SoshiroUrisara Posted June 9, 2018 Share Posted June 9, 2018 Hello everyone! I’m sure many of us who are fans of the black and white lightsaber from the Force Unleased and the darksaber from the Clone Wars TV show are finding ourselves disappointed by… ahem *activates vader voice* a certain lack of black and white lightsabers. And why is that? Well the only known black core crystal with a white glow in the game is the Black-Silver Striated color crystal which can ONLY be acquired through participating in ranked pvp. For those who are competent or even skilled at ranked pvp the arguments I’m about to make aren’t going to feel very relevant for you. However, there are some of us who would rather not have to put up with the volatile and often hostile atmosphere of ranked pvp. As someone who tried to level up and eventually get into ranked, the crystal isn’t worth putting up with the players who are angry with you trying to survive long enough to get what you need to acquire the crystals. (I’d rather work retail in a Target 8 hours a day, 7 days a week). So here are three ways for us PVE players to have our own black-core white-glow crystals so that we don’t have to worry about ruining the experience of the PVP players. We’ll go from simplest to most complex 1. We take the existing Black-silver crystal and make it available to PVE players by either adding it to the cartel market OR making it so that PVP players can reverse engineer them, craft them and then sell or trade them. 2. We add (or possible reintroduce) a non striated black-white crystal as either a cartel market item or a craftable item. I have screenshots of what is supposed to be the original black-white crystal before it was apparently removed from the game in a very early patch. 3. Or finally, we do a bit of everything. Here is my fun idea. You could make a cartel market item that unlocks an Artifice crafting recipe for the NON-striated black-white crystal. Then in order to make the crystal you have to travel to different planets killing different world bosses and harvesting different materials. By implementing the crystal like this, it becomes a status symbol much like the striated version, only the non striated version would be more for PVE players to show that they went through the process of making it. (You could even make it so that you can’t reverse engineer them and they are legacy bound as soon as you pick them up so you can’t sell, mail or trade them). I doubt this is high on the dev’s priority list but it would be cool for them to do this. Help spread this! And I know this has been posted about before and I have even contributed to some of those threads, but it would appear they haven’t gotten any attention to make an impact so here I am giving it a go. image links (supposedly these are genuine) https://imgur.com/gYzqm1F https://imgur.com/EOIYElK https://imgur.com/az6Uvwq https://imgur.com/oZWkZz9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshurDarksoul Posted June 13, 2018 Share Posted June 13, 2018 (edited) Although im not a fan of the "dark saber" i am a fan of the force unleashed. The black core white outlined color crystal from that game has been requested since swtor was released i believe. Too my knowledge the developers have *never* acknowledged or commented on this request. There have been speculations as to why but no concete answers. The one picture that floats around showed up really early in the game if i remember correctly. I *think* the rumor was that it was a parting gift to a few swtor staff members/developers after initial development needs were met and they were released. Again, rumor mill. Other speculations include it actually being very well hidden in the game and never discovered,not being allowed to include it due to being restricted to the force unleashed products, and the difficulty rendering the color combination. Since they did at some point release the black-silver crystal reward, im inclined to believe a licensing permission issue. Rumor mill aside, id love the opportunity to acquire either without subjugating myself to the reported toxicity of ranked.pvp. Ashur Edited June 13, 2018 by AshurDarksoul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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