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Thread: Afraid of impending Nerfage (skill tapes)

Tsumitsuki
Fri Aug 05, 2005 9:55 am
#14






Hakuna1976 wrote:
Like someone else said in another post, this has been out for just a little over 24 hours, and we are all already revamping it...(btw valid points but to me the BH profession is a solo profession and grouping kind of takes that feeling away, now maybe if they could limit the group to like 2-3 people...that would be a true hiring...otherwise you would simply have BH led uber loot farming)





now thats a constructive criticism but I would argue that the 1 or 2 extras need not be BH..
Tsumitsuki
Fri Aug 05, 2005 10:03 am
#15






Ohetie wrote:
i've killed over 25 marks, i've only got 1 SEA. I don't think these are too common. Considering the amount of time i've spent hunting marks. The only thing thats really flooding the market are the smuggler supplies, but then again, i don't think they should be that rare. Keep our loots the way it is.

Also this wasn't put in because they wanted us to leave jedi alone, this was put in cause one of the devs played a few NPC missions and realized they sucked, so he spent his free time upgrading it.





Yep, Ive only had one too and it wasnt that great, but nevertheless Kaadara has not seen this much activity since the CU went live and a goodly number of tapes are hitting the trade forums.


Whats scaring me is Im hearing people in game commenting on how "BH are suddenly getting really good tapes" and commenting negatively at that (appart from the BH players who are as happy as a cat in a string ball factory - myself among them). personally I loved the crafting changes they made back pub 8 sometime when they took the experiment caps off but the master crafter communtity spasmed so fast they took it out within 24 hrs.

JANGO69
Fri Aug 05, 2005 10:16 am
#16






Tsumitsuki wrote:

Ok its time for me to raise my ugly mug again ready for another roasting.


Over the last day and a half a large (comparatively) number of high end tapes have appeared on the forums looted from the BH missions. I'm a BH myself and personally Im loving it. But I can see a nerf comming. Other professions are going to complain and whine "why is this uberloot only available to 1 specialised proffession" and "why are BH getting all the money so they can be rich when the rest of us have to work for it?" well of course one answer is anyone has the choice to grind as far as investigation 2 and remain level 80 in other proffs but of course that excludes those that prefer melee. Another answer is sell the tapes cheap to stop people comlaining but that wont work either (people with money will just buy the tapes cheap and sell them on later for a higher price thus driving the economy up even higher) and so I can see nerfage looming on the horizon.


There is one ray of hope in my opinion and it runs along the lines of this:


1) Nerf the tapes *but wait till you read the whole list*

2) Allow BH to form a loot hunting group

3) Allow grouped players to attack the NPC

4) Upgrade the loot according to the number of players in the group

5) Upgrade the mark according to the number of players in the group


There is after all precedent for BH hiring others, the shapeshifter in episode 2 was hired by Jango to carry out the assasination on Amidala therefore its not unreasonable that a BH in game could "hire" other group members to assist in taking down his mark.


This would effectively create missions that could be just for BH grinding (solo with a chance of a reasonable tape say +5 to +8) or with a full group you can have a tough loot hunting group where you might get something like a tape up to +25


perhaps there should be an item number 6) NO JEDI ALLOWED


regards


Tsumi





I didnt know our marks are the only ones that drop skill tapes. Plenty of skill tapes out there for everyone.



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