Bounty Hunter Archive
Thread: NPC bounties are fun again!!!!!!!
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Runs-With-Scissors
Fri Oct 21, 2005 10:02 pm
#1
Since the new AI changes have come I have been going to check what all is able to be done solo and what is not. I keep hearing about the double chevron bounties being "imposible" and what not. Last night I ran missions all night and only got single chevron bounties. Today I ran across my first double chevron boss with the new changes. Wow it was great. It did take me 2 attempts. The first time I was unprepared. I only ate some Blob and Crispic and had maybe 40 uses left on my pup and my PSG was at 0 condition. So after getting cloned I got my act together and went back after him. His regen rate was crazzy. The fight seemed to last forever and ate up over 270 uses off my pup. 2/3 of the food I had eaten had worn off by the time he was down to 1/4 HAM. This was single handedly the best fight i have had yet in the game. After the new changes I have killed 6 Black Suns and 2 Dark Jedi Adepts solo and can easily say that this bounty would have wiped the floor with them. Although I am still going to go after Black Suns to finish looting the last 2 pieces of BH armor i need, I will once again be doing NPC bounty missions. These AI changes have brought new life to the game. 
xakia
Fri Oct 21, 2005 11:58 pm
#2
Yep...the boss marks are alot of fun. Heard the Nightsisters have grown to be incredibly powerful as well. Gonna hit them up tomorrow sometime and see what all this talk is about =)
RutRo33
Sat Oct 22, 2005 2:30 am
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LOL, NS fights are waaaaay fun. Just had one force run after me when I put some distance between us to set up a root.
KammaRocca
Sat Oct 22, 2005 2:39 am
#4
I agree. I actually have to pay attention when I'm fighting now. I don't know why they don't root and go in for melee damage, but other than that it's fine. I haven't got one of the infamous insane regen bosses yet but the high HAM bosses seemed to be spawning only 1 in 40 before the publish.
WizKid72
Sat Oct 22, 2005 3:33 am
#5
I just took out a gold elite a moment ago.. It was fun trying different ways to defeat it dying a couple times to them..
But I have to wonder though how much harder it would be to people who isn't as fortunate as I am with having such good rifles (capped trando hunting rifle (crafted version) with prenerf scopes).
As MRifle, MBH, 4000 CM, I managed to kill the npc by letting him get close enough to me to switch and stay with melee weapons, and keep kiting it. Fortunately it wasn't a pikeman. Intimidation sucks =P
KammaRocca
Sat Oct 22, 2005 8:52 am
#6
The most fun way I ever killed a boss mark I couldn't handle back when my template had no healing was grabbing a lair mission close to my mark and kiting him into it. It might sound like an exploit, but I can't help it if he was using AOE attacks.
WizKid72 wrote:
I just took out a gold elite a moment ago.. It was fun trying different ways to defeat it dying a couple times to them..
But I have to wonder though how much harder it would be to people who isn't as fortunate as I am with having such good rifles (capped trando hunting rifle (crafted version) with prenerf scopes).
As MRifle, MBH, 4000 CM, I managed to kill the npc by letting him get close enough to me to switch and stay with melee weapons, and keep kiting it. Fortunately it wasn't a pikeman. Intimidation sucks =P
SolHalcon
Sat Oct 22, 2005 9:15 am
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Glad to see folks having a good time with these new AI. Ya they're tough, and one aced me last night. All it takes is to get just a wee bit careless.
WizKid72
Sat Oct 22, 2005 2:18 pm
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KammaRocca wrote:
The most fun way I ever killed a boss mark I couldn't handle back when my template had no healing was grabbing a lair mission close to my mark and kiting him into it. It might sound like an exploit, but I can't help it if he was using AOE attacks.
WizKid72 wrote:
I just took out a gold elite a moment ago.. It was fun trying different ways to defeat it dying a couple times to them..
But I have to wonder though how much harder it would be to people who isn't as fortunate as I am with having such good rifles (capped trando hunting rifle (crafted version) with prenerf scopes).
As MRifle, MBH, 4000 CM, I managed to kill the npc by letting him get close enough to me to switch and stay with melee weapons, and keep kiting it. Fortunately it wasn't a pikeman. Intimidation sucks =P
I wouldn't consider it an exploit. I tried the same thing. Unfortunately mine didn't try to AOE me. There was a lair of boar wolves all over the place, which was why I was brave enough to engage the gold elite in the first place. I was so counting on the assist, but didn't get it =P
mercinmaster
Sat Oct 22, 2005 3:05 pm
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KammaRocca wrote:
I agree. I haven't got one of the infamous insane regen bosses yet but the high HAM bosses seemed to be spawning only 1 in 40 before the publish.
lol i had 1 yesterday.. took me 20 minutes.. witha proton carbine fully sliced. using fire,poison and disease DoT's... was insane.. nealry got incapped so many times.. he dropped Reinforced casings wich wasn't too bad
WizKid72
Sat Oct 22, 2005 3:32 pm
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tamer_bourne wrote:
thought they were impossible?
When pub24 came out, their HAM regens as fast as you could hurt them. This doesn't seem to be the case last night. They must have hotfixed it. It's still tough as hell though. A bit TOO tough for soloist, but ah well. I used to hunt krayts and acklay solo everyday pre-CU. Whats another tough mob?
Iawo
Sat Oct 22, 2005 3:44 pm
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Level 88 Black sun guys are pretty insane now. They were semi-tough before... but oh man are they nasty now.
Nightsisters kind of remind me of the pre-CU nightsisters... will own you if you aren't ready, but aren't too bad if you are.
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