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Thread: Can someone help me with DNA Sampling XP?
Empty your inventory, wear an empty backpack, go to Yavin 4, mask scent, and fill backpack and inventory.
Return to house, make 30 DNA sequences (presuming no crit fails). Grind off 30 pets with them.
Return to Yavin 4 and repeat.
You could go hunt down some ultra-rare creatures like the albatross peko peko of Naboo, which yields I'm told around 2000 exp per vend, but I've found they have an extremely high likelihood of aggroing on you... it's a 1 hit kill that lands you in the nearest cloning facility. Not pleasant. Not productive. Better to find somewhere with a high density of relatively high level creatures that are unlikely to detect your mask scent... like yavin 4.
Average yield per creature is around 180 xp. I'll let someone else do the math I don't remember the exp requirements up that tree... I'm DNA Sampling 3x and about 3/4 of the way to samp 4 being done and I still have 20k xp to get... that's about 1 more full trip to yavin4... and several hours of /follow /sampledna ... wait... wait... /sampledna ... wait ... wait ... /burstrun... run run run run run run... walk back... /follow /sampledna ... wait... You get the idea... oh and should you fail to die, you'll need to sit and let your mind regenerate after every 6 to 10samples.
Enjoy! It's a tall tree, but at the top it's almost worth it... even just to have that coveted "field scientist" tag.
=-Adun
where's the edit post button?
Average xp yield per SAMPLE is 180 exp... depending on your current level you can get up to 5 samples per creature before you REALLY make it mad, or just flat kill it.
I've found at Sampling level 3 wether a creature dies or not is completely random... I'll have some times where I'll sample an entire pack of Bolle Bol killing each one on the first sample, and other times (same level mind you) where I'll sample countless creatures in a row 3 or 4 times each and leave the creature still alive.
=-Adun
Justinsane, the reason you failed on Yavin is because you are not ready for those level creatures yet.
For DNA sampling I, you are going to be the most successful sampling the trash around the big cities. Once you get to II head to Yavin and look around for Mamien and Mawgax. They are not aggro and do not deathblow. Once you are done with II, head to Dathomir and do sample Malclocs. After III, stay on Dath and do Brackaset.
That procedure will get you there in no time.