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I have read on these posts how many of u have sampled mutant rancor dna but i have sampled dna about 20 times and have yet to get a sample. If this is possible will someone let me know and also what is the ratio of successes to failures. Yes I am a master BE.

Thanks for your time,

Nitsui Med - MBE - Sunrunner

It is possible to do it. But they are so aggressive they attack each other. So its not easy. Nor should it be that easy. Since its the DNA we all want the most

I have had the best luck sampling them in the rancor cave. Your average success will be about 1 in 20. Make sure you buff up your mind stats with anterian fishak, ormachek, and maybe even muon gold becasue you will have to smaple many times once you finally do get close enough to sample. They are notoriously slow beasts so you can run away from them without even using burst run when you do get aggro and they tend to give up chase before following you out of the cave. WHen I do it, I kill any Rancors in the cave that are not mutants in between me and the first mutant I can get to.

I've posted this before but there seems to be some odd effect going on. The more I sample Mutants as an MBE the higher my success rate become. It took me about 30 attempts to get my first sample. 15 attempts to get my second sample. The last time I tried I was getting samples 1 out of 2 tries. I managed to collect 8 samples in a fairly short period of time that way. Not sure what the deal is . . .

Thanks guys, I went back and tried again and sure enough I got one it only took me like 30 times to get the first one. Hopefully the number of attempts drop before a successful one next time.

The Dathomir Sarlacc ALWAYS has 5 mutant rancors within about 500m. This coming from the Master Ranger with track

My other character is a BE. I sampled a few and found this to work.

• Wait until you're master BE.


• Good camo clothes (I had 110 all total, you can probably get much better).


• Keep your vehicle nearby incase you can actually get to it and run away, and then come back.


• If you do manage to lead one off, try and sample it while its away from the others, your detection chance goes up if you try and sneak up on a group.


• If you crawl in from about 64m, from behind the mutant rancor, and from behind trees, it really seems to help. I've tried to approach from the front and without cover with crawling, and I usually failed. Although that was approaching a group. Single ones are much easier to approach.


• Have burst run ready. But if you've allready used it ...


• ... then if detected try to run away up a steep slope. They seem to go a little slower uphill.


• I didn't try it, but if you buff up your health you can probalby survive maybe one or two hits.


• They attack each other because they have Open Wounds, which is something like Area of Effect wound or health damage. So if they do it to you with others around, they all turn on the offender, and then on each other as they keep doing it. So exit the party, remember where it was, and go find some others. (And I don't think you can make be pets with open wounds, I sure tried tho. :smileytongue


• And lastly don't worry if you fail, it takes time to gather decent mutant rancor dna. But its worth it. Just don't combine 5 very good mutant rancor samples. Your pet will be to high a level to use.


• The line between the Dathomir Sarlac and the Nightsister town seems to have alot of mutant rancors.

Good luck.

What are the coordinates for the Rancor Cave?

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Mirrl wrote:
I've posted this before but there seems to be some odd effect going on. The more I sample Mutants as an MBE the higher my success rate become. Not sure what the deal is . . .

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It's interesting you mention this...

i have the same anecdotal impression

/clone

monkeysan

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Mirrl wrote:
I've posted this before but there seems to be some odd effect going on. The more I sample Mutants as an MBE the higher my success rate become. Not sure what the deal is . . .

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It's interesting you mention this...

i have the same anecdotal impression

/clone

monkeysan