Star Wars Galaxies: Friday Feature: Lucky Breaks

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"Never tell me the odds."

Luck truly is a mysterious influence. You can't see it, touch it or measure it but just about everyone has an opinion on it. Some say luck is bogus while others swear by their lucky charms.

Luck is part of the Star Wars Galaxies experience, too. Let's take a closer look at how the character attribute Luck can work to your benefit in-game.

The Luck Attribute

Luck is a character attribute that can sometimes give you a surprise bonus effect while you are adventuring in the game. For example, during combat Luck might reward you with an experience bonus. While crafting, it might give you a bonus in the form of a craft.

How luck works is indeed mysterious, but here are some of the benefits you can receive in-game if you get 'a lucky break' :

• Crafting Assembly: Crafters who catch a lucky break can benefit from a Critical Success during the Assembly phase of creating their item.

• Crafting Experimentation: During Experimentation, Traders can get a lucky break that will give their experiment a Critical Success.

• Combat and Faction: During combat, anyone fighting has a chance to be lucky which will earn them bonus Faction Points.

• Healing: All healing actions including the use of special abilities, healing others and even using stim-packs have the chance to receive a lucky break that will boost the effectiveness of the heal.

• Fencing: Another interesting chance for a lucky break is selling your goods to a Junk Dealer. Everyone has the opportunity for this lucky break which increases the item's "sell rate." A player can tell when they've been lucky because all of the prices of their goods will be considerably higher than usual.

• Stealing: Spies have an interesting luck ability. They can steal an item without any chance of getting caught.

• Theft Detection: Luck isn't an exclusive ability! Not only do spies get a chance for a "free steal," but everyone else gets a separate chance to catch the thief (as long as the spy doesn't get a "free steal"). While a spy is stealing, their target can get lucky by automatically detecting the spy.

• Experience: Last on our list of lucky breaks is experience. If you're really lucky, you can get a bonus to your experience point (XP) rewards while you're playing the game. It can happen at any time whether you are on the ground or in space, questing or crafting - as long as you're doing something that earns you XP.

Good luck!