Bounty Hunter Archive
Thread: Publish 23 and the BH (on TC now).
I am so tired of everyone crying in this game, i have played since launch on eclipse, i have seen every kind of complaints. Thisis a great game and i have spent plenty of time in each of my professions, i dont do the grind thing.....it takes so much from the game.It is sad to me that most of you forget this is a roleplaying game, not "lets see who can get the best numbers"....play the game for what it is and can be, not a numbers game.
Moragin Del'fran
Eclipse Server
I haven't had a lot of time to test this on TC in the last week, but I have run about 10 missions or so. I was asking some of the other mbh's on there last night if they were still getting good loot since all I was getting was a smuggler component or the dreaded jar of berries or bugs. The consensus was that elite marks were still dropping good items and I was just on a run of bad luck. People were still looting ca's, weapon parts, etc.
My next two missions spawned elite marks, not bosses,and each dropped three items. One dropped an icb, a ca, and stack of 10 adv scopes. The other dropped a bh armor helm schem, a mando intraframe, and one other item I've since forgotten.
I have not had a single boss mark yet with this publish, but I have only done about 10 missions.
I just had 4 Bosses in a row and that was on Corbantis. I had to quit 2 Missons cause they regen to damn fast and i spent 20 min each tryin to get them past half health. The 3rd was stuck in a tree on Dathomir and was and I qoute "can't see target" (and the only part that was in the tree was a sliver of his foot). Then finally the 4th 1I killed finally but I had the help of a Turret from a player base and it still took 10 min!
Tanks wrote:
Only Master Bounty Hunters will be able to draw Boss level Marks.
Translation:
If you are a novice you will only see normals, if you have invest 2 you will see small chance of elite, if you areMBH you will see nothing but elites and small chance of bosses.
Message Edited by Tanks on 08-22-2005 10:42 PM
get real i dont want to hunt npcs i want to kill jedi the scum of every thing these missions are useless if you all ready got your equiment
Was out hunting today and a novice BH was inquiring about the type/quality rifle I was using.
Halfway into the conversation I get a tell....
w00000000t!!!! 2-handed ls speed +11CA
2 minutes later....
Medical Assembly +13 CA
Yea i noticed that i get better drops it seems from the elites than i do from the 35k health bosses. Its probably just a statictics thing cause theres more elites than bosses, but on occasion ill get a BH armor scimatic from a boss. I started taking the lower paying missons just to see if the loot drops any different and it doesnt seem to be any different.
So if anyone out there has troubles with lvl 80+ Bosses just take tha lowest level misson you can and the bosses are like lvl 76 and much more managable plus they drop the same stuff anyways.
Message Edited by ShebaTk on 08-29-2005 03:08 PM
KOLBROOKIE wrote:
what a load of crap
get real i dont want to hunt npcs i want to kill jedi the scum of every thing these missions are useless if you all ready got your equiment
Oh, yes, quite useless. Unless, of course, you are interested in some real cash generation. Thanks to the new loot, I am now approaching 100mil in the bank. I've never been a crafter, so seeing that kind of cash was a dream beyond reach before this loot revamp. I can finally afford to get the equipment I'd like. Hardly useless.
Gawzeera wrote:
also the difficulty of these boss/elite lvl mobs needs to be more balanced and fine tuned. but when i'm getting hit from 62m by a kinetic dmg pistol, where every attack is an AOE something just is'nt right.
on his first shot the mark took out my droid and dizzy/stunned me.(a special which no player class has but every npc seems to have. an area dizzy/stun) i had the mark down to about quarter of his health before i had to use a stimm d. tried to dizzy/stun him which as always was resisted. after he had hit me 3 more times i was toast. no incap or DB timer for him. insta DB before i even hit the ground.
Please reference the two statements in red. I'm not surprised at these things, taken together. The kinetic damage pistol confuses me, but there is in fact one case where this is true barring the weapon.
The commando. As a commando, I use my pft to target person A. I use Improved Confusion Shot. Now (this is where it gets strange) my target is standing in a small group, say 3 or 4 sith shadow outlaws. As I hit my target, he picks up stun. The guy next to him picks up Dizzy. The guy to the left is less lucky, and picks up Dizzy/Stun. The other guy is standing exactly 7m from my target and is completely safe.
But it goes to show that a commando using a commando weapon (maybe a launcher pistol being a kinetic pistol?) causes an AoE with all attacks(because all commando weapons have a radius of damage post-CU) and maybe, like me, your mark was a BH/Commando, and was using improved confusion shot with his AoE weapon.
Of course, I won't go into the fact that my pft doesn't actually cause any damage in its AoE most of the time... that's too painful.
In essence, it's possible, but I feel for you.
Ruby beil FTW. I think the filling on these is 16, so you can get a total of 10 heals in 5 minutes (if my math is right, at 1190 a heal regular heal every 60seconds for 5 and 5 uses the ruby). I've had some problems with 2 marks so far, that just simply did too much damage to me. Even with synthsteak and healing every 30 seconds, I couldn't stand up to the 700 damage a hit both were doing to me (2 seperate marks, two seperate occassions). One of them had 32k Health, the other one was 37K. I actually find these to be fun though, they are a good challenge.
Tanks wrote:
Gawzeera wrote:
I had a boss lvl mark last night that i could not kill. even with my droids help.I'm master BH/Master carbs pistols 4/0/0/4. ...
where is the balance or fun in this? how am i supposed to kill something which due to theseriously flawed lvl system is naturaly better than me? even though the numbers above his head say i'm hitting for 1400 dmg(after a KD) and around 900(before a KD) and i am only getting hit for 300 or so he still always comes out on top and eventually kills me. 4 times i was killed by this particular mark and then i simply dropped the mission. its far to costly to take wounds, and decay on armor and weapons to warrent the pay out.
The problem is that the mark has 30K Health. Lets do some basic math. Assume you average 1K damage per shot. You'd have to hit him app. 30 times to kill him. Lets assume after buffs etc. you have 4K health and use a stim twice for 2400 heal. He'd have to hit you 17 times to incap/db you.
You get the picture. In a fight of attrition you will lose every time UNLESS you have some healing skills. By the way the same marks do about 600+ damage to me due to my crappy pre-CU armor (save the 8100+ energy one for the Jedi), but I have always had healing.