Bio Engineer Archive
Thread: maybe it took a bit longer, but i only died once or twice.
Alright update:
Sampling IV gives me access to 56+ (I fail on 60 and above).
As far as "grinding" the sampling, I did a lot of my work with mynocks and gurks on lok and also the mereks and swirl prongs on endor (throw in some crazed Gur. ect.)
I could sample level 50 max at Sample 4...that or y'all have much more patience than I do. My last day of sample 4 (just after my pitiful failures trying to get a mutant)I followed a bull rancor around for about 90 minutes trying to get a sample. All I got was failures and aggro. Same with Merek Deaths Heads...90 minutes of nada. As soon as I hit master, all my sampling problems went away. (I consider 2 successes out of 10 attempts at mutants A+, LoL).
After watching this some at novice and now level 1, my guess is that there is a chance of success for a combination of skills and target. If your chance of getting a sample is 2/10, it doesn't really mean that you will get 2 out of 10 samples. It really means that you have an 80% chance of being unsuccessful each time you try.
I've failed 4 times in a row on gnorts yet managed to get two ikopi stags(CL 30)on the first or 2nd try and managed a plains hunter. I'm finding my time (and drugs) better spent on higher XPs because the failure rate doesn't seem proportional.