Smuggler Archive

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BelarrnSorak wrote:

i hope they fix alota stuff like this in the rebalance.

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Rebalance is a farce, they'll never re-balance. It's just a carrot to keep you paying. SOE didn't start re-balancing EQ till they started losing money on it because everyone was bailing to go to DAOC, Horizons, SWG, etc.

Same will continue here. Until someone makes something that draws the Star Wars hard core fans away SOE will just continue to milk you for your money as long as they can, promising a rebalance every now and then and continuing to plug garbage content into the game and patch away at JTL as their answer to people who don't like Jedi (notice jedi don't get bonuses in space, thats why, you can now fight on an even playing field... as long as it's in JTL. They'll eventually give Jedi powers in space too... watch and see).

Do I sound Jaded? You bet I do. I'm sick of empty promises from SOE... you'd think I'd have learned my lesson back in EQ... silly me I was hoping LucasArts would make them keep the quality high. Guess I was wrong. Then again LucasArts game quality has plumetted since the 90's as well so I guess I'm not all THAT surprised.

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LaughingWolf wrote:
Stormies are worth 22 FPs each to me, Dreven. Not sure if it is a flat ammount or if rank/con/etc affect it.

Most stormies are red to me, some exceptionally white, and the officers usually white or yellow. I have some Pistoleer, some CH, but no combat mastery (my only non basic master badge is Smuggler so far)

Fully buffed and on armor and brandy, I can take on 3 or if lucky 4 stormies at the time. (that's without a pet, when I hit Talus I hunt petless) More than that and I have to run away, or FD after a while. So yeah, I am very far from being able to aggro the whole garrisson... but wait a sec, did I just said 3 or 4 RED conned mob at the same time? While any of thoses show up on "Examine" as "instant death"? lol So yes, I very easilly conced the point, it IS out of whack. I fully expect no longer being able to do that after the CU, and I think it will be a GOOD thing.

In the meanwhile, well...I want to reach Colonel, a client is waiting for me for FP transfer. (somehow i want to earn my way trough the ranks instead of buying it, but I have no problem with others doing that hehehe specially if the cash goes in my pocket )

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Yeah...I'm definitely ready for some kind of fear factor to be put back in the game. I remember the good ol' days when you'd be running around with your buddies and see a large, red con creature and say, "Hmmm...we'll go this way."...and head off in another direction. I can't tell you the last time I ran away from a red con mob (well...there was that one trip to the DWB...but we won't talk about that). But, I was regularly taking Enraged Rancor missions back at the height of solo grouping, and would just sit in the middle of 3 or 4 of them and mostly auto fire while I watched TV, read the forums, or folded laundry.

You'd think the thought of a game where 95% of the content couldn't hurt you would be appealing. But, I just find it.....BORING...and definitely not fun...

I know what you mean. A while back, a friend and I were on our way somewhere, can't remember where, when he got knocked out his bike by some mobs and he was instantly in trouble. I was about 500m behind, and he yelled in groupchat for me to arrive and help him, and it was really a thrill to jump out of my bike and attack the mob about to incap him, managing to kill it with a sliver of my own life left. There was real danger of both of us ending up dead. (and my speederbike too lol! I usually store but this time I just dismounted and attacked, I had not a second to spare!) That fight got the adrenaline pumping in my veins, it was a rush.

I think it is party of why I do not always go hunting fully buffed in full composite and high on brandy canape and spice. Sometimes I do, yes, but not always.

Message Edited by LaughingWolf on 12-21-2004 01:06 AM

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Ternque01 wrote:

Not to add insult unto injury... I am a Fencer/pistoleer, and was grinding just yesterday and beating up on stormtroopers as well.

All i had to do was aggro a bunch then do area spin attack 2.

I get hit maybe 1/10 times.

I'm now gonna be a Fencer/M. Marksman/M. Rifleman/Pistoleer. It's a template based around using the rifle, but with stacked defenses.

Surely I can see you get sick reading this post. I would still be a smuggler today if I could somewhat fight well in PvP, and I lament dropping master pistoleer as well. You can judge me if you want (which I wouldn't suggest), but I refuse to pay money to play a class or classes that aren't effective at their role.

Don't get me wrong Dreven, I love smuggler and pistoleer a whole bunch, but as you say, "the combat system in this game [is truly broken]." I am a defense stacker in some peoples eyes, but in my own I am aquiring the tools for the job of protecting myself and my friends. You and I wish defense stacking wasn't the case. I do what is needed to survive.

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You'll be back

I've found that you can compete quite well with triple master. Oshunn (another tri-master on our server) is probably one of the most feared pvp'ers in our guild. I've also been disdainfully called a stacker before. That made me feel good

Another tri-master I know on our server has dropped it 5 or 6 times to try other things, and he always comes back. I forsee this as your future