Bio Engineer Archive
Thread: How long did it take you guys to grind DNA Sampling?
It took me about 3 weeks. 
I didn't grind it.
But.. to answer your question, there's information in the stickies above for holo grinding.
And..
Sample trash critters around Theed or another starter city. I hung out at Restuss and walked around the outer wall. Spawns would be back before I made a round.
Later on, I took Nuna and Kaadu missions from our city on Naboo.
In between, I would go on excursions to Endor and Yavin to fool around. Did well there even at DNA 3.
Sample from non-DBing critters for training to save a lot of cloning time.
Bracci wrote:
4-5 buff sessions, so basically 12-15 hours. I ground through the profession quickly just because I realized that any *quality* items pretty much require MBE.
You are so right.
if you are a Tat person then:
NBE: Yard Trash
LVL1: Yard Trash
LVL2: Cu pa's, Eopies, lesser dews, reg dews?
LVL3: Here i did many Grizzled dewback Missions
LVL4: Same as 3 and Mt. Squills
Didn't grind just sampled as a prart of my missions was a huge advantage. That's why I can do Bull Rancor missons now with MBE & MCH no combat skill at all.
-=Dak'Lar=-
- Clearing the NS stronghold nightly on Sunrunner (What can I say, They flock to the breeder tag.:smileywink -
Evyl just mastered. Finally got done with the boring tissue grind. I can't stand sitting at my pC clicking mindlessly for hours.
But.. to add to the topic, I enjoyed the DNA sampling tree. I went to all the planets and took on anything and everything I thought I could stick a needle into. But I got the most XP doing the simple critterspawns that tend to spawn 4-5-6 critters per spawn. I remeember getting half a block on one WILD mountain Ikopi spawn.
So keep a lookout fro non-DBing wild spawns with lots of medium/low level critters. You can be there for hours. If you find Two spawns near each other like I did, you can work each one down and return to the respawned original one.
I bet I made 100 trash pets for Slipstream to train for her CH grind on just those two spawns.
Novice to sampling 1: coronet/tyrena yard trash
sampling 1 to sampling 2: mature reptillian fliers
sampling 2 to sampling 3: malklocs
sampling 3 to sampling 4: mutant baz nitches and
sampling 4: rhoa rwi and giant baz nitches
Did that for a few days with ubese and buffs while doing mission runs.
3 days. Did it all on Naboo.
Novice BE: nightspiders ( a wild lair can spawn approx 30 of these guys)
DNA 1: nightspiders/kaadu
DNA 2: Kaadu
DNA 3: Bolle Bol
DNA 4: Bolle Bol/Fambaa
a Bolle bol would give you between 200-300 per sample and a Fambaa would give ya 500. I loaded up on Muon, and when the downer hit I would sit and craft the samples into pets to get crafting ep.