Bounty Hunter Archive
Thread: Double gold harder than jedi
ducky_kunsamasan wrote:
Wales wrote:
ducky_kunsamasan wrote:
I used to have trouble with those double elite bh marks, now whenever i encounter one i get someone from my guild who is a doc or cm or a jedi sometimes to stand behind me and heal me the whole time.... now I dont have trouble anymore=-)and whoever helps me gets half of the money!
Can the Doc, CM or Jedi also hit the mark?
nope
Wrong.
Anyone in the area can help kill the mark, providing it uses an AoE, then it becomes a red dot.
Wish you the best of luck in future
- I do give the Devs Credit when they Do things Right...
Kakabus wrote:
Nothing lasts longer than a MDef near water that doesnt fight back...Sorry..If you think a NPC mark is harder than a jedi you should just hunt jedi and find out that is not the case....Big deal an NPC can root u now...they have always been able to kd u and use debuffs.
Well I haven't even started to try and hunt jedi yet but...
When I logged in yesterday, i decided to try a BH mission. I get to my mark and he is a level 81 with 17K HAM. I usually don't buff for these so i go about as normal. Hit duelist stance and attack first with a charge shot. He puts this snare on me that I have never seen, which is fine since I barely move for these guys anyway. Then he runs up on me with a melee weapon, armor breaks me and starts whacking away. I had heard of this new AI for NPC's and was like okay, well this is different. The guy made me actually pop a blob candy cause i was running out of action cause of the specials I was using. I still beat him with minimal heals but it took me twice as long to bring him down.
So today...
My first mission was a 33K HAM mark. I was like okay, I buffed up on my usual regular foods, spices and drinks for marks like this (just so it doesn't take long), slapped on my +18 healing efficiency bandolier and actually called out my med droid. Well aside from me missing 1 in every 5 shots (using my carbine and I am master carbineer), this guys health regen was crazy, i was sitting there for 5 minutes and he was like a quarter done. I ensured torso shot was always applied, and always tried to kd him. Other states didnt stick as he resisted, then he snares me whips out this huge axe, AB me, then whacks away. I still beat him (with a crappy loot of bugs and a HLR), but it nearly took me 15-20 minutes to bring him down. And this is using both a pretty decent carbine (with an action pup on it so i can use more specials), and a decent pistol (with a 700+ modified DPS). I used ranged shot so i can get action back and he was healing faster than each ranged shot could apply damage.
I love these types of fights and would take 35K marks all day (mostly better loot) but had I not buffed for it and used that med droid, I might have been toast, or the fight might have lasted way longer.
On another note, Yesterday I tried Krayt hunting with much despair. I can usually solo all but Ancients (well i only tried one ancient and died while it was close to death), so i decided to try a juvenile krayt (which are bumped up to level 82 now). I figure what the hell, I can beat CL 85-86 ones, so i started to attack it. Its health regen was CRAZY, I never got it to more than half and had to give up cause I ran out of action and mind, ate some parwan and got out of there, I was fighting it for like 10 minutes. When i used ranged shot to get action back, it almost regenerated health back to full I was like **edit**? So, so much for that now....I really enjoyed hunting those lizards. And I love the hamstring snares that they apply on me too.
These NPC's are definitely tougher...
I agree i like it i still thinkthey are easy. killed a double gold 34600k ham in 15 minutes flat on my lunch break at work. Im not sure what you guys are doing but if you cant heal your dead. I healed 20 times or more. Stim packs alone are not going to cut it. I dorrped fire on him and used a FWG5 pistol thats it. I stayed moving until i had to heal.
I AM TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN! YOUR JUST AN APPETIZER!
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OFFER TO PAY ME OFF AND I MIGHT LEAVE YOU ALONE!
Epichistonian wrote:
aren't bosses supposed to be hard?
Hard, yes, maybe even difficult. Impossible? No.
90k Heath for being 2 levels higher than 80. Where a human Maxes at 3k (roughly) at level 80?
(If memory serves aLevel 81 mark is roughly 13k. health wise.)
BH is supposed to be a solo profession, which is why they changed the terminals so we could not get five Bh's targeting one jedi at a time. (Or grouping against them.) Then rather than naming the players its now, (or has been for a time,)Imperial Jedi or Rebel Jedi.
The BH profession was supposed to be an elite profession, to my mind it took a serious hit in the CU, and in the changing of the skill based system to one of levels.
Now we are hit with a smarter AI, no problem I can deal with that, the thing that is killing the game for us is the instantaious Regen on the NPC actions. And the fact that the Health regeneration is also ramped way up there.
I have been seeing what was once a decent attack, (of mine) drop from 500 points or more of damage to less than three hundred, where as I am getting hit for 1 k or more at times.
Admittedly I don't have uber armor or even a psg, just my probot that helps me attack on occcasion.I think part of the problem is that the Devs turned up the resists, along with the Health/Actionregen.
As it is, I am seriously givingthought to using my respec token to make a change to Master Doc, vs Master Carbineer. (Yeah I have been holding it for some time.) Though even that is something I am hoping not to do.
Sadly the 'old' BH lay out of Master Marksman, Master Scout and then Master BH does not even come up to Level 80.
I gues it falls down to the old addage of: Change is not always good.