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Is it me or am I the only person who thinks this mix doesn’t make any sense? Bounty hunters are certified for assault armor, which recently I’ve found the cap on for energy is only something like 6200. This makes no sense to me seeing that as a BH my primary foes, Jedi and NPC’s deal energy damage!

Now I’m well aware that just because I’m certified for assault armor I don’t have to wear it, but I’ve never liked the recon or battle armor in this game, and being a twi’lek I really hate the way most armor looks on me. Anyways I just thought it would have made a lot more sense to have assault armor have higher energy caps and say recon armor to be better for kinetic rather than being the other way around like it is..

i agree its a stupid idea :/

I would like to wear comp coz ithink it looks cool but man with the crappy stats its just not worth it

Totally agree

Atleast BH armor is good for grinding exp or hunting creatures heh...

Be nice to be able to wear truely effective armor vs Jedi and not have to worry about the armor hinderances while I create my next unique template.

Message Edited by xakia on 10-15-2005 06:15 AM

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-sc0ob wrote:

i agree its a stupid idea :/

I would like to wear comp coz ithink it looks cool but man with the crappy stats its just not worth it

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While I agree BH having an assault cert is a little silly, the above comment in red leaves me a little surprised when it comes from someone with nearly 2k posts to their name

All armors of a certain class can be made as good as any other now. You can have unlayered comp with 7000K 5000E 6000B just like you can have BH armor and chitin with the same stats. I can layer with energy and get 5812K 6188E 6000B and I could make exactly the same stats but use a comp or chitin or mando skin instead.

Post CU, the appearance is just a skin, a look, a style, nothing more. The protection stats are defined by the core component the skin is put on.

The only advantage the special skins like RIS and mando have now is that they get more condition.

Ah, but the problem is finding an Armorsmith who makes Assault layers with high Energy effectiveness. As it stands right now, most Assault armoris biased to Kinetic and it's rare to see them with Energy protection as good or better than the elemental protections. Until that changes, I'm going to wear Battle armor, since I can get equal protection across the board in pretty much all flavors of Battle. I'd prefer to have Battle cert with BH, it would compliment the mitigations from Carbineer. Still, I get some help on the Assault mitigation with the SL in my template since I'm working towards Master Carbineer/Master Bounty Hunter/Squad Leader x4x4. At this point, I'm working at getting Master on Carbineer as I'm at 4444, I have some grinding to do on BH which is at 2444, and am at SL x1x2. I'll finish the Strategy tree on SL with a High Capacity Scatter, once I hit Master Bounty Hunter.

That's the silly part about Mandolorian armor... it will take the combined efforts, in most cases, of an entire guild and/or hundreds of millions of credits to buy/craft and ADK the armor. But in combat, it's nowhere near as good as a 100k set of Tantel armor. Funny, right?

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xakia wrote:

Totally agree

Atleast BH armor is good for grinding exp or hunting creatures heh...

Be nice to be able to wear truely effective armor vs Jedi and not have to worry about the armor hinderances while I create my next unique template.

We are kind of restricted to using one weapon in most cases with this setup. I'd rather be a heavy dabbler and make something simular to my old school master of arms profession of the past.

Message Edited by xakia on 10-15-2005 06:15 AM

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Killing Jedi isn't our main function, there are more BH's that hunt NPC's than jedi. But yes, it's stupid that we have armour for kenitic Dammage.

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Knai wrote:

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xakia wrote:

Totally agree

Atleast BH armor is good for grinding exp or hunting creatures heh...

Be nice to be able to wear truely effective armor vs Jedi and not have to worry about the armor hinderances while I create my next unique template.

We are kind of restricted to using one weapon in most cases with this setup. I'd rather be a heavy dabbler and make something simular to my old school master of arms profession of the past.

Message Edited by xakia on 10-15-2005 06:15 AM

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Killing Jedi isn't our main function, there are more BH's that hunt NPC's than jedi. But yes, it's stupid that we have armour for kenitic Dammage.

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QFE, I probably hunt Jedi about 5-10% ofmy time online now. I'm more concerned with, npcs missions, helping the guild, pvp

How many NPC marks use Kinetic weapons? Most of the NPC marks I get from missions shoot blasters at me. I still think they weren't using their heads when they gave us armor that is Kinetic by default.

Than again, to be a decent bh in both pve/pvp you will most likly master another non Assault proffesion.... SQL/Bh? Commando/BH?
So as i see it, we get certed for an extra type of armour that is great for grinding and killing npc mobs of creatures