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I have no healing skills, which makes the Boss marks a bit more difficult for me, but as we have to do these solo, be careful about increasing the difficulties.

That being said, does anyone wonder WHY this was done?

To me, it feels like one big bribe to get us of the Jedi's backs without nerfing anything else. If the loot haul is good, especially for MBH's (One mark for me tonight dropped a Core Booster and a BH Boot schematic), it will keep the Kadaara BH terminals humming and the Jedi mindlessly /afk killing on Kasshyyk.....

Am I the only one that feels this is a blatant attempt to ease the BH pressure that has been on Jedi for the last 6 months? The Jedi forum must be jumping with joy to hear about BH's "running mission after mission for NPC marks"....

I can hear the corks popping from here.

Must be a stroke of bad luck on your end.

Ill say it again to you Maura with a bit more updated info: After killing 20 marks I found one SEA. I can get these easily from other places, with similar stats and it would take me less time. The only reason any SEA is going for any amount of money at the moment is people are keeping quiet about where to go. What exactly are you getting thats "uber"? Slicing components? *laugh* How often are you getting a decent SEA? Bounty hunter armor is nothing special (espically since its assault), the slicing component drop rate for them is very nice, but SEAs can be gotten much easier from other places.

To top it off, people need to be able to kill the marks as they level up. You can get boss marks at any given point and as far as I've seen theres no way to identify before hand what you're going for.

Since PVP is forming up now I think Ill leave it at that.

I'd love to know what your template is if you think these things are sooo easy. I am MBH/M Smug with 0003 Pistoleer, and I can't kill one of the boss marks for anything. I have been incapped 7 times trying for the same one. The normal level 82s and even the eliets are pretty easy, but the boss marks are hard as h3ll...

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ThisIsStupid wrote:

I'd love to know what your template is if you think these things are sooo easy. I am MBH/M Smug with 0003 Pistoleer, and I can't kill one of the boss marks for anything. I have been incapped 7 times trying for the same one. The normal level 82s and even the eliets are pretty easy, but the boss marks are hard as h3ll...

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My template is MBH/MRifles/CM0400.

I look at the MBH/MSmuggler template and there are plenty of skillpoints left over to get novice medic healing skills. There is no reason why you can't get healing yourself -- especially since smuggler already has a root special, there is no need for the pistoleer root. What exactly is your rationale for Pistols 0003 when you already have a smuggler root? It's redundant. My template heals exactly the same as a person who just has Novice Medic.

hey dudes wat is the loot now

My rational for having the 0003 pistoleer root is that the smuggler root is not exactly a root. It is a mez. Doesn't work the same anymore. I keep the pistoleer root for hunting melee targets. Sure it doesn't do me any good against the boss NPCs like these that are all ranged, but it is very helpful against actual jedi. I also have the ranged accuracy line of FS and just don't have room for novice medic.

I have been trying to do my best using concussion shot to put the mob on pause so that I can heal up and regroup, but have not yet been sucessfull. Part of my problem is that I am designed to fight melee, and most of my practice has been on melee. My root is useless against ranged, and I am not able to outdamage these boss mobs. I may not have the *best* template for these guys, but I still think that they shouldn't be made any harder. I am not calling for them to be made easier either, mind you, just no harder.

Are you guys getting the CL83+ ones? The double chevrons I have had KD'd the crap out of me and would have made any macro use impossible because you would get stuck in the "cannot KD recover while KD'd" bug. Granted since I was at the computer nothing ever became life threatening, but I would say these marks are far from a 2 minute afk kill. I am a MCM also and the mobs I had were fully debuffed also. Now I did get a CL81 double chevron that only had 20k ham and was insanely easy to kill, like easier than a CL79 spider from webweaver section of Ryatt Trails. Unfortunately that mark only dropped an illegal core booster which can be gotten off CL54 mercs on Lok quite easily.

MBH / MSmugger / Medic 0010 / Combat Prowess 4000

This is waaaaay more effective than having Pistols 0003, which by the way, doesn't last very long and has a relatively long cooldown timer. Pistols root is such a waste of skillpoints.

With the above template you can heal for 1200+ every couple of seconds if you have a medical droid out and are wearing +25 Healing Efficiency threads. You might even be able to kill a few Jedi as a pistols user with that template.

Seriously guys, be careful what you wish for, enjoy the loot you get while you can and if you want hard missions- DO JEDI MISSIONS.

No, leave the marks where they are. I fought a level 82 boss mark today and it was tough. Killed me once, then I came back and narrowly beat him. I'm a casual player and I see no reason to make NPC marks so hard that only uber power gamers can beat them.