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Thread: BH Strats For Jedi Hunting Guide
If you see forceaura and valor running, chances are your dealing with a defender heavy tank template with no root or snare. If the saber throw they are using KD's, then they are master sabers.
Mouse over the forcerun icon, if its 33 terrain negotiation, then its likely your dealing with an enhancer dabbler that has both a root and snare, as well as enough additional speed to really hurt you if they get close.
If its 99 on the forcerun, then you have a master enhancer with FR3 and stasis.
Force choke only comes at master powers, and in general this is coupled with enhancer heavy templates.
Make sure you watch for the green splash from a PSG at all times, if you see this your in for a long fight no matter what.
Be patient and watch them for a few minutes, after a few times you will be able to figure out the template in a minute or so, and the you can play to the weakness of it. But the fact remains that if the jedi does not want to fight you, then your most likely wasting your time as we have the premier escape tools in the game
Know Your Skills and Equipment
In combat, one of your best tactics is using your specials that you've earned. If you have carbines, your best damage specials are currently Leg Shot, Critical Shot, and possibly Rapid Fire. If pistols, you'll probably want to stick Stopping Shot and make them Bleed. Riflemen make use of Advance Critical Shot Torso Shot Startle Shot KD and Improved Head Shot .All bounty hunters should know how to use Duelist Stance properly to maintain defense, as well as Knockdown Recovery. Know your specials WELL before you even THINK about hunting Jedi.
(You can figure out what specials do by moving your mouse over the special in your Skills menu. If you want to see what the special itself does, find the first reference to that skill and mouse-over it. If you want to see what Improved or Advanced versions of the special does, you'll have to find each of them respectively.)
You will also want to use the proper weapon in combat. Proton Carbines,Scatter Pistols,Transdo/ALR seem to be the recent favorites. Proton Carbines are a trade-able quest reward from Kashyyyk. Scatter Pistols are craftable. Trando are Quest Loot / Craftable and ALRCraftable / Loot. You may find some other weapon that better suits you. Look for a weapon with high speed and high DPS.
Know your equipment!
Learn the various weapon statistics and how they affect your ability in combat. Read statistics on armor. Compare wielding a certain weapon with another on your Character Sheet to see what mods it gives you. Figure out which classes give you the right armor mods and which armor type is most important to you. You don't want to be running around with armor you are uncertified for, as it can reduce your speed and accuracy.
You can also get weapons or armor "sliced" by a smuggler to increase random statistics, and thereby increasing overall weapon quality. In addition to your armor, a Personal Shield Generator (armorsmiths make these too) will add even more to your defenses or a belt with sockets to throw extra CA's in.
[Take care of your equipment. If you won't be using it for a long time, store it in your bank or house where it's safe. If you are, insure it often and make sure it's repaired to a fair condition.]
Also, make sure to take advantage of the food and drinks chefs make. They can boost various HAM pools, and increase regeneration rates. Spices still give downers, but they are very short. Instead of the previous long downers, you will find it reduces one pool and increases the others. I usually use neutron pixies in short fights as they decrease from the mind pool, which I don't really use anyway.. Make sure to visit a doctor for "Medical Enhancements", they don't help as much as pre-CU, but it can still make quite a difference.
As a BH, droids are used in almost every BH mission you will take. Therefore, it's important to know some things about droids. First of all, a DZ-70 (or 80? or whatever...) is not the droid you're looking for. Neither is a "ProBot" droid. You are looking for Arakyd Droids (which, when examined on a vedor, appear to simply be a radio or controller-device), as well as Seeker Droids (which looks a littlelike the droid Luke Skywalker was training with on the Millenium Falcon - for prequel fans it looks a lot more like the droids Darth Maul uses in Episode 1 when he arrives on Tatooine.) You can often find these droids in droid shops, vendors, player "malls", and bazaars. They also come in crates.
There are also droids called "bomb droids". These droids are crafted with a certain level of "detonation power", and can be used by bounty hunters by selecting the radial menu and clicking "detonate droid" - or by targetting the droid and using the "/detonatedroid" command. Using it will cause a 5 second timer to go off above the droid before it explodes.
(Bomb droids should be working again, so good luck using them!)
Helpful Macros
This Macro will Remind you to use duelist stance
/duelists;
/pause 26;
/alarmaddin 0 0 STOP, DUELIST!!
/pause 1;
/macro duelists;
This Macro is to Detonate your bomb droid
/tellpet chase;
/pause 2;
/tar bombardier;
/detonateDroid;
This Macro is to Dismount get Bio Sig and remount speeder
/dismount;
/pause 0.5;
/conv;
/pause 0.5;
/mount speeder;
A Hunters Food..
A Hunters Food is also of great important
I will list some :
Crispic - For Accuracy
Deuteryum pyro- Also Great for Accuracy but a shorter time limit than crispic..
Elshanndru Pica thundercloud for Defense vs Melee ( Since Foods are buged,If you are a ranged prof you eat ranged def food to protect from melee)
Blob candy - Action Regen
Kanalil waffers- health regen and extra health stats.
Vagnerian canape - Granted Extra Health good Action Regen and Stable Mind Regen.
Breath of Heaven - Exactly like Vagnerian but has better stats.
Zatannta Brandy Ruby- Lowers Stimpak Time rounds!! very important
Bacta Toss Enchancer- Very Very Helpful..
Also please do not forget your 19+ Healing eff shirt.. Bandolier.. that helps too..
