Bio Engineer Archive

Tonight I am dieing once for about every five samples I pull, and most of those samples are worthless. I am sampling slinker voritor hunters.

Isn't this ratio a little high???

It seems a little high... Maybe its just bad luck... I have been pulling about 4 out of every 5 samples from creatures... on the 5 I will either fail or the creature attacks... 9 times out of 10 though it will attack....

I am a Master BE. I thought I was supposed to be better than this. I am killing about every fourth with the very first sampling at that. As a Master BE, I thought I was supposed to be better than this.

A tip for slinking voritor hunters: they would rather eat bols than BE's.

I got chased by them several times tonight. I shook them by running through a herd of bols while pounding on the peace button. Without fail, the voritor would stop and attack the bols. These battles can last a long time, usually the voritor would warp out long before it was over (mobs kited too far from their spawn point only last for a short time). If the bols were close enough, the voritor won evenaully, but by then I was far enough away that it had forgotten about me. I believe you could also run through a herd of pickets.

--Insomnia

why would you want to do that? and why are you dying so easily? i have sampled these guys before for hours on end and never died. you just have to be careful and know what youre doing.

I think you mean you're DYING out there.

Wear some armor. A jacket and pants will go a long way to increasing your survivability. Shield generators will also increase your resist with no ham cost. These are bugged however, you may have to zone a couple times to get the kinetic resist. Make sure to keep hitting peace when the sample is almost done. If you auto-attack near several of these you'll get the whole pack and certainly die. When you see the ? over a mob's head after a sample, stop and move on to the next. The ? means the mob has noticed what's going on and you're chance to sample more goes way down. Give it a while to cool off before you come back to it. I have to agree with SOF, none of my deathsfordayshave come from sampling and I've mostly been sampling in the Rancor fields NW of the Trade Outpost on Dath. As long as you're careful and take the right precautions, there's no reason to die a lot while sampling.

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Wear some armor. A jacket and pants will go a long way to increasing your survivability. Shield generators will also increase your resist with no ham cost.

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Even if you don't wear a helmet you're suffering a certain amount of mind encumberance and when it comes to dna sampling unless your buffed up you need your mind stats as high as possible so losing around 1/3 of your regeneration and focus isn't ideal. I'd highly advise against wearing armor at all while sampling, what you might want to consider is making a macro so if they do aggro then you can hit a hotkey and be fully armored within an instant.

If your not using maskscent do so, this drastically increases the chance of not spooking the animals. If at any time they get a questiom mark or exclaimation mark over thier heads then the chance of a failure has just risen a fair amount. Try to avoid sampling a single animal more than twice if you can help it, while it is perfectly possible to sample 4 or 5 times without aggro on the whole if you don't want to get killed then don't push your luck. Sample twice and them move on.

Armor's a matter of preference I guess. With my mind stats maxed out, I still get 6 or so samples per bar (I really should count I guess.) When I'm out sampling 3 or 4 km from the nearest cloning center, I'd much rather sit down a little more often than have to run back. And there's always Muon Gold.

and ruby bliel

i personally have my armor on a macro. it automatically puts my armor on and spams peace a few times at the end if every sample. works like a charm and i only lose out on a second or two of regen. its also important to put a helmet on when being attacked. as a zabrak ive got my "equilibrium out of jail free" card but with mind so drained, you really have to be careful. realize you may be as close as 150 mind pool points to incap and death.