Ship upgrade FAQ from the view of Slicing

[Hyde]

I wrote this up to post on the relevant Torhead.com entries:

Farming Cybertech Schematics with Slicing?

Cybertech schematics drop from Slicing for the following Grade 2 and Grade 4 spaceship upgrades:

• Ship Armor
• Beam Generator
• Energy Shield
• Shield Regenerator
• Missile Magazine

NOTES:
1) NOT Crafted: Beam Charger (given as a mission reward, see below)
2) These crafted items buff 3 stats (the green vendor-purchased upgrades only buff 2 stats).

"Purple" Cybertech Schematics (think of it as Grade 6 unless they add 6 later):
Crafts the same slots EXCEPT the Beam Generator/Charger. The purple "Rendili Beam Generator" is Purple mission reward and you can craft the purple "Sienar Systems Beam Charger". See below for a list of the Purple schematics.


Level ranges for Slicing missions:

A schematic will drop from a Slicing mission equal to the level required to use the item it builds.
EXAMPLE: Schematic for Grade 2 Missile Magazine (useable by L22 toons) drops from the "17-24" Slicing missions.

Grade 2 - level 17-24 slicing missions

Grade 4 - level 33-40 slicing missions

"Purple" - level 41-48 slicing missions for all BUT the Kuat:

• Armek Ship Armor
• Sienar Systems Beam Charger
• Quellegh Industrial Energy Shield
• Hoersch-Kessel Shield Regenerator

"Purple" - level 49-50 slicing - Kuat Drive Yards Missile Magazine


Upgrades that can NOT be crafted:
a) Purchased from vendors for plain ol' credits: Grade 1, 3 and 5 upgrades

NOTE: Grade 5 has better stats than Grade 4, but Grade 4 has 3 stats instead of 2 (ie, it buffs more stats but to a lesser degree).

b) Upgrades rewarded by completing missions:

• Beam Charger: Grade 2 Beam Charger (complete mission: "Space Combat: Archenar Invasion")
• Beam Charger: Grade 4 Beam Charger (complete mission: "Space Combat: Pakuuni Defense")
• Beam Generator: Rendili Hyperworks Beam Generator (complete mission "Space Combat: Aeten Defense")

c) Purchased from the Fleet Commendation Vendor

• L50 - Proton Torpedo Tube (50 fleet tokens)
• L45 - EMP Generator (150 fleet tokens)
• L35 - Electronics Warfare Pod (90 fleet tokens)
• L25 - Power Conversion Module (30 fleet tokens)

[Elrojo]

Thanks for the post Hyde. I have slicing and cyber tech trained (as well as underworld).

Just to try and get more info on this. For slicing you get 2 types of missions. Locked boxes for credits and augments. I assume you are rolling for augments?

Or are you buying the schems from gmt?

[Hyde]

I roll almost entirely Lockbox missions, since augments have virtually zero value except purples and blues @ L50.

Schematics and one-time Missions drop from a crit roll, but the type of mission you ran (Lockbox or Augment) doesn't seem to matter.