Bounty Hunter Archive

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cf3d wrote:

I've been sitting here lately thinking about the BH profession and what it would take to make it a little more interesting for us all. The new NPC missions is really great for us in many ways and it is one of the steps that will move us towards a greater more enjoyable playing experience. However one thing that seems to bother most of the older BH veterans is that you have to be grouped with the one profession you hate to get Mando Armor.

So I propose a solution. This may have been covered before but I thought that it would be very enjoyable to see happen. The Jedi, when becoming force sensitive get the old man, and there in lies the beginning of their journey and the solution to our dilema.

How about this:

Once a player becomes a Master Bounty Hunter, he will be able to hunt Player Jedi. (this is already done)

However, when the Master Bounty Hunter gets a kill, he receives a token or flag in his Quest Journal. After 20 kills the Master Bounty Hunter gets a visit from Boba Fett who in turns gives the BH a Bounty Hunter Backpack (Jetpack minus the flying ability) and a full suit of Mando Armor. From here, the BH can visit Boba Fett somewhere and trade in XP for numerous items or skills.

Some of the items would be like the following:

1. a component to turn the Backpack given by Boba into a flying model. (note: Backpack and Mando Armor are non decay like Jedi Robes)

2. a stealth shield that would make the BH cloakable just like the Jedi, however to give the Jedi a little warning, the BH would shimmer like the glass snakes do (ala the Predator movie)

3. a powerful rifle or novice flamethrower.

4. innate abilities or skills.

Major Note - All Items given to the player would be non tradeable and unusable by any other profession.

I just wanted to put this out there and get some of your thoughts on this. The ultimate goal would be to become just as stronger as a full template jedi. However getting to that goal would take just as long as it would for a Jedi to go from Padawan to Knight.

So what do you think?

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If I could choose 1 of all the great ideas I've liked to get to the game, I would choose this one. I love it to 155% and I'm sure everybody else does as well,if not post it here.

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REDLION78 wrote:

Say what you want, but every bounty hunter wants a set for christmas. EVEN THOSE who want to keep it RARE....as I do wish to see it remain special sight. Just wish it was me with the rare set.

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cf3d wrote:

I've been sitting here lately thinking about the BH profession and what it would take to make it a little more interesting for us all. The new NPC missions is really great for us in many ways and it is one of the steps that will move us towards a greater more enjoyable playing experience. However one thing that seems to bother most of the older BH veterans is that you have to be grouped with the one profession you hate to get Mando Armor.

So I propose a solution. This may have been covered before but I thought that it would be very enjoyable to see happen. The Jedi, when becoming force sensitive get the old man, and there in lies the beginning of their journey and the solution to our dilema.

How about this:

Once a player becomes a Master Bounty Hunter, he will be able to hunt Player Jedi. (this is already done)

However, when the Master Bounty Hunter gets a kill, he receives a token or flag in his Quest Journal. After 20 kills the Master Bounty Hunter gets a visit from Boba Fett who in turns gives the BH a Bounty Hunter Backpack (Jetpack minus the flying ability) and a full suit of Mando Armor. From here, the BH can visit Boba Fett somewhere and trade in XP for numerous items or skills.

Some of the items would be like the following:

1. a component to turn the Backpack given by Boba into a flying model. (note: Backpack and Mando Armor are non decay like Jedi Robes)

2. a stealth shield that would make the BH cloakable just like the Jedi, however to give the Jedi a little warning, the BH would shimmer like the glass snakes do (ala the Predator movie)

3. a powerful rifle or novice flamethrower.

4. innate abilities or skills.

Major Note - All Items given to the player would be non tradeable and unusable by any other profession.

I just wanted to put this out there and get some of your thoughts on this. The ultimate goal would be to become just as stronger as a full template jedi. However getting to that goal would take just as long as it would for a Jedi to go from Padawan to Knight.

So what do you think?

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One thing that some of you guys must have missed in my last post was that i specifically said mando armor (or something similar). I will be posting a very detailed revision later tonight.

As for BH's getting attention, I think your wrong there. SOE has given us attention in a negative way by listening to Jedi and making missions where you don't know the Jedi your are going after. Some of you BH like this idea and that's all fine and good. To compensate for that SOE made the NPC missions better by giving better loot. Someone up above stated "Two wrongs don't make a right" and I agree. That's exactly what SOE tried to do with us.

I feel it's time to extend BH into a better more detailed profession such as the Jedi have.

Also some one said where does SL, Ranger and Commando fall into this. My thread has nothing to do with those professions so I will not go into them.

Also, I don't hate Jedi. I have a Jedi. I've been working on him but I tend to like playing my BH alot more.

Anyways, watch for my detailed Revision post coming later tonight.

I think that loosing the names on the terminals although quite annoying is a worthy sacrifice for getting their faction, which at the end of the day is far more important.

Then we got the wookie fix

Then we got great missions, with difficult marks(most important) and good loot(next important).

And smugglers got.........????

Why do you want this to be dumbed down?

Its perfectly doable at its present state without a Jedi and is great fun, it just requires a bit of dedication. the best fix would be to keep jedi out of the DWB.

