a Krayt Pearl Exceptional
Like Power Crystals, Krayt Dragon Pearls can be used to add damage to a Lightsaber. They can be looted from Krayt Dragons on Tatooine, and come in a variety of qualities. As with Power Crystals, the quality determines the damage range the pearl can add.
- Flawless - Up to 20 damage
- Pre-NGE item. No longer can be looted.
- Premium - Up to 19 damage
- Usually looted off of Ancient Krayt Dragons
- Select - Up to 16 damage
- Usually looted off of Ancient Krayt Dragons
- Quality - Up to 11 damage
- Usually looted off of Ancient & Giant Canyon Krayt Dragons
- Good - Up to 9 damage
- Usually looted off of Ancient, Giant Canyon, & Canyon Krayt Dragons
- Fair - Up to 7 damage
- Usually looted off of Ancient, Giant Canyon, & Canyon Krayt Dragons
- Poor - Up to 5 damage
- Usually looted off of Any Krayt Dragons
- Given as a Profession reward to Jedi at level 50
- Scratched - unusable
- Usually looted off of Any Krayt Dragons
- Cracked - unusable
- Usually looted off of Any Krayt Dragons
There is a rumour that to get a pearl to tune for the best damage, use items to increase your luck before you tune.
Note: Not all of this information has been verified.
Realism
While SWG displays Krayt Dragon Pearls as a milky white sphere, similar to pearls harvested from clams in real life, this is actually incorrect. While real pearls are formed by a clam encasing a grain of sand in layers of calcium carbonate (CaCO3), Krayt Pearls are formed by Krayts eating rocks containing crystals. Inside the Krayts gizzard, the rocks grind together, eventually wearing away all the minerals, leaving only the hard crystal behind. This crystal still looks like a normal transparent crystal, and behaves the same way once refined by a Jedi.