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Shrik

Tue Feb 24, 2004 10:23 am

So last night I got bored with Dantooine and headed to Dathomire (spelling?)

I took two giant baz nitches missions and headed out. I love the look of the terrain, but it doesn't bode well with pets. Due to the mountains my pets weren't hitting half the targets... anyhow I digress.. Now several of you had mentioned that an enraged rancor gives 1300 chxp. I had two level 21 pets out and when I saw one I thought what the heck... drank some brandy, ate some canapes sent in teh pets and spammed my specials. after the rancor died I only got about 950 ch xp between the two pets. The amount was the same with both rancos I hit. Granted good xp, but lower than expected. Does the level of the pet have to do with this?

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PostingAsIntended

Tue Feb 24, 2004 10:30 am

#2

1 pet out would have given you 1900 xp. 2 pets -950. 3 pets - 633

At least, thats how I understand the mechanics of how xp is divided between your pets.

Shrik

Tue Feb 24, 2004 11:07 am

#3

that would be the xp for each pet right? I noticed when I added the xp up when I was killing pikets I got about that same after adding the two together.. I don't know...

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Eert

Tue Feb 24, 2004 12:26 pm

#4

thast interesting formula...i would like clarification on this as well because i have also found that having just one pet out gains much more XP then having 2 pets out for the same creature. anyways If you could confirm this it would be cool

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LokSG

Tue Feb 24, 2004 2:00 pm

#5

It seems as if there are 2 factors at work here

1. The total xp is divided by the number of creatures used. This was to nerf the multiple creatures = multiple max xp thing.

2. The relative challenge level of your pet verses the creature. You will get next to nothing by sicking a CL50 on yard trash like lesser womp rats, but you will get a lot by sicking yard trash on CL50's. Of course the latter gets one-shot.

Seeing that there is a cap on armor at CL30 or higher, you are probably better off with say a couple armored CL35's taking on your CL80 enraged rancor than you are with a single CL70 since the challenge would be more. You would get even more I think were you to just use a single CL35 against the CL80. My experience is these lower level pets have a lower hit rate and have trouble holding agg on these creatures.

Aladine

Tue Feb 24, 2004 2:17 pm

#6

The optimum CL for a pet to fight enraged rancors is CL14. With my non BE cowwardly gurrek I get 1500 xp a pop. He does drop pretty fast if they decide to hit him though. I get about 1300 if I use baby creatures just fyi.

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I just wanted to let you know that that is for groups only, if you try to take down one of these beasts with just a CG, its gonna be toast. Just let the group attack the Enraged Rancor then send your pet in, have him hit it once for like 30 damage, and have him run back to you. Rinse and repeat.For max XP make sure you hit all the mobs at least once and make sure your pet is alive when they drop, whichare the requirementsfor youto get the CH XP.

Message Edited by Aladine on 02-24-2004 04:20 PM

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Eert

Tue Feb 24, 2004 3:38 pm

#7

The most interesting part to me is what is the optimum cl to use vs. the enraged rancors... should i go with my cl 15 cowardly gurreck , or my cl 25 gsp or my cl 34 graul mauler, OR my merek deathshead....Its always a tough call.

The major point I get from all this is that the stronger I get as a CH the less i am rewarded, its actually worse to use my best pets against most creatures... /sigh

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Seiryuu

Wed Feb 25, 2004 1:19 am

#8

You might try using a bigger pet.

There is a 'sweet spot' in the difference between levels. If you use too small a pet, you actually get less xp than were you to use a higher level one. With enraged rancors being CL 85 (or there abouts), you can probably use some of the highest CL pets and still get better xp than your CL 21 ones.

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TKFourTwoOne

Wed Feb 25, 2004 1:41 am

#9

When using my lvl 20 dewback mount I get 1400 and with my lvl25 GSP I get 1300 vs Enraged Rancors. That is with one pet out.

When I use 2 GSPs, I notice that they each give me half of the total XP I would have gotten if I had 1 pet out. This is just my observation, I haven't really paid attention to al lcases and mob types.

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Shrik

Wed Feb 25, 2004 1:52 am

#10

Yeah, normally the chxp adds up between the two to the monsters total. I was just wondering if that total was less due to pet levels. I'll have to play with it some. Unfortunately my only pets that can tank are those two. One will be level 30 when it is grown, but it still has a few days.

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mrcarpy

Wed Feb 25, 2004 2:36 am

#11

I remember like 2 months ago I would sick my GSP against a rancor and rack up 4k xp per kill. What happened hear...the devs should just eleminate the ch profession all together at this rate. However Im grinding thru it now1/1/1/2 and im so angry. I am using a cl13 kwi and getting only 1001xp per enraged. How are you guys getting 1300 using a cl14? does one level really make 300xp difference?

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