How do you Disassemble a weapon?

[Crazed Possum]

I have been playing for awhile now and of course noticed it says some weapons and maybe armor (can't remember off hand) can be disassembled. Can you and how? Also do you get components? Maybe I am confused about this because i know you get scrap.

[Tamiore]

To Disassemble properly you need to take a feat:
https://www.stygiansoftware.com/wiki/index.php?title=Disassemble

See also: https://stygiansoftware.com/forums/index.php?topic=5078.0

[Qiox]

Originally posted by shoobeedoobeedoo:

To disassemble an item you need the disassemble blueprint and the related skill to break down stuff. You can use the scrap to create repair kits which is also a blueprint to buy.

You are describing when you Recycle an item, which only gives scraps.

Disassemble gives you the components, but not the cloth or metal plates, if they were part of the recipe.

[frank_kretschmer]

Originally posted by Qiox:

You are describing when you Recycle an item, which only gives scraps.

Disassemble gives you the components, but not the cloth or metal plates, if they were part of the recipe.

Unless it was changed ver recently, disassembling a metall armor for example gives you the metall plates, that may vary and be depending on the stuff you dissamble.

[Qiox]

Originally posted by frank_kretschmer:

Originally posted by Qiox:

You are describing when you Recycle an item, which only gives scraps.

Disassemble gives you the components, but not the cloth or metal plates, if they were part of the recipe.

Unless it was changed ver recently, disassembling a metall armor for example gives you the metall plates, that may vary and be depending on the stuff you dissamble.

I was thinking of melee weapons and leather armors when I posted that. Don't think I ever tried a metal armor.

[Zeem]

Originally posted by Qiox:

Originally posted by frank_kretschmer:

Unless it was changed ver recently, disassembling a metall armor for example gives you the metall plates, that may vary and be depending on the stuff you dissamble.

I was thinking of melee weapons and leather armors when I posted that. Don't think I ever tried a metal armor.

Metal armors and sledges can be disassembled into metal plates.

[King Fossil]

Disassemble is pretty unpredictable. You disassemble a machete and all you get back is the handle. You disassemble a sledge and you get the handle and the metal. You disassemble reinforced metal combat gloves and you get the reinforcement metal back, but not the base metal.
No way to know how it's going to go without testing it. The mysteries of disassemble.

[Robineus]

Disassembling a riot armour will give you the cloth it's made with as well.

[Etienne]

Disassemble is probably the most useless feat/trait/perk after Snooping.

[Robineus]

Originally posted by Etienne:

Disassemble is probably the most useless feat/trait/perk after Snooping.

How so? I use it with almost every character, if you're a crafter it lets you pull apart any weapon for it's mods and reassemble said weapon at full durability to either sell or use if you've specialised it to 5.

[Qiox]

Originally posted by Etienne:

Disassemble is probably the most useless feat/trait/perk after Snooping.

When you find a 160+ Power Core, do you set it aside and wait until you get Emitters good enough to be your "final" Shield?

I sure don't. Thanks to Disassemble with 5 Spec Points, I take apart whatever I have, swap in the new awesome component and put it back together. I don't have to worry about saving anything until later.

And as mentioned it makes looting so much easier. You just take apart and reassemble what you are going to sell to max out their value. With that, you can ignore a lot of cheaper value weapons and still end up with enough to clear out the vendor's cash on hand.

It also means you can ignore repair kits and stop wasting time recycling the cheapest stuff to make kits.

And to anyone saying losing 5 Spec points to Disassemble gimps your character I say, frankly you suck. Because there was no shortage of builds that could stomp their way through the game for the 4 years or so when Spec points were't even in the game yet.

[Zeem]

Originally posted by Qiox:

Originally posted by Etienne:

Disassemble is probably the most useless feat/trait/perk after Snooping.

When you find a 160+ Power Core, do you set it aside and wait until you get Emitters good enough to be your "final" Shield?

I sure don't. Thanks to Disassemble with 5 Spec Points, I take apart whatever I have, swap in the new awesome component and put it back together. I don't have to worry about saving anything until later.

And as mentioned it makes looting so much easier. You just take apart and reassemble what you are going to sell to max out their value. With that, you can ignore a lot of cheaper value weapons and still end up with enough to clear out the vendor's cash on hand.

It also means you can ignore repair kits and stop wasting time recycling the cheapest stuff to make kits.

And to anyone saying losing 5 Spec points to Disassemble gimps your character I say, frankly you suck. Because there was no shortage of builds that could stomp their way through the game for the 4 years or so when Spec points were't even in the game yet.

By level 20 I usually have more money than I really need, a boatload of loot I have yet to sell and a few spare top quality components from all the merchant runs. Usually at this point I already have all the endgame gear that I need. It's comes too late and requires too much investment that could be put into something more useful, like boosting direct combat feats.

[Robineus]

Still not useless though, now Salesman, there's a useless feat.

[King Fossil]

Originally posted by Robineus:

Still not useless though, now Salesman, there's a useless feat.

I think salesman beats ninja looter. Ninja looter is incredibly bad.

[Tamiore]

Originally posted by Zeem:

By level 20 I usually have more money than I really need, a boatload of loot I have yet to sell and a few spare top quality components from all the merchant runs. Usually at this point I already have all the endgame gear that I need. It's comes too late and requires too much investment that could be put into something more useful, like boosting direct combat feats.

1) The "more money than I really need by level 20" on higher difficulties may or may not happen (depending on play style), but the "a few spare top quality components" is completely up to RNG.
2) Even if you have components of comparably high quality for all slots (again, up to RNG), you may still want to use different combination of them for different situations. For example, a psion running more than one school may want to switch the psi headband to the school currently innervated, while still using the best secondary components (mufflers, etc).

[Qiox]

Originally posted by Robineus:

Still not useless though, now Salesman, there's a useless feat.

Well... that one time I maxed out Mercantile, and took fully Spec'd Salesman and took Major Supplier had vendors with 6k to 12k charons each refresh and willing to buy things like 21 guns, 18 armors, etc... It was fun to try... once.