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Shame we NEED medic now for these missions, but I actually am loving the challenge of these new elite npcs. Much better than the old system and some decent loot too. Shame the galaxy will be full of BH armour soon though. (speaking of which need to find a good Chim AS to craft me a helm).

Even though I'm pistols my initial tactic is to draw my rifle (not bad dps) get to 65m and root. Apply states, KD, switch to pistol and run in. Get the ham down nicely initially. Some you can take in one go then. Some might incap you, some might kill you.

I must admit I often have crit shot as default attack, but I always got for applying states and kd first (and repeat if they don't stick)

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Green_Knight wrote:

How do I kill the Elite 31K HAM Bounties as they seem to just kill me off to quick before I can do enough dmg to them?

I am MBH/MR so should I be good enough to kill them, probably my skill aswel but looking for goodtips to help me out

Thanks in advance

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1. heals, novice doc or some CM even ruby and stims


2. PSG


3. doc buffs


4. foods and spice


5. cl 30 probot


6. High damage weapon


7. balanced armor these marks use energy and kinetic weapons


8. states like bleedand KD


9. duelistStance macro

Double chevron gold marks are I'd say 4 times as strong as the Single chevron silver, if not more.

-> For usual mark, I just stand shooting with my un-sliced elite carbine while I go to the fridge have a drink when I come back is time to type /loot...

-> Silver "Elite" :
I call my probot, group it and use it as a DoT,
I take a Neutron Pixie,
switch to my sliced elite carbine
duel stance / KD / adv crit.
Should be ok, I don't even have to heal once (or sometimes I heal once if under 50% health in case some nasty dev coded a last ditch on a pistol-user : who knows ?)

-> Gold "Boss" :
- Probot, group it, go around target and try to be lined with a lair, so my probot will not be affected by cone fire (because he's behind the mark from where I stand) but the lair will (additional DoT !)
- Personal Shield Generator
- Evil Grin as I switch to my Proton Carbine
- Eat a neutron Pixie (principaly for action regen)
- Eat klikli-clusjow swirl (or whatever it's spelled) : action regen food
- Keep a VERY CLOSE EYE to the "duel stance" timer and have "duel stance" up at ALL TIME !
- Heal whenever I'm under 60% health with a STIM-D
- RUBY - BLIEL ready in case I need to heal again faster (I sometimes have to drink up to 4 or 5 of those and heal 6 or 7 times)
- Use KD as opening and it seems to me blind will stick better when he's on his back but not sure, otherwise try to stick the states, KD every 30 seconds (after I duel stance again) and the auto-attack is adv. Crit. shot. ALSO have you own KD-recovery in a high-slot Fkey !

Apart from the first boss I met, it worked ok for the others : fact is my higher boss was l80, so I may loose against the first 81 I meet, even more if 82, I don't even want to think if he's 83 or 84 : but I'll take the fight !

this is what i do:

dot them, shoot them, interupt shooting them with healing me when necessary.

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Chaind2f8 wrote:

The difficulty of even the Double Gold Chevron bosses varies greatly. While you may run across one that does under 100 damage to you per shot you'll also run against those doing over 300 damage per shot. It seems that the weapons they use vary greatly and range from NOOB weapons to UBER ones.

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This is correct. Some Gold chevron bosses can hit for under 20 damage(yesterday one was hitting for 14 and 17 damage), but there are others that hit for 400-500 damage, and they hit pretty fast.

I havent been incapped by any of these bosses yet. But one got me close, he was hitting for close to 500 each hit, had 37k HAM.Even sticking Thyroid rupture on the guy I was still healing every 2 or 3 shots.In the end I was kiting him hoping my fire and poison would get him, which luckily it did. But he took all my mind away as well as a couple stim/ruby biels.

When you run into this situation there's a few things you can do.

A) Look for static spawns, the NPC bosses like to use area attacks. Those spawns will almost always help you kill the guy.

B) Run up to him. He can somtimes switch weapons which may or may not do less damage.

C) Just give up. These types of bosses dont show up often, you can take 40 missions and maybe get one of these. The time required to kill these things may not be worth it, so grab another faster, easier BH mark.

Message Edited by Pink-Floyd on 08-07-2005 05:03 PM

Well.. here is my hint :

Often NPCs uses area attacks .. so i run away from him to any other creatures spawn ( often there are 75+cl ). And i simple stand in front of him and healing myself , watching them ganking him

i'm MBH/MR/and litlle medic

i can hadle it 1 on 1, but very hard ....

i think MBH/MCM's dont have any problems

While I agree that BH shouldnt be forced to have medic to win, I (a FOTM combat medic bh) actually enjoy having an NPC mark who can actually pwn me if I dont play right... so keep the bosses comin

First EXAMINE your mark and note the weapon he has and the armor he is wearing.Second as has been stated check the surrounding area for NPCs/critters to help. You DO NOT need medic skills to take these down (but it helps)BUTyou will NEED to heal. Bring along a PSG, good armor, 2 good weapons (1 Kinteic 1 Energy), some Stim Ds (1200 heals every 30 secs with Ruby Beil 60 without) and apowerup of your choice (I use Max Damage but SAC reduction is good as well). I use a 1100 damage bowcaster and a 1000 HLR for the range and damage. Equip the best choice weapons and armor for your mark i.e if your mark is wearing recon use a kinetic weapon same for your armor. Rifles have a slight distance advantage over pistols/carbineswhich helps against these Boss Marks. One drawback to BH is the lack of accuracy and accuracy is HUGELY important now try to offset this with the aiming tree of another proffession. Take your food/spice/drink. What I do is call everything I can which as a MCH/MBH/rifles 0044 is a CL 70 BE pet with 450+ damage and a combat droid (atm these just help to offset regen and take aggro if you lose LOS). Start at extreme range which for rifles is 65m start Deulist Stance and then send in the pets and asthey are going inAdv Aim (helps to increase accuracy and overall damage). KD-Adv Critical-Torso Shot-Confusion Shot-Improved Kneecap Shot. It is important to keep Deulist Stance up,bleed, stun, and snare on yuor target. Kite the mark towards the NPCs/critters you looked for earlier and KD every time you can. The snare lets you keep slightly outside thier range while still being in yours, bleed offsets regen some, stun and Deulist Stance help reduce the damage coming in. Every time you get to half health use a stim and then another ruby beil (it only lasts for 1 heal now)till you are full. By now your target should be to 1/4 health and you should be able to finish your mark off fairly easy now. I have never had a BH Boss mark last over 7 minutes although I have had to abort3 Bossmissions so far due to nothing to help in surronding area, one my mark using an Adv Laser Rifle, and one to always losing LOS. Also it should be noted that I have not had a chance to customize my pets to help in battle although I am working on that.