Weaponsmith Archive

so you're saying make it so whatever weapon a master is holding is the best weapon he can hold?

lol.. i can see a pikeman running around with a wooden staff




might be neat, tough i have no idea how hard/easy it might be to program any coding in for something like this. probably not a feasible idea, but nice thinking.

I'd like to see the bowcaster kiked up to ap2,this would make it the weapon of choice for any wookie marksman, and best back up for a Wookie rifleman,heck toss in some tissues and a good fang or bone shard and ya may even see them pop up in pvp(gasp).Would also make the bow someting more than the decoration it is now.
Now this wouldnt make a huge impact for anyone else, but at least the wookies would be runnin around with bowcasters like they should be

I see this as a weapon revamp issue. I don't see any simple tweaks working well here.

If I could, I would revamp weapons along the light-sabre line. They are basic shells which can take power-up components. If you want a krayted power-handler, you can get one, but the power-handler eventually wears out and needs replacing. So the guns become more dependent on loot, and loot can do interesting things to stock guns. You determine slots on a gun by using experimentation points. A maxed-out T21 would have no slots, but a lesser-damage version would have slots. So the trade off becomes a perfect weapon now, or a lesser weapon that could be made way stronger with loot. (This has its own problems, as once the "best" combination is found, all other combinations will be ignored.)

1. Fistly.....we need more weapon schematics. There's not much of a choice out there....

2. Drastically widen the difference between stats.

• Each profession needs a highdamage weapon.


• Each profession needs a highspeed weapon.


• Each profession needs a high accuracy weapon.


• Each profession needs low HAM weapon.

I know that us WS's can experiment one way or the other.....but the weapon schematics themselves ought to have bonuses in these areas. That way if a combat typehas difficulty hitting a foe (i.e. jedi saber block) let's have a high accuracy pistol, that might be low damage...but will at least get thrugh the blocks etc.

Some people might prefer accruacy, other's speed, others low HAM. I think the system was initially designed this way, but it doesn't work. The other stats just can't compensate for high damage....and thus high damage wins every time.

3. Drastically increase the amount of uses for temporary schematics. (2 scythes.... that's crap)

To everyone who keeps saying the words "more loot" - please stop. If I wanted to play Everquest and be an assembly monkey for the loot whoring combat professions I would have. Sorry to put it that bluntly but new loot drops are not going to make me want to craft more or increase diversity among crafters. As it is now, most people don't want to pay a fair price for a weaponsmith to put together a scythe or hack or anything else if the combat person supplies the "loot" parts. I took up crafting because crafters were supposed to be able to make the BEST items in the game - period. The only viable option I see at the moment to make crafting more open is along the lines of what Sami-jx proposed (more and varied schematics).

Here is what I propose:
1) More and varied schematics - new weapons, race specific weapons, low HAM, high damage, etc.
2) Use different resource stats to make the weapons rather than JUST Overall Qaulity, Shock Resistance, Conductivity, and the like. There are a lot of other stats that would make sense to use on some of the weapons other than the ones listed above so why not use them - even if it is to limit the power of some weapons due to capped resources. BUT, don't just use other stats for capping damage or HAM on weapons - give us a random factor as well. Let's say I make a one-handed curved sword with metal that includes 100 heat resistance and 900 cold resistance. Why not give that weapon a chance for a DoT that deals out cold damage? Say Cold, Health, Strength 100, Duration 50s, Potency 50%, Uses 4000. THAT would give weapon makes new and varied weapons with interesting properties. It could even be where you must "sacrifice" one or two experimentation points (not permanent, just not usable to increase that particular weapon) for the chance at a nice DoT.

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Bladewraith wrote:
To everyone who keeps saying the words "more loot" - please stop...... The only viable option I see at the moment to make crafting more open is along the lines of what Sami-jx proposed (more and varied schematics).

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