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

i actually refer these jetpacks as lunchboxes. Troopers also have them. Sometimes Smugglers too. Depending on which chest armor you get. Looks ridiculous. Some lunchboxes have antennas too!

For a mount? Maybe a bit far.

For a sprint? I can definitely see it. Why not? Sprint is free. It has no advantages once you're actually fighting someone because it's turned off.

This way, BH have no advantages over everyone else, aside from looking cool by gliding 2 ft off the ground.

So who saw lasts weeks Clone Wars episode with Death Watch?

Bet you all watched that, jumped on TOR, logged your BH and was like ***. I did.

Anywho, There are a number of attacks that the jet pack is used with and its pretty cool. But we have to keep in mind what would be OP and how it factors in with our mirror class. Those fat stupid troopers.

A jetpack based ability I would like to see would be like Feline Grace or Safe Fall from WoW. For the non-WOW crowd they were passive abilities a Druid in Cat Form or Rogue had. They increased the distance you could fall before you took falling damage. If your thinking, *** is the point of that, you clearly don't spend as much time running off cliffs, jumping off building and walkways as I do. Would be cool if the jetpack was utilized to slow my descent. Troopers can have a mirror ability, it would be their tear soaked pillow they land on.

Of course this doesn't remove all fall damage, just gives me an extra 10meters or so. Example a Sith Warrior and I jump off a cliff, it does 50% of his HP damage to him, for me I take say 35% of my HP.

Just make it a scaling mount.. would just be a hover that lets you move faster over the ground.

My BH has that look, or close to it. A red trench coat and the oriental looking wok helmet.

My trooper has a comm pack on his back most of the time. Why can't I make long-distance calls to the Emperor??

Isn't he supposed to be dead at that point in time?

Not dead. Just not born yet.

EDIT: nvm. read that wrong the first time, thought you said at *this* point in time, referring to in this game. Ugh. I need to learn to drink coffee when I wake up.

The biggest problem, and it's a big one, is that if you change player mobility you literally have to comb over every square inch of terrain to make sure players can't either exploit or grief or otherwise take advantage of it. This is because the world was designed without this, so you can't just throw it in there.

Same thing happened in WoW for the longest. Everyone wanted to be able to fly in the non-expansion original world. Since the terrain was never designed for that it was put off. Then it came out in BC. That's years of waiting for one simple thing.

OK, just remember you asked for it. Don't complian when BW shoves your chracter inside a huge GAS TANK to fuel the jet pack. You can have new cool abilities with your new flying gas can caracter like:

Explode!
Roll downhill!
Camoflage (amongst other gas cans)


Seriously where would you put all the fuel/batteries to power the darn thing??