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Ionscout

Sun Feb 29, 2004 10:36 am

Hello,

I'm a Bounty Hunter who seeks your expert advice.

I play my Bounty Hunter like a ...err.... Hunter. By that I mean I'd like to use, for lack of a better term, hunting dogs. PVP aside I need a good Tank to keep thePvE mobsoff of me, while I do the damage to them. Now as most of you may know MBH requires 217 Skill points.

So, I ask you, what is a good CH skill level to use your BE modified pets? Is there a sweet spot? CL of 31 is the max I can muster I understand, and of course that would be the BEST I could do, but what could I get away with? I've heard CL10' having a HAM of 5-6k ish. Would a CL12 be better? Is there a sudden breakthrough at CL20? Again where is the sweet spot?

Thank you very much for your advice!

Cai'bek - Master Bounty Hunter / Master Combat Medic / Carbs 0400 / Imperial Ace (Inqusition SQ) Colonel (RET) / Smugglers Alliance ACE (Active)

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AlufNull

Sun Feb 29, 2004 11:38 am

#2

If all you are after is a tank, you should not have much of a problem. A skilled BE will drop Damage and Resists (just keeping kinetic high) and can even add light armor in the upper 20's without too much problem. The closer you get to 30, the higher the HAM and damage can be.

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Shivash

Sun Feb 29, 2004 12:26 pm

#3

Tricky one this. I'd probably use the extra points to boost your combat capabilities as BH's, especially considering their SP allocation, are decidedly poor. I'd therefore look for either some of the pistoleer or carbineer tree's and just go for a well made non-ch tank. Something like 3/3/1 HAM ( I'm personally reluctent to recomend higher due to potential for future tweaks as the CL calculation software has to factor in a lot of stuff and seems to still produce non-ch creatures that are a little high on spec) which you can boost with some pet food.

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ArthurDentOnBria

Sun Feb 29, 2004 2:24 pm

#4

I think there is a "sweet spot", and itis around CL 21. That is the level at which we as BE's seem to be able to consistantly make some really compelling kinetic tanking pets. Pets with high HAM (close to 10k) with high kinetic resists, and light armor. So that's what, like 4-0-0-0 in CH (or 0-4-0-0 or whatever)? Bring back the CH dabblers! lol.

Getting higher CL levels than that what you mainly get is pets with slightly higher HAM, do more damage, or have some energy resists in addition to the kinetic resists. Or of course the ability to wield more than one pet at a time. But for pure tanking on the hunt, a CL 21 pet can honestly work about as well as a much higher level pet. I've used my pet to tank Enraged rancors, or big packs of other really impressive creatures and it very very rarely dies or even needs healing until after the battle.

Message Edited by ArthurDentOnBria on 02-29-2004 01:29 PM

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SDNewton

Sun Feb 29, 2004 3:29 pm

#5

Could you give a little info on what you like to hunt

if you are doing missions then stick with non CH and get better combat skills

If you like to do caves and sutch i recommend the Cl 25 spot ( dont remember what skill needed but this is a spot on CH ), then buy 3 pets ,

A 60% kinetic light armor, high HAM pet forcreatures.

A40-60% kin, 30-50%energy , and a lot of other resistance, light armor this is for random fights, Endor and Dathomircan requirethose, as you never know if yournext aggro is aNight sister elder or a rancor, or a teddy bear or a merek ...

And a20-40% kin ,40%+ energy and well, high on rest of resist, light armor, this is for theNPC fights...

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Cocomono

Sun Feb 29, 2004 3:31 pm

#6

It's fairly simple to make a CL17-19 10k/6k/4k HAM pet with 60Kinetic. This is the equivalent of Light Armor and 20Kinetic if that looks nice.

As a MBH you really shouldn't have problems with a creature like this dieing. You can also store a good amount of them so you don't have to worry about healing, just do a rotation of pets.

These pets will also double over as distractions in PvP.

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Ionscout

Mon Mar 01, 2004 4:09 am

#7

GREAT info!

My options are limited ... but I am now armed with a better understanding of what I could do in conjunction with MBH.

Thank you all VERY VERY much!

Cai'bek - Master Bounty Hunter / Master Combat Medic / Carbs 0400 / Imperial Ace (Inqusition SQ) Colonel (RET) / Smugglers Alliance ACE (Active)

All winnings / drops to Vendor:Near Jabbas Palace -6698 -5927.

To deliver you unharmed -relatively so- is the primary requirement for collecting the bounty that was posted on you. If you try starving yourself, you will be force-fed. I'm not known for being gentle about that sort of thing."
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