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What defines theBounty Hunterrole in combat?

He is the dirty cold killer who doesnt care how he kills his target as long as the job gets done. He's not suited for largescale warfare, as that is more of the commando's function, but he is very suited for "special op" missions or take out a specific target where his assasin-nature comes into play.

What basic combat elements should they possess?

Abilities to disable an opponent in the quickest, most efficient way possible. Currently, this would include having a KD/Dizzy attack in pistol and LLC, not just carbine. A BH is very device oriented, using good equipment, and traps to take out a target, and as such should have combat abilities that use these devices.

What offensive abilities?

See above.

What defensive abilities?

BHs currently have nary a defense mod, where as every other combat profession has tons. BHs should recieve good dodge bonuses.

What unique abilities?

A "focus" attack that allows the BH to shine. Basically, the BH focuses on a target (NPC, critter, or PC). The ability lasts for about 5 minutes, and allows the BH to use a variety of special attacks to take down their "mark"...such as a missile launch from a missile pad (if the BH has one), increased offensive and defensive mods vs that target, the ability to use an "all out attack" command where a BH unleashes all of their special weapons on a target (ie their weapon and any weapon attachments to their armor). BHs should also be able to add weapon attachments to their armor, ie wrist missile, maybe some sort of guns or projectiles shooting from a belt, and even a net attack that slows and/or immobilizes a target. Again, these come in the form of armor attachments, sticking with the theme that BHS use any and all means, ie gadgets, to get the job done.

Should add what advantage or asset in group combat?

Focus ability allows the BH to unleash a huge barrage of offensive power vs a single target.

How could/should they interact with other professions?

See above.

What interaction / dependencies should exist with other combatants?

See above.

What should be their unique role in the Galactic Civil War?

The assassin, the special op guy, who can take out single NPC/PC targets efficiently.

Well seems like no one added to this post but would like to continue on some of the stuff i see being posted and reflect on certain things.

Heres some of the stuff i though about? say we have a mission terminals as a primary source of work, we have more than one catagory to work from we should have 3 in total hunt, recon and pvp bounties, we should be able to recieve other missions though from outside this source through NPC's as i will explain.

I mentioned before abot P v P setups etc. well with fraction standing i would like to see bounty hunters be able to pick up high level jobs from NPC's as well as terminals, say you have a high rebel standing you can go see a NPC by where the rebel terminals are and he will offer you a job, he will ask you to take down a high level Imperial and place a TEF on him the same way you are ment to get on a Jedi. This should be a bountyhunters primary source of fraction points as we are an "elite" profession so why should we be gettng the same work? this option could be made only avalible to us on a coversation menu, i dont know why something like this could not be done with comandos as well?

Also what about taking out NPC's to retrive a "data disk" or something along those lines and return it to the person who gave you the job to complete the task?

I would like to see mainly master based missions and high level NPC or player based to break up the "more of the same" from the previous 2 levels, what about we actually start with a tip of way point to speak to a NPC then get a lead from there as to who to speak to next etc, and use "investigation skills" like having to speak to people in the local bar or the bar tender to get our next lead before we even get a bo signature? It would be far more fun! With bigger pay outs this would work as the time to complete the mission would be worth every penny as youmaye have to bribe informers as well.

I would like to see "recon" style missions added to gain investiagon xp on a smaller pay out basis in order to follow a target through a town/city you will have a skill like masked scent (stealth) to allow you to get close enough to do your job and f the skill fails you well you have a automatic TEF and would be attacked, that would still make it more fun than the explorer missions go to point a then point b then get paid, what about you have to get a snapshot (option made availble on the radial menu after mission is issued) and then up load it using a Arakyd droid to the person issuing the mission? they then cold offer you another mission based on that info say caputure or seek and destroy?

This kind of interacton i would consider far more fun and seem less time wasting.

The bounty hunters have made such a noise i believe we will see a revamp of the profession, but its in what time frame? We are ment to be people lurking in shadows and watching what happens and asking questions that make the most hardened of criminals get a bit nervous, we should be living the experience through nteraction with the NPC's as well as PvP, all you look around almost half the Spynet NPC's are on corellia and usless once past lvl1 for god sake please at least give us some small mercy by just changing one of the Spys at coronet to help with advanced missions.

Heres how would like to see the skill tree structured,

Level 1 investigation - We would recieve our first basic skill "bribe" we would get a tip from spynet sometimes pin pointing the locaton of the target (missions belove lvl 5 say) others would give you a "source" like a data disk or a informer (slicer, criminal, noble, bartender get the idea?) who you would have to bribe for the information sometimes money sometime's an item they may want you collect before they give up their secret. I mentioned in my previous post about capturing targets as well, so i would like to see a trap schematic added for a falshbang type trap simlar to a rangers.

Level 1 carbines - We recieve our usual modifiers but you get the "bleedshot" skill not leg shot leave that with the carbineers, you will understand why wheni explan pistols as personally i think underhand is a waste.

Level 1 pistols - This is where i would again like to see the modifiers kept but with the exception that we get melee defense bonus with a disarming shot/attack type skill for close range to help our defense's.

