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I'm not doing Bio-Engineer for a holocron, but I'd like to get XP at a faster pace, can anyone list what creatures are the best to get XP vs.fail rateat each level?

Ive been having trouble with this also, I get about 1/20 pikets. Since I moved down to huurtons Ive been getting about 2/5 which isnt bad considering they give 200-250xp each. I have DNA1 only

For the first couple levels find some cheap Muon Gold and go somewhere isolated so people won't come by and spook or kill the mobs. Music mind buffs are great too, they will regen your mind faster and make each sample cost less mind. I generaly offer 5000 credits for this in a cantina.

Make a macro

/peace (usefull with social mobs, if you get aggro run it away from the others and kill it alone)

/follow (should keep you in range)

/sampled

/pause 11

/sampled

/pause 11

/sampled

/pause 11

Sample stuff you can one shot till you get up to sample 2, grind the DNA into critters during muon downers and sample them when you have nothing else to sample while you have mind buffs.

oh yeah add something to your macro at the end like

/tell <your name> done

or just have it say "Done" so you will know to repeat it if you still have a target

I recently made a post listing the xp you get from sampling various creatures on different planets. The failure rate is hard to measure and depends on your skill level in the DNA Sampling. When I was working on DNA Sampling I really liked voritor trackers (they are agro, but don't deathblow) - I went to Dantooine after I got DNA2 and worked all the way to DNA4 on voritor trackers.Working torward DNA1,I just sampled all the "yard-trash"newbie creatures around town.

Here's a link to my post:

DNA Sampling Guide

I can only add a few things here.

1. **ALWAYS** Mask Scent when sampling DNA.

2. If you can get some clothing with good mods to your Mask Scent ability, it will greatly reduce the aggros.

3. Have a (disposable) melee pet with you, CTRL-1 yourself and command your pet to "Guard". Maybe when they finally aggro, he'll try toblock. The creaturewill probably still just have eyes for you, though. (If you have some means of knocking down the creature, it will almost always target your attackingpet when it gets back up... at least in my experience.)

ifmemory serves, slinking voritors on dant. (they deathblow) give about 600+xp, vexed voritors (don't DB i think) give in the high 500's, the other voritors give around 400 i think. best i found in one shot was an ancient bull rancor on dath. that gave 1230xp. if theres spawns of all sorts around and you get agro'd, run to a different lair. IE: if you get agro'd by a voritor, run to pikets or bol's, they'll sometimes attack the creature. sometimes.

also, if you go rancor sampling like i did, if one agro's, i would just burst run around in a circle and eventually they would all break out in a huge brawl. the fight takes forever but you live.