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> What drops the most of these usually? I've been playing for a year now
> and still have never received one as loot!
>
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> Diaboyos wrote:
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> My understanding is Borgle Cave. That's why it is camped so much. I did
> find a few CA's and AA's via treasure maps. That's pretty hit-or-miss.
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> "Clawhound" <none@nowhere.com> wrote in message
> news:lhjVd.2729$Ny6.4846@mencken.net.nih.gov...
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> Not familiar with Borgle cave where is it?
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> Aakuan champions used to drop quite a few decent ones but the number has
> decreased markedly since the last patch. Your best bet is NS elders for

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> attachments but but you had better go with a group unless you're a tank

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> high damage - swordsman or rifleman.
>
>
> "Diaboyos" <Diaboyos@AAFA.net> wrote in message
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> Finally got my first one yesterday off one of the bad XXX 240k HAM Imp
> NPC's. It was a 4-Cover, 5-Melee Defense AA. That's what they need to
> increase the spawn of is AA-CA's, not necessarily the best ones but even
> the
> crap ones just to give people a reason to have something to hope for. NS
> Elders are out for me as I'm TKM and they're 100% Kinetic :-(

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>
> "Diaboyos" <Diaboyos@AAFA.net> wrote in message
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> does not have to be elders. any of the mid to high range NS or Mountain
> clan will do. Just have to get extremely lucky. I can go days without a
> decent drop then one day start looting mid to high end tapes or above
> average weapons.
>
> just recently got a combo AA of +10 two hand speed / +6 rifle speed. To

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> combo tapes do not work. When placed into socketed armor or clothe it

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> takes the high skill value bonuses. I have a bag full of these waiting

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> SOE to fix before i decide to use em.
>

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> "Reg LeCrisp" <x@x.com> wrote in message
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> NS
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> only
> for
> I was wondering about that. So what exactly then is the point of
> having 3 or 4 sockets available if you can't stack? Can u put 4 different
> kinds in 1 piece and it will work? Is stacking limited to 1 skill or
> stacking more than 1 item period?
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> "Diaboyos" <Diaboyos@AAFA.net> wrote in message
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> I have noticed a lot of confusion amongst other swg players on what skill
> tapes are, and more importantly how they work. There are a few guides so

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> that are extremely useful, however have some commonly mistaken

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> Most of the needed information seemed to be scattered to me, and so I
> decided to bring it all together and make an Ultimate Guide to Skill

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> So here it is!
>
> This is a guide for the successful use of Skill Enhancement Attachments.
> This guide covers both clothing attachments (looks like a role of duct

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> also known as skill tapes) and armor attachments (looks like an armor
> segment), which are collectively known as Skill Enhancement Attachments
> (SEA's).
>
> There are some basic rules that apply to all:
>
> 1) skill tapes go into clothes that have sockets, armor attachments go

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> armor that have sockets (including ubese shirts and mabari belts). They

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> applied by dragging and dropping the SEA onto the socketed item which, if
> the SEA isn't blank, will fill up one socket. Maximum number of sockets on
> an item is 4. Sockets on backpacks don't work currently, there is no way

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> put a skill tape on a backpack at the moment.
>
> 2) there is a maximum of 6 stat modifiers for a piece of clothing, which
> includes stat modifiers from Bio-Engineered tissues added into clothes

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> at creation (e.g. you could have a clothes item with +10 to injury
> treatment, +10 to wound treatment, and +10 to bleeding defense, which

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> allow for 3 more stat mods to be attached assuming 3 sockets).
>
> 3) you can only get one skill stat bonus from a tape to stick, with others
> being lost (i.e. a tape that has 2 or more stat mods will only allow one

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> stick, see below)
>
> 4) stat mods do not stack, you do not get benefit from putting additional
> tapes with the same type of stat mod on a single item of clothing as they

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> not add together (e.g. you put a +5 armor experimentation on a pair of
> gloves, you can't put another +3 armor experimentation on there and get

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> you would just lose the +3 and still have a pair of gloves with +5 on it).
> If you place a single stat mod tape on a piece of clothing with a higher
> stat mod of the same type as one that's is already on the item, the higher
> number will stick (e.g. if you have +3 armor experimentation on a pair of
> gloves and you put a +5 armor experimentation tape on it, you will get
> gloves with +5 armor experimentation). Placing multiple stat attachments

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> items with matching skills follows extra rules see below.
>
> 5) when placing an attachment with 2 or more stats, the highest value

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> will be the only one applied (e.g. a +5 rifle accuracy with +4 armorsmith
> experimentation will give the +5 rifle accuracy) regardless of the order

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> which the stats are listed on the SEA
>
> 6) when placing an attachment with 2 or more stat mods and there are 2 or
> more stat mods tied for the highest numerical value, the stat mod that is
> listed FIRST will be the only one applied, regardless of alphabetical

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>
> 7) clothes with stat mods that drop to 0 condition, still allow the stat
> mods to work, so don't destroy any stat modded clothes that are at 0
> condition
>
> 8) maximum stat mod you can get from a set of clothing (or armor) is +25,

