Force Sensitive Archive

Bounty Hunter/Creature Handler Dabbler/Novice Medic! Two of the funnest professions in the game, with three powerful ranged weapons to stoke up for 900,000 weapons XP eachplus 175k of Combat XP, plus Scout/Creature Handler/Medic for Heightened Senses XP that can go into Healing. I racked up 450,000 Reflexes XP for Ranged Defense-4 in a hard week of gaming, while earning my first Heightened-Senses Healing box at the same time, all from hunting rancors. It's a very powerful and flexible PvE template, with a wealth of damage types.

Here's how the numbers looked:

1 level-48 rancor lair (accessible by pulling out two pets and a combat droid with my lightning cannon equipped)

- 4100 Pistols XP per rancor (typically a rancor, a gnarled rancor, and a rancor youth in each spawn)

-- 3 sets of spawns per lair = 9 rancors = approximately 30,000 Pistols XP (assuming a baby or two in the mix)

- 1 lair = 4100 Lightning Cannon XP

- Combat XP = 3,400 per mission

- 750 Scout XP per creature for harvesting hides or meat = 6750 Scout XP per lair

- 450 to 490 Creature Handling XP per creature attacked by my lvl-32 bioengineered razor cat = approximately 4200 CH xp

34,000 weapons xp plus 3,400 Combat XP = 2,266 Force-Sensitive Combat/Reflexes XP per Lair

6,750 Scout XP+4200 Creature Handler XP =1,309 Heightened Senses XP per lair

Figure about 15 rancor missions per round of buffs, and that works out to about 12-14 buff sessions for me to fill that last box in Ranged Defense.

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1. GameSpy's interview with Julio Torres on the negative fan reaction to his earlier interview about the launch of the New Game Environment: Clicky

2. ZDnet's GameSpot.com's reader reviews of the Post-NGE Star Wars: Galaxies Starter Kit: Clicky No. 2

3. MMORPG.com's editorial on the ethics of changing an active MMORPG: Clicky No. 3

I am TKM and Master Doc, have been and always will be. I find hunting in groups allows me to max out both in 2.5 hrs.

This is my template, optimiced in order to do as less travels to the village as possible.

Master Fencer: Fencer speed is great and it works fine againts mobs with no armor (dantooine). 900k one-handed xp 90k in about 1 hour

Master Sword: Swordman has te very best weapon in the game, at least for me, Scythe Blade. I can get 900k two-handed and 90k combat in about 45 min

TK 4030: Tk is very similar to fencer because the speed and damage, but tk weapon has AP1, and meditation is great to get mini bufs and cure all wounds and states without any help. 900k of unarmed xp and 90k of combat in about 1 h 15 min.

Why not TKM?, becausei don't need it for my grind, i get well with my unarmed spin atttack2 and the extra speed of master Brawelr, and for my combat template,fencer has thebest defenses. Don't care what TKM's fanatics say,i have mastered both proffesions and its true, just take a char gen and check it by your self.

Master Brawler: Great to get an +5 extra on speed and accuracy in all the previous classes and to get the knockdown ability for fencer (This is very usefull in pvp or pve)

My methodology varies from day to day, I use to take high qenquer, hurtoons and voritors missions on dantooine, and destroy all the nest i see in my way to every mission. My other choise used to be sqill cave in Tatooine, that's one of the best places to get fast xp. Doing missions i use to attack the nest with my spin attack 2 until it blast and then finish all the mobs around me.

I use to start with fencer, because is my favourite class, then sword and then tk. In this way i'm able to get about:

30k fs xp->one handed

30k fs xp->two handed

30k fs xp->unarmed

90k fs xp->combat (aprox)

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180k fs xp per buff (3h and 30 min) aprox.

You need a total of 1225k fs for each branch.

1225/180 = 6.80 --> about 7 travels to the village --> 24,5 hours of pure grinding, without the time you spend travelling.

24,5 hour per branche* 6 branches = 147 hours of pure grinding

Since i'm not crazy i use to reach two boxes per week aprox, and i hope in a couple of months to get all my grinding done.

This is only maths, of course all this depends of the luck you have finding a good buff, getting a good respawn of mobs,buyin composites, chating with friends.... and enjoying the game after all.

Hope this will be usefull for any of you.

Cheers!!