Droid Engineer Archive

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OckVofad wrote:

If anyone else is testing (i know Dresk is) post here.

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Sure, butcher my name why don't you....

Message Edited by Drashk on 08-18-2004 11:20 AM

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OckVofad wrote:

More info from StGabriel Swordsman Corresponant:

Ok, I replied with this info but I think a new thread would help. This is the normal method through which FS skills are obtained by FS charactors. At the end I will briefly discuss what is known about boons received for Holo grinding.

Basically there are two parts to obtaining FS skills. The first part is doing quests and the second part is using FS xps that have been obtained from converting regular xps.

Let me give an example. Captain Sarguillo is an NPC in the village. He offers a quest to attack an enemy base. When you do this quest you obtain the ability to train Combat Prowess: Melee Accuracy. That doesn't mean that you actually have the Melee Accuracy skills -- you just have the ability to actually train them. In order to do th actual training you need to convert your regular experience into Force Sensitive Combat xps. There are four FS experience types: combat, reflexes, senses and crafting. Normal xps convert at various rates into these FS experiences through an NPC. For weapons skills the conversion rate is 10 weapons xps -> 1 FS Combat sp (or Reflexes xp). For combat xps the rate is 1:1. Etc. There is a more complete list in another thread on this board.

Combat boxes require 175k, 250k, 350k, 450k experience for each respective level. To continue the example, when I completed the captains first mission I decided to train Melee Accuracy. I had 260k combat xps, 900k 2h xps, 900k unarmed xps and 900k SL xps. The combat xps converted directly into 260k FS Combat xps. The unarmed and 2h xps converted into 180k. The SL xps converted at a rate of 12:1 and yielded 75k experience. Having those xps AND having done the quest with Captain Sarguillo allowed me to then train Combat Prowess: Melee Accuracy I & II. I then had to go out and grind to obtain more experience to get III & IV.

Perks for Holo-grinders: The perk for holo-grinders appears to be the ability to get "free unlocks" of entire FS branches. I did 1 Holo and 16 total profs and I was offered 3 free unlocks. Someone I know who did 3 holos (+1 silent) and 7 total profs was offered 2 unlocks. I don't know of anyone who has used these yet and so it is still unclear as to what they do. For all we know they may give you the entire FS branch right there or they may simply give you credit for having done the quest respective to that branch. If it's the latter that would be a real letdown as the quests are a lot of fun and have rewards as well.

175,000 FS xp= 875,000 droid crafting xp

250,000 FS xp = 1.25 mil droid crafting xp

350,000 FS xp = 1.75 mil droid crafting xp

450,000 FS xp = 2.25 mil droid crafting xp

Note to self: Begin crafting Advanced Droid Frames ASAP!!

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Message Edited by Warryyr on 08-12-2004 01:22 PM

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Straker_Atrella wrote:

Ok can you guys please make a FS for dummies post please. I'm still a little vague on how it all works. Is this right?

So you get bades, then at some point, you get a visit from an old man, this then lets you start doing the Force Quests?

Correct. After the old guy, you are jumped by 2 Sith with about 1-2k HAM each. After you take out both of them, loot them for a disk that will give you the location of a Sith Camp. The Camp is pretty hard for anyone without an Advanced Combat profession. After you take out the strongest Sith in the camp, loot the corpse for another disk that tells you to go to the Science Outpost on Dathomir. At this point, you will meet Jamilla, who tells you to go to a village and talk to an elder.....at which point everything stops, since the quests are still borked atm.

In the Force quests, you can then convert your xp into points? Confused on this.

For every 5 DE XP, we can gain 1 FS XP. I can't varify this, since I can't talk to the person that trains the skills.

Do you need to give up skill points to do any of that?

Not sure as well...see above.

I wouldn't sweat the grind on the XP side honestly. Right now I am maxed at 240k Droid Crafting xp. I can convert all of that correct? You actually get a lot of xp for making finished droids, it wont be bad.

The Adv BLLchassis gives the most XP at 4k. It would take about 1550 BLLs to complete just the one tree.

Now the real questionI have is this. Does the Force Exp skill stack with exp tapes?

As soon as more info is discovered on this one, I'll post info here.

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