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Thread: HELP- Where are the Elite Marks? 30 Post Pub 24 Missions and I have nothing
sumner wrote:
Consider yourself lucky! I've pulled two level 82double gold chevrons since 24 came out. These missions are near impossible now. I went into the firstwith 7000 Biker armor, PSG, doc buffs, some food and a health crystal, and lasted all of 10 seconds. My 1075 (or is 1175) lightning cannon would barely move his ham, and most of the damage I did would regen before the next shot. The second one was the same minus the helth crystal, don't ask why I tried, it was over in two bloddy shots! I know they beefed these guys up for grouping, but they are just insane to take on solo
Well, I actually would enjoy going out to take on a NPC mark and not know the outcome up front. If 1/2 the time these guys kill me, I can live with that. Assuming the other 1/2 the time we get a chance at some decent loot.
But what level missions ($ amount) are you pulling to get double golds? Or is it random. I did 5 more missions this AM thinking maybe early morning after server reset would be a better time. Still all silver single chevron marks with 16-20K health. Nothing too tough.
Maybe once I get 4 or 5 double gold chevron marks and die a few times I will complain like everyone else, but until I can even find ONE of them it's hard for me to relate. I can say I took on some Nightsister Stalkers yesterday, Level 85, and they were hitting me for 1K and force choking me about every other attack. I managed to kill 3 of them before 1 took me out....but now THAT was fun. As an MCM I am running with a med droid out and able to heal myself for over 2000 pts per heal...which is really helping obviously. Use of a health crystal adds 2K to my health which just gives me more time to manage my heals.
xDiggerx
wat kind of weapon u usin. i am same temp as u minus mbh(3444) i am using unsliced Trando hunting rifle dps 479
wat armor u usin as well??
Out of 10 missions, I got 2 double golds, a single gold, and a really tough double silver 82.
The interesting thing is that they all seem to have different health regen (from "high" to "INSANE") and different damage ranges (from "Ouch!" to "double-hit-incap".
They also seem to like their melee weapons, and they switch to ranged quickly when rooted. I like how they use their specials, too. Finally, I have found an NPC that liked KD as much as I do.
Its all the luck of the draw. Most people find the 30k ham double gold marks to be near impossible. They are a very tough fight, but nowhere near impossible. I just took one out this morning. He nearly had me at first so I had to burst run away. I pulled my droid and sat down to regen some. I went back and my droid and I started plugging away at him again. These guys like to go melee for some reason. I've fought three of them so far, and all of them ended up melee against me sooner or later. We got him down after a good 8-9 minute fight. So far they haven't dropped anything good for me. I look forward to getting something of value for the effort involved.
Good Luck! I hope you find the excitement you crave.
imperiallBH wrote:
xDiggerx
wat kind of weapon u usin. i am same temp as u minus mbh(3444) i am using unsliced Trando hunting rifle dps 479
wat armor u usin as well??
Gardo Larth~MCM~3444BH~4000R~CL79
Lag leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to the dark side!!
I can't get in game at this moment to get exact info but here is roughly what I am using:
Battle Armor (RIS helm, Marauder chest & leggings, 2 cyborg arms for 80m range). Kin and Energy resists around 6550.
I have 3 main weapons I use on marks:
Start: Heavy Lighting Rifle. Double capped damage & SAC. I run a damage powerup on this giving me around 680 min to 1300 max. My speed is like 1.3. The 82 SAC wipes out my action over time. Also 66 Accuracy Bonus on this. If the fight is under 10 min I normally just stick with this weapon.
Middle: If my Action gets too low I switch to a crafted Trando rifle. I run a SAC pup on this. 520 min to 1,184 max dam, modified speed around 1.3. 66 accuracy bonus on this weapon also. The SAC pup lets me spam specials pretty easily.
End: If my Action really gets wiped due to lots of KD recovery, etc.. I switch to a FeatherWt FWG5. SAC and damage capped. I run a SAC pup on this weapon. Actually allows my action to regen while I am using specials. 66 accuracy bonus on this plus the +15 accuracy from the featherwt. Speed on this is around 1.0. I can spam Adv Critical Shot & Head Shot back to back and this weapon fires almost continuously.
I keep these three weapons in my hotkeys and switch between them depending on the situation.
I normally start each fight putting the mark on fire (for around 360 damage pts normally) and also drop the poisen on them for around 300 pts. So I get a tick going for around 650-700 pts, then I start firing my weapons. Plus I run with a probot droid with med 110 rating which lets me heal for over 2,000 pts. Plus the probot hits the mark normally (assuming the mark area attacks) for around 150 pts. My probot is a Stim Droid also but I have not found anyone to load stims in it yet for me.
This is the setup I use for NPC high end bounty missions. No problems yet with any marks.