Weaponsmith Archive

After talking with some Guildies last night, I got a brain-storm. This is a comparison of loot drop enhancers between the three class types (Ranged, Melee, and Jedi)


Ranged Enhancers
Krayts: Huntable anytime.
Gorax: Huntable anytime
Great for ranged.


Jedi Enhancers
Krayts: Can drop pearls anytime
Force Sensitive/Nightsisters/DJK/DJMs: Huntable anytime for Crystals
Great for Jedi


Melee Enhancers
Acklay: ONLY ONCE EVERY 2 HOURS
Geo Caves: Looted components just don't stack up. You MIGHT be able to add 25 min and Max damage.
Melee gets the shaft.


Anyone see the problem here?? A ranged prof can go out and loot-whores to upgrade their gear at anytime, so can jedi. Melee is stuck doing it once every two hours in ONE LOCATION. Something is not right.

A proposed fix:

Add in a new drop:
KimoGilla Bones

Make them like Krayt tissue: Same stat range, same drop rate, same modifications. Kimos can drop scales, like Krayts, why not make them drop tissues or Bones or something?? Kimos can be hunted at anytime time of day, all over Lok.
Basically, I'm asking that they become the Melee equivalent of Krayt dragons; something that a bored Melee person can go out, spend about 2 hrs killing, and maybe come back with some decent stuff.

For spawn locations, I think there is even a Kimo graveyard on Lok that we could go, just like Krayts.
The two MOBs are so similar already, why not make them just a little more similar and give melee guys some lovin at the same time...


So, what do y'all think??

Geo cores and cubes can drop at any time just like krayt items do. The biggest problem with melee and ranged is that ranged get 2 modifier slots. 1 for a SAC reduction (stocks) and one for damage enhancing (power blaster handlers or projectile feed mechanisms).

Melee get cores and cubes which makes you choose either a damage boost or a SAC reduction but not both. That means that more points in the final combine have to go towards lowering the SAC instead of straight damage.

Solution: Add in another component like a "blade fixture" and/or "vibro motor stabilizer".

I think it would be awesome for kimos to get WS loot.

Problem atm is imo that the only melee enhancer worth using damagewise is a component not and enhancer. so either do as you suggest in your post (which Id find amazing) or make acklay bones an enhancer for reinforced swordcores instead of replacing them.

Also we need better loot enhancers for TKA and Pikeman weapons.

Currently we have nym motors and Axxva mins units

The NS Units have the same problem as the Acklay bone (being a replacement rather than enhancer) and the nym motros really doesnt have dam enough to be worthwhile.

Either up the dam on motors (which I wouldnt recommend as nyms are pretty easy to farm (being lowlever and all) or introduce a new enhancer dropped from some other elite mob (The Pekopeko perhaps?)

I have been finding lots of 30+ Nyms motors on the bazaar lately - found a set of +37's for 500creds lol

Shame VK's are not the weapon they used to be... still theywill make some decent Vibro Lances.