Bio Engineer Archive

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LloydPickering wrote:
The problem is that would give BEs a 60 second massive advantage in combat...BE would become the combat FOTM

We need to find a way to get near creatures without dying instantly, while also not making us some uber combat template.

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Cut it to 30 seconds then. Don't forget that you can't sample while aggro'd so it's not like this would be a continuous thing. If the fight lasted longer than X seconds, and the BE hasn't made it out, he probably won't.

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LloydPickering wrote:

The problem is that would give BEs a 60 second massive advantage in combat...BE would become the combat FOTM

We need to find a way to get near creatures without dying instantly, while also not making us some uber combat template.

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Not really, it should only apply to Creatures, because we got our butts kicked by Nightsisters before anyway....

But thats a lot of unique coding too - I still am leaning towards a +25 Maskscent mod in the MBE box as our best bet in the short term.

Or maybe alter /sampledna to include some sort of creature mezz. You initiate a sample and it 'dazes' the creature. This 'daze' would reduce the creatures reaction time and damage output for 60 seconds. It should also 'root' you so you can perform no other action until the sample is done. If it fails and aggros, you have a little time to get outa dodge, even if you take a few hits from the still 'dazed' creature.

They could also increase the effectiveness of /sampledna at Master so we don't fail so often. I already think it's not working right on TC - I sampled a CL15 Bagaraset 10 times tonight, failed 8 times, got two samples then an aggro. This thing was CL15 for crissakes, I'm a friggin MASTER BE - whats going to happen when I try a Rancor?

As a MBE/MCH today on TC (with froggies - yay!) I had Marksman 0402 and was a CL57 player. I can only imagine the issues I would have /sampling a Mutant Rancor at CL75 - BOOM I'm dead.

IE: no more high level pets for anyone. If we do make them, they would run 5-10mil a piece and take a month to make. Can you imagine the CH communities hate for us? We'd never sell em, cuz they'd rather just go /tame a baby for free.

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Qual_Tun wrote:

I too am a TKM/MBE and have been since i started playin, way back in beta, ill be droppin BE , if i cant goto endor or dath and dna sample, as i do now.

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I have MBE and TKM on TC now, and have no problems sampling from Endor, Dantooine, or Lok. Haven't tried Dathomire yet. On live I can get into trouble sampling on Dath without buffs and if I'm careless with the same template.

On another note, I know that Endor hasn't been converted yet, but I had no problem killing Merek Death Heads last night as a level 57 hybrid BE/TK. It was a good fight. If it could have put the poison and disease dots on me it would have been a tougher fight, but I think I would have still won.

By contrast I need buffs and armor to do the same thing on live now. There was one time when the MDH won even when I did have buffs and armor on. Not needing the buffs and armor is kinda nice actually.