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I believe the only real benefit you'd get from the looted ones is a slightly higher min damage. With +184 enhanced power cells, you should be capping max damage, with or without the stocks. You'd sacrifice a lot on SAC reduction, though, to get that little bit higher min damage. I know pre-CU crafted stocks could never go higher that 40min/40max, and it looks like the looted ones you get off BH marks don't even get that high, so in the end I'd have to say its not really worth it. However, if they ever turn yellow-named/exceptional/legendary loot back on, it might then be possible to loot some stocks off a BH mark that would actually add enough min damage to be worth using. Until then though, I'd stick to a crafted stock.

The looted stocks (and the Form Fitted stocks from the Imp theme park have a min & max damage stat) crafted stocks do not. If sac is your main concern then try to get the smith to put on a pre-cu crafted stock which should have a better sac reduction than one that was crafted after the cu.

I'm not in game right now so i can't remember the exact stats of the Elite carbine but the damage cap is 1063 so i don't think your smith should have too much trouble capping the damage and the sac with those cells.

Message Edited by Whrlwnd13 on 08-29-2005 02:07 AM

Using a -21 SAC stock and -8/-9 SAC barrelsallow you to stop SAC experimentation in handlers in -13 and you'll get the SAC capped in assembly. Then you can invest the rest of the points in speed or damage, as you wish

with barrel/abph and a pre-cu stock -20 i cap sac on assembly it comes down to 71 i think on the elite/e11 mk2. Now without the stock the sac would go up 20 so 91. Thats about 5 or 6 points to use on sac to get it capped witha looted stock. You might get a little speed bonus and min damage bonus but not much. But you won't cap damage with just 6 points. At least not on my server. When i use a pre-cu stock i have 3 or 4 points left over after capping damage.