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Thread: Good luck soloing any of the high lvl mobs now.

KammaRocca
Wed Oct 19, 2005 11:17 am
#27

Well, on the plus side I didn't have to fly all the way back to the outpost . . .
HeadRoll
Wed Oct 19, 2005 11:46 am
#28






bmill wrote:



With the new npc AI and difficulty, I wonder if this means that the loot tables were adjusted?



There was talk of loot tables being adjusted in the near future. SOE i bet is going to wait and see how all the new changes plays out. I doubt the loottables will change at all...least until the next pub with the heal changes / cloak rebalance are done as well.


Jedi still are using cloak to roam around the high level areas with impunity cracking open chests and what not, lol


Message Edited by HeadRoll on 10-19-2005 01:47 PM

Dodece
Wed Oct 19, 2005 11:54 am
#29

Well congratulations to you guys I am a MBH/MCH and tried to take a boss mark out an hour ago and now realize for me this is impossible. Its not the specials and its not the cunning of the mark. They also have had their regen jacked up to the point that if you are a tank of anyform they are not going to go down for you period.


If you are a MBH/MCH do not even bother attacking boss marks you aint got a snowballs chance in hell. You will not do enough damage to slog him or her down. They regen for like 500 points of damage and your pet adds up to 0 gain.


buddahboy43
Wed Oct 19, 2005 1:02 pm
#30

"a little more diffucult" !!! what the #@$ r u talking about! it went form healing 5-6 times during the fight (I'll admit that rather easy) to !!!NON SOLO ABLE!!!

I can understand making it harder with the special attacks, but there aremore factors than that that make these NPC's impossible;

36k health that regen faster than I can heal and/or use stims

500-1500 damage attacks,

use of mind and action to heal

and more that I cant remember cause I am so pissed.


why dont you try taking a gold mark and see if you can, I bet you cant...




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Kresh_Azzo
Wed Oct 19, 2005 1:06 pm
#31

I have already seen it done Buddha. Perhaps it's a way of thinning swelling BH populations then?

Next time I feel like grinding investigation I'll give one a go. For now, I'd rather hump a bantha than follow those stupid droids around at III and IV.

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ThargarOtherland
Wed Oct 19, 2005 1:08 pm
#32

I agree with Kresh, i have stopped doing the NPC mission because i thought they were to easy.Dont get me wrong, i am not super BH, putafter doing a bunch, you figure out how to bet thempretty easily.I have been spending most of my time tracking down Kimos and Krayts and fighting them solo becuase there is a actual risk to the fight and they are tough. The CL82 Double Gold 38k ham marks would put up a little bit of a fight, but i have gotten to the point that i never lose them anymore either and it is more an exercise in button mashing and not really a challenge


With that being said, i cant wait to get home from work so i can take a few BH missions in hopes that i will get a Boss mark and have a good fight on my hands. Cant wait to see if soloing a Krayt is impossible now or not either.



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Mousyman
Wed Oct 19, 2005 1:09 pm
#33

I'd agree that bounty hunter is supposed to be a solo profession. I also think that its ridiculous that they would make the boss marks near impossible to kill. Are they trying to impose that we should group hunt?


Group hunting is ok if your going after Necrosis. Bounty hunter's aren't supposed to be like that. I do believe that if they are going after Jedi then they should 'rely on brothers' to have to hunt them occasionally, assuming you get a pre-cu jedi with flawless tunes. But there is no way in hell that the elite marks should be 10x harder than killing that pre-cu jedi.



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testify4
Wed Oct 19, 2005 1:13 pm
#34

ROFL. This totally figures given my history with SOE's wonderful changes.

I was a Master Smuggler twice, the last time for over a year. I finally got fed up with waiting for a "revamp" and the supposed underwhelming content that they are supposed to get.

My friend says BH is still fun. I was a MBH back in the day, so I thought about it for a good month. I finally decided to go back to MBH so I could run some bounties, have actual solo content, and maybe get some loot. I burn my respec token I have been holding on to for months.

Last night, I am all excited to run some bounties. Ahazi goes down.

I am excited to run some bounties tonight. Now I hear the solo content I was looking forward to participating in is damn near impossible.

Now, if my track record with the SOE developers holds true, a better and more wonderful Smuggler Revamp will be announced shortly.

Well, woot. I guess I will just go shoot nunas with my proton carbine.



