Bounty Hunter Archive
Thread: Bounty Hunters... what can Dev do Right Now??
stahlej
Tue Jun 29, 2004 2:56 pm
#157
The key here isnt to drop skill boxess from the BH profession.
The key is to actually make BH specials realy effective against Jedi's and balanced in GCW PvP...
Dumping skill points from the BH profession only grants the right to say that BH skills can't be upgraded since they would be to powerfull... since you now can master a whole sleeve of other professions.
The key is to actually make BH specials realy effective against Jedi's and balanced in GCW PvP...
Dumping skill points from the BH profession only grants the right to say that BH skills can't be upgraded since they would be to powerfull... since you now can master a whole sleeve of other professions.
Message Edited by stahlej on 06-30-2004 12:57 AM
ToKKar
Tue Jun 29, 2004 2:57 pm
#159
Thank you JustG!!
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Bounty Hunters... what can Dev do Right Now??
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1. Denerf eyeshot (and move it to Master if possible). After the pistol-nerf it should be possible;
2. denerf our carbineknockdown (fireknockdown);
3. make fastblast usefull for something;
4. increase LLC accuracy.
Dasyra
Tue Jun 29, 2004 2:58 pm
#160
MagusZDark wrote:
I don't want trapping, hunting and survival lines removed...
I would agree in that I was hoping for us to be balanced in other ways, through perks and specials...
Good & Bad is that Bounty Hunter will be templated just like all the others, CM etc. So more likely to have people playing BH that are just there for a PvP template and could care less about Bounty Hunting. The good is that we might be more PvP viable.
The focus on BH being the Jedi control is bad. Some of us want more than to just hunt down Jedi, it's not really a very fun end game for the profession.
Smron
Tue Jun 29, 2004 2:59 pm
#161
While I do enjoy the fact that I will be able to spend more points on medical or extra combat skills, I really feel that this 'solution' makes the Master BH tag the only thing worth while in mastering the profession... Now I might as well drop my BH, keep Investigations 3, and pick a combat profession that stands a better chance against the Jedi than underpowered BH. Personally, I agree with everyone that said make Jedi Missions available to Master BH so there is at least a reason to master this profession, also so that an artisan can not hunt a Jedi with the right mix of skills.
I'd rather the devs fix Bounty Hunter entirely, or if we got a revamp in the very near future (one that works)... This quick fix could alleviate some of our problems but bring in bigger headaches.
Southwick
Tue Jun 29, 2004 2:59 pm
#162
I will pray to the devs everyday I play to never listen to this idea "the ability to use weapon powerups on the LLC and the ability to use LLC specials from any range"
I can hit for over 10000 damage with specials on my lc. If this was from any range the game would go to crap. LC specials are great for PVE and last minute close combat shots. Yes the accuracy needs to be tweaked, which you can do if the pre reqs are lowered, but being able to do 5000+ damage from long range at the rate my llc can fire, is stupid.
Decanus
Tue Jun 29, 2004 3:00 pm
#163
So after this how meny MBH will have Tracking skills?
If you want to keep the ranger skill of tracking you are still S.O.L.
So what diferance does this realy make?
JustG take some time to think about thins would you.
Aanu
Tue Jun 29, 2004 3:00 pm
#165
STOP THE MADNESS
I don't see how these skill points address our problems! I don't understand how the Devs operate. This is rediculous. Most BH would not mind the skill pnt req't if you made it worth that much! Don't take the easy way out, making this game worse in the process.
Do this NOW:
1) Remove the 5 sec weapon change delay. OR increase the length of our state effects.
2) Increase our Payouts... Penalize the JEDI instead..
-a
Message Edited by Aanu on 06-29-2004 03:02 PM
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Southwick
Tue Jun 29, 2004 3:01 pm
#167
BTW IF YOU IMPLEMENT THIS YOU MUST MOVE JEDI HUNTING TO MBH!~
Never understood why those were there.
CivicBountyHunter
Tue Jun 29, 2004 3:02 pm
#169
Southwick wrote:
History lesson. In the days of yore, there was a template. It involved going pistoleer, then coming over and picking up eye shot, or bh pistol 4, and ignoring the rest of the tree. The problem was that everyone saw eyeshot being done to them, and was upset saying BH were overpowered. No one realized that the issue was not with bh, but instead with the pistoleer using bh skillsissue.
The same is going to happen. I feel it is a good change in and of itself. It will broaden the class in a sense. IT is dangerous though! With this people will want to pick up bh for eyeshot again. Thats really the only reason I see it happening. This will probably finally move eyeshot to the master box. This was resisted last time, but probably wont now. Other than that I do not see to many ill affects. Spray shot is our best carbine attack. It would be best I think to switch the lightning attacks as single is a more reliable attack and better at master(thats just me though).
The key is jedi hunting at master. Without this jedi hunting for the mbh will be worthless as you will be able to choose much better templates than an actual bh.
Master needs to mean something.
Please don't take this the wrong way.
Life lesson. Don't assume anything. I'm well aware of the history of SWG and BH. Day 2 subscriber, 5k invest xp from MBH pre-everything, droped for 0440+dabled in darn near everything. Blah blah blah, we have all heard it at this point. I mastered BH when vehicles came out/xp fix. Honestly compaired to before it was joke to master (as in stupid easy compaired to before) , but coming from someone who like the EQ grind that might not be suprising 
Overall you and I are on the same page. This "fix" is going to allow no true advangate to the MBH but rather allow all sorts of new possibilites to other skill sets. I know this won't pay the bills at SOE, but I would rather wait another 60-90 days for a real fix. Also I would say by looking at the 5star vs 1star posts, it seems OBVIOUS where the REAL BH community stands on this subject.