Bio Engineer Archive

I know this type of post isn't uncommon, so please don't feel obligated to point that out. I felt like starting a thread that just talks about stuff I've seen, and maybe get some input from others without it turning into a **edit** measuring contest to see who made what.

I started out on Dantooine thinking of getting some FG and maybe some Voritor DNA. The planet is once again nearly empty -- biked around for nearly 90 minutes and didn't see a single Graul of any type; I think they might have been removed from this planet and now live only on Dathomir. I did find some Horned Voritor Lizards (HVL from here), so set to work.

Lessons Learned from my very first post-patch sampling session:
- Mask Scent with Exploration 4 stinks (rating 70). You can't get within 50m of anything over lvl 50 without being prone.
- If you get the "You cannot sample DNA while Prone" message, move 2 degrees either direction and try again: it will work.
- Trying to get the second Special through on AE creatures apparenlty takes the Hand of God. using 5 pieces of VHQ DNA from a HVL that has spec1 of Strong Poison and spec2 of Poison Spray (AE Poison) and it refused to come through.
- AR1 is extremely difficult to get to come through to the template. I know it's Physique that has the largest impact, and in fact every AR1 template I've made had no less than 2 experiment points put into it, but even with 5 HQ/VHQ samples all with AR1 you're by no means garunteed to get AR1 on your template.
- Watching HVL tear each other up after AE Poison is commical.

Next I went off to Dathomir in hopes of higher CL stuff and better creature density. I found both, and learned a bit there, too:
- Mask Scent is still nearly worthless, and prone is not an option but a requirement to get within that magic 15m.
- Enranged Randcors (not Bulls) should be CL 75, but seem un-sampleable.
- The AE from Rancor Youths doesn't seem to want to come through the template any more than did the AE from HVL.
- The Noxious Kamuruth is a myth if you want to find it. They only appear if you're hurt badly and trying to make it back to the outpost without running into anything.. such as a Noxious Kamuruth
- Trying to combine something with high resist but no armor (such as a Gaping Spider Queen) with something with lower resist and AR1 (Such as a normal Rancor) can have catastophic results. Commonly, bot the high Resists and the AR1 are lost on the template.
- Watching Enraged Rancors tear each other up after AE is commical.

Those are my very basic first impressions without getting into ultra detail. Over all, I think it's fun but counter-intuitive and, in all likelyhood, not working as intended, although the second one is hard to prove or disprove since they won't tell us what IS intended.

i can tell you that grauls on dantooine cause i saw pleanty yesterday. Plus did you try expermenting those two points into the physique stat? I hear that to get armor to stick that is what you must do. Mask scent was working fine for me but then again i'm a master scout

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Yuri9 wrote:
i can tell you that grauls on dantooine cause i saw pleanty yesterday. Plus did you try expermenting those two points into the physique stat? I hear that to get armor to stick that is what you must do. Mask scent was working fine for me but then again i'm a master scout

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I'll check for more grauls on Dant later tonight for sure.. I usually have good luck there

As to experimenting into Physique, I not only put 1-2 points, but maxxed it out (usually requiring 4-6 points) into the stat and still no garauntee of bleed through unless ALL 5 samples have AR1. Seems like it's very difficult to get it to come through at least on the lvl of templates I was working on (usually produced ~CL 46 stuff).

Good post.

I too went to Dathomir. Got a bunch of rancor 50, rancor youth45 , and bull rancor 65samples with no problem. Also queen gaping spider, or something like that. Got DBed twice, which is less than usual. Actually was shown mercy several times by bull rancor.

Went to Corellia and shouted that I was making custom pets. Got 4 orders. Sold em at 50-60k. Probably lower than I will do later, but I was nervous about the end results. Got a lvl 43 with knockdown, dizzy, medium resists, nice HAM. And a lvl 62 with lots of HAM and stun. INteresting that I was pretty sure I was going to get a 62, based on the average of the CL of the samples. The customer was pleased. They were boggled by the color choice. Too many decisions.

WIsh I had more samples for lvl 70 pets. So I went to Dathomir today. Got some POI badges. Ran into a mass of rancors. Probably 35 of them, youth to Ancient bull. The density was so high that I had to do a maskscent check 10 times to get close enough to sample one. Which means mask scent broke A LOT. Walking didn't help. Will try prone. I'm Ranger 1/0/3/0.

Planning on getting 4 samples of mutant rancor 75. Mix it with something with high kinetic resist around CL 45 in the physique slot. That SHOULD get me a great tank at 68-70. I'd hate to hit 71 after all that effort. I keep trying to get customers to want Woolamanders, but they all ask for Kimos. 733t oober d00dz with kimos.

Enraged Rancorsare lvl 80 now, so no samples unless the lvl 75 cap has changed.