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There are too many Jedi. And I would love to see Rancors eat Luke Wannabe Kenobi.

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Vertexon wrote:

These are some good thoughts, and I think fixing the existing abilities is akey point. I'm not sure about making CH into an anti-Jedi specialist, though. One of my biggest concerns along those lines would be making CH into a "flavor of the month" profession that people swarm to just to combat the Jedi. Any thoughts along those lines?

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That's my template; I dont seem to have a problem with anything thus far. I love having a Large Tank and a Large Flame Dot to boot

- Takai

Well ultimately I think the devs will need to add something to *every* combat profession to give them a prayer against Jedi, since there are obviously going to be far FAR more Jedi in the game than the entire PvP/GCW design ever imagined a year ago.

Since CH's were pre-balanced into irrelevance, it seems only fair to pre-balance us the other way and make us the first profession with a focused anti-Jedi skillset, either with pets that are force-resistant (seems like one or two breeds on Dathomir that have to live side-by-side with Nightsisters should get a mutation in this area) or pets that have an attack that isn't blockable or that Jedi don't have high resists to, or an attack that literally drains force-power.

I wouldn't want this to be an 'uber' power, certainly not something that would have people flocking to CH as a flavor o' the month ... but enough to make a CH a valuable addition to a group that expected to confront Jedi, instead of a mere 'oh wait it stopped following/ran away/autostored again' annnoyance that CH is the group today.

Give CH's a 'pre-balance' that's positive to make up for the 'pre-balance' that killed us for most of the last year .... is that so wrong?

Lightsabers wont do you much good in space, then again, neither will Rancors lol.

- Takai

Lightsabers wont do you much good in space, then again, neither will Rancors lol.

- Takai

Won't matter to me, I don't plan on buying JtoL until there's progress on fixing the game I already paid for.

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Chabian wrote:
Lightsabers wont do you much good in space, then again, neither will Rancors lol.

- Takai

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I don't know. If I was in space and a rancor was flung out an airlock at my ship, I'd certainly be scared!

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slave138 wrote:

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DarthMarksman wrote:

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slave138 wrote:

I'm also back for the 10 daysand have noticed the same things, but you forgot we are now irrelevant in PvE, too (unless you count using us to get better missions in "solo groups")

Message Edited by slave138 on 10-06-2004 02:07 PM

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I would disagree on being irrelevant in PvE. I solo all the time, since I'm levelling Rifleman. I can tell you that while as a 0-0-1-1 I don't have several Rancors to back me up. . .yet, my pets have helped me out in the wilderness. I was out hunting with a friend of mine who is an MCH, and his pets were a tremendous asset to us.

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I'm a wookieeMCH with 2,3,0,3 in rifles and I can take all but the biggest PvE opponents without even calling a pet - and I haven't really tried the bigger ones yet so I might even be able to take them. Even with my less effective wook armor and a handful of buffs, the damage heals faster than I can suffer it. If I, with no combat mastery, can solo most mobs without using my pets I'm pretty sure most people could do the same.

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I don't understand how, I am a master rifleman/ master CH and I solo w/petsall the time. Even fully buffed/ mind buff/ and 80/70 comp on if I get rushed by 5 Janta's from a Shaman camp at the same time, I am gonna have some problems and a trip to the cloning center would not be out of the question. Strafeshow 2 is not easy to pulloff at close range with 5 Janta's beating on you. If i try to solo Enraged Rancors (maybe even regular rancors) without my pets, again it would not go well for me with three Rancors chewing on me. I guess my point is that without my Pets tanking and taking the aggro, doing the lairs I am doing would be an extremely risky proposition. Not a noob either 9 months in game, and have been MRM/MCH the whole time.

oooo i like the idea of higher level pets being anti-jedi.....and too true there are too many jedi.....they are supposed to be rare because they are so powerful but i see them everyday and instead of saying "OH LOOK! A JEDI!" i say "there goes another one....."

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Tstorm wrote:

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Chabian wrote:
Lightsabers wont do you much good in space, then again, neither will Rancors lol.

- Takai

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I don't know. If I was in space and a rancor was flung out an airlock at my ship, I'd certainly be scared!

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