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Thread: FS grinding Post CU

Vaddo
Sun May 15, 2005 8:00 pm
#1

Hey, iv been doing the FS grind on and off for a long time (dont ask how long because im lazy and my progress is pathetic:smileytongue anyways iv got 2 trees done and 4 unlocked already. is the grind any slower now? and what stratagies do you have for grinding as MRM/MBH/MM



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thepulse
Sun May 15, 2005 8:46 pm
#2


the hardest thing about the FS grind now is looking for a group to do it with. and yeah it takes longer alot longer! dont be fooled by the joy that everyone was feeling after double xp week, my advise is try to find an active guild at least that gives two options to spam and get a group together on the guild chat and i hope your not on low pop server or play off hours cause might as well stick your toon 6 ft under and to be fair do ya really want to be jedi now? i mean ive got a few MBH toons and really its a shame for those poor padawans wich i was hopefull to be one someday and dont hunt them anymore out of pure guilt ..... the days of a solo jedi padi gring are over they must be grouped and that gets em on terms and ive had a few times where i grouped with 4 jedi and with all the BHs after them we really couldnt get anything done and 2 of them ended up with the loss of xp wich defeated any purpose of the grind in wich they where doing so its all one big joke!!!!


Although i did meet a jedi padi who is still solo grinding and was talking how he made 5k of xp in a day and if it wasnt for his ego i wouldnt have wrote down his name and hound terms till he showed up on them... I just had too bend him over backwards and hopfully got him the - xp.. "But im trying to be the sheppard Ringo... Im trying really really hard "





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Confusion12345
Sun May 15, 2005 9:03 pm
#3

If you're trying to get anything in the Enhanced Reflexes or Combat Prowess trees, you might wanna try grinding in the Village during the Phase 4 Sith attacks. Just get in a big group, stay together, use AoE shots and watch the xp flow in



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J-nine
Mon May 16, 2005 5:19 am
#4

I just unlocked my 6th tree, i need 4 and a half boxes till i can be a uber gimp with a glow stick, im master Carbineer/master rifle at the mo, but i might respec and get craeture handler as it looks like it could be good with my uber gimp glow stick char when i finally get it
Cuit
Mon May 16, 2005 8:51 am
#5

I think one thing alot of people have forgotten is that XP is based on the level of the group you're in. The group level is based on the highest level person. So if your group is level 80 and your only level 54 . . .the XP you get from creatures will be as if you were level 80 so fighting level 60 stuff (which for your standard level 54 player) might be tough for you . . . you won't get the XP bonus for it being higher level than you but instead you get the penalty due to the groups higher level.


I know this from XP as while hunting with a friend who was the same level (54) . . . we got great XP fighting level 56 creatures. But when we invited a level 80 friend . . . all of a sudden we were getting 1XP. We told him about it and he left the group with no hard feelings.


If you can find others about your level to group with . . . you might find the XP to be alittle better . . . for everyone.



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Vaddo
Mon May 16, 2005 9:20 am
#6

ehh there are ways to group and fight at various levels. a good friend of mine in RL recently remade his char and is now level 20. im level 80 so i take him rancor hutning on dath. I tank and he fires a shot or 2 to get full xp while being safe. we are both getting maximum xp for our levels (5.5k for me, 1.3k for him). Oh and I always pull the missions so that they are level 80+ so that we both get xp.



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Cuit
Mon May 16, 2005 9:43 am
#7

so you're saying a level 20 character was getting 1.3K for fighting a level 80 rancor? Somehow I think he's getting hosed


I was fighting level 56 jax (my level being 54) during double XP week and getting 8.9K per . . . if you take away half . . that's still just almost 4.5K per critter and for only 2 levels over me. It was alevel 56 mission and unless it was a fluke . . . . with every mission I took, the dif level was the same as the CL of the critters. Solevel 80 missions would spawn level 80critters.


sounds fishybut younever know





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Va-Mei
Mon May 16, 2005 9:46 am
#8


Yeah, Weapons & Combat XP have gotten slower for individuals than they were pre-CU, but every member of a party gets full credit for any kill they tagged. No moreloosing all your xp to the group just because your beefy tank can't deal more damage than my fragile little rifleman.


Over the last 2 weeks I've been grinding as a MRifle w/ 0040Ranger. Hunting in an 8 player CL80 group running 78-82 critter missions on Naboo, the weapons xp is comming inover 5k a kill for each member of the party with kills taking less than 30sec/each. An inspiration buff was pushing kills over 6k for some players. A lair will have 20 or more beasties each if the missions were drawn with a full party. Also, mission pay is no longer divided among the party members. If 8 players take an 11Kcr mission, each member gets that 11K payout.


Even better for me, Scout xp is based on the CL of the creature harvested. The senses trees may not be as helpfull to a Jedi player as the combat/reflexes trees, but ginding 2 trees at once sure goes a lot faster. CL80s were paying me over 3k xp per toward an xp cap of 1mil, with an 8:1 turn in ratio, and the pay for selling off 100k or moreof hide/meat a night really stacks up fast.
Zodiac-B
Mon May 16, 2005 10:33 am
#9






Cuit wrote:

so you're saying a level 20 character was getting 1.3K for fighting a level 80 rancor? Somehow I think he's getting hosed


I was fighting level 56 jax (my level being 54) during double XP week and getting 8.9K per . . . if you take away half . . that's still just almost 4.5K per critter and for only 2 levels over me. It was alevel 56 mission and unless it was a fluke . . . . with every mission I took, the dif level was the same as the CL of the critters. Solevel 80 missions would spawn level 80critters.


sounds fishybut younever know






I wouldn't say he's getting hosed. Imagine that lvl 20 player was trying to lvl their character. If they got lvl 80 max xp as a lvl 20, they'd master any prof in a matter of minutes. The whole ideafor the xp cap is to make sure you have a chance to learn your prof as you go, not get up to Master the fastest. During double xp, I was getting over 14k per lvl 82 (I'm lvl 80), so you were getting capped as well. Currently, I'm getting over 7000 xp. Sorry, but it makes perfect sense to me.






