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what is the fastest way you found for getting unarmed 4? it has taken a bout 3 or 4 days to get 47,000 exp. Please post if you have found a better way. Thank you.

this is what i did:

Get Pistol4 first, for healthshot1. Begin by shooting the mob with a healthshot (make sure it sticks), immediatly switch to unarmed (vibro knucklers will tripe your damage) and just wail away. If you have a good pistol combat should last 10X shorter, and it'll all be unarmed xp.

Choose a good mob, i did gungan outcasts, conned deep blue/yellow to me.

When you use a pistol & unarmed it splits your experience between the pistol and the unarmed. It just takes the percentage of the damage done from each wep and splits it accordingly.

-Flavius

Kauri

I just got this today and man did it suck doing it. The other guy was right, use healthshot 1 on a critter, switch to vibro knucklers and wail away. You get like 75% unarmed and 25% pistol XP. I did this with crazed durnis

Another idea is to go into caves. I go to one in Kor Vella on Corellia outside of the starport. You can solo the cave unarmed 95% of the time. Sometimes you'll need to pull out your pistol to finish it up. You can get abou 3,500 unarmed xp in one cave run.

One last thing, you want the largest XP per minute not the largest XP per critter. Paralopes and Gubbers were my best friends. You can take them out in 1-2 punches. You can kill quite a few before needing to heal up.

Good luck!

I got unarmed 4 in a few days by streetfighting with chunkers in an alley behind the cantina on Nashal. Knucklers with 100+ damage tended to take them out in one shot, and the chunkers didn't really hurt me at all.

easiest way to do it is find a good spot right outside a major cityand just kill all the little creatures as they respawn. I was gettin 15k-20k experience an hour doing this, plus you won't take a lot of damage.

The best thing to do is kill human mobs as you have a chance to get a locked container as loot. You will really want those containers to slice later on.

I went through III & IV of unarmed and all of pistol + Novice smugler whacking Jaba's thieves the back of Mos Eisley spaceport.

Late at night when no one else around is best. 3 thievs, 225xp a kill, kill one in 10-30sec, and most the time when you loot them another pops up so it is constant xp. Very, very quick xp. No down time for me with a few stimpacks and a bit of food&drink.

Like the they said, more xp per hour is better than more xp per kill

The Healthshot won't give you pistol exp. Apparently Damage-Over-Time effects don't "count"... if a creature dies solely from a DoT, as a matter of fact, you won't be able to loot it and you get NO exp. You can use this to your advantage, here, though...

Healthshot to start the bleed (preferably at a little range so they can bleed a bit on the way to you) and then swap to Vibroknuckles. I've found that if you land the healthshot and then immediately swap, even ranged weapon users will charge you and try to melee. Not sure if this is a bug or not. Sometimes they -will- keep firing, but usually only if I miss the first Healthshot and / or if I accidentally squeeze off a few pistol shots before swapping to VibroKnuckles.

In any event, I'd recommend fighting "thugs" near the city... with HealthShot and Unarmed III with VibroKnuckles, I can kill 'em back to back to back to back for quite some time. They're all blue-con, some two-hit kills. About 110 exp each, so it's not a ton of exp immediately, but it does add up over time, and you have the chance for Locked Containers, too.

Go to the Nightspider spawn point west of Theed. Spiders spawn about 10-15 every 1 or 2 minutes. They give around 90-100 xp each, so wail away on them. Even better if you have a healer with you so there is no downtime. Also, vibroknucklers are a must. Better do it soon because kuncklers are going to require certs to use after next big patch, and the cert is at Novice TKA.

Vibro Knucklescert is going to be at Novice TKA??? That blows! I feel sorry for all the noobs/future players that can't buy VKs to begin with. Think of how much VKs helped uscomplete unarmed for Smuggler. Think of all the blood, sweat, and tears it took us to finallycomplete Unarmed Specialist. Now think of how much it's gonna suck for other players without VKs until Novice TKA...

I can understand not being able to use VKs as a novice brawler, but by the time ur get Expert Unarmed u should be able to use VKs.

Just 2 cents...

Yeah, head VK are going to be certed. Glad I got that out of the way.

Made unarmed 4 in two night, about 4 hours a night.

Group with a droid (get bonus to xp). I bought a fugitive seeker droid for 500creds. It's sad, it gets it butt-kicked by minor worts.

Get a good set of VK, get them sliced as well.

Use Healthshot1 to pull the buggers. It takes NO xp away.

Wear armor!

I killed alot of mites (mound or rock) and in-town desert demons (might get lucky and get a few locked containers for slicing I hell).

Oh Great! a cert for VK's that means I very little time to get thur Master Unarmed before my knuckles are useless. I'll have to use all the unarmed tips that are postedabove and not just one or two.How long untilthe cert starts?

here is a macro that i just wrote... it works GREAT!

/ui action toolbarSlot12 *

/healthshot2 **

/pause 1

/ui action toolbarSlot13 ***

/follow

* this is the slot i have may blaster in

** i ama pistoleer also, but healthshot1 should work well too

*** this is the slot i have may VK in

and just in case, the stars don't go in the macro, but the 'S' toolbarSlot needs to be capital. took a bit to get that right

hope this helps my fellow smugglers with the crappy time up the unarmed branch.