JekRendar Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 Well, I finally took a couple BH missions, and... they sucked. They were paying a little under 7k each. Not bad right? Wrong. Here's what I didn't like about them: [*]The total weapon XP you get from your target is only about 3k. [*]You have to usually travel several klicks away from any city. [*]You need to spend AT LEAST (in my case) 5.5k on cloning and insurance. [*]Did I remember to include the cost of powerups/buffs/armor? [/list=1] Of course, I wasn't using any armor. Why? Because lordy knows where Vega is. Plus, I admit I don't have uber BH skills I was using a carbine, I admit, and I could have equipped a pistol and gotten an easier mission, or I could just not have equipped a weapon at all...then I could have gotten a lvl 5 mission. But, that's not really my problem. My problem is dabbling in BH isn't really the answer to become more powerful. I'm 0200 BH and 1111 Carbineer. In order to reach my fullest potential I need to Master one or the other, or go 0400 and something like 1312 Carbineer. I'm a soloist, my playing times are late at night, when very few other players are on. That means, that I can't afford to give up Medic (currently 4204-I had to sacrifice alot, I was almost Master). Plus, I have purchased a lot of Medicine materials. It remains to be seen if Corzip gets his Medicine Vendor up. If he does I can drop all up Medic, except for the novice box. Also, for BH, I had to sacrifice Entertainer. That one prolly hurt me the most. I die, and don't clone, I have over 100 mind wounds and BF. Ouch! Which can't be healed the time I'm on, unless I was to spend MORE credits going to Theed...another 654 credits from Narmle. If I drop BH entirely, I can pick up Entertainer again and a few skills in it. If I drop Carbineer and pick up Master BH, I can also pick up Entertainer and Medic, only Novice boxes, but I'll be pretty powerful. Also, if I drop BH, I can drop some parts of Scout, which I'd hate to do because I've worked so hard on it. But even if I don't, I prolly could pick up Doctor and Master Carbineer, which is due for some fixing up. Of course, I could dabble in both, BH Carbines IV and some Carbineer, just enough for Crippling Shot and ChargeShot1 and some others. So, you decide. Please, don't answer with "I don't know, you decide, I'm not going to make your decisions." Or, "I can't make up my mind enough." - which are typical answers to these kinds of surveys. Also, instead of picking up Doctor...I could pick up Squad Leader...nah! Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wraith 8 Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 Caribaneer. screw BH what i hear from zennor and Jan is that carbines ROCK! so why not go all the way. im sticking with pistoleer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunshine Badass Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 Stick with Carbines if you can stand to be your own murderer for a few months. It will be at least two if the changes go in right away with this publish. We get step 1 of 3 soon. (Prepare for chaos.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan Gaarni Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 Carbines suck in the beginning. Always have a pistol ready to be used, and skills to prperly use it. Once you reach Novice Carbineer however, you can start trading away your pistol skills. An advice I got from Leemu is to go for Expert Marksmanship first as the special action it gives is one of the most powerfull action the Carbineer has. I'm there now, but need a trainer. Will train ones I get online in a minute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jatari Bazrak Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 hehe yeah go carbine, you seem to like it better anyways. and I think that's the road more suited for you. and then you can master medic (if you want to.) and you have master scout...heh you won't need trapping, and hunting as much as the other two. or drop rifle in marksman. until mastering carbine keep pistols, like jan said. and you'll be good to go...and pretty nicely rounded out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MandalorianRage Posted January 7, 2004 Share Posted January 7, 2004 I say Bounty Hunter. We need more in the guild. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan Gaarni Posted January 7, 2004 Share Posted January 7, 2004 You don't have to master carbine before losing pistol skills, but atleast work on your pistol for the most part in the beginning, and use the carbine to knock down those lairs or bases. Then when you hit Novice Carbineer and you get yourself a kickass carbine, then you can start to use the carbine for the most part. I still keep a DL44 at my side though and the required skills for it, just in case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xx_Patman_xX Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 Get a Republic Blaster!!! Those things require not certification, and have pretty decent stats. Almsot as good as FWG5s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-=miniSITH=- Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 I got carbineer as my holo prof, and I am 0001. Does anyone know what good for carbine xp? