Carbineer Archive

Here you go, HoloCarbs:

You will need to be a CH to do this. You will also need a lot of combat XP saved up. Here goes..

The easiest way I ever got Carbine xp was back in the days before ATST nerf..

I just went to the wilderness on Dantoine and made my AT aggro all the mobs in sight on it - thats up to 40 hardcore red mobs 3-5k xp each.I preferredany kind of voritors, quenkers, hurtons, and some tribesmen(Iforget which type some have high resists and some dont).Now, by "aggroed on AT"I mean that I made it run aroundand attack various groups of mobs byt diferent lairsand made sure to wait untill they all gathered point blank around it before shooting even once.Sure it hurt the AT really bad in the process, but it was tough and could take it. Then, I simply spammed FullAutoArea2.NOTE, however, that I spammed FullAutoArea2 on the same mob that the AT was shooting at - otherwise you get 10 coming after you in a matter of seconds and you are dead meat. In fact, there is usually one or two that will come after you anyway, and you just have to be able to take care of them quick. Plus, sometimes they all will come after you anyhow, and you just have to be able toloose them - well and come back save the pet if you can.

Anyway, this way I was hitting anywhere from5 to15 targets a shot on average... The whole 30-40 or however many I gathered usually took about 5 minutes to kill. Each gave me 3-5k xp usually. If you do the math thats a good 100k xp right there in 5 minutes, maybe more then that.

Now, of course there is a catch. In fact there are quite a few catches - what do you xpect for 100k xp in 5 min.

First of all, you need to have FullAutoArea2- which is in Special Abilities branch and that means you have to have lots and lots of combat xp stacked up from your other professions.

Second, you must have doctor buffs and whatnot to spam FullAuto like that.

Finally, you also need a goodcollection of very strong pets. MyAT got hurt about halfway in those 5 minutes when I did this - meaning most CH pets would be simply dead. But then again with 3 ATs I could do this 6 times in a row within1 hour, and get 600k xp. By the end of the 6th runall 3 ofmy ATs were near dead but I just quit forthe time beingand came back the next day with them all fully healed. Rinse and repeat. Now, I realize that ATs can no longer be used for PvE, but I am sure similar thing can be done if you are a high level CH - maybe limiting the amout of mobs you aggro on your pettoa smallernumber.

As said: this is not easy at all, you have a high chance to get your pet dead fast, an even higher chance to get dead yourself, and it requires very high character prerequisites. But, if you do manage to get this working,you can rake in xp at a purely insane rates - about 500-600k xp per hour as mentioned above.

Finally, as a side note, I would not advise using a similar tactic with Rifleman or Pistoleer as you needa consistent KDto keep the one or two lizards that will chase you at bay.

Which is why the AT-ST is now PvP and Imperial Mission ONLY!

And why not having Master CH is a bad thing for me LOL!

I just used this on endor last night, it worked lol. What I did was go find a lair that was not a mission right outside of Endor. I found some tasty mereks. What was spawning, Merek Harvestors and some lower version mereks. The only one with armor was the Harvestor but it was vul. to energy, lol my laser carbine was licking it chops. Needless to say I would send in my bio-pet with 60% kinetic resists in and have about 10 of them attacking, lol. It was hiliarious, I just stood back and sniped them one at a time with cripple shot. I did this for 10 mins and got about 70k xp. What is so great about this is the lair has infinite spawns. So when I cleared the spawns all I had to do was tap the lair and anywhere from 10-15 would spawn.

Now dont get me wrong, I did have to stim after the 3 time doing it. I only have one nice pet after the recent pet nerf, so interchanging would have let me master carbine in about 2 hrs last night, lol.

hehe I do this same method, but with my gurrcat, I do however heal him with savage quenkers and so on where it ends up me + pet vs like 20 lol alot of times I get chasedd by like 10 of them though lol.... oh well the xp is amazing

Oh, it's possible with pistol and rifle, the difference being: when i was pistoleer, I'd survive the ones that would aggro me instead of pet most of the time (as long as it was just a couple); when i was carbine, i'd survive part of the time...when i was rifle, even oneswitch target meant a free trip to the clone chamber.

The flip side was, I had to be real choosy about the armor on my targets as pistol, somewhat choosy as carbine, but as rifle, not hardly at all.

Generally it's aLOT tougher to pull off if you get greedy and try multiple lairs at once. Often by the time you've finally got that fifth critter angry at your pet, the first one attacked hasn't been re-hit in enough time that it disengaged. I usually just send the pet after a lair, let it hit once so that the lair's damaged, then retarget it against one of the critters around said lair, then count the spawns before engaging.