Bio Engineer Archive

Point well-taken, Scorus . Can't argue with the truth. Profession mastering was a bad idea, but no matter what they implemented the power gamers would focus on beating the system (i.e., "winning" the MMPOR game). It would have been nice if the emphasis was not on succeeding in professions, but on truly interacting with the game and the people within it. Such non-measurables (or difficult-to-measurables) would have been harder to achieve and harder to power level. In any case, it's a woeful system, and the original purpose of this post was to help people get through our profession quickly, efficiently, and quietly. But, I agree, I think the number of those who will suddenly realize that BE is the place to be will be exceptionally low.

This is great.

I have been planning to come back to BE...I gave up for a while to persue other professions...I enjoyed my time as a bio engineer...except right after the DNA Sampling/Tissues patch...when 99% of what I tried to sample (at samping 3) failed/aggroed me. This is low level creatures mind you...

Once I finish CH, I am going to surrender some other things and come back to BE...Seeing that things have gotten better.

I didn't know you could create crafting macros...

I got a holo that told me to master BE, but Im not working on it just for jedi, I've always wanted to try out Be but Ive never had the incintive to give up my other skills before.

Be sounds like it will get much better than when I tried it out before, I can't wait to try it out with the changes.

Hey guys...Another fellow Holo BE here...Not really though...My holos have been silent for near 2 months now...lol

But anyways, today is my 3rd BE day, and I am half a box from Master...Thought I'd share with you all what I did...

For all BE crafting, you'll need about 200k flora ,100k meat...All you need to do is grind out micronutrient supplements...Lots of clicking, but easy to do...

Now the tough tree was DNA sampling...There are various ways to do it, but I found the quickest way, which nets me about 10k DNA sampling exp per hour, is to do city trash...While doin' it, I had a probot set on guard (for any of them that attack), took muon gold, angerian fishakdrink for the mind,buffed my action pools, and had a macro set to sampledna every second....I would then jus' run around chasing after the city trash...and once one died or aggro'ed, i'd tab to the next one...and so forth...Hope this helps those having trouble with the DNA sampling line...good luck all!

For those of you doing DNA sampling, here's what I did while I sampled in the noob zones.

Target mob, /follow, and then used a DNA hot key I made:

/sampledna;

/sit

Sitting while sampling will let you regen your mind back faster and since you are on follow, if the mob moves, you will stand up and then follow it. I also increased my mind, focus and willpower through mitigation.

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Kaustix wrote:

If u want XP scores for everything from Template / Clone / UXP i generated the charts back in august.. i think ..ahh can't remember . at any rate they actually still apply . and from ALL Tissues i've made so far are directly proportionate to the amount of resources of 2xp / 1 resource. So the Only reason to make Micronutrient over any other resource is the Ease of the resources. BUT if u have large quantites of one of the other tissues that uses more Resources in the crafting by all means do that . its directly related.

now if someone could tell me how to post it that might actually be easy to read? its in excel . that or message me and i'll send it to you on E-mail.

As for the DNA sample macro . remember this isn't completely hands free .. But it allows you to read the forums for a couple minutes or just not pay as much attention to the tedious work ahead of you.

/ui action targetSelf;
/ui action cycleTargetOutward;
/follow;
/pause 8; (You can adjust his number . i just usually found 8 seconds was adequate for far away ones)
/sampledna;
/pause 11;
/sampledna;
/pause 11;
/sampledna;
/pause 11;
/sampledna;
/pause 11; (Etc as needed by your Mind and Focus / Will )
/stopfollow;
/sit;
/pause 80; (Pause as needed for your mind to regen)
/stand;

Now if u take this macro add it to an /Alias . and then macro the alias you can have a bit of uninterrupted DNA sampling .. this isn't full proof but it'll help. if u want to get real fancy you can even have it retarget in the middle so as if u accidently sampled to death / agg and killed it. it'll retarget . and since the target outward always picks the closest if its not dead, you will continue to sample .. Have fun . adjust as needed .

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Get rid of the /follow command, place yourself outside a non populated city on a static trash spawn.

Then get an outside macro program from tucows, write a macro that simply does left click, right click types a "2" every 30 seconds.

Start both macros, place mouse cursorover your first empty inventory slot and your totally hands free dna sampling.

BTW an outside macro that simply did a doule click, move right, double click, move left... Would make the crafting macro hands free as well as long as you had two big stacks to work from.

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KillerCRS wrote:

Get rid of the /follow command, place yourself outside a non populated city on a static trash spawn.

Then get an outside macro program from tucows, write a macro that simply does left click, right click types a "2" every 30 seconds.

Start both macros, place mouse cursorover your first empty inventory slot and your totally hands free dna sampling.

BTW an outside macro that simply did a doule click, move right, double click, move left... Would make the crafting macro hands free as well as long as you had two big stacks to work from.

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Gotta love people still creating hands free macros when SOE has stated they don't like them.

I don't have a problem with it...I would use them....But I just don't bother..

Hmm, if they don't like them so much why did they include a macro interface to make them?

Actually...I should have clarified....

The AFK macro users...like the old AFK Samplers that would stay logged on while sampling resources....and the AFK entertainers...

The AFK samplers, I am sure have found a way around the auto logoff thing...Not sure how the AFK Entertainers still manage it....

Macros themselves don't bother me....It's how people use them

Does that crafting macro still work even after the patch? I haven't had any luck with it so far.