Smuggler Archive
Thread: Is Last Ditch supposed to drain youd health bar?
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NovalisPallida
Tue May 03, 2005 2:50 am
#1
I was master smuggler when I left right before jedi revamp. I came back and used my respec to try some other stuff and then came back to smuggler. I'm having some trouble with last ditch because by the description I don't think it's owrking correctly. I tested this out and found that last ditch drains my entire mind and health bar but doesn't touch my action... anyone else having a problem or is that the way it works?
Nicolas_Frost
Tue May 03, 2005 2:59 am
#2
Last Ditch is now a true Last Ditch. It spends pretty much all of your HAM dropping you to about 5%, no matter how much you have. The damage is based on how close to death you are. The more health you have, the less damage it does. The less you have, the more damage it does. When timed right, you can one-shot someone into incapacitation. There are reports of well timed Last Ditches doing upwards of 6000 points of damage before armor.
NovalisPallida
Tue May 03, 2005 2:59 am
#3
Sorry heh I just read it.. the little description of the shot is kind of misleading.
Ajianna
Tue May 03, 2005 4:08 am
#4
Hrm.. I'm testing out last ditch myself, and I had a problem with incapping myself when using it in combat. I need to test this more, but I think it drains 200-250 health when used - If I activate it with less health than this, It incaps both of us. Often the jedi recoversfirst, and deathblows me.
Does anyone know exactly how last ditch works and how I can avoid incapacitating myself?
Golrok
Tue May 03, 2005 4:35 am
#5
Are you sure your not just landing lasdtich at the same time they land a final blowwhile being lastditched? I've stayed standing while doing 4000 to a player, but me and an AI incapped each other- it landed a a finalblow on me at the same time I hit it with last ditch.
The_karak
Tue May 03, 2005 4:57 am
#6
The answer given by Jaecob Maragiis perfectly correct. Last ditch is designed to be a real "Last ditch" so your last move before death...it reduces a lot your ham to something as 5% whichever is your Ham status when used, but makes damage at the reverse proportion of your health when used. That means that when you're close to die, it can be really powerfull,shooting more than 4000 or 5000 points of damage is quiet common often killing your ennemy! But it's not a command you can spam....
Ajianna
Tue May 03, 2005 5:00 am
#7
I'm going to test this a little more - I'll get some screenshots of my combat log soon.
Starscream1
Tue May 03, 2005 5:14 am
#8
I think there is some confusion in this thread. From the description of Last Ditch, its supposed to only drain the action bar. However, I have also noticed my health taking a hit when I used it. I checked the combat spam, and the last time my opponent hit me was 4 seconds before my incap. However, in the same second I used Last Ditch, I incapped. I think it is draining some of the health bar, in addtion to/instead of the action bar.
Ajianna
Tue May 03, 2005 5:25 am
#9
I've just had another fight, where I fired off last ditch at low health, and it missed. My mind and action both depleted, and my health dropped by around 200-250 points. The reason we have been getting incapacitated by using last ditch is because it has a health cost.
I'll have to time the shot better next time 
Message Edited by Ajianna on 05-03-2005 01:36 PM
Ragnaat
Tue May 03, 2005 5:43 am
#10
Ajianna wrote:
I've just had another fight, where I fired off last ditch at low health, and it missed. My mind and action both depleted, and my health dropped by around 200-250 points. The reason we have been getting incapacitated by using last ditch is because it has a health cost.I'll have to time the shot better next timeMessage Edited by Ajianna on 05-03-2005 01:36 PM
Wasn't this whole rebalance and move to a consolidated "health" bar explicitly done so we wouldn't have to chose between 'killing ourselves with our specials or killing ourselves because we're not using specials'?
(sorry, had to take another jab at the pile of nonsense they think they can feed us)
Kasias
Tue May 03, 2005 6:26 am
#12
Ouch, looks like I'll be cautious when using this one.. more feedback needed.
duckmandrake
Tue May 03, 2005 1:13 pm
#13
I just had a crazy idea about how great MSumuggler/TKM would be.
Last Ditch to incap both me and my oppenent, then use Force of Will to get up and DB him 
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