Swordsman Archive
Thread: Elders and Stun Batons
Dhee wrote:
Hello,
im not a swordsman anymore but i still read the boards of my favorite combat profession.
One suggestion that i might throw in, as a now Bio-Engineer, why not take a pet as a tank...
They can have 100% resist to stun damage. They will be fairly high in level i guess, but as the purpose of a tank absorbing damage i think the idea of using one isnt too far of.
So look for a CH to tank and maybe you can still beat these NS-elders.
Happy travels
Kiwee
Heya Dhee - The 100% to stun damage is nice...but the pet gets microwaved by force-lightning/AOE Force KD etc etc etc.....so for now, BEs and CHs still getting the shaft without the benefit of lube. This was 2 MCH/Rifleman using 12k HAM MBE'd pets in addition to me, a TKM/MPike/Mbrwlr, 1 Doc, 1 CM, another Sword/Rifle/Medic4040 and a TKM/MFencer/MBrwlr.
The Pets lasted about 5 minutes. After that, the elder seems to focus on who's doing the most melee damage (i.e Me and the the other swordie....) then moves on to the Rifleman, then takes out the rest of the meleers at her whim, unless they had the forsight to BurstRun away as soon as they see the first sword tank bite the dust.
Orgin wrote:
Is all that reallly worth it to say that you killed an elder. Maybe it is for some but I just can't see myself having to die a few times and buy new chest pieces just for one elder and a few creds. jmo
d2a007 wrote:
Ok, I haven't seen one with a stun baton yet, but I got one with a ph the other night I took a cm, a doc, and a rifleman with me(I’m a mswords/mbrawler/fencer/tka/medic) I have a set of sliced composite all 85% + on blast and I was taking 2k hits. I ended up having the doc and cm healing me every hit while I wailed on the elder we got her down to about a 100k with me almost dead every other shot. She hit me twice real fast as intimidate wore off and I died, within about 20 seconds after that all the rest died. We did find another with a wood staff that couldn't do over 1200 a hit to me killed that one and got to split 5k credits....
Ah yes...but then you loot that +25 2 Handed-Weapon Evasion tape!
..../sarcasm off
Elder have given up loads of nice loots for me, I just have to kill em by the baker's dozen. Kinda hard to do that now with the new and improved Uber Elder.
prosnow16 wrote:
i just read the first post (not the others) all i goota say is BOOHOO my god we cant solo something for once you should have a big group hunting big npcs. if you dont wanna get owned then maybee fight something your size till you realize that you will need bigger groups more and more as the months progress.
Another twit lacking basic reading comprehension skills.
Show me ANYWHERE that I said "OMFG D0ODZ, w3 c4nT SoL0 3LD3Rz n0 m0r3!!! SuXx0rZ!11!!!on!!e"
Xispin wrote:
group of 4, wetook 2 elders with stun batons. 2 speed capped swordsmen, capped rifleman, and another HS. I tanked I has wearing 39% stun armor, no problems.
Message Edited by Xispin on 08-05-2004 06:31 PM
How are you guys surviving the Cascade of Hatered? That's what kills us. Force KD + Cascade = insta incap and subsequent DB. Keep in mind, we're wearin' 36% Stun Comp/Imp PSGs/ Doc/Dancer Buffs...
I can tank right up until the First KD sticks on me....then it's almost always followed by a Cascade and a trip to the cloner.
Anyway, probably a moot point: new solution...send probot to attack elder, see what she whips out. Anything other than a beat stick.....
FearlessBob wrote:
prosnow16 wrote:i just read the first post (not the others) all i goota say is BOOHOO my god we cant solo something for once you should have a big group hunting big npcs. if you dont wanna get owned then maybee fight something your size till you realize that you will need bigger groups more and more as the months progress.Another twit lacking basic reading comprehension skills.
Show me ANYWHERE that I said "OMFG D0ODZ, w3 c4nT SoL0 3LD3Rz n0 m0r3!!! SuXx0rZ!11!!!on!!e"
Yes yes...the devs are indeed laboring under the delusion that 350k HAM humans are a fun challenge.