Force Sensitive Archive
Thread: nades' versus the normal way
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Inimesa
Thu Feb 24, 2005 11:52 am
#1
How much harder is it to grind out the exp need for the 6 branches just using a melee profession instead of spending millions on grenades? I am wondering cause I dont want to spend all this cash on nades if it doesn't make that much of a difference.
Adumar121
Thu Feb 24, 2005 12:07 pm
#2
Im doing it all with Master pikes and TKM. Its not to hard and if you kill the right stuff i can get around 150-240k fs xp including village travels, a buff. have 1.5 branches done so 1/4 of the way there 
i reccomend you do this that way you can spend your money on crystals and pearls once your a jedi instead of grenades.
i reccomend you do this that way you can spend your money on crystals and pearls once your a jedi instead of grenades.Ilec Adumar
RogueFettt
Thu Feb 24, 2005 12:26 pm
#3
If you want a comparison, you can usually get between 400k-500k FS XP per buff, throwing imperial detonators at giant baz nitches for 3 hours.
johnmalm77
Thu Feb 24, 2005 12:41 pm
#4
The grenade grind is faster & more expensive, much more expenisive. I have not done the any part of the grenade grind because well.. I am a cheapskate. I prefer the Melee grind b/c I can use Centerofbeing macro instead of armor (nades will beqat up armor suit after armor suit) & so my only expense is a 15k Power Hammer.. I don't even need P'ups. I can do the lair completely afk (i stand 11m aways, & run a target macro which resets nearest target every 3 seconds & just use area attack.
Besides, if you haven't unlocked a single branch you'd still have 18 weeks ahead of you at the least. you'd have to melee grind daily vs. nades you could get through it much faster but when I saw that I weighed it like this, I know how long & how many MOBs I have to kill to get through a jedi template, guesstimation math says that it takes approx. 3.3k Giant Baz Nitches to get through the FS grind, melee it takes some thing like 22k GBN. That same # of GBN killed as a jedi --- Nades GBN maybe Lightsaber 0040 & a few novice boxes / melee GBN grinding machine would get Master lightsaber, & just shy of 3 full branches in another tree. You tell me, who is more prepared for the jedi grind?
Chenza
Besides, if you haven't unlocked a single branch you'd still have 18 weeks ahead of you at the least. you'd have to melee grind daily vs. nades you could get through it much faster but when I saw that I weighed it like this, I know how long & how many MOBs I have to kill to get through a jedi template, guesstimation math says that it takes approx. 3.3k Giant Baz Nitches to get through the FS grind, melee it takes some thing like 22k GBN. That same # of GBN killed as a jedi --- Nades GBN maybe Lightsaber 0040 & a few novice boxes / melee GBN grinding machine would get Master lightsaber, & just shy of 3 full branches in another tree. You tell me, who is more prepared for the jedi grind?
Chenza
Sakaba-Tou
Thu Feb 24, 2005 12:57 pm
#5
Inimesa wrote:
How much harder is it to grind out the exp need for the 6 branches just using a melee profession instead of spending millions on grenades? I am wondering cause I dont want to spend all this cash on nades if it doesn't make that much of a difference.
If you don't want to spend your money on nades, then get a double or triple profession template ( Fencer/Swordsman/TKM etc.) and go to the DWB. If the spawn is broken and you have a decent group, you can max out all 3 in a buff session and the only thing you pay for is weapons. Still, that will only give you 180k FXP compared to at least 200k doing nades (only maxing out twice) in one buff session. It all depends on how fast and how much money your willing to put into the grind. I have tried both and nades is way faster. Just my opinion.
Kenshin'Himura
GodsOfDeath
TKM/Grenadier/FS Grinder
"You couldn't possibly defeat someone who smells of so much blood."
-Saitou Hajime-
Inimesa
Thu Feb 24, 2005 3:53 pm
#6
I hear you can grind one fs tree in 4-5 just as master swordsman...
GuntherRall
Thu Feb 24, 2005 4:18 pm
#7
Inimesa wrote:
I hear you can grind one fs tree in 4-5 just as master swordsman...
Four to five hours???
Good luck with that...
Homeelo
Thu Feb 24, 2005 4:22 pm
#9
My plan (and it's not necessarily a good plan, just the one i'm currently using) is to go ahead and just grind out xp normally using my commando and then, as it gets near the end of my 18 weeks in the village, see how much i have/how much i need and then start grinding the crap out of grenades if need be. I figure what else am I supposed to do with that 18 weeks anyway? i might as well be making money and experience, if nothing else i figure by say week 12 if i'm still far off i'll switch to heavy grenade grinding and finish up in no time, and that will probably ahve already been financed by all the missions i ran already. this is all theory of course, i'm still waiting for my visit from the old man, but as far as i can tell this should be the cheapest way to jedi without sacrificing any time.
Xandorex
Thu Feb 24, 2005 6:18 pm
#10
ive just about done my first branch in 4 days with rifles but ive been doing it practically all day so its slower than nades but i want to spend my millions on crystals and pearls rather than bombs
johnmalm77
Thu Feb 24, 2005 8:51 pm
#11
Melee trade in is 900/90 in aprox. 2 hrs. (actually slightly less if you are like completely isolated from guild.. friends & such). That comes out to a measely 60k FS XP which works out to requiring 20.5 trade ins for a full FS branch. You can pound out 2-3 trade ins a day if you are a complete anti social type person that's 6 hrs of grinding & it's not fun, but it can be done. I was sick a week or so ago & did 5 trade ins 1 day... it was the most wasteful day of my life... but I wants me a jedi... I think. I've dropped my schedule to 1 trade in a day which is perfectly reasonable given the time & such, at least for me that is.
SITHY123
Thu Feb 24, 2005 9:25 pm
#12
i used to gind squills with TKM for a whole buff and get about 160K FS XP now i use nades and get an avergae of 450K FS XP a buff. Nades is a lot better.
Oisis Darkstrider
Future Jedi Master
SITHY123
Thu Feb 24, 2005 9:28 pm
#13
i do about 3 trade ins a day cuz i cap and trade in every 30 mins so anhour and 30 mins a day isnt bad for me.
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