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RingSting_IOM wrote:

I think that loosing the names on the terminals although quite annoying is a worthy sacrifice for getting their faction, which at the end of the day is far more important.

Then we got the wookie fix

Then we got great missions, with difficult marks(most important) and good loot(next important).

And smugglers got.........????

Why do you want this to be dumbed down?

Its perfectly doable at its present state without a Jedi and is great fun, it just requires a bit of dedication. the best fix would be to keep jedi out of the DWB.

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There you go thinking about Mando Armor again... lol... just wait for my next revision.

Smugglers? I've been a smuggler since beta. Yeah, we need love too, and we got a little bit with the Slicing mini game and hopefully will get more. However, what you fail to understand is that they have dedicated people working on each profession so this would not take away from the work (yeah right) being done with the Smuggler Revamp.

In no way is what I would like to see happen "dumbing down" the BH profession. It is in fact going to add content and give many, many people a real reason to continue spending countless $'s on this game.

so let me get this right, you no longer want to get rid of the DWB and getting the Mando Armour there?

If that is so then cool, lets just not be sacrificing really good hard PvE stuff for easier stuff

Also what puts you under the impression that tehre is a different dev team for each proffession?

Correct,

What I'm thinking and trying to work into my plan is instead of handing out schematics for Bounty hunter armor, you would get broken Bounty Hunter armor. This armor would need to be repaired by doing quest and in fixing it, you would be able to choose the colors you want it to be.

I don't want to get into too much detail yet, but will post something tonight for that.

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RingSting_IOM wrote:

We desperately need more content??

we are one of the professions with the most content, we have had so much attention over the last few months.

Mandalorian Armour is already available and there is well over 100 hours of gameplay there.

Please the last thing we want is for the best part of the game to be dumbed down

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Arcadias wrote:

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Romulus76 wrote:

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Arcadias wrote:

1. You dont need Jedi to be succesfull in the DWB. But you need melee.


2. After 20 kills you get a full suit and a backpack? Wow... talking about rare. I guess you would have every BH with it after 1 week. (You could bribe the full-temps to lose if you are not experienced in PvP)


3. Mando-armor is supposed to be rare, rare, super rare...

If you dont want to group with jedi, fine. I understand that. You dont seem to like them. But what is wrong with melee? Get some of those and do DWB-Runs.

But you will need hundreds of those runs (jedi or not) to loot your stuff for mando.

btw: Where do you fill in SL and Ranger (and IIRC Commando) in your new way to get Mando? Skinxx Bols for a visit? Leadxx groups? Burnxx NPC?

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AGAIN! Stop using this argument. Jedi were supposed to be super rare. We saw as many people wearing Mando armor in ESB and ROTJ as we saw Mandalorian Armor. 1 Jedi (yoda) 1 Mando wearing BH (boba). Luke was not a jedi. If Jedi are rare, and mando is rare, with the 1 to 1 relationship, there should be atleast 500 full suits of mandalorian armor on my server as there is easilly that many jedi. Yet there's 1 maybe 2 full suits of mando on our server (kauri). The "rare" bullcrap needs to stop, this game has thrown that out the window long ago.

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I agree 100%

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OK... excuse me... It seems I was wrong.

It is great to have loads of Jedi and it will be great to have everybody running around in Mando... Do you get my point now maybe?

If not:

- Jedi used to be rare and everybody was like "Ohhh, Ahhhh, Uhhhh!" when they saw one.

-Jedi are pretty common now and everybody is like "Eeeek, another Jedi, dont spoil my gameplay!"

Do you want to be Mando like Compo pre-CU? Do you really want that?

OK, I agree that they should raise the drop-rate for the components a bit. But as I said: You dont need Jedi for the DWB and we always have BHs on our runs on Chimaera. And I only used my Jedi one time down there to get the badge. I usually use my alt for that.

But hey, I dont really care. I have no single part for Mando, dont aim for it or anything.

But dont blame the Jedi when everybody is running around in Mando...

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That's not going to happen. For one, unless I'm mistaken, only MBH, M.Ranger, MSL, and M.Commando's can wear it. Two it's assault armor and will never have the vaunted energy protections that can be achieved with Battle and Recon.

RIS Armor was supposed to be rare and uber now everyone's got it. I seriously doubt EVERYONE would be wearing it, they could still make it "difficult" to get, just not so insanely idiotic as it currently is. Nothing in game should be so dependant on another profession to get as Mando is. Jedi can cloak down to a Wraith that spawns alone and sit there for hours and farm it and have a better chance of getting BL or PLC than any other profession that would have to battle it's way down there.

BL and PLC are going for 50 million a pop on Kauri now. That's ridiculous. The DWB itself is not so bad to complete. The drop rate of the necessary items is what irritates me. I have no problem getting a group to craft it. I've been in on 3 successful crafts in the DWB. The fact that the necessary items to craft it drop once in a blue moon is the problem. If they raised the drop rate from 1 to 10-15 percent then I'd be happy.

For example, on our server a group just made 6 jetpacks in 5 1/2 hours. They already had all the components and it was an event type thing. Guess how many BL and PLC they looted on those 6 runs, in that 5 1/2 hours? NONE. Not a one. That's ridiculous. It needs to be modified.

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