Bio Engineer Archive

I keep hearing how horrible DNA sampling XP is compared to bio crafting, but I don't get it. DNA sampling took me two nights on Dantooine to complete, however I am only at clone 3 and left with 420k more crafting XP to complete the mindless crafting grind. Am I doing something wrong? Is there some advanced technique I'm missing that makes Bio Crafting so much easier that by comparison DNA can be considered hard? Help a guy out here.

i think by hard, many people mean that it can't be macro'd. but if you look at crafting, it may take a long time, and be tedious, and need a lot of meat and whatnot, but it's pretty easy. dna sampling fails a LOT in the beginning, creatures get mad and run you down and beat you into a bloody pulp...apparently they get *angry* when you stick them with needles...sheesh

dna is pretty easy too though...the first 2/3 levels are all about master dancer buffs, muon gold, and MOWING through yard trash...you become the samplnator with a dancer mind buff, and the wonderful benefits of muon gold...with this setup, i still had 1100 mind when i "crashed" from the spice...i could keep sampling, or just use the few minutes needed to recover combining the dna into templates, to make room for the new dna...or just destorying it...i prefered making templates and then spats and kaadu from the yard trash dna...it was fun, and something to do while waiting to recover from the muon gold..i also got about 40k BE crafting xp that way...not much in the grand scheme of things, but it's another 40k that i don't have to grind, and every bit helps