Bounty Hunter Archive

MBH/MCM + add one line of your favorite ranged class. I love how, all of a sudden (last month and a half or so), this is the new alpha class. I was hanging around MOP yesterday looking for trouble, and I see a Wookie announce that he's dueling. So I decide to take the challenge. I fooded up, started the /duelist macro and went to work. Being a MBH/MRM/Pistol 4xx3, with a "good" track record against Jedi and a great track record against non-jedi in PvP, I figured this would be an easy win.

What happened next shocked me. First, my opponent nailed me with CM states. Not too bad though, just made me sluggish, but no other real effects. I rooted and ran back out of range. I think he was a carbineer, but I'm not familiar with the bowcaster he was using. At any rate, there really wasn't much damage coming in from him. After a few unsuccesful vollies from me, I rooted again, at about 50m and dropped prone and hit: sniper, kd, startle, adv critical, and head shot all in successful. All of them landed, and for BIG damage.

Now... MOST opponents will go down after a barrage like that from me. I know this because when it lands, it deals out near 5k of damage. This guy was GOOD, period. I don't remember his name or I would give him his recognition, but wow. Towards the end, I had wore his mind and action down so he was healing less and less, and I was still doing massive damage. At the very end, he was down to about 50 health.... the point where if the wind kicked a rock up at him, he'd have incapped! He KD'd me, and I went down, spamming the recover and critical hit. It never landed. His first shot at me on the ground was a miss, the second was a return fire and was mitigated to a degree.... the 3rd shot, took me out.

The fight lasted about 5 minutes, and was physically exhausting, but great none the less. I took a peak at the combat log afterwards and noticed that while I did have to heal 4 times during the fight for 1100 at a clip, I dealt out over 40k in damage to this guy. He hit me for around 7-8k total. I'm going to have to seriously reconsider my approach to my template in light of this fight and others like it. The regularity of this situation is becoming higher and higher each week.

I dont' want to "sell out" and drop to MBH/MCM, or even MBH/MRM/MC... so my question is this: Is there any medic skill that I can pick up to help with healing faster?

BTW the equipment I used in this fight was: 1148 max dmg, 1.6spd Adv Laser Rifle, 86 sac, and a 1040 FWGS, 1.2spd 88sac. Also had on 8000+ Energy resist recon armor with 6000+ to the other stats. The foods were the normal combination of speed bouns, health bonues, action regen, and spices.