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Thread: I heard a rumour....
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WolfGuy
Wed Dec 08, 2004 2:16 pm
#1
I was out hunting with a friend of mine, killing Krayts. My standard thing to do is to tank using TKM but switch to Commando to keep a steady burn going while my friend (master rifleman) blasts away from his ideal range. He insists that I not burn anything once the Krayt (or NS Elder or whatever) gets down past about 1/3 of it's health because it a mob or NPC dies from a burn it will have no loot or less of a chance of loot.
Now, he is the loot expert so I listen but I was wondering if anyone else had heard this. I have not had too much of a chance to test this extensively because it is hard to know exactly when something dies of the burn or when it dies of combat hits, especially when I don't have feign death. I am fairly sure I have looted stuff off of things I have burned to death but can't say for certain. It would suck to lose good loot because something burned and died even as I was killing it, but I can see how people would abuse DoTs (ever watch a BH/Pistoleer/Smuggler try to solo a Krayt using TorosShot and Feign Death? Painfully slow but it works and can actually be afk macro'd) to kill high end creatures for loot.
Anyone heard anything like this?
Now, he is the loot expert so I listen but I was wondering if anyone else had heard this. I have not had too much of a chance to test this extensively because it is hard to know exactly when something dies of the burn or when it dies of combat hits, especially when I don't have feign death. I am fairly sure I have looted stuff off of things I have burned to death but can't say for certain. It would suck to lose good loot because something burned and died even as I was killing it, but I can see how people would abuse DoTs (ever watch a BH/Pistoleer/Smuggler try to solo a Krayt using TorosShot and Feign Death? Painfully slow but it works and can actually be afk macro'd) to kill high end creatures for loot.
Anyone heard anything like this?
Novock
Wed Dec 08, 2004 2:33 pm
#2
Hmmm that's interesting at hadn't heard that before but I wonder hwo you go about proving something like that. I know when we go kryat hunting we usually got that thing loaded with bruns, bleeds, posions, disease and so forth. We wtill get loot though the rate is low. Be something to look into anything that would increase the drop aret would be nice to know. Good post hope someone can give yuo some answers on that one.
Lok-Ranger
Wed Dec 08, 2004 3:01 pm
#3
I soloed a GDK a few weeks back and got a good burn on it. I switched to my VK and proceeded to pound the crap out of it, and made sure to reapply the flame dot when the old one wore out. The bad thing about doing it was that my flame dot did more damage than me and it said I didn't have permission to loot from it. There went about 15 minutes worth of killing it. I even submitted a bug and got the usual canned response that the CSR's can't do jack about it.
Novock
Wed Dec 08, 2004 3:12 pm
#4
ouch man i feel you're pain though. My GDK kill count is now at 40 and not a single GDK scale... anyway don't want to switch the topic of the thread.
Message Edited by Novock on 12-08-2004 04:17 PM
Silberado
Thu Dec 09, 2004 9:12 pm
#5
I wonder if this is true, I will run the same caves as a friend of mine and get very little loot. Yet my friend keeps coming up with nice loot from the same caves. I understand they are random but this seems to be consistant.
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