Bio Engineer Archive

Hello all,

I'm pretty new to the BE profession. I've got Tissues3 and Sampling1.

I was wondering if you guys have any tips on finding meat in quantity. I've got some scout skills, and I'm a novice Carbineer, so combat isn't something I'm just the best at.

I've already tapped my PA for all the meat they have, but I need considerably more to continue going up in skill. How do you all manage it? Do you just go to adventure planets and try to get into groups so you can harvest? Do you buy the meat?

I've searched the bazaar on my server (chalistra) and I just can't seem to find meat for a reasonable price. I'm willing to pay 3cpu but I simply can't afford to pay 10cpu for grinding resources.

Any advice?

Skep

My secret for finding grindable meat quantities: Kimo hunting.

Takes a group of about 5 midlevel CH, a commando, a medic, and some other riders for happiness sake, climb the volcano and harvest to your heart's content. In general depending on the type of kimo you kill, you'll get between 200 and 700 meat per harvest. An evening of those and you'll be set for days!

... you'll also get a mess of combat experience like 2-3k carbine exp per kill on some of the bigger ones (giant dune kimo etc).

=-Adun

PS: They spawn on Lok.

Wow, thanks for the idea.

Is it pretty easy to find kimo hunt groups? I find that I generally detest Lok, but I'm willin to grit my teeth and bear it for those kinds of numbers.

Skep

The last few I went on were invite-only. You'll have to check out the scene on your server to see if anyone's actively recruiting for such a hunt at the Lok Starport.

For something a little more solo-able, you could try snorbals, also native to lok. Not nearly as much meat per kill, but it adds up fast because snorbs are very plentiful.

I've never hunted tortons or rancor but I'd presume they drop about the same ammount of meat, the climate on talus is certainly friendlier for hunting tortons... rancor hunting on Dathomir isn't something you hear about much, probably because they're such a rare spawn.

Anyhoo... hope that helps.

=-Adun

If I'm in a group, I find the best way to get meat is to go to Dantooine and hunt big herbivores (Pickets, Bols). But really, any high level planet killing large things will do Dantooine is just nice because it's relatively safe compared to, say, Lok. The only trouble with it is that my group's hunting schedule is usually full getting herbivore and avian meat for our doctor, which is far more important than getting grinding material for me.

Which brings me to my second idea. When I'm solo, I find that Tatooine is the best place to hunt. Despite being a desert, the spawns are actually pretty thick as long as you stay withing 3km of a town. At your level,womp rats are probably the best things to hunt. Get a couple missions in the same direction (or nearby like NW and N or something). Go out and kill your lairs. But your missions are just an excuse to take a walk - the real thing your looking for is wild "garbage" piles. These are non-mission spawns, and they can have some insane numbers of creatures popping out of them. In fact, you'll need to be somewhat careful to avoid getting swarmed to death (fight wellaway from the lair so new ones popping out don't attack you automatically).

It's still kind of slow. I've done much better with wild Mountain Worrt lairs, but I'm not sure that will work as a novice Carbineer.

The important distinction here is that mission lairs have names like "A mountain worrt lair" and usually have only 2 or 3 critters per spawn (times three total spawns for a total of 6-9 critters per lair). Wild lairs have more generic names like "A pile of bones" or "a dead log" and can have anywhere from 1 critter per spawn (times 3 total spawns) to as many as 10 (maybe more) critters per spawn. My group and I once pulled 4K meat from a single wild Seething Bol lair on Dant. Non-mission lairs are definitely the way to go if you're more interested in meat than credits.

--Insomnia

I find that getting together a krayt hunting group is generally not too hard, and on the plus side, if you tell people that will trade your share of the loot for the other group members harvests, you can generally get them to harvest the meat and give their share to you. Each member of the group gets around 700 meat or so per dragon, and the more people you get into your group willing to give you their meat the better. (think about it...10 people=7k per dragon).

Since most people go Krayt hunting for the tissues and not the meat, you should not have a very hard time finding group members if all you are after is the meat

Yes... I think Tatooine is where I'm headed tonight.

Skep

CH leveling groups. If you have a guild make a bunch of pet stims and regular stims. Invite anyone in your guild/friends looking to level there CH. As many as possible. Take the group to Dantoinne and go longhorn picket hunting. Spend your time pet healing and harvesting. Have the CH's harvest as well and give you the meat in exchange for the heals. They get XP and "free" heals. You get the meat you need to grind. The large the party the better. You'll be able to collect meat faster. (The creatures die more quickly and you'll have more people harvesting, especially as everyCH has this ability) The CH's get there XP based on the level of their pet vs the level of the prey, not the amount of dammage done. So hunts like this allow them to level very quickly.

That's exactly what I did for grind meat. Womp rat missions. I killed every rat looking critter I can across. I had a nice amount of meat with little danger to myself and it didn't take verylong. You can even make some pocket money by completing the missions.

Thanks much guys.I appreciate the advice. I'm finding it difficult to get meat en masse. There's no way I could take bols or huurtons at this stage in my combat career. I think I will give Tatooine a try, that sounds do able. I've noticed there does seem to be quite a bit of "trash" around cities. Plus, I could possibly join in a kryat hunt for some big payouts of meat.

*sigh* I wouldn't mind buying the meat either, its just very difficult to find quanities of junk meat for sale.

They really need to send some love to the BE's about this. Meat is by far the hardest resource to find.

Skep

Put a post on your server forum asking to buy grind meat at 3 CPU. I'm guessing you'll get a few responses.

Definitely jump on those group hunts, man!Asking Scouts in the group to help harvest meat for you is a good idea as well.

If you are on Corellia and you have a decent pet to hunt with (I use a Gurreck or Rancor), go hunt Grondas. the patriarch variety give at least 100 units of carnivore meat per kill (don't group with your pet). You can also hunt Rontos for decent amounts of carnivore meat. Be carefull not to get to close though because both of these animals tend to fight in groups of 2, and if your pet is occupied with one the second might make a run for you. The meat from these animals is stackable so in a relatively short period of time you can accumulate a few k of meat.