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I stopped by last night while I was in the area hunting blurggs for carn meat (986 OQ/955 PE). Holy cripes there were a lot of ppl there (No Rangers tho). Looked like a laser light show. A group of rebs had control over the ground leading into the bunker and they were holding strong. That is until some Imperials showed up to even the numbers. I stayed about 50m out and looked on. A Super battle droid popped and immediately got some attention. I suited up my composite and set my sights on him. At 250K he took a while to drop. I went to loot, but no joy.

Time to go inside and see what’s up. I got in the running line and made my way inside. It reminded me of the Running of the Bulls (I’m lol at this point). Pick a target and blast away. Nothing I saw was anything I’d want to do alone, but I scouted around just to see the new lair.

I got tired of that mess real quick and went back to the peace and quite of the Endor forest. So I’m about 100m outside the bunker (I can still see damage numbers like lightning) and a Super Battle pops from nowhere. I bust run outta there and darn near run into two more. Things had infested the whole area. After that I moved to a more remote location. Much better now. Back to the good ol’ hunt.

Maybe I can buy Death Bunker loot with my sold carn meat.

I stopped by and quite quickly decided to leave. I have now commissioned a set of 90% composite armor (my fourth set of armor since launch: a set of Marauder armor, a set of Ubese for when I was trying Brawler and TKA, and a set of Composite for the rare occassions when I PvP). I will be going back to get Mandalorian (just a warning--the BH armor is rumored to be only obtainable outside of the dungeon in wild spawns). Should be good fun.

It's good fun once you managed to get past the usual entrance camping already known from the geonosian cave.

That was mildly unpleasent tbh, but I did survive it. it was the result of the slightly (heh) insane spawnrate which IMHO should be toned down a bit especially when getting deeper inside. In the entrance area there are a lot of people so the rate can be handled, we didn't see a single soul outside of our group after some point and it got a bit problematic then (major problem is time, we had to stop because our buffs ran out and as usual buffing is not possible inside :/).

Btw, I actually survived tanking those six droids for my group thanks to my group's CM that spammed heals on me .

Its a gerat place and theoretically should be fun once you launch your big push.

I was there last night but only for scouting purposes to gather the key and some gas mask components. I now have mixed fealings towards to bunker.

I think the difficulty level of the death watch and black sun npcs are just right, not easy but at the same time they shouldnt take a full group to take one down.

However i am extremely disapointed with the presense of battle droids and super battle droids. Why they would be here of all places is anyone guess but it just seems the devs couldnt be bothered to add new looking mobs or maybe a varient of the droids so they just stuffed these things in.

There is no reward in defeating these machines and only causes bordom for ten minutes whilst you slowly work down their ham. When fighting a wraith i dont have a problem spending 10-15 mins working on a target as there could be a reward for doing so and ultimatly it seams like they are worthwhile kills. However battle droids and super battle droids are only there to dull down the experience and imo succeed to a great degree in ruining the excitment factor when you first enter the bunker.

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Calculus_Entropy wrote:

The opening of the DW Bunker means i can finally go to the Geo Labs. I refuse to go while the places are camped, and while the Labs will still be camped, it should be empty enough that one can travel around without too much problem (or lag).

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Thing is: The 'campfest' in the DWB is just the first room, it gets empty if you go just a bit deeper inside. I haven't seen a single soul besides those of my group beyond the second door inside.

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azimaith wrote:

Alright, before any of you waste time attacking 250k HAM mobs in hopes of getting a piece of mandalorian, I've heard that Mandalorian armor must be crafted INSIDE death watch bunker by a master armorsmith, not simply looted off the mobs there though you might need to loot a schematic.

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You actually need parts to loot (bounty hunter armor for example) and those get converted to Mandalorian armor (not crafted in the classical sense, they won't get a creator name as usual crafted items). And you need an Armorsmith, a droid engineer and a tailor for that process :-).

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darmokVtS wrote:

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azimaith wrote:

Alright, before any of you waste time attacking 250k HAM mobs in hopes of getting a piece of mandalorian, I've heard that Mandalorian armor must be crafted INSIDE death watch bunker by a master armorsmith, not simply looted off the mobs there though you might need to loot a schematic.

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You actually need parts to loot (bounty hunter armor for example) and those get converted to Mandalorian armor (not crafted in the classical sense, they won't get a creator name as usual crafted items). And you need an Armorsmith, a droid engineer and a tailor for that process :-).

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I've even heard a rumor that you can only loot the BH armor off the random Black Sun spawns and that it does not drop in the dungeon.

None of our groups that were there did loot a single piece of bh armor inside the Bunker so I guess it's exactly as the rumour says

Yes, it is true. BH armor does not drop inside the bunker. You do have to obtain it from the random spawns. As for loot. If you go to the bunker hoping to find some uber loot that you can sell for a bizillion credits, might as well stay home. This bunker is geared for the sole purpose of getting Mando armor and the Jetpack. You're not going to find crystals, tons of money, or stuff like that in there. They do however have a few schematics for a weapon or two, and crates of art that, when combined, will make a new portrait. I'm sure once you get further in, you might be able to sell the resources found within for the crafting of the armor, or perhaps jet pack pieces, but don't expect a lot of credits for them.