Bio Engineer Archive
Thread: Bio Smuggler ?
Hadnt thought of that .... Nice idea and I presume that would work 
My character is a BE/Smuggler/TKA soon to be BE/Ranger/TKA, but I will tell you that feign death is a very handy skill. When the rancor chases you away from the others you just feign death and lay there until he goes, but when you get up, even if he is over 50m away, he will usually agro on you as soon as you get up. But you can usually get away then.
Hope that helps,
Roannyy'awa
Scylla.
i'm thinking of dropping enough smuggler just to keep feign death now instead of thinking of dropping it altogether. <grin>*ahem*
Speaking as a Master BE and *almost* Master Smuggler (still have dirty fighitng IVto go)I can say that the potential for income and general ability to do cool , in -demand things is unparalleled. My RL wife is a Master Tailor/Chef, and between the two of us we can sell pets, stims, vits, pet food (lol), camp kits (lol), chef food WITH BE additive, BE enhanced clothing, and spices. Omg, everythign you need to wear, eat, or consume out in the field in one stop shop! Plus you can slice stuff, and panic shot is pretty useful too when you get jumped by hostile PCs out in the field (Grr marauders on endor)
I will also say that the pistol speed mods and accuracy bonuses you get as a smuggler (NONE!) really, really hamper the deadliness of thesmuggler'scombat prowess.That is, without plenty pistoleer to back it up. And, I also took novice pistoleer so that I could wield the sweet, beautiful, deadly DX2 and enjoy a better health bleed, as well as some bonuses.
Have you seen the flaw in the template yet? EXPLORATION! You have to drop Exploration to get novice pistoleer. Good lord but that sucked. Try DNA sampling without mask scent hehe. I ended up dropping pistoleer to pick exploration back up. If i had a pocket Ranger to Camo me all the time I would drop exploration and pick pistoleer back up. It's a fun template, Feign Death is a sort of neat tool, but you don't really lose aggro when you use it, so it requires creative use. You can use it to bleed stuff to thin out spawns, etc. Also can save your arse when you can't outrun a rancor up a hill (see Exploration, above)
Four starting professions to master 2 hybrid, and only one line in each (the most useless line of each except Pistols in Marksman). It is without a doubt the most inneficient and wasteful use of skillpoints avilable to us under the current system, and I love it.