Commando Archive

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Jeht_ wrote:
oh, and I said average anyways. if you are holding a rifle (FLAMETHROWER) you get a dmg modifier for holding it (either 1.5 or 2.5, can't remember)

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It's no longer valid with last patch.

I've already fight Giant Krayt and the only way we could kill it was to cripple it (with a friend carabineer) and then I was using flame shots and running.

If a dragon hits you for 500 it's not a giant one. I don't trust you till I see screenshots, because the dragons we hunted were hitting MUCH more than 500.

I have experimented with killing krayts when I was a master heavy swordsperson/ master smuggler and had terrific results stacking the 2 mind bleeds and occasionally getting up from feigning death to bop it on the head. I am currently working on the commando flamethrower line in order to do this very same thing using fewer points in my build.

My setup as a master swordsperson:

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  Fully buffed



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  Weapon powerups reducing mind cost and increasing min damage



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  Several doses of muon gold at the ready



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  Angerian Fishak drink for the muon downers (yes canyon krayts take more than 10 minutes to solo)



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  80% kinetic resistan composite armor

Tactics for flamethrowers (modified from my sword tactics):

• Use smuggler panic shot or brawler warcry when krayt gets within range for a small delay before taking damage. (panic shot sticks more often than warcry for me... master brawler types might do better with warcry 2)


• Stack pistol bleeds &flame special dots


• if you aren't all that damaged, or not on a muon downer... flame it a couple additional times to speed the process and prevent a group from kill stealing your prey.


• Hit your feign death key


• If nobody is around... let the DOT tick away and only get up to re-apply (takes a little longer, but you save wear and tear on your equipment)


• If people are around trying to steal your kill... keep resting up till the krayt aggros/kills the offending party of kill stealers then get up and start hitting it some more.

The juvi krayts should go down quickly, the canyon krayts take a little time, and I haven't tried anything larger than canyons so I'm not sure what the effects would be against... say... an ancient.

It was mentioned in a previous post in this thread that all yo need is dirty fighting one to get feign death. While this is true... additional levels of the dirty fighting line will lower the wait time it takes to prepare feign death which will sometimes save your life.

Also worth noting.... recent changes to feign death cause critters to now instantly re-aggro you unless they are aggro'd by another person. This means that if you manage to tackle one without ANYONE around to aggro the beast-- you had better finish the job or you'll end up in the clone center. I've had a canyon krayt re-aggro me from 500m out when I got up from feigning off a muon downer.

Good luck... and as always... results may vary!

Solo a krayt? yes... solo a krayt and get credit for the kill and be able to loot it? no... thanks to the flame DoT bug that steals your kill (apparently, the DoT gathers its own 'kill status' and if it does enough damage you don't get any credit for the kill, even if you did 10k damage!)

yeah well i killed uh.....60 krayts yesterday. Solo'd.....with a launcher pistol....yeah thats it.

I'll kill a few tonight, post some screens for all the non-believers

screenies !

after a night hunting with my guild ran into a couple after our group dwindled down

http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=30334

had a couple audience members

http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=30338

http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=30339

and in case you think the bantha's in the pictuers "doesn't make it soloing"

here :

http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=30342

http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=30343

http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=30346

http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=30347

now, I just got tissue and scales from these 2, the pearls I had from earlier that night so...any what do you say to that true-believers?

Quite impressive.
How long did it take you ? How many times did you clone ?
And could you see average hit of the dragon ?

Nice work Jeht_, Bravo.

I can also attest to the fact that the dragons are infact, solo-able. They seem to be barn stingy these days though.

Nyce Ta'Meetcha - Bela Imperial Division - FIREBASE GODZILLA, Tatooine
Master Smuggler/Master Commando

no clones. it was hitting for around 400-2500, depending on the attack. but was only taking about 90 dmg with flamer unequipped, about 190 with it equipped.

nah, we got loot off all last night. I only killed 2 solo. but about 20 or so with my group. aound 30 tissues and 3 pearls and some scales which I instantly destroyed.

actually, with the methods discussed here, its pretty possible. time consuming, but possible.