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Thread: Sorry to be so upbeat but ...
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LloydPickering
Sun May 01, 2005 4:22 am
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one thing to note is that to get high level DNA samples, group with a level 80 player, and you assume their level. This means that creatures will hit you for a lot less dmg if they aggro.
Dorelli
Sun May 01, 2005 12:56 pm
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I had a great time playing last night. I respec'd my toon to be master BE with master scout and part of ranger and then threw the rest of the points into medic. Something I had always wanted to do but never could b/c of requiring combat skills. I am now level 31.
I wanted to play around with weapons - because some of them don't have a specific skill required - just a combat level. So I ended up with this:
- a tangle pistol that did 172 kinetic DPS base (and 172 dps to me as well b/c i have NO combat)
- a custom made suit of advanced battle armor - which I can wear b/c I am a ranger
with the battle armor, I could survive nicely (was dressed head to foot in it) almost anything on dantooine b/c it let me get away in time. It seemed to absorb about 40% of the damage. I do still have penalties but they will go away as I become master Ranger.
With the tangle pistol, I was shocked that I could hit for 400 damage, heal myself and fire again. Rinse and repeat. The VD absorbed some of the damage but I was doing enough to bring his bar down noticably.
I think that possibly the level 46 voritor dashers that aggro'd on me might have been bugged b/c I was able to kill them fairly easily by persisting to attack and heal myself, while chipping away at their bars. Other voritors were NOT easy to kill although I didn't try any other VD's except that one lair I found.
Just seems a bit ... wrong .. that a ranger with no combat skills could use a pistol til kill something 15 levels above her. I'm going to go try again this morning and see if was just that lair. Also since VD's do ranged energy damage, I'll take along a PSG this time.
The night previous to that, I had respeced to NO BE, and TKM with part ranger giving me a level of 63. I went to dathomir using converted armor and weapons and died many times. Later that evening, my weaponsmith gave me a 300 DPS MTK knuckler to use in place of my 93 DPS vibro-knuckler and that would have made the difference but I was too discouraged to play by then. I'd gone back to our town to mope around and wish I could still craft 
-- respec'd again as soon as I could to get BE back.
-- respec'd again as soon as I could to get BE back.Take-home message is ... the CU isn't impossible to play - even for us BE's but I'd not trust the converted weapons and armor. There is much better player made stuff out there and it might make all the difference.
Yours,
Dorelli
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