Bounty Hunter Archive
Thread: Black Sun... always this hard?
yeah they got alittle boost in AI since the update... i havent faught one since the update myself, but a freind of mine was out killing them a few days ago and said they had a noticable upgrade.
guess ill have to go back to kiting just the henchman now that the ranged BS can actually do some damage instead of spamming lethal shot at me, lol.
One thing I noticed though, NPC's below CL80, including NPC Marks, seem to stay in ranged combat more easily. Where the guys at 80+ will rush you and slap on an AB and a couple other melee states at every opportunity.
Was able to solo one after pub24, though I had to use my droid and was lucky enough to pull just him. Once another one joins in though best just to run if you're alone unless you're one mean mofo.
The three I found were an assassin, a thug, and a guard? they were lvl 88, 88, and 86. Can anyone give me pointers on killing these things, or general lvl 82 bounties for that matter? I'm MBH, MCarb, CM 4000 and I usually kd them, then spam adv crit and imp leg shot, with a bleed thrown in and now that they rush me I was throwing in snares. Part of my problem was that my Carb is rng 50 and when I was kiting I kept running out of my range, but was still in the black sun's (they must be using rifles). Food wise I use crispic, thunder...something, and P something that helps with dodge I think, plus brandy, and pixie... Anyone have any suggestions on how to take on these bad boys? Do I need to switch to Mrifle, or would MSquadL be helpful?
They've alwyas been tough, but they are bad mofos after patch 24. I used to be able to solo them no problems, but last time I tried one sent me to the cloner in no time flat. Snare did nothing, knockdown only worked for about a half a second, etc.
They rarely drop loot anyway, so I just wouldn't bother. I mean very very rarely drop anything at all.
Iawo wrote:
They've alwyas been tough, but they are bad mofos after patch 24. I used to be able to solo them no problems, but last time I tried one sent me to the cloner in no time flat. Snare did nothing, knockdown only worked for about a half a second, etc.
They rarely drop loot anyway, so I just wouldn't bother. I mean very very rarely drop anything at all.
Funny, killed about 30 last night and got a bicep, bracer, and 2 jetpack bases. Main thing to watch out for now is that they are social now so make sure they are 10m or more away from one another and then pull one at a time. The guards and assassins are melee/ranged, henchman are melee only, and thugs are ranged only. Make sure you got some 8k energy armor for the ranged and have plenty of healing. If they get into melee mode KD them quickly and get away, but in the case of the henchman which now armor break, try to keep a wide circle on them as it buys you a lot of time, especially if you have a root, but watch out for snares as everything in the damned game snares now it seems. I'm MBH/MPistol/4xxxCM and it can still be a tough fight, but you basically have to do it with brute force, decent heals, andhave as good of equipment as possible and plan to clone alot now since some of them now DB.