Were Longzhu spheres changed recently?
I can't seem to improve shields with them (however, I've only tried them on shields already enhanced with molybdium and diamond crystals), and enhancing energy weapons seems to fail when it shouldn't (although the weapon in question was already enhanced with a couple of ion power capacitors, but not to 150% yet).
Longzhu spheres
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Yeah, they’ve been nerfed. That happened in 1.3 (I think). Basically, they only work on unenhanced weapons and shields now; no more stacking until you max out the enhancement.
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So the correct order for achieving the highest enhancement on a weapon is using one Longzhu sphere first and then the appropriate weapon-specific enhancements, and for shields it's one molybdenum crystal and then diamond crystals?AssumedPseudonym wrote: Yeah, they’ve been nerfed. That happened in 1.3 (I think). Basically, they only work on unenhanced weapons and shields now; no more stacking until you max out the enhancement.
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If you can actually find diamond field crystals 
. Longzhus are still useful for repairing damaged energy weapons and shields, too.
. Longzhus are still useful for repairing damaged energy weapons and shields, too.I found five in my last game (which I just finished a minute ago).Watch TV, Do Nothing wrote:If you can actually find diamond field crystals
The trick is to buy any and all unidentified crystals you find before you start id'ing them. They crystals are dirt cheap when they're unidentified and sell for ridiculous amounts of money once they're identified. I made half a million credits selling my collection of molybdium field crystals - that paid for the advanced analyzer several times over.
I also noticed in my last game that the ICS is ridiculously easy to defeat with the humble ion flame cannon (+fast). And I didn't even have the Bushido enhancer.
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I have never, in all my years of playing, knowingly stumbled upon a diamond field crystal.Watch TV, Do Nothing wrote:If you can actually find diamond field crystals
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I have! They're hard to find, but not impossible to find. You do have to go looking for them though...buy every field crystal, then ID them.Xephyr wrote:I have never, in all my years of playing, knowingly stumbled upon a diamond field crystal.Watch TV, Do Nothing wrote:If you can actually find diamond field crystals
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Aren't they buyable from trade outposts? (I suppose you might have to ID them first to buy them)
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Adventurer outfitters, TWDs and trade outposts (and possibly Commonwealth stations) may randomly carry them.catfighter wrote:Aren't they buyable from trade outposts? (I suppose you might have to ID them first to buy them)
I usually make a shopping tour through all systems up to Heretic and buy each and every crystal I find, since they are dirt cheap when still unindentified.