Bio Engineer Archive
Thread: DNA Sampling: What CL at What Skill Level
Level 1 = ???
Level 2 = ???
Level 3 = ???
Level.....
I am trying to get the biggest XP bang for my buck so I can quickly move up the tree.
I am a 4-4-1-4 BE and a master scout with the ranger tracking line.
yikes.. alot of grinding there... I tend to be going up the sampling tree faster then the crafting trees... (but I hate grinding anything.. BE seems too cool for grinding atm...)
That said...
I get decent xp off of pikets on dant.. non agressive so easy to get up on... half way decent dna for hybrid non ch pets with dizzy strike and decent ham... and about 300-400xp a pop... went through my entire first box of sampling in an hour.... (had a blast! and I made my first 6 pets... 4 with not so bad stats... 37%kinetic resist and 4-6k ham.... Using piket plains walker dna, some huurton matriarchs, Bols/bol pack runners... could easily make 3 nonch hybrids with 35+kinetic and 4k hams....)
*side note* being master CH, I can say crit failing on decent pets is heartwrenching..... Never before on a crit failure have a felt so emotional... It would have been perfect for hybrid... 6k ham CL15 with 25% kinetic and dizzy strike.... would have been great cl 10..... might even have been able to get KD to stick in a hybrid... *still brings tears*
Honestly the BE is the first "crafting" prof. I have ever enjoyed right from the get go...
*I am only novice BE, but I have enough xp for 1/2 the experimentation tree and 2*what is needed for sampling 1...I am also a master CH and 2boxes away from master rifleman with 0,0,4,4 medic, 2020 scout and novice BE....*
(Holo said wepsmith... 4 masteries *almost5* and still haven't been MWS.... no fun for me as MWS...)
Anyway from memory I was able to get at everything up to approxximatly CL45 at Sampling 1. I tended to sample stuff on Talus (my home planet) mainly GSP's (as they make nice pet's for novice BE's ) and torturs (IIRC couldn't sample bulls) and hufduns (from memory couldn't sample everything). At Sampling 2 I played with most of the stuff you find mentioned as sources of DNA for decent creatures. Such as Pikets and Voritors. Sampling 3 I THINK I got a Rancer (might have been Sampling 4 - can't remember) but I got most of my Sampling 3 to 4 DNA on Dath and Dant.
Grinding was easy. It took 40 hours to grind to 4-4-0-4 uing a nifty maco. atm I'm 38k DNA sampling xp away from beeing Master.
Using maskscent (I've got Eploration 4 - scout skills), I'm sampling rancors and rancor youths. Those will get ya 530-560 or so xp per sample.
They aggro alot. For that I use my TKA skills and a buffed up mind
. I can solo one enraged rancor at a time. When they group aggro I'm outta there for a sec using either burst run or my swoop bike.I love beeing BE!
Level 2 = 42 arachne warrior
Level 3 = 56 merek deaths head
Level 4 = 75 Mutant Rancor
thease were the highest I was able to get... I failed everytime I tryed higher... And I tryed alot...
Here is how the leveling is designed
Novice = CL 15 Sampling
DNA 1 = CL 30 Sampling
DNA 2 = CL 45 Sampling
DNA 3 = CL 60 Sampling
DNA 4= CL 75 Sampling
Master = CL 100 Sampling
Or at least that's what the Setup was
Hrm . . . wish I had the success that some others had. Here is what I got:
Skills: Master Scout - Ranger 0-0-4-0 - BE Sampling III
Sampling 1: CL 25
Sampling 2: CL 35-40 (40 was a push, would fail A LOT)
Sampling 3: CL 45 (This included warriors and most mereks)
Sampling 4: I'd assume 55
Master: 70-75 (again assuming)
* A quick note: As I progress further up the sampling line I noticed a higher % of aggro without MS breaking, just some food for thought. I also noticed that further away is better, e.g. being at 4m was bad, being at about 10m was usually pretty good. Don't forget to have your speeder nearby incase things get interesting. (This applies to the higher CL animals, the lower ones just lay down and die)