Weaponsmith Archive
Thread: Where are the Skill tapes?
Well the problem is that the skill tape market is out of whack. People will not trade like they used to and they are pretty snotty if you even suggest it. The public thinks weaponsmiths are rich and they want to gouge the hell out of you, because you deserve it you criminal crafter scum. If you buy them at their asking price you will have to charge three times what the gun is worth just to make that money back.
Do not even bother. Those extra points do not help that much anyway. What two more points off ham two more to range or a hundred more points of durability you can do without that.
Dodece wrote:
Do not even bother. Those extra points do not help that much anyway. What two more points off ham two more to range or a hundred more points of durability you can do without that.
On 35% damage sliced weapons, that extra 150-200 condition really seems to help a lot.
Ryeun
I know right... Been sitting on Master Weaponsmith for a few months now. Having a great time at it, and would love to get those extra expermentation points. Not willing to pay 10 million for them though...
Celehorn
Dark Force Lake, Dantooine (Tarquinas)
CEO Lethally Dark Industries
Youll find that no matter where you ask, most of the answers you recieve wont actually answer your question. The reason for this is the people who know where the tapes drop dont want that information shared, otherwise OOPS, there goes their market.
The best places/mobs for skill tapes that I know of thus far:
Dark Jedi Masters, Nightsisters, Lord Nyax, Marauders, A'akuan Caves. Pretty much the really high level NPC mobs, basically you arent gonna get a skill tape off of a Fambaa.
That being said, my Smuggler popped a Locked Container the other day and got a +3 to Defense vs Intimidation skill tape.
Dodece wrote:
Well the problem is that the skill tape market is out of whack. People will not trade like they used to and they are pretty snotty if you even suggest it. The public thinks weaponsmiths are rich and they want to gouge the hell out of you, because you deserve it you criminal crafter scum. If you buy them at their asking price you will have to charge three times what the gun is worth just to make that money back.
Do not even bother. Those extra points do not help that much anyway. What two more points off ham two more to range or a hundred more points of durability you can do without that.
So there you are, getting ready to craft a Krayt T21, with some delicious +100 tissues that cost you many millions of credits and your kidney. You fire up your tool, and start to experiment on your handler for the schematic. OH NOES!! You get a moderate success, and although the rest of the exp tries are great successes, that one moderate success has caused a sub par build, and left the damage line a box short of being full.
You accept your fate and run the schematic for the handlers. They finish up, you have a successful build on the final weapon, and OH MY GOOSES!!! Another moderate success, which not only ruins the build on damage and speed, but also drops the cond of the weapon down to 850!!! So now you need to decide whether youll finish your Experiment points on damage, or maybe try and bump that Cond up a little.
Youre a 10 point Smith.
Boy, those 2 extra points sure could go a long way to fixing the sh!tty results caused by a moderate *cough* success.
With that being said, I dont even have an extra point, let alone two,but Ive had to sit through my own example so many times it isnt funny.
HAWKE61 wrote:
I have heard that the Cave loot system has been nerfed due to the overwhelming amount of jerks who camp them with loot macros. I got my +20 in tapes from the borgle cave along time ago. Dont think it will happen again there...
The only thing they nerfed on the Borggle cave was how often it spawns... You get the same stuff from the piles, if you are there for a spawn... But like I said, it is so heavily camped I don't know what the spawn frequencey is... I know I've been there for6 hours and saw nothing spawn... That aside, if you can catch a 1 or 2 spawns a day there, you'll get more tapes than anything but debri piles in caves and you'll have a higher average in + on those tapes than any other method... The only problem is the large number of people who are camping it for that reason! Compitetion is quite feirce.