Force Sensitive Archive
Thread: THE TKM GRIND!!!
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HHH_199
Sun Dec 12, 2004 10:35 am
#1
Ok, so like most of all of you have been doing the TKM grind for the village and its nice I will say. There is one thing though that I was wondering, which stuff gives good xp?. I have kinda been experimenting with somethings on endor, dath, and dant. I have found that one of the best ways to get XP w/o being ina solo group on endor is fighting the rock smashers plus they are like 10 k missions which is some form of income again. Hurtons with a solo group are also good on dant, and basically anything that scourges on dath is good XP, just watch out for those force users.... So Im calling out all the TKM's or other meele gurus to comment and tell me what you guys are doing for XP 
You leave grenade comments to if you want to. I just use nades on lairs and some weaker things that I run into. Lets make this thread a good one.
You leave grenade comments to if you want to. I just use nades on lairs and some weaker things that I run into. Lets make this thread a good one.
AdosOba
Sun Dec 12, 2004 10:46 am
#2
First off missions are never the way to xp grind. Some will disagree, but mob lairs will always spawn many many more creatures. I can pull between 100k and 300k off a single Marek lair on Endor. Rancors on Dath you can pull the same too, it's all about what you want to do. I like Endor since there are not as many hills, you never have to deal with the odd NS zapping you, and there seems to be more mob lairs on Endor.
YortNoyl
Sun Dec 12, 2004 11:24 am
#3
Well first off i think its uterly ludicris that us not choosing to go commando (no not the underwear-less version) puts us at such an obvious disadvantage when it comes to FP grinding, something really needs to be done about this **cough** never happen **cough**..as for what i do to get my points is hurton mish's on dant ...and stopping for the rouge packs of Jantas or Graul lairs.
YoddaKiller
Sun Dec 12, 2004 11:35 am
#4
You need to seriously consider changing your template for the grind. Doing it purely with TKM is insane and will drive you insane doing it.
If money is no object get Commando for the nades or get Swords, Rifelman or any other Elite Combat Prof that can deal out high damage FAST.
Don't get me wrong TKM is a good profession.... it's just too slow for grinding FS XP.
If money is no object get Commando for the nades or get Swords, Rifelman or any other Elite Combat Prof that can deal out high damage FAST.
Don't get me wrong TKM is a good profession.... it's just too slow for grinding FS XP.
Shinky
Sun Dec 12, 2004 2:24 pm
#5
im doing tkm way too. My template is TKM, Master Brawler, and Medic 2/4/4/x.
If i work my ass off i cap once a buff sesson. It is a long and hard road, but I'm not into using the grenade exploit. Yes I called it an exploit, because I don't think soe intending us to become jedis with grenades, but anyway, I use Karuth Snappers (sorry about spelling) on Dath, 5k xp for like 5k-7k health. round em up and spin attack em. I use missions for money, but for the grind definitely use wild lairs. You can round up a rediculous amount of xp FAST with the snappers. Brackesets are good too, they're mobs are usually huge, just use knockdown and unarmedhit 3 and tear em down one by one, yet again, 5k xp for about 10k health. Good News.
If i work my ass off i cap once a buff sesson. It is a long and hard road, but I'm not into using the grenade exploit. Yes I called it an exploit, because I don't think soe intending us to become jedis with grenades, but anyway, I use Karuth Snappers (sorry about spelling) on Dath, 5k xp for like 5k-7k health. round em up and spin attack em. I use missions for money, but for the grind definitely use wild lairs. You can round up a rediculous amount of xp FAST with the snappers. Brackesets are good too, they're mobs are usually huge, just use knockdown and unarmedhit 3 and tear em down one by one, yet again, 5k xp for about 10k health. Good News.
Townnut
Sun Dec 12, 2004 3:00 pm
#6
It is not possible to get 300k xp off of a single Merek lair. I'm tkm, master swords. For swordsman I kill mereks, for tkm I kill those frenzied gurreks or whatever the hell they are called and I will also kill mereks if the lairs don't spawn merek harvesters, cause they have high kinetic protection and slow me down. I cap swords and ua in 2 hours.
branny
Sun Dec 12, 2004 6:45 pm
#8
totally agree with the above poster. if you are factioned, there are some "secret" spots all over depending on what server you are on. I myself am a TKM/Master Swords/ Fencer4414. so in one buff session plus a 2 hour music/dance buff. I am able to cap my 2H/unarmed/ and get about 400K on my fencer, netting about 140K FS xp in the process, and b/c its STs, I get almost 14K of faction points in the process, and A LOT of loot, Since the wanted posters have come out, I have looted over 50 posters already, with the break down being about 10 to 1 in terms of LUKE to Han payout. I still have yet to get a Leia. Money is not that great, but you still manage to get about 200K per session, which is pretty close to what the new mission payout nerfs have taken out of the system. In addition, there are also the occasional highly sought after adhesives, CAs and AAs as well. unfortunately, these "sites" are highly camped, and on my server, luckily we are all very civilized, in that if we see someone already occupying the sight, we do not go and KS and steal the location.
