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Firstly, I'm not a smith of any kind, so I have no personal experience making weapons.

I notice that in the Adv Blaster Rifle Barrel schematic on swgcraft.com that the primary stats for experimentation are CD and SR. Does this mean that if I was digging up Duralloy Steel, a necessary component, that I could ignore the OQ stat? Or does OQ still come into play somehow?

Overall Quality still comes into play...Ideally you want a resource with high Conductivity and High Over Quality...but those are not as common. If you can find a resources with either cond or OQ in the 800, 900's is a good one.

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Well, then, more broadly, does OQ count on everything, regardless of its other stats? In other words, is that the first criteria in selection?Avoid all resources with a low OQ?

I was under the impression that there were some schematics that OQ doesn't come into play.

Every single line in the schmatic calls fro 66% cond and 33% sr.

Oq of your durralloy, duranium,rhodium, ryll + random metalwill have absolutely no effect on your blaster rifle barrels.

Oq of your durralloy, duranium,rhodium, ryll + random metalwill have absolutely no effect on your blaster rifle barrels.

That's what I thought. Thanks for the confirmation.

Lurax, you are right. Adv blaster rifle barrel usually has a slight damage increase but a greatly reduced speed.

However, thereis another factor which you have to consider. Since you cannot use all 10 experience points on damage (which you will do in regular blaster rifle barrel), you can spend some points onrange. This make the adv barrel has a much higher range modifier. The result rifle will have sligher higher damage, 0.1-0.2 slower in speed, and better range modifier. Better range modifier means more hit, which can compensate the speed lost.

Whether to use regular or adv barrel is a personal choice. From my experience, casual playerswill alwayslook at damge range, sometimes speed, and rarely range modifier. So using adv barrel will usually increase sell.

It's worth noting though, that adv rifle barrels have only minorly increased damage and range, but greatly reduced speed compared to non-adv ones (due to the conductivity limit on rhodium).

for elite professions that get a considerable boost to speed like rifleman and carbineer I use the adv barrels because accuracy is more important since their speed mods are going to offset the .2 speed loss.. heck a master rifleman can shoot a 9.0 rifle at 1.0 speed. For the professions that dont get as much speed mods like BH and their LLC or commandos w/ the flame throwers, acid rifles , HPBC's etc.. I use the standard barrel to increase their speed since their damage is already insane .

What server are you on jmatt?