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> any more than that in bonuses is unused
>
> There is a situation that arises all too frequently:
>
> 9) if a tape has multiple stats on it and you want one that has a lower
> value than the highest listed stat mod (e.g. +23 grenade experimentation

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> armorsmith experimentation on a tape, of course you want the armorsmith
> experimentation to stick). Here the solution is based upon the order that
> the skill mods are listed on the SEA (e.g. is the +23 grenade
> experimentation first or is the +20 armorsmith experimentation first?).
>
> The ONLY solution is to first place on the desired clothes item, a stat

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> of the same type and value (or greater) as the less desirable yet higher
> number stat mod (e.g. a +23 grenade experimentation tape in the above
> example, if the +20 armorsmith experimentation was listed first).
>
> So to refresh, say you have these tapes:
>
> Tape #1
> +23 grenade experimentation
> +20 armorsmith experimentation
>
> Tape #2
> +20 armorsmith experimentation
> +23 grenade experimentation
>
> To get the +20 armorsmith experimentation to stick on EITHER Tape #1 or

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> #2, you would need to put a +23 (or higher) grenade experimentation tape

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> the clothes item first. In both cases 2 sockets are necessary
>
> What if there are 3 stats but the lowest of the three is the one you want

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> stick? Follows the same rules as above. I will illustrate with an example.
>
> Tape #3
> +25 surveying
> +24 droid complexity
> +23 weaponsmith experimentation
>
> Tape #4
> +23 weaponsmith experimentation
> +25 surveying
> +24 droid complexity
>
> Tape #5
> +24 droid complexity
> +23 weaponsmith experimentation
> +25 surveying
>
> You of course would want weaponsmith experimentation. On EITHER Tape #3,
> Tape #4, or Tape #5 you would have to place a +25 surveying tape on first,
> then a +24 droid complexity tape, then Tape #3, Tape #4, or Tape #5 on, to
> get the +23 weaponsmith experimentation to stick.
>
> Types of socketed clothes items that a human male can wear that would

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> for the maximum number of skill stat enhanced pieces are hat, belt,
> bandolier (can't wear a backpack with this), shirt,
> jacket/duster/cloak/robe(belts with these look like a hula hoop

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> you), pants, gloves (short gloves as longer gloves don't allow for wearing

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> jacket), boots, so a maximum of 8 pieces with with 4 sockets each for

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> tapes. Armor for a human male, composite armor with nine pieces, a mabari
> armored belt, a ubese armored shirt, a ubese bandolier, allows for 12

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> with 4 sockets each for armor attachments.
>
> Well, Lets just count how many items are socketable & able to be worn at

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> same time:
> (Note: Pants cannot be worn under Leggins)
> · Helm
> · Chest Armor
> · Leggins
> · Boots
> · Gloves
> · Left Bicep
> · Right Bicep
> · Right Forearm
> · Left Forearm
> · Shirt
> · Belt
> · Bandolier or Backpack
> · Total: 48 Sockets on You Maximum
> Now that we know how to apply skill tapes and know how many can be applied
> at once, all there is to know is which mods work! The following

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> was posted by Imaridril, it can be found here.
>
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> I would like to give him great thanks for doing what the devs should have
> done a long time ago
>
> == LIST OF ALL MODS ==
>
> Experimentation and Assembly Skill Mods
>
> * Weapon Experimentation and Assembly
> * Armor Experimentation and Assembly
> * Food Experimentation and Assembly
> * Medicine Experimentation and Assembly
> * Combat Medicine Experimentation and Assembly
> * Droid Experimentation and Assembly
> * Clothing Experimentation and Assembly
> * Structure Experimentation and Assembly
> * Artisan Experimentation and Assembly
> * Grenade Experimentation and Assembly
> All of these mods work except grenade experimentation and assembly, which
> was removed in beta and no longer exists on the current skill tree.
>
> Repair Skill Mods
>
> * Weapon Repair
> * Armor Repair
> * Clothing Repair
> None of these mods do anything. They have been tested extensively and

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> no purpose.
>
> Other Artisan Related Skill Mods
>
> * Droid Customization
> * Droid Complexity
> * Structure Complexity
> * Surveying
> The first three mods here do nothing. Surveying works, but you hit the

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> cap for surveying distance at artisian surveying 4 anyway so take that

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> consideration.
>
> Other Medic and Doctor Related Skill Mods
>
> * Injury Treatment
> * Injury Treatment Speed
> * Wound Treatment
> * Wound Treatment Speed
> * Medical Foraging
> * Medicine Use
> Most of these mods work, however the medical foraging skill is as good as
> useless, and it would be pointless to use. Also Medicine Use was nerfed

