Bounty Hunter Archive

Well I just started hunting Jedi the past week. I ama MBH/MP/CM4xxx. My first 3 hunts were very embarassing. I lost them all very quickly. 2 of them were Master Defender's, the other not even a full temp yet. My recent hunt was last night. I had previously been hunting with some shotty equipment (nothing really top of the line, not even the foods). I figured thats why I have been getting my arse handed to me. So I decided to spend the money and get some things that would help me. I went out and bought upan enhanced featherweight which can be seen here http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=304936 I then had the pistol sliced for critical hit. I then put a PUP on it for SAC. The SAC is now down to 57. I have Ubeese armor that I am currnetly wearing and it is NOT sliced for armor break yet. It does have a resist of 6500 energy though. I also use a PSG that has an energy resist of 2200. I use Breath of heaven, Pixie, Air Cake, synthsteak and CAH as foods. Not sure if I should be using something else? I use a duelist macro that runs while I am in combat as well.

So last night I was ready to go. I figure if I cant take a Jedi now I should just regrind to an entertainer and stay away from the whole combat scene. I take the mission out of Kaadara. Launch my arakyd and wait for a response. LOK. My mark is on LOK. So i get buffed by the AFK Doc bot right by the starport terminal and I fly to LOK. When I land, my mark is about 6700M away from me. I figure sweet, he is probably grinding with a group and shouldnt be a full template. Things are starting to look up for me I thought. I launch a seeker, and hop on a shuttle to the closest city where hes hunting. I land, my seeker reports back and hes still in the same spot, waypoint hasnt moved...Sweet, i think. I hop on my swoop and kick it into high gear. As I appraoch the waypoint I can see sparks and blaster fire everywerhe. He was with a group alright and they were taking out a gurk lair. I hop off my swoop and pack it up. They dont notice me at all. I take my foods, equip my PSG and fire a KD shot. It hits.....WooHoo...Root, critical, torso, quick draw....Critical....Im thinking sweet...Im gonna do it this time...He doesnt even know I am pwning him yet....

He turns and starts to run away....and he ran...he ran so far away....I couldnt keep up...I burst run...he runs faster.....Finally the combat music stops..I lost him...Damn it....I unpack my swoop and hop on...I quickly catch up with him..I store my swoop while Im riding it and jump right ontop of him...Fire a Root, it sticks...Critical, quick draw....He's healing left and right....but now he doesnt want to run anymore...He shouts,"Get ready to Die". Im thinking whatever joo n00b. We start battling, he roots me then pounds on me with all his might. My armor barely able to withstand his saber. Now I heal and hel I did. (prior to this fight, I didnt know you can heal twice in a row without waiting for the timer to run down...Bacta shot and Bacta toss...thank the lord for that...I can easily heal around 2000 damage in 2 seconds...) Im fully healed, the root has expired....now I try to keep my distance from him...Im at least 25 - 34m away...KD, Root, Critical, Quickdraw...This goes on for about 15 min. His mind starts to wind down significanty...His health is now almost gone...Im thinking he must be out of force or will be soon...I go for the kill...My root doesnt stick..My KD misses. He runs like a bat out of hell....I run after him...He is faster for some reason? Im thinking, what the hell, are they teaching cross country running at the knight trials this year? I burst run, he runs faster...My burst run wears off, I am tired...The combat music stops once again..I have lost him again...Why is he so much faster than me i ask? I pull out my swoop again and catch up with him once again...I jump right otop of him again and start to pound on him...But he runs...and he continues to run and I lose him AGAIN...I am jsut not fast enough i say...I have to hop on my swoop again...Dam him...I hope off once again this time I missed him...I see him running towards a bike of some sort...

its a BARC speeder. I say what the hell is this thing doing way out here? At this point I have no idea where we are from where the fight started....We could have come full circle Im just not sure...He jumps on the BARC...I scream...NOOOOOOOOOOOO....I follow but his BARC is faster than my swoop...I lose him....But Im still following the fumes from the BARC...400m ahead I see him jump off his bike and run to an Imperial post/base of some sort...I think, what the hell is he doing now...? I jump off my speeder and fire a root, KD they both miss and he hightails it right out of dodge...running again....Hop on my swoop and go in the direction he was headed (this is after I was warped out of the imperial base ? not sure why that had happened? i lost my direction as well) I finally catch up with him and he is sitting down....I jump off my swoop into a roll. I fire and this time he doesnt run. We start to battle....Im doing quite well...But by this time he has regened all his force I am sure..( oh and not to mention that from the begining of this fight all his friends were ont heir swoops with us following us the WHOLE time...BUT they were quite...Not saying anything..) My pixie runs out...I kneel and start to cough...He KD's me...I try to get back up,,,You cannot KD recovery while KD it says...I scream what the F#$K are you talking about...I spam the KD recovery macro time and time again...Im getting walloped...Boom saber headhit, saber head hit....Incapped.....34 secs on the timer? I figure Im f'ed....he says, Nighty, Night...and Im cloning....His friends say, good fight and leave...So I start to tell him and ask him...Your not a full temp right? He says, no I am a full temp, why? Just wondering....he tells me good fight and I do the same...and off I went....The fight lasted 35 MINUTES? I am not joking either....35 F'kin minutes? (what the hell is up with that KD recovery thing?)

This battle has given me hope. Hope that I am not really that bad as I used to be. I figure if I can stand 35 minutes with a full temp jedi and almost win, I have a chance out there. I thought master pistoleer was a crap dealing profession...I am glad I stuck it out...I hate getting rooted and snared...like he was doing to me but hey I have to be in range...Even when I was at 34m I was still getting saber tossed a new a$$hole.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated....