Weaponsmith Archive

Ok, so I keep getting conflicting reports. Can weapon experimentation skill tapes take you over 100 weapon experimentation? Can they give me more experimentation points if I'm already a master? Thanks.

I don't know if skill tapes will give you more than 10 Weaponcrafting Experimentation points. However, as a human master artisan I have 115 Artisan Experimentation and I receive 11 experimentation points when creating Artisan items. It seems logical that this would carry over to the elite crafting professions as well. If so we should probably start seeing some very nice weapons being produced.

Slim Vargo, Corbantis

yes, you receive more experiment past 10 when you have enough skill bonus from the tapes.

with my skill tapes, I have 14 artisan pts, 12 weapon points.

I am curious to know if anyone has received more then 2 additional experimentation points using tapes, and if so how many?

I believe there is some cap on the maximum additional experimentation points you can get from using tapes, but have yet to see anyone confirm the max.

Anyone know?

the skill caps out at 125 for the experimentation mod so 12 is the max (I know a lucky bugger that has a +40 shirt full of tapes he bought) pretty much any skill mod will cap at 25 (a dev mentioned this somewhere just cant seem to find the post and cant be bothered tryin gto rustle it up atm)over your characters limit (too allow for species bonuses etc) but fora WS 12 points is the max that you are able to get.

Where do you find the Enhancement tapes ?
As loot or are they craftable ?

Dude, no one will ever tell you where to find them.

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GreenGlowie wrote:
Dude, no one will ever tell you where to find them.

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Tell me about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah. This is the first I've heard of "tapes". How does one come about finding them? Just some kind of hint please.

I got a +1 tape (Weapons Experimentation) off of a blue agro Plasma Thief on Naboo - these are likely the low end tapes, but they are simple drops that come off any of the bandit/thug/humanoid mobs. If I was to guess from the above story - I would suspect that the tapes you are looking for come off the heavyweight mobs that are humanoid...dark jedi, witches of danthomir, or some of the Nym guys on Lok.

A +40 shirt has four sockets - therefore the tapes are likely +10 each ...

Now the bad news ... we havent seen a tape drop in many months from the simple mobs that were dropping them on Naboo and Corellia. I found a imperial transmission disk that had a treasure map, and for the first time in three months - got a tape as a buried loot... 30 seconds later it vanished from my inventory.

....and you thought SONY liked you because you bought a television?

I had a rebel npc on dant drop skill tapes, tho its about 1 out of 150

Ok, so if these tapes are working, and you can gain an additional +2 experiment points on weapons with them, what the hell does a MWS do without them? And I am toldthey are not dropping anymore, so I am doomed to make sub-par weapons for eternity?

This issue combined with the krayt schematic "bug" and the non seral number tissues has made my gunsmithing a joke.

Grats to the weaponsmiths that got a hold of the +experiment tapes - YOU WIN! Good Game.