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> no longer functions.
>
> Other Combat Medic Related Skill Mods
>
> * Healing Range
> * Ranged Injury Treatment Speed
> * Combat Medicine Use
> * Combat Medicine Effectiveness
> Healing range and combat medicine use have been tested and don't do
> anything, combat medicine effectiveness probably doesn't work and but is
> hard to properly test. I wouldn't lay down any serious credits for this
> skill. The second mod up there works just fine.
>
> Scout, Ranger, and Squad Leader Related Skill Mods.
>
> * Terrain Negotiation
> * Camouflage
> * Foraging
> * Rescue
> * Group Terrain Negotiation
> * Steady Aim Bonus
> * Volley Fire Bonus
> All of these skill mods are tested and should work, but I don't know

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> who would actually want most of them. Don't put down any credits on the

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> two especially, since it is hard to confirm just how effecitve they are
> since they don't really do much anyway. I'm leaving them green since we

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> they do function.
>
> Creature Handler Related Skill Mods
>
> * Additional Pets
> * Stored Pets
> * Creature Taming Bonus
> Additional Pets and Stored Pets both used to work but have been nerfed,
> creature taming bonus works fine and I beleive is a requirement for taming

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> bull rancor baby.
>
> Entertainer Related Skill Mods
>
> * Wound Healing (Music)
> * Wound Healing (Dancing)
> * Battle Fatigue Healing (Music)
> * Battle Fatigue Healing (Dancing)
> * Musical Mind Enhancement
> * Dancing Mind Enhancement
> * Instrument Assembly
> Yep, all of it works, although instrument assembly is kind of redundany
> since instruments don't really have any mods or different values to them.
>
> Defensive Skill Mods
>
> * Dodge
> * Counterattack
> * Block
> * One Handed Weapon Counterattack
> * One Handed Weapon Evasion
> * Two Handed Melee Counterattack
> * Two Handed Melee Evasion
> * Polearm Counterattack
> * Polearm Evasion
> The first three mods here work, as long as you are equipping a weapon that
> fits with each mod. For example counterattack works when holding a power
> hammer, but you won't dodge while weidling it no matter how much +dodge

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> have. Make sure you get the right mods for the weapons you use. As far as
> the rest of this list... All of these were removed in beta, replaced by

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> trio of working skills.
>
> General Defense Skill Mods (Part 1)
>
> * Bleeding Resistance
> * Combat Bleeding Defense
> * Poison Resistance
> * Disease Resistance
> * Fire Resistance
> All of these mods should work but are nearly impossible to test.
>
> General Defense Skill Mods (Part 2)
>
> * Melee Defense
> * Ranged Defense
> * Defense vs. Dizzy
> * Defense vs. Blind
> * Defense vs. Knockdown
> * Defense vs. Posture Change (Up)
> * Defense vs. Posture Change (Down)
> * Defense vs. Intimidate
> * Defense vs. Stun
> All of these mods work fine, but the posture change (up) is basically
> useless because you are rarely (if ever) forced up by an attack.
>
> Melee Skill Mods
>
> * Unarmed Speed
> * Unarmed Accuracy
> * One Handed Weapon Speed
> * One Handed Weapon Accuracy
> * Two Handed Melee Speed
> * Two Handed Melee Accuracy
> * Polearm Speed
> * Polearm Accuracy
> * Warcry
> * Berserk
> * Intimidation
> All of these are working properly.
>
> Melee Damage Skill Mods
>
> * Unarmed Damage
> * One Handed Melee Damage
> * Two Handed Melee Damage
> * Polearm Damage
> All of these mods should work, but only the first one actually does. I
> beleive the devlopers removed the last three mods completely when they
> removed them from the skill trees. This is the source of much debate, but

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> has been tested time and time again. Do not get duped into buying skill

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> for any of these except unarmed.
>
> Ranged Skill Mods
>
> * General Ranged Aiming
> * Alertness
> * Carbine Speed
> * Carbine Accuracy
> * Carbine Accuracy While Moving
> * Carbine Aiming
> * Pistol Speed
> * Pistol Accuracy
> * Pistol Accuracy While Moving
> * Pistol Accuracy While Standing
> * Pistol Aiming
> * Rifle Speed
> * Rifle Accuracy
> * Rifle Accuracy While Moving
> * Rifle Aiming
> * Cover
> * Taking Cover
> * Rifle Crawl Speed
> The last two mods here no longer function, but the rest work fine with the
> proper weapon equipped.
>
> Commando Related Skill Mods
>
> * Thrown Weapon Accuracy
> * Heavy Weapon Speed
> * Heavy Weapon Accuracy
> The first mod here works, the second two do not. Heavy weapons now have
> their own mods, such as flamethrower accuracy, flamethrower speed, etc.
>
> Bounty Hunter Related Skill Mods
>
> * Tracking Droids
> * Tracking Droid Effectiveness
> * Droid Speed
> * Droid Precision
> All of the above work, including speed, but currently adding speed

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> slows down the droids! This makes it a functioning but worthless mod until
> the skill itself is fixed.
>
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> Diaboyos wrote:
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> My understanding is Borgle Cave. That's why it is camped so much. I did
> find a few CA's and AA's via treasure maps. That's pretty hit-or-miss.
>
> CH
>