Bio Engineer Archive
Thread: Deathblows
so I never go out without full buffs and 78% kinetic armour) Previously if you didnt attack a creature and always made sure you were in 'peace' mode then the creature wouldnt death blow (in most cases), they recently increased the chance that a creature would deathblow if you got incapped and I need some info on *if* this is affecting our DNA sampling and if so, how bad is it?
Now I average about 1 sample per hour. If I go down, I die. 100% chance of DB. End of story. I'm not looking forward to having to purchase armor/buffs just to hope I can stay alive long enough to outrun the mutant rancors.
Well....
Let me speak from 2 areas...
First as a Master BE... DB doesn't affect me much... honestly if you have brains about you, you would buff before going out and have some (chestplate and helmet) armor at the ready.... also have some stims on hand... your chances of dying are nil that way
Second as a TKM... the detahblow change has sucked since day 1. If a creature or NPC DB'S, and you get incapped you are screwed.... Force of Will is useless in PvE now... the DB is so fast it isn't even funny... I have Force Of Will hot keyed on my number pad so I only have to press a button... and I never can press it fast enough in PvE stuff...
Enough rants, that isn't really a BE concern, and I have little to no problems with it as a BE
Kinda funny, but I have noticed the oposite, Mt. Squills used to DB, and now they don't. As far as everything else, anything worth DNAing usually DB is instand unless I get Ranged and my pets pick them up. Lately I have been pretty good about getting my Mt. Squill and my homade STUN and I can take down anything we can sample with out a single combat skill to my name. BLIND, INTIMIDATE, & STUN tear them up... However yesterday a Webmaster got me in close DB, and I couldn't find him again and he killed both of my boys without me being there to tell them what to do.
And a MR did not DB this weekend I could not BELEIVE IT! I almost always get buffed on doth, can't on endor, usually only one there, should get in Corellia, but never think of it.
Now I don't even bother with buffs, if I cannot outrun them, I'm dead anyway. I leave my good armor and weapons at home and just use minimal mask gear. It's not worth the insane decay ratio's. Frankly, making a CL70 isn't even worth the insane effort to try to get the samples.
Amana wrote:
I remeber reading some where that if you use your full maskscent with jawa beer for maskscent and some maskscent clothing getting around +120 or so for maskscent you can maybe succesfully attempt it.
With just the scout prerequisits and a +25 coat, I am able to get samples consistantly from MR's by crawling from behind, I have noticed that approaching groups greater than 3 are not worth it, the pings are to great, and you will get picked up 47 of 50 times ( I made it through 3 times and got no samples, believe these groups are bugged too)
Also a sign you are close to MR's if you see a group of Youth Rancors circle them stay about 400-600 meters away from them, and you should see MR's.
Never have used Jawa Beer.
Ko-aIri wrote:
Before the DB change, I could collect an average of 5-6 mutant rancor samples per hour on a good day. Normally, I would get knocked down incapped, with about a 25% chance or so that it would DB me.
Now I average about 1 sample per hour. If I go down, I die. 100% chance of DB. End of story. I'm not looking forward to having to purchase armor/buffs just to hope I can stay alive long enough to outrun the mutant rancors.
Since the change, I've managed to collect two samples. I have an order for a LVL70. I've been to dath twice and I've managed to find ZERO mutant rancor. I don't know what's up.