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Hello, and welcome to my quick guide to completing the phase-two combat "quest" without having a combat profession. If you follow the tips in this guide, it is entirely possible for you to complete the "quest" without engaging in combat at all. You might be wondering why anybody would want to do this. There are two simple reasons why someone without a combat profession would want to complete the combat missions:

1. He has a lot of combat and weapons x.p. stored up from previous professions.

2. He doesn't have the skills and qualifications for the crafting and surveying mission sets, and Whip's mission set is bugged and requires the same kind of experience anyway.

Being a master scout, master creature handler and master bio-engineer, I fell into the second category. Whip's reward seemed decent, but I didn't think it was worth risking the bug and not unlocking a branch at all.

I set about the quest like most people--talked to Dageerin, went to the radio transmitter and killed some sith. I'm a Trandoshan with unarmed one and master creature handler, so small camps I can handle. If you can't, just follow the advice below about doing missions without doing missions. I was able to do the first four missions, but the fifth one would have killed me. After looking at the sith, I just left and went to check my harvesters.While I was gone,something strange happened. The mission got done. I did the sixth mission the same way. The seventh mission I did while I slept yesterday, and the eighth I did while I was in the shower. I finished the "quest" but only actually killed half the sith camps, and I'm sure I didn't really have to do any of them. You can do it, too, and here's all it takes:

Step one - when you get the mission, drive up to it to make the sith spawn.

Step two - drive away and go about your business. Wait for somebody else to kill the sith for you.

Step three - when you get a message about returning to Dageerin and a waypoint, you've finished the mission and should head back to get another one.

So you see, all you have to do is rely on the greed of strangers. Somebody else will see your spawn and kill the sith to get xp or loot. You don't even have to be connected! Hold on; there's even more that you can do to make it easier. The missions with waypoints have a peculiar little quirk that I'm guessing is a bug, but you can use it to your advantage.

My fifth mission (the first one I didn't do) was a waypoint mission. After seeing the sith at the waypoint, I decided to go check my harvesters on Rori. Without turning off the waypoint, I flew to Corellia. I noticed that my waypoint box was showing a sith waypoint on Corellia. I thought that it was just a waypoint glitch. I flew to Naboo. There was a sith waypoint on Naboo, now. I flew to Rori. Sure enough, I still had that sith waypoint. Out of curiosity, I went to check it out, and there was indeed a sith camp there. After I emptied my harvesters, I returned to Naboo and wasn't 200 meters out of the starport when I got the message that I'd completed my mission. So, if you're having trouble getting anyone to do your mission on Dathomir, you can take it to Corellia or Naboo in hopes of finding someone more likely to stumble onto your mission and complete it for you. Some notes about this:

1. The placement of the waypoint seems toapproximate to your position at the starport where you fly in. On the three planets I moved missions to--Corellia, Naboo and Rori--it was never more than 1500 meters from the starport where I landed. Therefore, you can take your mission pretty close to some well-traveled metropolitan areas.

2. You do not have to fly to the waypoint on each planet to get the sith to spawn. After I saw the sith on Dathomir, they were killed on Naboo without me ever laying eyes on them.

3. This trick worked whenever I tried it. Let me know if it doesn't work for you. It might also work for non-waypoint missions, but I never tried it.

As I said above, you don't even have to be connected for somebody to do your missions. If you log on and have a waypoint telling you to return to Dageerin, somebody has done your mission, and you're ready for another one. If you log on and get a message that the target has moved, that means that nobody has done your missions, and you should go find the sith again to make sure they respawn.

The unfortunate thing is that you get no loot or experience through the whole process, but you aren't really missing much. There are easier ways to get both. If you want the f.s. crafting resources, you're probably better off with the much safer route of buying them (and I don't know why you might be doing this quest anyway).

For those of you who have enough x.p. stored up to fill the boxes right away, cangratulations one bing one step closer to the final goal. Personally, I'm slowly grinding my way there, 10,000 unarmed x.p. (that's over 300 f.s. x.p., you know) at a time. Sure, that'll take forever, but I never really had any hope of unlocking enough branches to get a jedi anyway. I'm just a lowly master of three non-combat professions, after all. Anyway, enjoy your "questing," and may the force be with the people doing your missions for you.

Sorry about the typos in the last paragraph. I got to moving too fast, I guess. It should read, " . . . congratulations on being one step closer. . . . " Stupid fingers just don't listen sometimes.

Hehe funny exploit LOL!

Actually you probably could have done up to the last mission buffed and with your creatures.

The last mission was actually the first time in a looong time I had to run away and heal (I'm a fully buffed swordsman) from a spawn.

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