Weaponsmith Archive
Thread: T21 Rifles
I am currently on Bria, and find it quite frustrating that we do not have yet the T21 rifle. I find myself having to resort to other weapons like the Laser Rifle and Spraystick. All the other professions have their elite weapon but us. This is getting out of hand. This is a major determent for people to become a riflemen on Bria. I know the weapon has major draybacks, like HAM costs and slow attack speed, but it has high attack damage. This is really a messege to the DEV's in particular to hurry and give us the necessary materials to get this weapon. I have purchased a mineral survey device and have checked everwhere I have gone to, which is about 90% of the playable galaxy, and have only found one resource, and it was very low quality stuff. What is up with this, other galaxies have the rifle but us. Come on now, how fair is that.
Riflemen/Medic/Creature Handler
Boohoo.... Enjoy your Laser Rifle buddy, here on Starsider we don't even have those, let alone the T21, so don't feel so left out. Most rifleman here use a dlt20 and a few use e11 (my best weap so far...). So don't feel so bad about your server.
In any case... I also can't wait for a resource shift.
use a regular rifle to lvl up. The laser rifle if use properly is perfectly fine to lvl up with due to the Ap2. An e11 would be better, but there's no good plumbum iron out to make them so well. I'm a master rifleman and I'm still using a piece of crap rifle. Oh well, with strafeshot2, I can 1 shot as many people as I want to.
Mine is a post nerf that is dmg sliced and with a 33% power up.
564 Max dmg
150 something min dmg. Cant remember the exact.
7.9 speed
79 mind
If you ask me the mind is way to high for these stats but the devs and all other ppl outside riflemen think its fair...
I agree the Mind cost is ungodly now. But the DEVs feel its power must be come at a price. I do not play on the Shadowfire server, so my weaponsmith would be of no help. Join some hunting parties fro Krayt Dragonswith some decent people who would be willing to let you loot the bodies for the tissues, and then take those tissues to a well-known weaponsmith and have them use those tissues in the construction of your personal T21. I did.
My "Krayt Killer" T21 stats:
min damage- 205
max damage- 574
firing rate- 5.5
mind cost- 46 (still crappy, but i have a cache of weapon powerups that lower the mind cost to 34)
But here's a thing.....
I was reading one of those "Essential Star Wars Guides" on weaponry and technology and it described the T21 as a squad killing rifle of absolute death and destruction (not quoting verbatim, of course).
It should be able to rip through ranks of Stormtroopers, or Rebeltroopswith a firing rate of about 1 shot per second (with the smaller power pack, it would be able to breath fire on full autowith the larger power pack). That would probably be the case if SWG's combat system was twitch (player skill in real time) not dice rolling and random numbers by computers in a galaxy far, far away. But, if that were the case, the Riflemen would get "nerfed" down to pea-shooters and slingshots.
My T21 sliced powered up.
180-602 damage
7.6 speed
69 mind
27% wound
Keep in mind that most of the people that replyhere will have T21s that are the exception rather than the rule. I had a weaponsmith promise me a possible 500+ max-damagesliced T21 (without powerup). But by the time he got them made and got an average slice on them, the one I got was only 435. With a 33% powerup that brings it to 578, which sounds OK, except that with the new Decay rates in effect, I wont be powering it up very often.
If you don't have a weaponsmith friend that can make you a good one, expect to find T21s on the vendors that are anywhere from 350 - 400 (at least on Eclipse server).
607max with powerup (32%).
And I cry every time I look at the condition with a powerup.