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Okay, I used to bodyshot1&2 then warningshot / kite..... worked fine on yellows and sometimes low reds. Normally I am happy killing lairs with yellows and whites, but for the most part they are a breeze and very little challenge. How are you guys killing the big mobs without pets? Mask scent, run up, FT special, run away, creature bleeds, creature bleeds, pull out LP, suppression fire, creature bleeds, creature dies? When I hit novice I only got an LP since everyone said FT was useless until you had 3 in FT tree. I am about 2/3 through FT2 and I just got a FT and went whoa! have I been doing things the hard way?

how big you talking? i know i aint soloing no krayts at master...

Lol, okay I am not talking that.... but I am talking something that cons red / yellow when you have FT in your hands. For example... squills, mountain squills, those ugly red womp rats, some of the bigger dewbacks... challenge like 23ish is what is tough for me (only FT1 into commando and 1 block in pistoleer).... but I am not a master by any stretch.

Bear in mind that I don't feel a need to go kill reds every day, I just am curious how you take down the tough mobs for you... excluding the uberbuffed PvP enemies.

I could solo mountain squills with a scout blaster. Suppression fire is yer friend. The LP uses pistol specials .. so..

Well, I see I have to go back to my master marksman ways. I guess what I am getting at is whether or not it can be done within the commando line of skills. Kinda funny that 2 simple novice skills allow you to kill creatures that you cannot do with an "elite" combat profession.

You're not supposed to be able to solo reds, and hardly ever yellows.

Pets.People soloing the huge arse monsters like kimogilas and kryat dragons are using mutliple AT-STs and CH pets like arachne's and kliknik queens and such.

With those all you really need issome sort of ranged weapon and the skill to apply bleeds with it then just plink away at it while something big tanks

warning shot and suppression fire also work too if you don't have pets...but it's harder now that suppression fire's delay has been greatly increased

mountain squills .. mountain dewbacks ,,,, you name em 10 k critters .. mostly i hunt mountain squill's cus they dont BAF.... standing at 64 meters with FT and just do normal attack. when in range of 25 i use flamesingle 2 ...if it hits ill do a heal and FD "feign death". this lil show should be over soon and xp inc.

as long as the mob aint hitting for more than 500 your NOT in problems... did a few kimogila hatclings.. they BAF tho. and are hard to hit. but sure is worth the time. if you can split them.

Anyway doing 10 k mobs aint woth the time always. a mountain squill gives like 2900 - 3100 xp

ROFL btw dont hunt AT-ST's they sure aint worth the time ...you need 2 ch pets with 10 k + and FD to get them down with some effect. beside the xp and faction they give is a joke.

ogreb, I know you are not supposed to be able to solo reds, but it can be done. And Kalimero answered my question on how he does it.Personally I find I can kill 4-5 white con mobs just a quick as it takes me to kill a red with downtime, so it is not usually worth it for me.

Personally, I go a good click off and do Aim, Healthshot1, Healthshot2 (untill they both hit) then i take out flamer and plink away untill it gets under 16m, then i hit 'er with FlameSingle1 and its pretty much over. Mind you, this is on mobs that rwhite to my flamer, so i'll get back to u on how to do ones thatr red to it when i find some, lol.

ok all of you who have posted on this page to inform this player your secret skills to soloing thing way out of your league just helped the Devs that are working on making this a group only game to easy.

i for one am way against this ever happening and with that any player out there that pays attention to what they are doing can solo stuff with the right tools. think and you well beable to figure it out man.

FYI i am againts player useing huge pets that they should not have unless creature handeler. that is not soloing.

I'm imperial, once you get flame cone 1, head west out kor vella there is a npc faction base, it's all rebel now days, go there covert, there is alot rebel milling around. you can use cone 1 on 4 surface marshall at same time, once you hit them, run into the building there. they wil patient wait outside while you in the house.

wait til they die, pop out and work on the rest rebel. this tactic have alot risk since the entire base aggro on you after the first hit, so only stay out the attack, and move back in to heal up, they hit quite hard, one of them advance strife me for around 1k damage.

but xp is great 3000 xp per kill since they all together 1 cone take about 4 of them, plus 22 faction. entire base gave me around 120k xp and 1k+ faction, respawn time is pretty slow though.