Bounty Hunter Archive

Tanks, please don't translate. We don't need it. Now, the Jedi correspondant "Jedi Simplifies" all the patch notes, but that's necessary in their case.

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Edda_Gast wrote:
ubar! I was so tired of those Novice BH jedi alts farming all my loot

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From what I understand, there is no correlation between NPC level and loot, unless Tanks can explain that. I've had regulars drop just as good loot as bosses. The only thing this changes is the challenge of our encounters.

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Decimater45 wrote:

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Tanks wrote:

Only Master Bounty Hunters will be able to draw Boss level Marks.

Translation:

If you are a novice you will only see normals, if you have invest 2 you will see small chance of elite, if you are MBH you will see nothing but elites and small chance of bosses.

Message Edited by Tanks on 08-22-2005 10:42 PM

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I dont think its pub 23, just another patch.

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Maybe you should read the test-center forums, just a thought....

Yes that is part of pub23.

well... I hope this isn't the case

i say give bh the ability to hunt jedi when you have at least 3 or 4 4th teir boxes.

Seen 1 Boss since last "Hotfix", seen nothing but smuggler bits. Was a nice try by the Devs to add some life and loosen the lootwhores stranglehold on CA's and AA's, too bad they killed it. No matter what they or the fanboys sayit has been nerfed, as the saying goes"Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining." Let me know when they stop kowtowing to every demand by the Jedi lootwhore whiners and let others have some sort of enjoyment in this game.

Message Edited by Cesare on 08-23-2005 06:44 PM

I've done over 130 NPC misions now, of which 28 have been double chevron boss (always crap loot, jars or bugs/slicing components) 57 single chevron elites (some good loot, got a def vs dizzy ca off one) and the rest have been 7k ham nothings...but they drop by far the best loot, had a really nice double bladed ls speed ca...

My template is MBH/MR/CM 1xxx (FS Combat Prowess 14x4, Hightened Senses xxx2)..so I'm cl80.

IMO if they change the elites/bosses to MBH only, all the MBH's will get crap loot and all the respec loot hunters will get the good drops...and that dont seem overly fair.

Think if this change goes live they need to "adjust" the loot tables...and not the stealth nurf we've seen since this first went live. I understand that with the introduction of the NPC missions, a lot more characters went to get BH, and the powers that be have slowly "turned down" the loot, but if they want only MBH to hunt these marks, they need to re-adjust it, so the elites and bosses dont just drop jars of berrys/bugs.

Currently the missions appear to be based a lot of your CL. I've one toons who is Cl 80 non Master BH (no levels of uinvestigation) with double combat mastery who pulls elites and bosses EVERY mission without fail. I've a MBH who's missions have normals, elites and bosses, about 40-50% rate for bosses.

The loots been the same off all types of marks for me, the only difference is that the tapes I loot of bosses have had higher caps (+15 vs +13) than the elites.

I think a lot of the "evidence" of the better loots dropping of lower level marks is simply that you should be able to kill any elite mark or lower, and hence always loot them. It also takes 2-3 times as long to kill a boss, and there isn't much in the way of extra reward.

The biggest difference is that my no invedtigation BH can run 8-12 missions an hour vs 3-4 for my MBH. So even at half payouts I make more money and more loot on non master than master. The only reason I'm keeping master is that I've already got +25 in all the skills I want for my MBH and I hunt Jedi with him.

As for "respec loot hunter" are you insane? No-one's respec'd to BH for loot. You only need Novice BH, which you can pick up in less than hour if you're CL 80.

Oh, and slicing BH terminals fails to do anything. I'll add that to the grand list of 1001 things that don't work for smuggler

I'd say 75% of marks from BH terminals are Elite. I'm not yet MBH filled 12 out of 16 boxes.

Fed up of smuggler loot though and my template will be MBH/MS!

the loot table needs to be sorted as i have looted better stuff from non boss/elite lvl marks than i have from the boss/elite marks.

for instance i have looted all of my BH armor schems from non boss/elite lvl mods and in most cases i loot 1 or 2 other items. however when i loot boss/elite lvl mobs i'm only get 1 jar of bugs or slicing component.

also the difficulty of these boss/elite lvl mobs needs to be more balanced and fine tuned. but when i'm getting hit from 62m by a kinetic dmg pistol, where every attack is an AOE something just is'nt right.

I had a boss lvl mark last night that i could not kill. even with my droids help.I'm master BH/Master carbs pistols 4/0/0/4. i'm wearing reb assault armor with 6000 on each stat as well as a mark 3 PSG(yes i know this does'nt help against kinetic but i even have probs with energy dmg)my weapons of choice are a dmg sliced lightning rifle.(the MBH cert one) and a dmg sliced proton carbine. I also load up on foods to boost my health and regen on action and health. I have a lvl 30 combat droid which i group with.my tactic is to stay at max range with the lightning gun, root, KD, critical, torso shot. then snare when root wares off. when the mark is mobile and running towards me i hit my duelist stance and change to my proton carbine.(highest dps/lowest sac weapon i have.)

on his first shot the mark took out my droid and dizzy/stunned me.(a special which no player class has but every npc seems to have. an area dizzy/stun) i had the mark down to about quarter of his health before i had to use a stimm d. tried to dizzy/stun him which as always was resisted. after he had hit me 3 more times i was toast. no incap or DB timer for him. insta DB before i even hit the ground.

where is the balance or fun in this? how am i supposed to kill something which due to theseriously flawed lvl system is naturaly better than me? even though the numbers above his head say i'm hitting for 1400 dmg(after a KD) and around 900(before a KD) and i am only getting hit for 300 or so he still always comes out on top and eventually kills me. 4 times i was killed by this particular mark and then i simply dropped the mission. its far to costly to take wounds, and decay on armor and weapons to warrent the pay out.