Bio Engineer Archive

Well with the tissue / pet stim business keeping me insane busy, not to mention wanting holocrons myself, my time to spend on gathering DNA samples has been near non-existent. At the end of a night on Dantooine I was looking for something to kill me to drop my Overt faction status so I wouldn't land in an unfriendly starport, and what do I find? A nest of Slinking Voritor Hunters.

Perfect They'll kill me fast.

Then I remember they are CL55. Hmmmm, yeah lets try to get a few DNA samples. Maybe I can get 5 before they kill me.

I swapped out my composite for Mask Scent clothing (shirt +16, pants +16... thats added to Exp IV which is ? what 80? so a total over 100), hit Mask Scent, and headed toward the lair tentatively. (A side note here... OHHHH I wish I could just surrender all of my scout xp, its capped, so I don't get the xp message to let me know I was successful). I get to within 15m of the first one without having walk or crawl. I just bumped my mouse movement button forward a little each time until i was close enough. Hit my sampling macro. Success! Sample again, Success! Sample again, Success! Sample again Success and critter dies!

I inch over to the next one and repeat it. Success, success, success critter dies. I figure I gotta rest but the muon I took earlier was still kicking strong.

So feeling bold, and less tired, I RUN over to next one. Success, Success, Success, Failure, Success critter dies. Muon downer so I sit in there next to the nest waiting and waiting and slowly falling asleep hehehe.

Rather than bore you anymore, here are my samplings:

• Success, Success, Success, Successdeath


• Success, Success, Success death


• Success, Success, Success, Failure, Success death


• Success, Success death


• Success, Success, Success death


• Success, Success, Success death


• Success, Success attacked

In the last sample I'm not sure if it was the DNA sampling causing agro to drop my Mask Scent, or if it was the newly spawned Hunter which broke it. But with Exp IV and 2 pieces of clothing with +16MS, I was able to RUN (not walk or crawl) with impunity thru this lair of hunters. Earlier in the night I was able to run into a nest of Graul Maulers to pull out two babies.

So I'm no longer worried about having to have Ranger skills. I haven't tried it on anything over CL70, but in the past CL70 didn't make a significantly better clone than CL55... and CL55's are much much much easier to find in plentitude (hrm is that word? LOL). The only advantage a Ranger could have over me is Tracking and getting to wear their full armor. I have to remove at least 1 armor piece, but then I rarely want to live if i get agro'd by a Borgle Life Sapper or Mantigrue Screecher becaues of the disease.

Out ofall the samples, I got 4 VHQ's with 900/900 stat pairs Gonna hit the bank on the way back to my shop and see what I got to pair up with them. Should be able to get at least 1 top notch Gurreck or Rancor (not sure which I'll make as I have orders for both), 2 high quality Gurrecks or Rancors, and the leftovers I"ll slop into some low level critters.

with the nerf to us not being able to sample our BEed kimos, are we still able to make the attempt on live ones? how bout krayts? I have a set of+17 scent neuter, and I just completed wayfaring4, would be nice to see. But i think my wookness limits me to one piece of clothing that is considered field wear. Man I hate being a wook.

I tried to sample a kimogila on lok after the nerf and it didnt work. I am Master BE, tried it 4 times and failed every time. I gave up after the forth time.

very similiar to my experience with them. there are also 20k missions for the cl 50 horned and vexed voritors. thought kreetles still break my maskscent every time.