Exiled-Phoenix Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 I was looking at some black hole gear the other day and noticed that the med tech gear has a generator as off hand. I'm under the assumption that Mercs can only equip a second blaster because the item is greyed out for me and i dont have a generator proficiency in my abilities list. Am i wrong or did BW **** up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isxossk Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 I was looking at some black hole gear the other day and noticed that the med tech gear has a generator as off hand. I'm under the assumption that Mercs can only equip a second blaster because the item is greyed out for me and i dont have a generator proficiency in my abilities list. Am i wrong or did BW **** up? You are correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BPWyndon Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 (edited) commando uses the shield generator, I didn't notice that was in our Black Hole vendor, I wonder if that mean the republic got our Off-Hand Blaster... Edited June 30, 2012 by BPWyndon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exiled-Phoenix Posted June 30, 2012 Author Share Posted June 30, 2012 Well i wrote a ticket to customer support and their reply was: "We are happy to help with any problems, however, to avoid spoiling your game experience and the rish story driven content of Star wars: the old republic, we will not provide specific information on items or pieces of equipment, or anything relating to the matters that are intended to be explored through gameplay." + a whole speech on how i should look at community forums or lore or whatever or explore the game to get an answer. IMO that just means 'they don't know' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Duck Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 simply put: since you can extract the mods from an offhand blaster and put them in your MAIN hand it would be unwise to allow a BlackHole offhand weapon since there then would be no need to attempt to do hardmode Explosive Conflict which is currently the only place to attain the highest level weapon mods in the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exiled-Phoenix Posted June 30, 2012 Author Share Posted June 30, 2012 simply put: since you can extract the mods from an offhand blaster and put them in your MAIN hand it would be unwise to allow a BlackHole offhand weapon since there then would be no need to attempt to do hardmode Explosive Conflict which is currently the only place to attain the highest level weapon mods in the game. They could just put a offhand blaster that doesn't have mods, like a vibroknife or focus has no mods, just the right stats. Trash items (greens) are like that so there is no reason they cant do that for Ops gear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BPWyndon Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 simply put: since you can extract the mods from an offhand blaster and put them in your MAIN hand it would be unwise to allow a BlackHole offhand weapon since there then would be no need to attempt to do hardmode Explosive Conflict which is currently the only place to attain the highest level weapon mods in the game. Or, they could make it so the barrel is off hand specific like armoring. Doesn't seem right that focus and shield generator users get their off hand and we dont. Besides the Black hole equipment isn't supposed to be better then campaigne. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogozhi Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 Med-tech gear is for Powertechs, not mercenaries. That would be why there is a generator and not an offhand for the Med-tech gear. Otherwise, why do you need an offhand specific weapon at all? The point of the black hole gear is to pull the mods and slot them into other gear. Currently I'm using two offhand Rakata blasters slotted into augmented pistols. The stats are identical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BPWyndon Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 Med-tech gear is for Powertechs, not mercenaries. That would be why there is a generator and not an offhand for the Med-tech gear. Otherwise, why do you need an offhand specific weapon at all? The point of the black hole gear is to pull the mods and slot them into other gear. Currently I'm using two offhand Rakata blasters slotted into augmented pistols. The stats are identical. Med-Tech is the Black Hole veriation of the Combat Medic set for mercenaries, not Powertechs... Powertechs don't have a healing spec. The generators are for the Commando (Mirror to the Mercernary on the republic side.) Mercenaries can't wear generators, so its either a misplaced item or BW is messing with us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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