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Man these devs keep screwing this game up. So far today I've fought a few things to check out the new npc ai.

First took a bh npc mission. Got an Elite with 20k Ham and CL 82. I killed him after 15 minutes of a fight. He switched to pikeman immediately, burstran at me and armorbroke me. Then immediately switched to an e11 mk2 carb, charge shot kd, then advanced crit me with armorbreak. LOL. I survived by healing but was severely drained at the end of the fight and got..... a freaking delicate trigger assembly and credits. WOOOHOOOO!

Then I went to dantooine to check out the darkside mobs that were formerly CL 111. Guess what, no longer CL 111 but are CL 83. Checked the HAM, no longer are they 8k to 10k they're now 7200 ham. Ok. Three shot them. CL 83. Went down like a ton of bricks with the quickness. They didn't even have time to use any specials or aura or anything. Got a GOOD crystal off one credits off the others. What a joke.

Went from there to Lok. Found some GDK's. CL 81 with 34k ham. Got one away from the group and went to work. 30 minutes later I've got him dead and what do I get for my trouble? Nada. I didn't even bother with the others.

HAM regens are ridiculous. The fact they can spam specials without worrying about action is lame. The fact they "heal" without mind drain is lame. The fact that the loots still suck for this increased difficulty is lame. I'm all for more challenging marks so long as their realistic. There is no way the BH NPC BOSS Marks should be like they are. We can't group to kill them like the other mobs in the game. I say put their regens back to pre24. Leave the AI alone, that's not so much my concern as the regen of their ham. If they're going to be able to "heal" they need to have some adverse effect as well.

Message Edited by Romulus76 on 10-20-2005 11:29 AM

Message Edited by Romulus76 on 10-20-2005 11:30 AM

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Boss mark was 36K Ham CL 82

I'm MBH - MR - 3000 CM (1040 FS Crafting)

I was wearing a combination of tantel/ubese armor with 8130 energy protection.

My ALR is 2.xx spd, 1181 dmg, acc bonus of 61. with a SAC pup.

I had taken: Spiced Tea, Blob Candy, Kanali Wafers, Ruby Biliel, Picacloud, Synthsteak (as needed until my tummy filled up)...and popped a Booster blue a few minutes into the fight. The fight lasted several minutes AFTER my Booster blue downer..so the fight took at a minimum of 17mins.

De-buffs I started to use were snare, blind, dizzy, bleed

After noticing that while mixing in these debuff moves, with my standard attack patterns, the NPC Boss' Health was hardly being affected. 1st I tried switching to my FWG, thinking that maybe the Boss had comp armor with some insane energy resists. But the DPS from the pistol was not enough to do any real damage to the mark, he'd regen as fast as I would damage, especially if I was using lower DPS specials. I had to switch back to my ALR, and changethe default attk to Adv Critical Shot, and only use my default attk, and well timed KD's to be able to do enough DPS to start putting a dent in the NPCs health.

What's interesting...it doesn't seem to be EVERY NPC "Boss" mark....as I had another "boss" mark earlier to this one, and did NOT have these kind of issues.

Lucretia Noin |N|
Ahazi

yep Im thinking most boss's are fine, but theres some real nasty ones out there, Ive killed 3 and found 1 nasty one, that I couldnt solo.

Im thinking its good that we get thrown the odd stumbling block, I dont think we should assume we will be able to beat every mark, they are a higher CL and a double gold mark, should we automatically be able to slaughter them all?

Finally killed him on the second go around by dragging him to a malkoc lair and stacking CoB + Duelist Stance + thundercloud. 800 Defense for teh w1n. He was actually missing me at that point so it wasn't so bad. Guess that's one of the perks to having that unarmed branch for smuggler...

Message Edited by Iawo on 10-20-2005 03:12 AM

I've fought two of these tough, gold marks so far. I am a MBH / Master Carbineer/ CM 4000. I was wearing composite with roughly 6500 kinetic, 4500 energy, and a PSG with 2200 energy. My gun was an elite with capped damage and SAC, with a good damage PUP. I was not using great food, just some junk I had left over from grinding. In the second battle, I used a 110 medical droid.

The first mark was level 82 andhad 34k health and regenerated it faster thanmy DPS, leaving me with only specials to do 34k damage and overcome the extra regeneration. As with other players, his action wasinfinite. Initially, he used ranged attacks, but immediately closed to melee range. While ranged, he dealt typically around 350 damage to me. However, in melee range (with a combat knife), his attacks started at 600 and just went up from there. I saw at least one 1100 melee hit. Knockdowns, snares, and suppression fire were basically worthless, as he simply burst ran towards me the moment I put any distance between us. Kiting was thusly impossible. I died twice before calling in reinforcements; in both fights, I was only capable of lowering his health to 28k. Two other BH's from my guild arrived to help me and were occasionally capable of damaging him. Even with their periodic attacks and constant heals on me, I only barely lived through the fight. It took us just shy of 10 minutes to kill him.

The second mark was level 82 as well, but had only 32k health. In addition, her regeneration was reduced, although her action remained undiminished. This mark never used melee attacks, but was still quite dangerous. I was ableto lower her to about 33% health before I ran out of mind. My attempts to flee were for naught, as any attempt to put distance between us were met with burst running from her, much like the previous mark.

In my opinion, some of these marks are technically soloable, though the especially potent ones like my first battle are not. I regard any claims of easy kills of these exceptional marks as boastful lies. They are simply too powerful. Some, however, are soloable. As far as I'm concerned, it's not generally worth it, though. Spendingmost ofthe potential reward money on food, spice, medical supplies, and replacement armor for the chance to find something worthwhile is not how I would describe a good deal. To make these marks worthwhile, valuable drops must be almost guaranteed.

Message Edited by justplainzero on 10-20-2005 12:49 AM