Weaponsmith Archive

question how many wookie do you see walking around with bowcaster. personaly this weapon sucks no ap and unless you find a wookie weaponsmith that normal stat are speed of 8 and dmg from 50 -125 . hell the damm cdef is the same if not better then a bowcaster due to it lower ham .

nagyt\

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jd2134 wrote:

question how many wookie do you see walking around with bowcaster. personaly this weapon sucks no ap and unless you find a wookie weaponsmith that normal stat are speed of 8 and dmg from 50 -125 . hell the damm cdef is the same if not better then a bowcaster due to it lower ham .

nagyt\

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Well one must consider the thing in it's best and entire state. Loot bowcasters surely aren't impressive (most of the time) - however dependent on resources you can get 160ish-290ish/5.2ish bowcasters. They have no AP and are energy and that surely holds them back but the bottom line is it's a no cert weapon. I doubt there is a better weapon out there that a wookiee with no marksman can use.

I wish they made a cert'ed caster and beefed it up, so we'd see more wookiees using it.

But to the original point - it would be neat to see but they seem to have enough trouble bringing in weapons everyone can use let alone introduce a whole bunch of race specific ones. They take months to fix typos.

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Kershakk wrote:

They have no AP and are energy and that surely holds them back but the bottom line is it's a no cert weapon. I doubt there is a better weapon out there that a wookiee with no marksman can use.

Hehe I can be seen carrying one around whenever I am not in serious combat and it does hold its own in its place and at least I am guaranteed I never have to use a CDEF (just wish Rykk's were wookiee only too).

I wish they made a cert'ed caster and beefed it up, so we'd see more wookiees using it.

DItto!

But to the original point - it would be neat to see but they seem to have enough trouble bringing in weapons everyone can use let alone introduce a whole bunch of race specific ones. They take months to fix typos.

Wow you mean we can actually use C12's now? lol at any rate the first thing I do when I get ingame is check that cert! but for sure its a great idea but given whats going on with the publish cycle I am not sure they could fit it in (remember it requires artwork etc and lucas has to approve it which means you would have to find one in the EU almost)

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To play Devil's Advocate here, the US has different customs than Germany, but we still use Walther pistols over here. We may have different customs than Japan, but we still drive Toyotas.

Weapons (of any kind....tanks, airplanes, ships, and guns) all have the same general idea across the board in real life. Yes, the SU-38 Russian Jet Fighter has some differences and some one-ups on the F-22 Raptor American Jet Fighter. But, they both hold the same general core idea...thrust vectoring.

So, do I think each race should have different weapons...nah. I'm sure there was plenty of intergalactic trade going on where many species across many planets used the same weapons.

Anian

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Anian wrote:

To play Devil's Advocate here, the US has different customs than Germany, but we still use Walther pistols over here. We may have different customs than Japan, but we still drive Toyotas.

Weapons (of any kind....tanks, airplanes, ships, and guns) all have the same general idea across the board in real life. Yes, the SU-38 Russian Jet Fighter has some differences and some one-ups on the F-22 Raptor American Jet Fighter. But, they both hold the same general core idea...thrust vectoring.

So, do I think each race should have different weapons...nah. I'm sure there was plenty of intergalactic trade going on where many species across many planets used the same weapons.

Anian

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Carrying on that line though, I am not sure what you could come up with as a racial restriction for new weapons. Wookiees have extreme size and strength which gives a nice premise to way other races cannot use the bowcaster. I'm not sure what else you can say that any other race has overriding above others that would constitute a physical, and not a technological stumbling block in trans-technology weapon use. No one's saying principles of ballistics and lasers and so onisn't transcendent, but the delivery is different and can be used as base for racial specific stuff. Now in your analogy you compared humans versus say, goats- both uses kinetic energy as a principle - but we for example use firearms whereas goats use their big rams. Same idea - kinetic impact - different delivery system Ballistics - human rockets versus those spitting fish that hurl gobs of water to knock insects out for food.

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Kershakk wrote:

And Quagga, nope, our C12 cert is still busted. What the hey, eh?

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Itet wrote:

C12 has issues? I sell them by the crate to people needing to spam lairs for combat XP. Been selling them cheap since everyone can use them. Cryoban and glop to the commandos, the rest are mainly novelties

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