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I was on lok at the Nym Stronghold starport getting some missions, when I saw some aggros on my radar. Not being able to resist my fascination on selecting the nearest target whenever I see an enemy (mostly because I can kill anything in the known universe with master commando), I select it and it turns out to be a Giant Kimogila right next to a kimogila lair. I decide to try and use my reliable swoop (well, not really reliable... I had just bought it because my last one got destroyed by a pack of gurks) and drive right next to the kimo, burn it, jump back on my bike and run away until it died from the burn. As soon as I got close to it, it started attacking me, which wasn't all that horrible because I had 80% kinetic armor and buffs and it only did maybe 80 damage, but it has an annoying habit of giving you an uber powerful dizzy state which knocks you down for 20 seconds. I managed to give it a burn before it knocked be down, and it was there stomping on me until I finally got up with half of my mind gone. I ran to my bike, hopped on and drove away. The burn took away a fourth of its health before it went away, so I went in to do it again. I nearly got killed several times, but I managed to stay alive. Finally, while it was above me, about to kill me with a final swipe of it's claws, it collapsed on top of me, dead at last. I looked up at the system message to see how much XP I had raked in. My jaw dropped. It gave me a whole..... 2506 XP!!! Waaait a minute... I could get more XP for killing a gurk than killing a giant kimo?! I understand that they probably don't want people just soloing kimos and getting tens of thousands of XP because that would just be down right cheating, but less than a gurk?? Ora quenker?? I didn't even get any loot off of it.

Well, this is just a warning to all of you, don't waste your time hunting one of the most deadly creatures in the galaxy expecting to get loads of XP.

Yeah I've noticed experience for Kimogilas is really low, but it was that way before the patch as well. However, I am surprised you managed to solo one as all the ones I've seen usually smack you with a mind disease that black bars your mind pool in about 30 seconds. Not too much fun, especially for a Rifleman...

XP is pretty much limited to 5K per kill. You can get a little over that but not much. They changed this back in Beta, people were getting like 100K-200K (if I remember correctly) from killing krayts and such. Not so bad if they were impossible to solo (these were also the old krayts mind you), but they were. Could you imagine people mastering a profession in a little under a day?

Also, I think the burn might have subtracted from your XP total as well. Although only getting 2.5k XP for killing a Giant Kimo solo is kinda ridiculous...I mean, I understand that we can't have people mastering classes in a day, but still. When you can get better XP from easier mobs, you realize how stupid the whole system really is...

It's the burn. I guarantee you shoot it without using any DOT's and you will get your FULL xp.

ewokbaby no that is not true

DOT doesn't give you any xp, which is why if you burn rancors to death you don't get any xp. If seen it said countless times on this board.

dued thats a bug in wich cas the game thinks you had nothing to do with the death of that cretur if you were to have hit it with apine prik of damyou would of got loot rights and xp belive me i know how it works

Then how come I get more xp from killing a creature with jsut attack, than I do when I use flamesingle 2 and let it burn?

I use burns on gurks all the time and most of the damage comes from the burn because I'm fighting off the other 5 gurks on me, but I still get the same amount of XP for all of them...

all i do is light all my enemies on fire, and then kill one at a time while the others burn to death, the ones that i only burned i still get the same XP as for the ones i attacked directly at.....

ewokbaby ither your doing 2 tings one attacking 100% heatresitent mobs thous doing no dam but puting a burn on them

or your coneing useing a aoe attack as you start the fight if the mabs artn attacking aoe dont hit them for any dam but lays a dot on them (this is a bug)

but the flamer dot dose not tkae away any xp

People kill these for the loot, NOT for the exp.