Level 1 LLC - Well i would do away with the single shot and give and auto incomapcitate shot that would KO its target for 10 seconds. This move could be used in conjuction to capturing a target it wold not leave the target wth any efects once they have revived but that burst if successful would leave them out cold on the ground, it would be enough tme to capture them and would not be the easiest move to pull off say 1 in 3 chance? but none the less would also act as a great defensive mesure f caght n a tight place as it would be long enough one you have knocked them down to run away in safety to prepare for a ranged attack after. This i feel in the most under developed skll of all in the bountyhunter skill tree.

Level 2 investigation - Now i would like to see this left alone its fine as it is, we learn about droids but also get the "stealth" feature to use on the recon style missions would recieve as well now.

Level 2 carbines - again something i would like to see left alone with the exception of dodge being included/improved upon.

Level2 pistols - Again happy to leave as is eyeshot is great until they screw it up in a few patches time, again slight modifier on melee defense given.

Level 2 LLC - Hmm this is a tough one as cone is crap as well, how successful have you been at hitting multiple targets with it?lets have "lighningstrike" instead where we get off basicly 3 shots like autoshot on carbines with a decent HAM cost, i would be wlling to use this with a heavy ham cost knowing i could do almost 9k of damage to an unarmoured target in just over a second and to make it fair a slight delay before the blast like overshot to allow for the build up? i would also say it was fair that i could only use it in a 20m range, this may help us out with large MOB characters/ creatures where comandos seem to be far better skilled at dealing with, it would level the playing field quite a bit in my opinion as yo cant se t too many tme with such a large penalty on yor HAM you risk being incompasitated yourself so you would use it wisely.

Level 3 Investigation - Now we get the droid modfiers as normal, we get a new trap schematic allowing us to literly fix a target to a spot preventing him from running but not stopping him attacking another option to aid us with melee defense, wedo notget the option for NPC Jedi's but instead are given a higher class of MOB, we get better tracking abilities added so basicly we get an improvement on the "stealth" skill.

Level 3 carbines - We get the same modifers now we get "slowshot" which would have a stunnng effect so to speak making targets move at half the speed so they would become slow and clumsy again aiding in allowing us to capture them or leaving them vunerable for a vicous attack as their defenses would basicly be halved, this could also aid us in escaping.

Level 3 pistols - Fine leave it as t is slight increase on counter attacking at closerange/melee defense added.

Level3 LLC - Again leave it as it is otherwise this will become to powerful.

Level 4 investigation - This is where we basicly open the doors to all mission types, we get the improvement of trackin abilites with droids, NPCJedi's are on the radar as well. By time we reach here, we should be able to track on recon missions, capture targets alive at large, kill selected targets andretrieve data and items for who ever gave us the task. In doing so we have learnt to bribe, use droids make ourselves stealth only to be at risk if it fails have a TEF placed on us to infiltrate enemy positions and evade capture. Now we look more like a bountyhunter.

Level 4 carbines - I would do away with the confusion shot, i would include a modifier for pointblank and now give the bountyhunters "Sprayshot" which would work on the basis it would fire a burst of 3 shots they would hit a targets HAM pools randomly but in effect could remove a large portion of one bar if they were to all hit the same bar, chance's of that wold be slim but it could be a great last chance move when your in a tight corner or a great way to soften up a target as those few lucky shots could be enough to finish him off or put him on a bad foot from go.

Level 4 pistols - now this seems to be all wrong, body shot? what for? would like to have given one of the pistol skills to the carbine skill tree and this is why, personally think "fire knockdown" should be a pistol shot used in conjucton to a pistol with stun effects (you should only recieve the certifacte for this when you have acquiredbh pistols 3) this would make more sense as when you use the attack it stuns them they get up and fall down again and again. The attack itself should cause littleor no harm to ther HAM but leaving them like this makes them very easy to attack after whle thay suffer the effects. This skill should be a weapon specific attack and could not be performed with out that exact damage type pistol make far more sense to me to at least use the weapons for what they are designed for? other wise whats the pont in having a pistol that can stun when all its doing is taking points from the strength pool lke the rest if you realy wanted to include damage then let it take points from the mind or action pool instead of the strength pool.

Level 4 LLC - i would have little to no improvement here with the excepton that we could not call the attack lightning single 2 as its not any more, so what about "heartstopper"? and it has the same damage type as lightning single 2?

Master bounty hunter - now you have everything the last thing that only tru masters should be allowed access to is PvP missions, be they looking for Jedi,dealing with players that have crossed the lineor killing Imps for the rebels this is where you get to start making your true presence and abilities felt amoungst your peirs and prey. Only and it is only at this level can you attack another player for oney and lke mentioned wth armoursmiths who seem to get extra schematics why can we get a NPC like that who will give us an extra skill shot?

I do think that with re-working of these skills we would see a far more balanced character, it would not make us any more dangerous as such seeming half the stuff i want to implement includes capturing live targets. I do think though that it would allow bountyhunters stand a far better chance in close quarter situations whch s where we would be ending up trying to capture a live target.

I have not suggested anything that would make us become omnipotent to other classes but would make the bountyhunter cast have a lot more depth to our workings, it would allow us to ecome more content and accepting with spending 45mins - 2 hours looking for a target if it didnt just involve slinging another droid out to look for so and so, imagne how much fun it would be to be told "well i know mr x is meeting your target in naboo starport" so you then follow the lead you was given to mr X, tail him to the starport and then skillfully persue him until you find your mark. What happens if you lose mr X? well better hope someone else can provide another source if not we actually fail a mission and lose standing points!