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Thread: Can DNA Sampling suck any more?
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79Weeks
Tue Jan 18, 2005 9:25 pm
#1
I have completed ALL of the crafting part of BE, but still only have 1 block of DNA Sampling!
I tried the macro and it was almost usesless as there is no site that spawns creatures fast enough for it to be worth using.
And I am getting a REALLY high fail rate, even with /maskscent, BE clothes, and the new maskscent stims working.
All this for 83 xp a sample? Only 159,917 xp to go! Whoo hoo! That's only just over 1800 successful samples!!!
Now I see why there are so few BEs.
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If ANYONE has a suggestion on how to speed this up or keep from failing so many times, I would really appreciate it! Thanks!
79Weeks
Tue Jan 18, 2005 10:04 pm
#3
Euw wrote:
What are you Sampling?
Trash around Coronet, then I moved to Dearic and sampled trash there. Oddly enough, I had good success with Greater Sludge Panthers, there just aren't enough of them.
Simple things like flite rasps and the little beetle like creatures I fail every time. 
Euw
Tue Jan 18, 2005 10:09 pm
#4
At Nopvice BE you have a 50% Chance of a sucess as you progress up the tree your chances go up..This is what I did..
Novice Outside Theed Till DNA 1
DNA 1 Krayt Graveyard the Desert Razor backs give about 300 xp each I think..Did this till DNA 3
DNA 3 Voritors and Quenkers on Dant till DNA 4
DNA 4 Voritor Trackers (I failed alot but their like 450+ xp each..)
This is not the usual grind but I did DNA 1-4 In about 4 days of light grinding..Also alot of beer
Novice Outside Theed Till DNA 1
DNA 1 Krayt Graveyard the Desert Razor backs give about 300 xp each I think..Did this till DNA 3
DNA 3 Voritors and Quenkers on Dant till DNA 4
DNA 4 Voritor Trackers (I failed alot but their like 450+ xp each..)
This is not the usual grind but I did DNA 1-4 In about 4 days of light grinding..Also alot of beer
Message Edited by Euw on 01-18-2005 11:10 PM
Halthron
Tue Jan 18, 2005 10:58 pm
#6
DNA 1 was the worst. I was done with DNA 4 before I even started monitoring the bar for it. It does go faster and you got some good info.
79Weeks
Wed Jan 19, 2005 2:12 am
#7
I did go out tonight to the Krayt Graveyard area and found tons of good stuff to sample. Bull Rontos (just like the naffs mentioned above), Desert Razorbacks, and Giant Sand Beetles (349xp!). I got around 25-30K xp during the 2 hours I was there, and that finished off DNA Sampling 2 for me and then some, so I can see the light at the end of the tunnel now.
Thanks for all the help and advice! I think you guys have me on the right track now.
Kivrin
Wed Jan 19, 2005 6:15 am
#8
Ha, I know your pain. I posted my impression of sampling when I started. It does get better though. When you hit 2 go to Endor and get Crimson Blurgs and Arachne Drones for 2-300 XP creatures. At 3 do laps around the Kliknik Blueleaf temple for 4-500 XP and you'll be done in no time.
Hylidex
Wed Jan 19, 2005 7:27 am
#9
Kivrin wrote:
Ha, I know your pain. I posted my impression of sampling when I started. It does get better though. When you hit 2 go to Endor and get Crimson Blurgs and Arachne Drones for 2-300 XP creatures. At 3 do laps around the Kliknik Blueleaf temple for 4-500 XP and you'll be done in no time.
Actually I prefer creatures that don't DB, so Pikets pikets and Surefoot Brackasets filled out the mid to upper levels for me.
R-ade
Wed Jan 19, 2005 7:56 am
#10
Mayor_of_Epsilon wrote:
try samplin naffs on corellia.... about 300-400xp per sample. just enter a solo-group, pick 2 naff missions that are close to eachother and first sample all the naffs from one lair but leave the lair itself alone. Then go to the second lair, sample all the naffs and leave the lair alone. Then go back to the first one.. new naffs will ahve spawned, sample em and go back to the second and sample again... back and forth, back and forth.... you'll have enough xp in no time
LOL, I did the same thing with Pikets. Worked great! Completed boxes 3 and 4 in a night.
Woe_icoby
Wed Jan 19, 2005 8:38 am
#11
dna1 - rills - 100xp per
dna2 - mountain dewbacks or desert squill - 250 xp per
dna3 - bolle bols on naboo (endor ones could be just as good but worse agro there) - 350xp per
dna4 - fambaa 400+ xp per
non agro (apart from the squills) non db sampling goodness =)
dna2 - mountain dewbacks or desert squill - 250 xp per
dna3 - bolle bols on naboo (endor ones could be just as good but worse agro there) - 350xp per
dna4 - fambaa 400+ xp per
non agro (apart from the squills) non db sampling goodness =)
Mayor_of_Epsilon
Wed Jan 19, 2005 1:48 pm
#12
try samplin naffs on corellia.... about 300-400xp per sample. just enter a solo-group, pick 2 naff missions that are close to eachother and first sample all the naffs from one lair but leave the lair itself alone. Then go to the second lair, sample all the naffs and leave the lair alone. Then go back to the first one.. new naffs will ahve spawned, sample em and go back to the second and sample again... back and forth, back and forth.... you'll have enough xp in no time 
SioBabble
Thu Jan 20, 2005 1:00 am
#13
79Weeks wrote:
I have completed ALL of the crafting part of BE, but still only have 1 block of DNA Sampling!
I tried the macro and it was almost usesless as there is no site that spawns creatures fast enough for it to be worth using.
And I am getting a REALLY high fail rate, even with /maskscent, BE clothes, and the new maskscent stims working.
All this for 83 xp a sample? Only 159,917 xp to go! Whoo hoo! That's only just over 1800 successful samples!!!
Now I see why there are so few BEs.
...
If ANYONE has a suggestion on how to speed this up or keep from failing so many times, I would really appreciate it! Thanks!
Oddly enough, I finished of DNA sampling MUCH faster than the crafting stuff.
Started out on yard trash around Keren, then moved up to higher level things like kaadu, falumps, and even the occasional rogue fambaa in the swampy forest to the E of Keren. Veermoks were pretty good, too, they usually died on the first sample which was fine by me, better than getting aggroed.
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