Bounty Hunter Archive

Its not a bug, you need to build up your combat skills and combat level before you go hunting bounty marks. When u r CL40 or so youshould be able to beat any of the NPC marks. Another option is to take a friend on the missions with you as anyone can attack an NPC mark.

thanks for clearing that up.... time to grind i guess

Annoys the hell out of me trying to grind investigation for my BH alt. It's my first elite prof. I'm CL 22 now and pull missions on guys that are level 30-50. Naturally the kill me in 2 shots. As soon as I group with someone level 80 who's on an afk macro on another planet, I can take them out with some dificulty, but never overly hard.

I detest and loath the level based horror we've had shovled onto us. I am strong enough to take this guy out using my skills. But I can't, because some magic number decides he's too strong.

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Camelz wrote:
Its not a bug, you need to build up your combat skills and combat level before you go hunting bounty marks.

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Have any of the devs confirmed that this is intended? I just came back after about a 6 month break from the game and decided to finally get around to mastering BH, especially since the pre-reqs were relaxed enough to allow expanded templates. Rather than take the respec right away, I decided to drop my old skills (master commando and 2 boxes shy of master smuggler) and work up from scratch so I can re-learn the ground game. I took my first BH mission this morning, it was a level 17 mission. My CL is 21. My mark's CL was 43. I just find it hard to believe that something's not bugged here, but if they've acknowledged it and said it's not changing it must be by design. I have plenty to do to keep me busy without doing my investigation grind right away, but I at least wanted to start on it.

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mxxpower wrote:

Pre CU the npc marks were pretty tuff without any buffs, and even then they were only worth 2-300 xp

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you think so? i grinded inv 1-3 unbuffed. with carbines.

I think the BH terminals are bugged... What's the point of calling it a level 86 mission difficulty on the terminal when you get there and find it's a level 62. Appears to be working both ways too if you're a low level BH you're getting missions way too hard and if you're high level BH the missions are too easy. The Xp is better than Pre-CU. I did my first 10000 INV XP pre-CU without buffs and armor and using a tanker droid and it took forever. Now I've done 3 kills and have over 800 Inv XP already.

me too, kite, bleed, blind and use houses/terrain to your advantage. That's the old school way to do it. BH marks are NOT supposed to be easy to kill. Back when I mastered the first time pre CU, marks always conned red. Before buffs you had to be very careful about how you engaged a bounty target.

That said, do investigation LAST. If you cant take on an NCP mark you sure as "heck" aren't going to be able to take on a jedi. Do your BH weapons trees, master your supporting profession (pistoleer, carbs, rifles, cm, ect) and THEN do investigation. Also do not train when you reach Investigation one, cap the XP for that lvl (should be around 10K) so you can train both Invest. I and Invest. II at the same time and then move on to investigation III. It will save you an insane ammount of time.