Spice - Booster Blue
Exo protein waffers- Tanking food
Synth Steak- tanking food
Brandy- Goods attritbutes
Mandolian wine: Also Great drink for attributes
Parwan Nutricake - Great for Running, You can Consume as much as you want for infinite BR into your stomach is full. ( for Get Aways and catching up to the jedi if he she trys to make a break for it)
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You got it all right... Thats how ive been hunting for years... Lately due to equipment improvements toe to toe works for me sometimes too... but yeah you can kill the jedi at your leisure and convenience. there is no set WAY that you HAVE to kill your mark... do whatever works, however it works, whenever it works. Jedi want nice little one on one duels because usually they have a better chance of winmning those... it would be stupid for us to give them what they want. thats handing them our advantage on a silver platter. I really like the idea of this post... maybe we can get it stickied to the top... and hopefully see a few less stupid BH's hehe
Malachy karrde, Rapa's Enforcer
I would be glad to submit my foodand macro list...although I am beginning to think macros might get in the way more often than be useful...more on this later
Malachy Karrde, Rapa's Enforcer
If you see forceaura and valor running, chances are your dealing with a defender heavy tank template with no root or snare. If the saber throw they are using KD's, then they are master sabers.
Mouse over the forcerun icon, if its 33 terrain negotiation, then its likely your dealing with an enhancer dabbler that has both a root and snare, as well as enough additional speed to really hurt you if they get close.
If its 99 on the forcerun, then you have a master enhancer with FR3 and stasis.
Force choke only comes at master powers, and in general this is coupled with enhancer heavy templates.
Make sure you watch for the green splash from a PSG at all times, if you see this your in for a long fight no matter what.
Be patient and watch them for a few minutes, after a few times you will be able to figure out the template in a minute or so, and the you can play to the weakness of it. But the fact remains that if the jedi does not want to fight you, then your most likely wasting your time as we have the premier escape tools in the game
Id like to thank acdc4 for this post
In combat, one of your best tactics is using your specials that you've earned. If you have carbines, your best damage specials are currently Leg Shot, Critical Shot, and possibly Rapid Fire. If pistols, you'll probably want to stick Stopping Shot and make them Bleed. Riflemen make use of Critical Show Torso Shot Startle Shot KD.All bounty hunters should know how to use Duelist Stance properly to maintain defense, as well as Knockdown Recovery. Know your specials WELL before you even THINK about hunting Jedi.
(You can figure out what specials do by moving your mouse over the special in your Skills menu. If you want to see what the special itself does, find the first reference to that skill and mouse-over it. If you want to see what Improved or Advanced versions of the special does, you'll have to find each of them respectively.)
You will also want to use the proper weapon in combat. Proton Carbines,Scatter Pistols,Transdo/ALR seem to be the recent favorites. Proton Carbines are a trade-able quest reward from Kashyyyk. Scatter Pistols are craftable. Trando are craftable and ALR are loot. You may find some other weapon that better suits you. Look for a weapon with high speed and high DPS.
Know your equipment!
Learn the various weapon statistics and how they affect your ability in combat. Read statistics on armor. Compare wielding a certain weapon with another on your Character Sheet to see what mods it gives you. Figure out which classes give you the right armor mods and which armor type is most important to you. You don't want to be running around with armor you are uncertified for, as it can reduce your speed and accuracy.
You can also get weapons or armor "sliced" by a smuggler to increase random statistics, and thereby increasing overall weapon quality. In addition to your armor, a Personal Shield Generator (armorsmiths make these too) will add even more to your defenses or a belt with sockets to throw extra CA's in.
[Take care of your equipment. If you won't be using it for a long time, store it in your bank or house where it's safe. If you are, insure it often and make sure it's repaired to a fair condition.]
Also, make sure to take advantage of the food and drinks chefs make. They can boost various HAM pools, and increase regeneration rates. Spices still give downers, but they are very short. Instead of the previous long downers, you will find it reduces one pool and increases the others. I usually use neutron pixies in short fights as they decrease from the mind pool, which I don't really use anyway.. Make sure to visit a doctor for "Medical Enhancements", they don't help as much as pre-CU, but it can still make quite a difference.
As a BH, droids are used in almost every BH mission you will take. Therefore, it's important to know some things about droids. First of all, a DZ-70 (or 80? or whatever...) is not the droid you're looking for. Neither is a "ProBot" droid. You are looking for Arakyd Droids (which, when examined on a vedor, appear to simply be a radio or controller-device), as well as Seeker Droids (which looks a littlelike the droid Luke Skywalker was training with on the Millenium Falcon - for prequel fans it looks a lot more like the droids Darth Maul uses in Episode 1 when he arrives on Tatooine.) You can often find these droids in droid shops, vendors, player "malls", and bazaars. They also come in crates.
There are also droids called "bomb droids". These droids are crafted with a certain level of "detonation power", and can be used by bounty hunters by selecting the radial menu and clicking "detonate droid" - or by targetting the droid and using the "/detonatedroid" command. Using it will cause a 5 second timer to go off above the droid before it explodes.
(Bomb droids should be working again, so good luck using them!)
Original Post Giles
Message Edited by Eare on 10-05-2005 11:17 AM
Thanks for the Imput I updated the guide with the corrections.
I know ALR are lootable I get them from BH mis all the time. As for the trando I know that you use the barrels with max powercells Use to own one
Great guide, awesome job!
One minor point: Advanced Laser Rifles are Craftable, and its the Trando rifles that are quest reward guns. Although there is a version of the Trando rifle (mark 1B maybe?) I think is craftable but I"m not 100% sure there.
Keep up the good work, this definitely deserves a sticky!!
This Macro will keep duelist stance on
/duelists;
/pause 26;
/alarmaddin 0 0 STOP, DUELIST!!
/pause 1;
/macro duelists;
This Macro is to Detonate your bomb droid
/tellpet chase
/pause 2
/tar bombardier
/detonateDroid
This Macro is to Dismount get Bio Sig and remount speeder
/dismount;
/pause 0.5;
/conv;
/pause 0.5;
/mount speeder;