I notice some people are posting pre-patch. I believe the intent is to get a picture of 'what is dropping them now'. All the feedback I've seen is indicating that NPC's still drop them, but at a much reduced rate. Tuskens at the fort seem to be the 'best bet' for crystals, but that may be due to the faster spawn rate and more spawns.
I too would like to see the AFK crystal farming removed. It's one of the ugliest aspects of this game. I spent 12 million on super rare resources last night to keep some very high end buff packs and medicines going, and then just realized if I sold a couple of my pearls off, I could get all that money back. 2 pearls are NOT worth nearly one million very high end resources.
I see a huge number of drops coming from fort tusken looking in this thread. Its ironic that the places that are dropping the crystals are all pretty much off limits for Jedi hunting in hiding. If a group of say 25 or more Jedi were to hunt together at fort tusken they could get massive amount of xp and at the same time be able to loot lots of crystals. My question is, would a group of 25+ Jedi be able to hold the fort against however many BH, combat medics, TKM etc who no doubt would come to hunt down the Jedi? Is this a completely ludicrous idea? Would the Jedi get slaughtered? I'm just a bit frustrated with having to divide my playing time into two separate hunting sessions -- that of Jedi hunting random animals for xp and then having to hunt with my main just to look for crystals.
Kovev wrote: REgarding force crystals, there is a huge problewm with avaliability, no question. I'll try to find some new sources and report them, however, I'm very happy to see the AFK macro killing to harvest crystals end. It really screwed up the ballance and dynamic of newbee huntign zones. I think some type of change was made that affected what mobs, at what sites are dropping crystals.
IMHO, they need moved off of noob mobs.
Agreed - The top 5 issues have many ideas for changing the Jedi saber crafting system but you miss a key point.
The loot hasn't moved to higher level drops - they drop in exactly the same places but far less frequently. This encourages more afk camping not less.
We all already have saber crafting items that drop exclusively from high level kills - Krayt Pearls - and look at the prices on those. Moving to high level MOBs is by far the worst solution yet as it forces Initiates to spend vast amounts of time playing their alt character in order to get saber crafting items. As far as I can tell a raise in drop rates and making crystals untradeable is easiest and fastest temporary solution. This should actually serve to reduce afk camping as it wont take days to get a drop.
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The answers we've been given by Garva are all we are going to be given for now. So we need to stop asking variants of the same question and refocus ourselves on the matter at hand.
1: It seems that the former method of camping low level thug spawns for hours is not going to be feasible.
So crystals will even drop less making the prices go up even more, what a way to fix this prob.
2: It has been hinted by some members of the Jedi community that non-static spawns have been dropping crystals.
Like they always did, old news.
3: Jawas have also been hinted at as dropping crystals.
Like they always did, again old news.
So stil no improvements in the saber crafting system, forcing you to loot items to craft the only weapon you can use is just stupid. Many members made great posts about how to fix this problem but they are just being ignored, looted items should be optional like it is for all other combat classes in this game.
And try to ignore the Jedi haters with there troll posts it always clutters up the good posts, if we just ignore them they have no reason to add anothere troll post as responds. If you really fell you have to do something just 1 star them or quote them in a new post.
The answers we've been given by Garva are all we are going to be given for now. So we need to stop asking variants of the same question and refocus ourselves on the matter at hand.
It seems that the former method of camping low level thug spawns for hours is not going to be feasible.
It has been hinted by some members of the Jedi community that non-static spawns have been dropping crystals
Jawas have also been hinted at as dropping crystals
Lets get out there and start looking around for other ways to get crystals besides /targetCycleOutward
If you find a crystal, please post to this thread with:
Location: Somewere On Tatooine
Type of Mod: huh?
Number killed before drop: 2
Type of Crystal: A Twin-Force Crystal
I was hunting donw some jawas the day after jedi cyrstals started dropoing a LONG time ago, and I got like 4 cyrstals in 15 mins.
Since I've only EVER looted ONE crystal (when I first started back on day 1) I can't be much help.. But, I'm hoping Arjun reads this..
Arjun, can you ask TH/GarVa/whomever if they can shed some light on how crystals will be got by Jedi with the "revamp"? Or was the revamp statement from GarVa (in the now closed thread) about the "unlocking system" (to which we already KNEW was changing)?
Question for GarVa/TH: "Is the system for which Jedi get crystals for their sabers changing from loot to some other system?".. if YES, "can you give at least a hint as to what this new system is? is it crafting? questing? praying? what?"..
Answer from GarVa/TH: --- please fill in this space ---
Arjun, can you ask TH/GarVa/whomever if they can shed some light on how crystals will be got by Jedi with the "revamp"? Or was the revamp statement from GarVa (in the now closed thread) about the "unlocking system" (to which we already KNEW was changing)?
Question for GarVa/TH: "Is the system for which Jedi get crystals for their sabers changing from loot to some other system?".. if YES, "can you give at least a hint as to what this new system is? is it crafting? questing? praying? what?"..
Answer from GarVa/TH: --- please fill in this space ---
Thanks
I second this. Just a simple answer could bring down the prices of crystals which are getting out of control. If jedi are able to craft their own or obtain crystals in a way other than camping Meatlumps the price of crystals may be more reasonable until the next Publish comes.
Who know though maybe the devs want all this cash flying around for these things... I sure hope not.
I've looted two, both from Large Rebel Base missions. One twin red, and one twin yellow. Alas, I can't recall exactly which of the Rebels dropped them. A friend of mine (a Bounty Hunter) looted a single, dark purple Crystal, from a mark. Another friend of mine (a fellow Jedi) looted a twin crystal from a Jawa.
You guys should be rare. I know on kauri alone there are hundreds (300+). You are not rare, anyone with the money and time to grind professions can be one. That my friend is a big fat JOKE.
hehe..the biggest Star Wars JOKE is......"its your fathers lightsaber, Luke..
300+ jedi on kauri? umm..... how to put this gently........ NO!
i am one of kauri's maybe 30 jedi. there are just a lot of visible ones, so there seems to be more. check their names, i keep a running list of every one i've seen. there are not 300 by any stretch
The bounty hunters are comming. Say hi with a lightsaber. Jedi Initiate 4121 Kauri Unguilded now and forever.