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwok Posted January 17, 2004 Share Posted January 17, 2004 Carbineer! I got carbineer as my holo too, its great, so much cooler than BH since you have alot more skill points left over to do whatever else you want. Like defensive dabbling or something (will probably get a nerf soon tho ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goose_Of_Mercy Posted January 18, 2004 Share Posted January 18, 2004 Defensive Dabbling? Carbineer got defenses since I've been gone? *Curls up in a box and dies holding onto his SWG box* ~SK~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwok Posted January 18, 2004 Share Posted January 18, 2004 By defensive dabbling i meant doing the defesive line in pistoleer, or fencer, or tka, you know? so you get the dodge and defences vs. whatever.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-=ReApEr=- Posted January 18, 2004 Share Posted January 18, 2004 Dodge only counts when your holding a Pistol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wraith 8 Posted January 18, 2004 Share Posted January 18, 2004 Hell yeah baby pistoleer all the way baby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-=ReApEr=- Posted January 18, 2004 Share Posted January 18, 2004 No No corzip. Fencer and Pistoler all the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taos Posted January 18, 2004 Share Posted January 18, 2004 From what I hear, they [the devs] are going to have it so that you only get the mods of the weapon you have equipped. So no more stacking of dodge etc. IMO it should have been like this from the begining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-=ReApEr=- Posted January 18, 2004 Share Posted January 18, 2004 Originally posted by Leemu Taos From what I hear, they [the devs] are going to have it so that you only get the mods of the weapon you have equipped. So no more stacking of dodge etc. IMO it should have been like this from the begining. I agree, won't matter really to me though. My ranged defense and melee defense is going to hopefully be over 150 each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goose_Of_Mercy Posted January 20, 2004 Share Posted January 20, 2004 From what I hear, they [the devs] are going to have it so that you only get the mods of the weapon you have equipped. So no more stacking of dodge etc. IMO it should have been like this from the begining. ....They don't stack, never have, never will. The reason why pistol/fencer owns is awesome defense (kd 100) 69/69 melee/ranged defense from fencer alone. So if you have 110 dodge from fencer you will only get that not the 100 from pistoleer too. @Neoc Once I get back A. I wanna duel you. B. Lets pimp some imps. ~SK~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-=ReApEr=- Posted January 20, 2004 Share Posted January 20, 2004 Originally posted by Goose_Of_Mercy @Neoc Once I get back A. I wanna duel you. B. Lets pimp some imps. ~SK~ Riight On Ryxx. I just got six boxes of Swordsman last night, once that's done. I got fencer to do. And Boo ya. Let's take theed over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MandalorianRage Posted January 20, 2004 Share Posted January 20, 2004 What the hell? Six boxes of swordsman in one night? That's WAY too fast... I'm taking my time and enjoying each level of it, like I did with Musician. And I'm wondering... Master Musician gives me a +6 defense bonus against melee and ranged attacks. Would that +6 work for me when using a sword, or only if I have a instrument equipped? If it's the latter, then that's a bit of a dissapointment... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wraith 8 Posted January 20, 2004 Share Posted January 20, 2004 Originally posted by MandalorianRage What the hell? Six boxes of swordsman in one night? That's WAY too fast... I'm taking my time and enjoying each level of it, like I did with Musician. your completely right x' ero. take your time with the game. that way you dont easaly get bored with it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-=ReApEr=- Posted January 20, 2004 Share Posted January 20, 2004 Nah, six isn't alot man. I was doing around 4k xp every 5 seconds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goose_Of_Mercy Posted January 22, 2004 Share Posted January 22, 2004 Exp is pretty easy to get. 4k exp every 5 secs seems fast but if your not counting down time then /shrug. I was helping arina get 100k+ every 20mins and we were really just messing around. Second thing wtf is up with swordsmen? why are so many people going into it? I was swordsmen, it was great for PvE (tka is just as good, and fencer is better) but it sucks, just sucks at PvP. Although I love to have it when fighting a at-st or Tower (3-5k dmg on towers owns). Neoc, send me a tell when you want to go pvping some time. I will prolly be busy the next few days helping arina and getting income laid out but next week sounds good. And I'm off. ~SK~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-=ReApEr=- Posted January 22, 2004 Share Posted January 22, 2004 Cool stuff man, well i'm trying a new all melee template. But it's subject to improvements. Just got fencer to do now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xx_Patman_xX Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 Hey reaps, I thought of this template the other day... MBH, 3/0/4/0 Ranger That way you could do player bounties by tracking down people, what do you think? I might try this template over the summer on another server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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