Bio Engineer Archive

1. Give MBH some kind of armor(Mandalorian maybe) with protection against lightsabers, this would encourage people to master and not dabble in investigation

2. Make players be able to post bounties on other players to some extent, make the price high enough to discourage abusing it

3. Give MBH a mod with a chance to bypass saberblock

4. Make a BH specific carbine

5. Make it so that having a TEF won't get you kicked out of a private building so that jedis cannot hide in a cantina or guild hall

I'm not talking about the mandalorian that already exists, I'm talking about a new type of armor for MBH only that has resists to lightsabers. According to screen shots I have taken of mandalorian, the DWB mandalorian does not have resists to lightsabers.

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-crovaxian- wrote:

I remember at the onset of SWG... Bounty Hunters were feared in PVP.

Interstingly enough, the reason we were good back then is the reason we are bad now... Ill tell you why, and how it works into the top 5 issues.

What it ends up boiling down to is, we need a stronger offense.

From a development standpoint, BH were designed as a distinctively unique proffession. We are the only pure combat proffession that is also designed to be a standalone proffession for profit. Unlike swordsmen, fencers, pistoliers, riflemen, etc., we have proffession specific missions that (although time consuming) can be run for a nice chunk of change.

Of course, everything needs balance, and BH were designed as such. We were given very strong offense- accuracy and speed, at the cost of defense. From a design standpoint, we are hunters. We take down our marks by suprise with a crippling offensive attack. Anyone that truly hunts jedi can understand that if you need to start healing yourself during a fight, you have already lost.

Now, back before everyone had buffs, before everyone was running around in massive comp, our offense worked wonders. While you might nothave beenable to last until the end of a massive battle, you would probably take out 7-8 people instead. I fondly remember battles at anchorhead in which i was able to add up 7-8 tick marks before having to run for my life. (total battle size was maybe 15 people)

However, nowadays, everything is a battle of attrition, or massive mind DPS. Defence and massive DPS have becomethe keysto pvp.... this is a key we dont have.

We have simply become obsolete.

If MBH is to come back onto the stage as good PVP, we need to keep the concept of design concept and balance in mind. To that extent, we need not so much to become tanks, but emphasize our core attributes. We need a stronger offense.

To account for massive defense in todays PVP, we need more accuracy.

To account for massive damage resistance, we need higher damage specials.

For both of these we need stronger state control (stronger dizzy, kd, stun, etc)

The key concept of BH is that we are to be feared. Why should we be feared? Because we can rip your guts out before you can blink an eye....

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I agree with this post 100%. It was because BH's were feared that in those early days that I became a BH myself. When the profession was "nerfed" (hate that term) I was not yet a MBH. I never ever had he chance to see how it worked first hand. I saw it either at the wrong end of another MBH's gun or as I watched another MBH take down a single player. Boy were those the days!

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homebreu wrote:

Why is it that none of you are mentioning the fact that the powers that be are STILLcompletely clueless as to the actual condition of the MBH, or ranged BH?

They are still saying that we are supposed to be high offence and low defence, but IF any of them played this game at all, they would know that we have been Low/Low for almost an entire year now.

I am just flabbergasted that they STILL have no clue as to the actual condition of our profession!

I am now convinced more than ever before, that SOE and the devs in charge of managing and maintianingthis game, are not competant enough to even come close to fixing this huge POS they call a game!

I am done waiting for this crap.

I am done listening to theirlies and crap!

I am done praying that this game will become what it should have always been (FUN, andStar Warsy)!

I am done thinking thatLA will get smart and finally get around to firing SOE, and bringinsome people who will turn this game around before it is canceled sometime within the next 6 months!

I am so outta here at the end of this month, it ain't funny!

Account cancelled as of right now SOE!

If you people have even the slightest bit of sense, and self respect, you will leave ASAP, and move onto a game that is actually FUN... Like WOW, EQ2, or any of the other FUN and actually imersive games that are coming out this next year.

Why ohh why did I do this to myself for an entire year and a half?

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It's not that they don't know. If they read the forums, talk to correspondents, read their email, or anything like that, then they know.And trust me, theyknow. The problem is thatthose in charge don't really seem to give a damn. The devs answer to a suit. Always have, always will. They code what they're told to code, and they're told to code what the suits think will make money.