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GlargTheKelfn
Wed Oct 19, 2005 1:19 pm
#35



CoderX_Ceci wrote:
Few of my buds and i got on before they took the servers back down. Krayts, necrosis and many other high lvl mobs have had thier lvl changed and the attacks they use. Most of them are going to be very very hard even for good player groups and impossable to do alone.
Necrosis is now useing choke and lightning and hits way harder than any real player powers jedi. He has turned into instant death now that he is ranged. Krayts now are 1 hit incappers and so are many other high lvl stuff.
Kind of looks like being forced to be in a group has taken another step to removing anyone who wants to play alone.
Also seems even some of the grinding mobs are hitting with diff attacks and also are much harder to kill.
There was a few of us online who logged in diff spots so we could check the NPC changes.




but wait, when they first started talking about the ai change, they said we would get exciting new loot to make up for the increased length / damage from a fight. the new cool loot is dropping, right?

just another nerf. everything npc got harder, we stayed the same.




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10110110
Wed Oct 19, 2005 1:29 pm
#36






Darkjerms wrote:
Good $&%$ing luck on MBH gold marks... me and my probot hammered on for 15 minutes until my mind and stims ran out... barely a scratch with a spec bola carb and the mark takes 1/4-1/3 of my health each hit.....





I warned about this veryscenarioin the ToW beta forums. It appears development didnt care or listen.

A32k hamgold mark on TC2took me30 minutes to defeat and I had to use the help of a nearby squadron of friendly NPC's to take down. If the NPCs hadnt been there and I kept fighting there is no doubt in my mind I would have been in the cloner.


Have fun BH's.... heresthe harder marks you wanted!!! If they are over 30k ham and wear gold chevronsyou might as well abort the mission and move on.


Global change to NPC's has turned some of our solo content into unsoloable timesinks.



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Aureas
Wed Oct 19, 2005 1:33 pm
#37



buddahboy43 wrote:

ditto that... I am MCM/MBH, literally impossible to take down a gold mark - PERIOD - I was fully buffed and fooded, didnt even get him 5k down from 38k, and he regens like I hit stims, but he does it every 2 seconds, me = 30 secs. I dont care how good you are at mcm, there is no way in hell that one of these can be taken down. way to go devs! make the game a smidge harder for the jedi and impossible for everyone else that doenst have the time to grind 14 hours a day.

And about being grouped, I like grouping, its fun... but BH is a solo profession. high lvl mobs like nec should not be soloable, but ALL BH marks need to be, or the whole point of it is wasted. There are certain things in the game that should not be soloabloe, and somethings that NEED to be soloable







They are not impossible I had a double gold as my first mark with 36k health.Yes they regen like crazy and they never lose action or mind which is BS.

I did however defeat him after 15 minutes.The bad part was I got smuggler loot and the all famous jar of foraged bugs.Your best friend is mando wine and thyroid burst and use your fire and poisons to negate half their healing.

Hard but not impossible.Just wasnt worth the time spent killing it.



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Dodece
Wed Oct 19, 2005 2:52 pm
#38


I think half the posters here have not fought a true boss yet so are actually talking out of hand. This in not merely a hard fight its an insanely hard fight most likely impossible for many. I am one of the many who simply cannot do this. I am a tank I rely on just slowly but surely beating my opponent down. My fights are always long affairs. Compared to these guys with the nature of my template MBH/MCH I simply cannot damage my enemy he regens for 500 health every second my pet cant match that. My mods are correspondingly weaker. So If I burst into full offense the mark turns to attack me with a vigor that wont stop and I get torn to shreads.


These are not the bosses you guys faced yesterday they are a totally new ballgame thats obviously designed for multiple players to take. They have sick regen buffed armor supperior AI no action costs no mind costs have the standared 30plus k ham. In a nutshell they are god awful to face.


If there is someone out there haveing a blast with this there are 19 others getting ticked off like me. I should not be barred from my professions content. Content that is supposed to be soloable. I understand the desire for truely heinous enemies for the guys that are just maxed out not all players are maxed out.


Do not get me wrong the lower bounties are great and challengeing and their smart. The new boss marks are overdone way too strong for most MBH to do solo.


Gillik
Wed Oct 19, 2005 2:58 pm
#39

Has anyone seen any krayts today? Cause I havent.






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