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Bolma stallion missions on dathomir

310 sampling xp- and they aren't aggro and don't deathblow

And then there's the nice 20k after you've cleared out the lair

What the best place and things to grind out DNA sampling.

Last night I went to dantooine and took piket missions and sampled those... Got like 346exp per. Took me through the 80k exp for DNA IV in no time.

Traylor Corbantis

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Chilestra Server

Proud resident of Lok

I did Dathomir, and a lot of the spot east of Eisley where the mountain dews, mountain squills, and Greater desert womps spawn....

For the last 50K of DNA Sampling IV I just did worrts & rills around Eisley once I'd adjusted my HAM to 600/600/900 with 850 willpower.

But that's all I had left to get master, so I wanted to do it as quickly as possible... I was a little burned out on the old BE grind at that point.

Now I have master, and I am just actually crafting things I will sell, and sampling some darn nice DNA.

I am pretty happy now at master.

90% of my Samples are fails... is there any trick to get more success ?

Yeah, almost all my sampling is in vain too, failing well over 50%... Any tips guys?

I did all my Level 4 sampling on Dathomir. Bolmas, as mentioned for 300+ XP. Brackasets for somewhere in the 400 xp range. Even kamuriths, in the 600 xp range. Only took me a couple of days. Oddly, there are a lot of creatures on Dath which incap but don't deathblow. Found the same thing on Endor (another good place for sampling XP).

Some tricks. First, walk up to the aggro you're sampling -- preferably as Master Scout.

Wait several seconds between taking another sample on the same creature. I found that if I waited a bit, there was less of a chance of an attack. When I was sampling fambaas (a little under 400 xp each), I ran from one fambaa to the next, in a circle, so I wouldn't be taking too many subsequent samples from the same beast.

Taking a group hunting with you. Sample first, and ask them to open fire if the creature aggros. If you do this on mission lairs, everybody'll be able to collect some cash from your sampling.

If you folks complaining about failing are DNA 1 or under, might want to head to the adventure planets a little later (like for DNA 3 and 4). Since the new changes its even more of a pain to level the DNA line. That might be why you're failing. If you're over that and find you're still failing, I apologize cause I have no ideas on that one...

-sr