doing something different to cause this to happen?

Overall I seem to be slightly worse than I was before. I work harder to get results that a tad bit under where they seemed to be before. I have harvested better resources recently for some of my weapons and yet for some weapons I am struggling to make schematics that are at the same level as my old ones (or I am making only slightly better schematics when I would have expected much better results).

Anyhow, could I get some feedback on this? It's very likely that this is not a nerf and is just something I am doing differently or is due to a mistake in what I remember. Unfortunately I can't test out both the old code and the new code to see how they specifically differ and so I am forced to rely on an imperfect memory of how things were working for me before.

Thanks.

--- Flynn and Gaffyn + The Brothers McDonnell ---

P.S.
I don't know if the 22%->84% is accurate, it's just an example. Starting at lower qualities in the past I know I have had points after maxxing damage to spend on range mods/HAMs and now that is not the case. That's what I'm after feedback.

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=weaponsmith&message.id=19976

should maybe shred some light on this issue.

Ahh, thanks. So I'm not crazy.

I'll go post over in that thread a bit then.

--- Flynn and Gaffyn + The Brothers McDonnell ---

Message Edited by -Strife- on 05-17-2004 04:36 PM

No what he means is that if you're using 400 quality resource and then have 4 gems (40% max) you'll need all 10 points to get to this max 40% result when now on live you'd have 5-6 pts left for other fields