Bio Engineer Archive

At novice with 0 in DNA, you will fail. That is the plain and simple fact. You are a n00b to the profession, so expect the difficulties associated with such. I got to level 1 by sampling rills and such outside of bestine, and I failed probably 50% of the time. I would suggest bringing some brandy along to help with the downtime. You will find things go are easier and go a lot faster when you don't have to rest every 3-4 (failed) samples.

Yes BE samplin changed when the dna changes came into effect. To stop noobs from making cl 70 pets they added some type of check on the sampling success based on your dna gathering level. So as a novice it will be very hard to sample the tuffer creatures, you are wasting your time. Also make sure your inventory is not full. If it is you will get a fail every time. DNA xp is very easy to get once you get it down.

There is a cap to what you can sample it seems.

For DNA 1 sample all the newbie stuff

DNA 2 level 20-25

Dna 3 and 4 Pickets, sharnaffs, etc. No death blows. (sharnaff bulls=448 exp)

At DNA IV you can sample on Endor and such, takes me sometimes 3 attempts on a level 58 and I am unable to sample a level 60 after 17 attempts.

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This might help:

• NBE - DNA Harvesting +15 -CL20


• DNA 1 - DNA Harvesting +30 - up to CL30


• DNA 2 - DNA Harvesting +45 - up to CL40


• DNA 3 - DNA Harvesting +60 - up to CL50


• DNA 4 - DNA Harvesting +75 - up to CL60(65??)


• MBE - DNA Harvesting +100 - up to CL75

Use that table and http://www.swgcreatures.com and you should be able to work out the highest thing you can sample per "level".

My rule has been, within reason, if it moves sample it. I've been able to go through sampling 3 and 1/2 way through 4 pretty quickly.

I use a macro....dismount.......dnasample.....mount (bike). If I fail 3 times, I either move on to another critter in same lair or just try another lair.

In truth, I never spent much time on yard trash. The failure rate seemed about the same and you only get about 1/3 the XP.

I just started a new BE.. so I am very familiar with both systems... here are my thoughts...

I was sampling kaduus and Gualamas.. CL 12 to 18 and got maybe 130 exp.. if I get aggro, much time is lost. In the newbe zone I can get 100 xp non stop... if a chubba aggros me, one shot dead. I use 2 shots of brandy and 2shots of food that does the same on action regen.. forget the name. I can sample back to back and not quit. I make a non experiment genetic record while continuing to sample to keep inventory down... when the inventory is full of CL 5 kaadus, I tame all them and teach them tricks for creature handling. The new BE is like 0-1-2-2 now... CH is -0-0-0-1.

Is it fast? Nooo.. it sucks. But I do not believe there is a faster overall way

Thanks for the info meroc but I finaly got to dna 1 and it still makeing no difference. I'm still failing 90% of the time on trash and close to 95% on naffs. Oh well back to grinding, maybe it will be better today i hope

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Ackew wrote:
Thanks for the info meroc but I finaly got to dna 1 and it still makeing no difference. I'm still failing 90% of the time on trash and close to 95% on naffs. Oh well back to grinding, maybe it will be better today i hope

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Wow, that's awful. I think I'd have quit BE if I ran into that. Are you masking scent? I also seem to have better results from the 10-13M range, butI can't say that as an absolute fact. And I always start with a 'clean' mind as well, making a trip to the cantina first.