what's the point of bounty hunters having jetpacks if they barely use them?

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Do people even think when they make threads like this? Don't want to fight through trash mobs to get a chest or whatever? NP, just fly over the mobs and get it. Might as well just give BHs all the datacrons at character creation while they're at it, since you could just fly to them. Might as well give Bhs IWIN buttons against melee classes/mobs, too.

That is one spec, out of six. That & DFA is not justification enough for the remaining five specs to have to lug that clunky thing on their back around all the time.

I do not understand why anyone would fight against having more cool-looking animations.

"NO! WE LIKE OUR PEDESTRIAN FIGHTING STYLE!"

To use your own logic, if you wanted to run around on the ground all of the time, you should have rolled a Marauder. Bounty Hunters have jet packs; they should have more animations involving them. To not do so is wasted opportunity and potential.

I already see how this is going to play out:

PvE'er: Let's give bounty hunters jetpack abilities! It would be cool if it has a short range flight w/ a 30s cooldown!

PvP'er: It would be cool, but you would have to do something to compensate the republic for this. It'll be overpowered in PvP.

PvE'er: Stupid elitist pvp jerk! Ruining pve fun!

PvP'er: How is that stupid? L2P!

And it spirals out of control from here.

I'm open for this suggestion as long as it stays balanced for both sides.

That would be nice but it would probably never happen for two reasons...

1. It wouldn't be fair to the players who don't have jetpacks unless they could find a way to give them a similar ability.

2. It would allow players to get to spots on the map that aren't supposed to be accessible, or at least not so easily.

Anyway we get more than just one move that utilizes our jetpack. Death from Above, Jet Charge, and Rocket Punch all use it. Even if it was just DFA, that's enough use for me

this is a good point. when a BH is about to hit the ground they should fire their jetpack for a few seconds and land gracefully. make it like a 30% chance to proc or something though so it doesn't happen all the time, but when it does it looks ******

I am not very happy with the Bounty Hunter class at all, it was the only class i wanted to play in this game.

Where is my carbine rifle?

Why does my jet pack not work? (exzcept for 2 attack animations?)

After the main quest, I was hoping to get real Bounty missions..

I dont feel like a Bounty Hunter, roaming the galaxy in my piece of junk starship, going to remote places for my next target.

For myself the lackluster feeling i get while playing my BH is why i unsubbed, i'll check in a month or 2 and see how things have changed

Yeah that would definitely be nice. And it's not so much of a big deal that it would make it OP either.

I think they should just make it like a class restricted mount. Dont have to be flying all over the place, but give it the same properties of a mount and I would be happy.

I'll give the BH perma fly when they give smugs the ability to charm their way through any enemy without fighting. Yes, even Rakghouls and droids.

also, Jedi's and Force Persuade "This isnt the target you're looking for" *Rakghoul runs away*