Bounty Hunter Archive

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Wimpanzee wrote:
Wow, what are you guys doing wrong?

I took 3 missions last night, all turned out to be silver chevron bosses, 35k ham.

Two of them i took out w/ my carbine (947 max, 320dps) without ever needing to heal. i got knocked down a couple times, but stood right back up. i was at about 40% health when they fell. got some decent loot.

I also have novice cm, but only healed on the first mark. then i determined i was wasting time healing, as I could reduce their health to nothing before they could do the same to me.

this is with ASSAULT ARMOR on - 7100 kinetic, 5k energy, 6k base, a psg, and duelist stance.

only foods were pixie, blob candy and bofa treat.

Its just not that hard.

The lvl 88 dark adepts i ran into near one of my marks was actually a good fight. i was down to 200 health (trying to heal) before i killed them.

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in response to this wait till you get a 82 double gold mark that switches weapons the farther out you go and hits twice as fast as you can heal the silver elites die before getting me below 75% health so I wonder what you are doing wrong that you only had 40% left

Silver Chevron bosses are a tough fight against a CL 80 player. Gold double chevron bosses are impossible for me. Doesn't help that so far this morning I've had 4 missions (minus 1 bugged one) and I've ran into 2 silver chevron bosses and 2 gold chevron bosses. The fact of the matter is that the boss missions are way too common.

There are definitely some 'quirks'... I had a CL 80 elite guy shooting me for 6pts Ranged Shot and 15pt Overcharge with a few Quickdraw thrown in --- piece of cake.

But then I had a CL82 gold double-chevron elite in Deeja Peak that --- even with stormtroopers helping me (Imp combatant) --- I was unable to beat. He smacked down the stormtroopers AND me. He was melee'ing for 500+ damage (he warped onto me once) and at range he routinely shot me for 480, 512, 510... using full auto (or some kind of 'auto')... there was just no way I could keep up with the damage he was doing to me.

I'm Master Bounty Hunter, Master Rifleman, Pistoleer 0004 and I have no healing except Stim-D and they just weren't cutting it. I would open with a root at 65m and then unload all the damage I could, knockdown just before root fell, dish another volley of Advanced Crit and Imp Head Shot and then Kneecap him and kite... but as I said, his ranged damage was insane. His 36k hit points versus my 3k... didn't matter that I was doing 600 - 800pts per hit (1014 max dmg Advanced Laser Rifle)...

I think, considering the disparity in difficulty levels, something is WRONG somewhere. Most CL 82 (yellow-con) Elite foes I was able to beat without SERIOUS worry... a little running away and re-engaging, a little stim/food and I was okay... then there's the 6pt Ranged shot foe (aka pigeon) and then the uber-ultra-death gold-chevron boss....

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RobbPilot wrote:

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RedSpawnBravado wrote:

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Heorot wrote:

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RedSpawnBravado wrote:

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Wimpanzee wrote:
Wow, what are you guys doing wrong?

I took 3 missions last night, all turned out to be silver chevron bosses, 35k ham.

Two of them i took out w/ my carbine (947 max, 320dps) without ever needing to heal. i got knocked down a couple times, but stood right back up. i was at about 40% health when they fell. got some decent loot.

I also have novice cm, but only healed on the first mark. then i determined i was wasting time healing, as I could reduce their health to nothing before they could do the same to me.

this is with ASSAULT ARMOR on - 7100 kinetic, 5k energy, 6k base, a psg, and duelist stance.

only foods were pixie, blob candy and bofa treat.

Its just not that hard.

The lvl 88 dark adepts i ran into near one of my marks was actually a good fight. i was down to 200 health (trying to heal) before i killed them.

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Bullsh!t flag... you didn't have a boss mark obviously... sorry, try again.

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wow, you whine alot.

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No... just noticing the obvious!

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I've done about a dozen missions so far, and I've had several silver bracketed marks lvl 81 - 82. I haven't had to heal yet either. I'm not bragging, and I don't claim to be uber at all, but this is how it went down. I think I've been lucky on a couple because it looked like they were using a pistol which was of little help to themwhen I rooted them at 50m with my carbine.

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Okay, this I can believe... But, I think that there's a difference between all the marks that we are getting. I got a level 81 30k HAM and took me forever with bleeds and states (that barely stick)to get him 1/4 of his health down. Then I had to heal a few times... THESE ARE THE MARKS THAT most of us have been talking about as being extremely hard. I don't think everybody has experienced these and to say that these marks are easy as to only heal 1 or 2 times is just wasted typing space as we are GETTING different marks.

If one of your friends asks for help on one of these marks (and I know we can't help, but we can watch... go check it out instead of saying they are easy, maybe he has that HARD mark that you haven't gotten yet.!) go along for the ride.

Message Edited by RedSpawnBravado on 08-05-2005 12:36 PM

this is strange i whent against a double gold and didn't have a problem
all i use is my heavy scater, acient reptilian flyer, some crapy armor and heals
and some times i bring a friend along that needs med xp to keep my health up
it keepet on swiching targets between me and my flier so i had time to heal me and my pet and it helps out since it has 6.2K health and hits about 165 every 2 secs, and i just hit the bounty over and over and over didn't have a problem with it even if they do do about 400 dmg to me
and also i never use food only that crapy foraged stuff that i sometimes get, and that is if i remember it
i am just wondering if i am doing something wrong because i been able to solo every single one of my bountys
even without the help of my friends healing me

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BTC000 wrote:
this is strange i whent against a double gold and didn't have a problem
all i use is my heavy scater, acient reptilian flyer, some crapy armor and heals
and some times i bring a friend along that needs med xp to keep my health up
it keepet on swiching targets between me and my flier so i had time to heal me and my pet and it helps out since it has 6.2K health and hits about 165 every 2 secs, and i just hit the bounty over and over and over didn't have a problem with it even if they do do about 400 dmg to me
and also i never use food only that crapy foraged stuff that i sometimes get, and that is if i remember it
i am just wondering if i am doing something wrong because i been able to solo every single one of my bountys
even without the help of my friends healing me

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I think you marks and my marks should meet and do lunch and discuss their gameplans a little better so they can all be on par with each other

I had 2 Boss marks last night (out of 2 missions I did) both had Double Gold Chevrons and 35k - 36k health. They both where quite difficult to straight up fight even with my 8800HAM CH pet helping.

Non-Boss marks die in about 10 seconds though. I havent yet found a "elite" or "Boss" that was weak but I have heard reports of them sometimes not using appropriate weapons (and doing very low dmg)..

I've killed 2. But here is my template: MBH/Rifleman 4443/CM4XXX/Jedi Heigtened Senses Ranged Defense 3

I also use synthsteak, booster blue, bofa, vasarian brandy, blob candy, ruby bliel, deuterium pyroand anything else that will fit in my stomach. Haven't had a hard time yet.

I think the variety is good, but it's not the norm so most of us aren't used to it... So some of us might say, nerf these guys they are too hard cause they are getting nothing but hard guys, then some are getting really easy marks and saying we need them harder. I think we should just give it time from both sides of the fence, cause eventually all of us will run into that mark that the other guy is talking about. After all, it's only been a day and a half peeps, patience.