Bio Engineer Archive

I've been chasing down durni's and corellian butterflies but ill get like 6 failures in a row before i get a sample?

is this normal or should i be trying something else at this low level

thanks

Pickets

so i am able to sample dna from them? i tried when i first turned novice and always got failures

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Jedi_Vedder wrote:

so i am able to sample dna from them? i tried when i first turned novice and always got failures

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You can attempt to sample from anything, really (up to CL75). It's just that the higher the CL of the creature you're attempting to sample, and the lower your DNA sampling ability, you would have to expect a greater failure rate. If you want to get through sampling fast, take some muon gold and go wild. In fact, if you see a high CL creature that doesn't DB, I'd sample it. You'll get lots of sampling xp for it if successful. Of course, you'll also get incapped a lot if they aggro on you, but just be aware of the three incaps within 10 minutes rule so you don't die and you'll be fine.

Muon Gold with a Tatooine Sunburn is my recipe. I pop one of each and I'm a sampling machine.

I'm a Trandoshan so my mind is pretty limited. I've got it bumped to the max and health the min, with action somewhere in between. I take the aforementioned cocktail and go to town. They have a twofold affect. The Tatooine Sunburn and Muon Gold bump your stamina and willpower. This is very important, because you'll find sampling uses about 250 mind per sample. The Muon Gold also bumps your focus. This is important because it causes you to use far less mind per sample. You'll be able to sample as fast as you can without taking breaks while using these two things.

Finally, while I don't understand the exact reason behind it, I find that I sample successfully far more often when using Muon. Without it I fail repeatedly. As soon as I use the Muon I can walk up to a lair of the same creatures that I couldn't sample a minute ago if my life depended on it, and can get a sample or two from every creature the lair can spit out, without many failures.

BTW, give up on going after those weak creatures, there's far better out there, even low level. I sampled those weak creatures for about a half hour then got bored and started going for bigger game. Go find a wrix lair, or a pack of razor cats or slice hounds.

You're a droid engineer as well, so I don't know how many skill points you have left. You already have scout and hunting, you're going to want at least Exploration II as well. Maskscent is practically a necessity. A good +maskscent shirt helps too.

thanks for all the tips

i dont have many skillpoints left but in the process of selling back merchant and artisan.. was getting bored with just making droids and wanted to get out and explore. ill try what you guys suggest and hopefully it wil help

thanks again

dont try rancors! i cant even sample em at dna 4

DNA 1 : Gualamas on Naboo.
DNA 2 : Roba on Endor.

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BoberFett wrote:

BTW, give up on going after those weak creatures, there's far better out there, even low level. I sampled those weak creatures for about a half hour then got bored and started going for bigger game. Go find a wrix lair, or a pack of razor cats or slice hounds.

You're a droid engineer as well, so I don't know how many skill points you have left. You already have scout and hunting, you're going to want at least Exploration II as well. Maskscent is practically a necessity. A good +maskscent shirt helps too.

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