Weaponsmith Archive

I was just wondering if I could get some feedback on force sensitive assembly.

Previous to publish 10 and the advent of force crafting, I was under the assumption that assembly (including SEA's) helped with our chances of avoiding critical failure as well as increasing the chances of a better initial build on the weapon (before experimentation).

However, in the force crafting tree, it looks like the chance of critical failure is affected by another separate mod which begs some questions like ...

1) Does regular assembly (and SEA's for assembly) decrease the chance at critical failure?

2) Does an amazing success on the build or a component actually do anything? Will an amazing success on the build of a component even affect the final stats of the weapon? I know this has been rumored to help armorsmiths on layers, I was wondering if any weaponsmiths had data on this. Personally I dont recall it ever mattering.

If the answer to these questions are "no", I can't see any good reason to actually get this line. Maybe someone with this or other lines has some info on whether it helps or not.

Just debating whether to spend my 6 hours of game time for the next 3 weeks making 8000 heavy warheads and using millions of units of resources....

Any input would be great! Thx

My understanding is that assembly helps to avoid critical failure on the initial combine. Once you start experimenting, then the Weapon Experimentation skill determines the degree of success (i.e. Amazing Success, Moderate Success, Critical Failure, etc.) -- this is where Force Experimentation will come in very handy, I think.

I also think that if you get an Amazing Success on the initial assembly you can sort of 'jump' the resource gate, but it seems to be a very rare occurance (had this happend to me on a T-21 schematica while back). However I can't really confirm it, and it may be that something else entirely causes the resource gate 'jump'.

So it seems to me that Force Assembly is less important than Force Experimentation, unless the theory about Amazing Successes on assembly is correct, in which case Force Assembly might be incredibly useful.

Slim Vargo, Corbantis