Townnut
Sun Dec 12, 2004 7:56 pm
#9
Let me see, this place you grind at, is it on corellia? Cause I mastered 5 elite combat professions at the Factional EvE on corellia.
Maxil
Sun Dec 12, 2004 8:14 pm
#10
all of you going commando are the insaine ones, capping tkm once a day, 21 days end of phase you got all the xp you need. On top of the combat xp. I couldn't stand throwing grenades all day to get all the fs xp in one day, what's the point? That seems too much like work for me, and I don't pay to work...
Oh and the mareks, it is possible, I had one pop about between 30-40 spawns one time.. thought the bloddy thing would never end. Same thing with the spiders, great spawns for xp. I cap in about an hour 1/2.
Oh and the mareks, it is possible, I had one pop about between 30-40 spawns one time.. thought the bloddy thing would never end. Same thing with the spiders, great spawns for xp. I cap in about an hour 1/2.
Message Edited by Maxil on 12-12-2004 07:16 PM
Zhentarim
Sun Dec 12, 2004 8:33 pm
#11
If you are Swordsman/Pikeman you'll find Pikets (any type) and Seething Bol crushersniceasXP farming creatures if you can find them in wild spawns on Dantooine.
Most pikets are low res vs. electricity and blast damage and yield somewhere between 3.5 and 4.5k xp per creature. Usually they are found in "dead/hollow tree" type of lairs and can, if you are properly grouped, give up to 100k per lair.
It's the same thing with Seething Bol crushers, although they have somewhat higher res. than Pikets. Usually they'll give some 4.5 and 5k per creature if properly grouped. They live in "pile of rocks" lairs and can also roughly give 100k per lair.
The risk is low, the xp payout is high and it's probably just right next to where you live anyway! 
trifidac
Sun Dec 12, 2004 8:38 pm
#12
I actually cap unarmed twice in one buff by hunting huurton stalkers/howlers/etc and any pikets on dant, especially the piket longhorn females. I just wander around killing everything I see until I find a couple promising lairs/spawns about 100-150m from each other. Then I waypoint both and go back and forth between them.
The high end voritors are more xp. But you can go through the lower level stuff (4k xp vs. 5k xp) in about 1/4 of the time. I used to hate the piket longhorn females, because spin attack doesn't work on them. But once I realized how fast I can drop one with a knockdown and head hits (about 6 seconds), they became my instant favorite. The other thing I like about piket lairs is that I seem to get between 15 and 20 of them per lair without a solo group. The key thing to keep in mind is that you can't get more than approximately 5k xp for killing anything. So why kill something that is twice as hard as a piket female if it only gives 25% more xp.
The high end voritors are more xp. But you can go through the lower level stuff (4k xp vs. 5k xp) in about 1/4 of the time. I used to hate the piket longhorn females, because spin attack doesn't work on them. But once I realized how fast I can drop one with a knockdown and head hits (about 6 seconds), they became my instant favorite. The other thing I like about piket lairs is that I seem to get between 15 and 20 of them per lair without a solo group. The key thing to keep in mind is that you can't get more than approximately 5k xp for killing anything. So why kill something that is twice as hard as a piket female if it only gives 25% more xp.
Tremk_Stryder
Mon Dec 13, 2004 6:07 am
#13
best for the grind WITHOUT commando is rifleman-swordsman... both are much better than any other profession for pve out there... can even outdmg jedi in some cases....
as for commando... i dont like "jipping" off a profession...so i ground all of it out... imo the hardest grind i have done so far (crafting not included)
you only get 3.5 k xp per kill...which is not fun since u get like 5k with any other profession...and its slow as well
the downsides r many... grenade speed doesnt seem to work...most of the tapes available also dont work.... u get much less xp for heavy weapons compared to other professions and the accuracy most of the time is just miserable
thankfully nades get combat xp and the acuracytapes on them work....thats about the only good thing as far as "grinding" anything goes
i was rifleman...great dmg, very fast as well...swordsman is the "rfileman" profession of melee... both dont have many defences but they'll do just fine hunting stuff like animals down... just dont try soloing elders.
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