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I actually had to check. I've got a suit of Ubese 75-ish, in my droid. Usually find myself working in ordinary clothes, just using some food and drink buffs to keep me this side of incap.

Really enjoying rifleman, concealshot IS your friend. (Just to see how it'd go I lay about 50m from an ST patrol, full twelve man pack and NPC garnish. I think the family thought I'd flipped when I started singing "one little, two llittle, three little stormies...")

But, for critters, yep, low level stuff, whats the point of buffing. Big stuff? Unless it's insanely high level just stay as far away as I can as long as I can and do as much damage as I can.

Been out hunting Klikniks myself. got a heck of a suprise when the lair spawned about 6 of them just as it blew up. thank god for /burstrun and ranger terrain negotiation!

Those are also the times when your glad to have a droid or pet. You just set up the macro for yourself to have them attack and do /burstrun so you can get away or move back to keep firing while the droid/pet takes the attack.

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Fodder650 wrote:
Because your using the wrong weapon. Part of fighting unbuffed is that you have to learn your weapons. Im guessing your wearing a full suit of comp while holding the hammer. Your stats are already low as it is and then your adding a weapon thats 100/100/100 for HAM specials cost. Which your probaly doing what you normally would do in an attack.

Remember this is a whole new way of fighting for you. At most you want to wear ubese jacket, pants, boots, gloves (pants of course are optional right now, i still wear them). You want to check through your weapons for your lowest ham cost one. For a swords man this will probaly be the 2h Curved Sword. You also want to think about foods that match your profession. As a brawler i would recommend the food pack i have above. This will lower the cost on your specials to a point you can use a few.

If your guild has a weaponsmith think about getting a curved sword made special for this.You'll be capped on speed anyway.

This is a completle change of fighting from what people are used this. This is a challange and it makes the game interesting. So start with 3k HAM creatures and work your way up. You could use your powerhammer since its so strong without specials as well.

Hope this helps

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well if you noticed my signature you would find that i am wookiee, no comp for me lol wookiee armor is typically always brutal. The power hammer over 100damage to my health each time i swing it, i can use COB for swordsman and it accually protects me a bit, the hammer cost for health is the real pain in the neck, using the 2handedsword does relieve some of the pain, but the brawler food is now on my list of future buys so a big thanks to ya willl take some getting use to, but it seems fun, and it allows me to remove my horned wookiee armor for a change and breathe fresh air.

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Preacher-UM wrote:

i would love to fight unbuffed, but being swordsman, just a few hits with the powerhammer and i've almost killed myself lol

I just hunted on endor for the past week, had a really good shift of herbivore. with a PH, just get into combat , throw a sonic pulse, and let the hammer attack with just the auto attack. Only use specials if u absolutely have to . The only creature i found i had to use specials on were the lantern birds. And only because they run away , but with a really good hammer , they will drop like flies.

Xandur Tau-ri Lowca

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well sense you are swordsman, how effective is COB on bigger creatures? im currently at 1/4/4/3 i have the majority of the cob lines but not the master yet, reason why i ask is someone else reminded me of armor cost on hams so i think taking the armor off would be better.....wookiee armor

I use one 49 filling Accargm and one 49 fill garrmorl with 2 33 filling ahrissa. So yes you can use both. The one problem i ran into is duration. One of the two has a capped stat on duration i think is garrmorl as duration is controlled by flavor and bone and hide have no flavor.

My BE/Chef just made me a 40 minute Accargm, 36 minute Garrmorl set to go with my ahrissa. This leaves me without the health/strength/con bonus for 4 minutes. Which can make things really interesting. Garrmorl is 327 Health/Str/Con, Accargm is 404 (need to check to make sure im right) Action/Quick/Stamina. And the ahrissa is 400 focus.

When fighting unbuffed with ubese take off the bracers and gloves. No need to add them to your HAM costs at this point. Personally i wear a set of Mabari. The set of pants, gloves, boots, jacket, and if i wear it helm cost me 59-80 in strenght/con, quickness/stamina, and if wearing helmet focus willpower. Normally i dont wear the helmet since mostly at that level im not fighting headshot beasties.

Ubese has some really nice protections but the HAM costs can hurt you unbuffed. When i get socialed by a large group i'll switch to my ubese jacket for that added bit of protection. But then i really have limited myself on specials.

Traps wise im a big beliver in the Sonic Pulse and P-Darts. Also the other food im starting to love is exo-wafers. 20% damage reduction, 20 attacks 5 stomach (not drink) filling cost. Even non-BE ones made by a domestic 4 artisan are 14%, 15 attacks and a heck of a lot cheaper. Is almost a no-brainer to add this to your diet.

Message Edited by Fodder650 on 11-26-2004 08:43 AM

Hunting unbuffed/unarmored with rifles:

Any other way besides mask scent, take cover, and conceal shooting everything. <---- That doesn't sound like fun considering nothing will even get to you.

Also, are traps really that useful as a rifleman since you can kill a lot of things without them seeing you, and throwing a trap at them will just make them come after you. I'm actually thinking of not going up trap section of ranger because of this (would free up points for CH or Medic).