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Cuit
Mon May 16, 2005 11:27 am
#10

ok that makes sense . . . but it doesn't explain why when the level 80 person joined my group (which was doing level 56 missions) . . .we got bumped to 1XP rather than the 4K we were getting before he joined. Then again, there could have been a hot fix that I never noticed.


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thepulse
Mon May 16, 2005 1:07 pm
#11

No he is getting hosed!!! ive got a few low cl toons and i get into a CL 80 group and really its only about 800 to 1k difference in xp for me. the problem is that if i do missions like lets say im a CL 30 and i do a mission lvl 30 only about 25% if the citters will be a CL 30 the rest will me like 12 or 17 and i get no xp.

And i really doubt your taking a freind out to get rancors in a a group of 2, im a CL 80 on a few servers and all my missions pulled with less than 4 ot 5 peeps in group say there an 80 but they will be a 34 when i arrive. So either way i found it screwed up either i grind CL 30 Solo and die about every 30 minutes or so and get a little xp and kill alot of things on mission i get 1 xp for or i spend 45 minutes looking for a group thats just gonna fall apart after a few missions..


And Yet more suckage!!! like have you noticed that alot of groups dont want lower CL than 54 for the fact that your damage output sucks and really if somebody is doing the jedi or fs grind they want critters killed fast and when your hitting for around 200 to 500 dmg you really aint helping anyone even more so when its less so alot of groups are even leaving out lower CLs and if it wasnt for me understanding how hard it is having a low CL toon i would have to agree cause its nice when ya have a group of 80's or high 70's flying through missions making credits and xp. So i guees really what it comes down to is that medic is gonna be a must be skill for low cl chars .

And all you other people that are gonna say different your full of it!!! ive got a few master bh's master carbs, or pistols, 1 did my last unlock im grindind village on 2 servers 3 more unlocks on 2nd fs toon and a ,master crafter and a few more BHs in the making so i got all 8 toons that i play and i see this crap on all servers

my up and coming BHs are pretty much dead and i think its lame to get crap xp doing pikets cl 80 at a cl 30 and not getting crap for xp really when my CL 80 toon hit them 1 time for 7k xp... bah


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Vaddo
Mon May 16, 2005 1:09 pm
#12

the critter was level 56. your new level was 80 because you were grouped. since you were level 80, level 56 cons grey to you and yeilds 1 xp



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Vaddo
Mon May 16, 2005 1:19 pm
#13






thepulse wrote:

No he is getting hosed!!! ive got a few low cl toons and i get into a CL 80 group and really its only about 800 to 1k difference in xp for me. the problem is that if i do missions like lets say im a CL 30 and i do a mission lvl 30 only about 25% if the citters will be a CL 30 the rest will me like 12 or 17 and i get no xp.

And i really doubt your taking a freind out to get rancors in a a group of 2, im a CL 80 on a few servers and all my missions pulled with less than 4 ot 5 peeps in group say there an 80 but they will be a 34 when i arrive. So either way i found it screwed up either i grind CL 30 Solo and die about every 30 minutes or so and get a little xp and kill alot of things on mission i get 1 xp for or i spend 45 minutes looking for a group thats just gonna fall apart after a few missions..


And Yet more suckage!!! like have you noticed that alot of groups dont want lower CL than 54 for the fact that your damage output sucks and really if somebody is doing the jedi or fs grind they want critters killed fast and when your hitting for around 200 to 500 dmg you really aint helping anyone even more so when its less so alot of groups are even leaving out lower CLs and if it wasnt for me understanding how hard it is having a low CL toon i would have to agree cause its nice when ya have a group of 80's or high 70's flying through missions making credits and xp. So i guees really what it comes down to is that medic is gonna be a must be skill for low cl chars .

And all you other people that are gonna say different your full of it!!! ive got a few master bh's master carbs, or pistols, 1 did my last unlock im grindind village on 2 servers 3 more unlocks on 2nd fs toon and a ,master crafter and a few more BHs in the making so i got all 8 toons that i play and i see this crap on all servers

my up and coming BHs are pretty much dead and i think its lame to get crap xp doing pikets cl 80 at a cl 30 and not getting crap for xp really when my CL 80 toon hit them 1 time for 7k xp... bah


selling on ebay sounds good atm but i figure ever since may 5th my account will be worth 2 bucks.......





I can pull level 83 bull rancor missions solo with ease. and yes I do take my CL 20 (nowCL 25 because of my help) friend out to kill things. sure I do all the damage but he only needs to shoot things once to get full xp (relevant to his level). all the critters at my missions are the correct level.


Also xp is tied to your level. that keeps low CL people from grouping wih CL 80 people and grindingall ofmaster marksman in about 15 kills.





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