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Thread: Solo'ing Elders
kujan wrote:
how can you guys stand killing elders? stand there for 10 mins constantly healing yourself just for some heavy duty leather? the risk far outweighs the reward in my opinion. and yes, they can kill you very easily. dizzy + kd and then they throw in a few combo's for good measure. my advice, run if you see a stun baton or power hammer. their bleeds are pretty insane as well. 1500 point bleeds, i had one of those today.
how many elders have you killed?
griggy wrote:
ive made over 20 mil in the premium crystals those elders drop plus the fact you can get legendary weapons and some insane armor attachments so i think they are worth the time
kujan wrote:
how many elders have you killed?
griggy wrote:
ive made over 20 mil in the premium crystals those elders drop plus the fact you can get legendary weapons and some insane armor attachments so i think they are worth the time
id say a good 6 or 7 by myself for some reason they love giving me crystals lolhad to let 3 elders go because of the stun baton though lol theres no getting around that unless you have a group with you.
i've killed 5 SMC councilwoman, 275k ham,same resists as an elder. 30% to energy and blast, 100% to everything else. i've gotten about 9k in credits. i've killed about 15 of the SMC guardians with 90k ham, nothing. maybe my luck just sucks. the reason i switched was because i can kill any type of SMC with my T21, which isn't the case with Nightsisters.That sounds pretty awesome. Can you explain the benefits of tka and fencer? What kind of stims do I use an how good they get?
griggy wrote:
and if you want to solo elders like it aint no thang try this template MBrawler/Swordsman,Medic 2/0/4/0,Fencer 4/4/4/0,and TK 0/3/0/2.Also get 7+ in 2hand speed attachments
HardwiredXMan wrote:
Swordsman can solo anything in this game.....Rifleman can also.....I beleive there's only 1 mob that is 100% to blast and Kinetic but I can't remember what mob it is...OH! I remembern now...it's one of the spider clan on dath....maybe the elder or one of her minions....I just know there's at least one each of the spider clan that each combat profession can do no damgae to.......all the rest are either vulnerable or have low resist to one or the other.
And whomever said it takes a swordsman 10 - 15 minutes to kill a nightsister....uhm! what are you a novice swordsman.....nightsister's should never take longer than 2 minutes as a master swordsman....heck I can kill them in less than 10 minutes as a master fencer....only the elders take longer than 10 minutes....and for a swordsman it should take you at least 30 minutes for that......hell, it doesn't even take me 10 minutes to kill 3 spellweavers and 2 protectors all attacking me at once....for some reason their force powers seem to miss me a lot....**shrug** guess I"m either lucky or I'm just missing something.
Yep, you're missing something. First off genious, my comment was referring to killing NS Elders, as that was the topic of the thread. They take 10-15 minutes to kill, nowhere near 30. Can usually kill at least 4 an hour when they spawn well. Any other NS outside of a Protectortakes maybe 10 seconds to kill. Protectors take 30 seconds.
Second, Rifleman do energy damage, not kinetic, with a T-21, and about half of the NS have 100% energy resists. Might be the Spellweavers and Protectors. Master Rifleman is not that great of a profession for soloing as you have no melee damage mitigation, and all mobs eventually go to melee attacks.
HardwiredXMan wrote:
Also, fighting kryats is not a waste of time...the pearls and tissues are big money makers, that's why jedi are always broke from buying crystals and pearls for their lightsabers....and as a master swordsman, you should not have to worry about kill stealers....noone can outdamage you especially if your speed capped...well maybe a master rifleman could give you a run for your money....but then it all comes down to who has the better rifle or PH......besides, if your the first one on the krayt even a rifleman coming in late won't outdamage you.
I don't know, maybe it's just me....but since I've been a master swordsman, noone has been able to kill steal or ninja loot....I always get the most credit and I'm looting before the corpse hit's the ground.
Krayts are an absolute waste of time compared to NS Elders. They spawn infrequently, and the Krayt Graveyard is usually heavily travelled. Heck, there are static spawns of Elders on Dath if you know where to look. The SEAs and Premium crystals that drop more regularly off of NS Elders are just as valuable if not more valuable, than Krayt loot. A Master Rifleman will easily outdamage a Master Swordsman. A T-21 is AP3, while a PH is not. Krayt Dragons have heavy armor, thus, the Rifleman is MUCH better at killing them. It takes 30 minutes easily to kill a Krayt (80% Blast resists and Heavy Armor), thus frequently leading to killstealing scenarios as it's doubtful you will sit at the Krayt graveyard for 30 minutes without a visitor.