Well, like me, you've probably spent the last week hunting down as many of the themepark component rewards as you could get your hands on. I had been finishing component runs and making krayt handlers in prepartion for crafting some top of the line enhaced E11s and Modded Rep Blasters, so did not get a chance to use any of this stuff till tonight.
First thing I made was a Mod Rep Blaster. Used all my best metal as you do, but also used one of those high velocity blaster pistol barrels along with the 0 HAM scopes I usually use, and a Krayt ABPH to top it all off. After dodging the crit fail on this, I proceeded to sink the experimental points into damage as you do. Maxxed it out with one moderate after 7 points and put 2 into condition and 1 into HAM.
Now for the curious part: The looted barrel should have added a 12 range mod to ideal. However my 0 HAM scope ALSO has a range mod of 12 to ideal. The barrel has 25 to wound, but the scope ALSO has 3 to wound. These stats DID NOT stack. The range mods on the finished article were the SAME as my normal scoped RB's. The wound stat showed ONLY the stat from the barrel but not the additional 3 from the scope.I checked again in case I'd missed something but no.
On to the enhanced E11. For this I had one of those superb form fitting stocks. Again I had my usual 0 HAM scopes and another krayt ABPH. Inserted all the parts and my high quality metals and hit combine. This time ALL great sucesses on the experiments with 6 into damage, 2 into condition, 2 into HAM.
Same thing again. The scopes accuracy AND wound mods were negated by the superior stats of the looted stock.
Now this strikes me as being very similar to the skilltape bug that counts only the highest stat when inserted/used in clothing.
I had been hoping to stack these range/wound mods in order to create some superb PvP weapons with the added bonus of bleed DOT attributes. Looks like I was expecting too much.
Obviously I have not repeated either of these crafting stages as the loot is hard to come by, but I do have more and intend to use it in a similar fashion (I prefer not to make all my krayt weapons in one session to avoid the chance of a crit fail) and will report back after having done so, but I was just wondering if anyone else had seen results like this. If this is to be the case maybea lot of this "uber loot" is not as uber as first thought...
Message Edited by WerrtZer on 02-20-2004 05:24 PM
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