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Thread: Bounty Hunter Feedback Requested: Armor Certification
i would LOVE this. really really LOVE it.
reason: NOT everyone wants to master a second recon / battle certed prof. i have a temp that that ONLY has me master of BH. and i am going to leave it, ONLY becasue of the gimped asoult cert.
If BH mostly faces Energy, nay its the GOAL of BH - to fight Sabre holding jedi, then its cert should be recon.
regarding change. stop the whining, this game changes all the time. what about all the pre cu stuff ya had? and in this case, if they just flip the certs, it should be NP. You still have a great set of armor. (i would LOVE my 8k+ set of asoult to turn into +8k recon 
)
Only prob i see, are players that have armor filled with SEA's and even ADK'dparts. they should allow a refit, with the adk popping offANDgetting back the SEA's. but they proly wont do this. so this great idea, that i would LOVE to see, proly wont happen.
I'm a BH/Pistoleer, and I have full cert to wear assault or recon armor. Naturally, I wear recon. Having just spent 1.8 million on a suit of Scout Trooper and the FP to biolink, I don't think we need to change the certs. We have the option to choose which 2nd elite prof to master, and thus get new certs. I.e. if you wanted recon certs, you would go pistoleer. If we give recon certs to CMs for example, that gives us a little too much power IMO.
Just my thoughts.
Nakahs wrote:
I dont support this idea since converting means changing high end crafted armor into crap standard stats.
I would hate to lose my Health enhanced max protecion enhanced Mandalorian and BH amror into 5k standard crap.
This idea should have been discussed before CU now its too late or we will face the fact all armor we having now will be changed to crap.
But i agree that BH cert should have been energy armor and not kinetic armor since 100% of our content is against energy weapons. However now its too late....
I'm with you on this Samous.
The problem is... most people think you have to be CL80 to be viable in PvP, therefore most people have 2 types of armor certification from both MBH and another masterprofession. That's probably why it's not really an issue for those players.
But, imo, changing MBH armor tosaybattle wouldallow and maybe even promote stacking different professions together for more diversepvp combinations.
I would totally support a switch for BH to be certed to Battle Armor. It's the logical approach and would only make sense. With that said, with the change would need to be a token armor respec option where folks with huge dollars invested in modded/stated armor can convert it over.
As for Bounty Hunter Armor (craftable from looted appearance schematics). How about we make it certed to BOUNTY HUNTERS only. Sure, convert it to Battle as stated above....but also make is Master Bounty Hunter Certified. After all, it's Bounty Hunter Armor.....why should another profession get to wear it? This would keep our look unique and give some bonus to being a bounty hunter.
Stecoli wrote:
MRifle has Recon ROF and DMG mitigation, so if you changed MBH to recon, they would get DOUBLE the mitigation where MCM/MDOC would NOT.
Best left as it is IMO.
SamousNemo wrote:
Reconnaissance Armor receives a nominal bonus to energy protection and a nominal penalty to kinetic damage protection. This can be conceptualized as a free energy layer.
Battle Armor has an even protection against all damage types - no modifiers at all.
Assault Armor receives a nominal bonus to kinetic protection and a nominal penalty to energy damage protection. This can be conceptualized as a free kinetic layer.
As we all know Bounty Hunters are certified for Assault Armor types. Primarily this includes Composite, Chitin, Black Sun (aka Bounty Hunter), and Mandolorian armor.
Unfortunately most of the combat Bounty Hunters see is against Energy weaponry (e.g. most blasters and all light sabers). This leads most Bounty Hunters to pick up an additional profession to get an armor cert that better suits his/her needs.
Of course every combatant is required to pick up another profession to be viable, however our current certs have a few additional drawbacks
#1 Our ideal armor appearances, Black Sun and Mandolorian, are not very practical in the type of combat we face. This leads both appearances to be used as more of a cosmetic suit to brag about than to actually serve as protection
#2 Many hunters feel pigeon-holed into taking a certain secondary prof to gain the ideal armor cert
Now although I cannot speak for other professions, I was curious to hear what you all thought. Primarily I am curious to hear what you think about possibly changing our armor certification to Recon or Battle. Keep in mind of course that Black Sun and Mandalorian armor would also need to be changed to Recon or Battletypes in order that we could wear them. This would alsogrant other professions access to our most coveted armor appearances.
For clarification and easy reference, the current professional certs are as follows
Assault: Bounty Hunter, Commando, Squad Leader
Battle: Carbineer, Combat Medic, Creature Handler, Doctor, Fencer, Pikeman, Ranger, Swordsman
Recon: Pistoleer, Rifleman, Smuggler
Message Edited by SamousNemo on 10-15-2005 11:20 AM
If we cant change BH to Recon or Battle, which I would prefer Recon (Jedi Hunting), we should at least have the BH and Mando armor with high energy stats... Meaning those 2 types of armor should have at least 7k in energy protection.