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Thread: Where to get CA's Besides BH missions
Message Edited by Dtann on 09-16-2005 07:22 PM
No CA's at all.
The best was the Gurk King hides. Got 8 mil for 16 of em. For 5 damage crystals, mainly fair quality I got a mil. Everything else has been crap.
If the game becomes Jedi vs Bounty Hunter Ill probably quit.
My suggestion for the loot campers is to remove static spawns. Have bosses/elites spawn in random locations just as the regular mobs. The loot problem came from super toons camping a spot for 6 months. If the spawn moves randomly only those player ACTUALLY playing will benifit. The loot drop sucks for two reasons 1) The expansion might reveal some new way of getting loot. 2) the Devs overreacted. Seeing the drop rate has not changed yet, who knows.
Now don't you listen to these people. The good stuff drops from the hard creatures. End of story. I took out a group from my guild, kicking and screaming mind you. The target, Dark Jedi Knights and Dark Jedi Masters on Dantooine. Hard to find and even harder to kill. 5 of us, 4 ranged and a TKM who used armor break a lot, took out the DJM and got into a bit of a routine. Soon we managed to take down the bugger roughly 8 times before he stopped spawning. Of those 8 times we got him to drop 4 realy nice CAs. One that has +24 Chasis Experimentation and one that had Riffle Speed 19 and Riffle Defense 8.
As far as somthing you can manage more by yourself, I have heard that faction missions, NPCs over 70 CR, are dropping, but it is RARE so don't expect to run out and loot a pile in one day.
My advice, find some friends, group of 3 or 4 works nicely, go out and do faction missions for a few nights, few hours each night. Rake in the FP points and just see what you all get. Split the CAs accordingly and sell of the ones you wont use.
Good luck.
did some missions on lok the other night,. (nym's base) on mission terminal. in the first three missions i looted 2 AA. one was2 handed wep speed 10 healing eff 7 and the other 2 hand weap acc with something else. Did another 25 missions after and nothing. I did notice that both times looting was from nym's patrol and not others. Hope that helps. I've heard that corsair missions drop some also but have not had any luck.
Message Edited by Led_Zinum on 09-19-2005 09:46 PM
StickyBlasta wrote:
Now don't you listen to these people. The good stuff drops from the hard creatures. End of story. I took out a group from my guild, kicking and screaming mind you. The target, Dark Jedi Knights and Dark Jedi Masters on Dantooine. Hard to find and even harder to kill. 5 of us, 4 ranged and a TKM who used armor break a lot, took out the DJM and got into a bit of a routine. Soon we managed to take down the bugger roughly 8 times before he stopped spawning. Of those 8 times we got him to drop 4 realy nice CAs. One that has +24 Chasis Experimentation and one that had Riffle Speed 19 and Riffle Defense 8.
As far as somthing you can manage more by yourself, I have heard that faction missions, NPCs over 70 CR, are dropping, but it is RARE so don't expect to run out and loot a pile in one day.
My advice, find some friends, group of 3 or 4 works nicely, go out and do faction missions for a few nights, few hours each night. Rake in the FP points and just see what you all get. Split the CAs accordingly and sell of the ones you wont use.
Good luck.
Wait, youkilled a DJM 8 times before it stopped spawning? Exactly how did you do that? Every time I find a DJM, DJK, Dark Adept or lvl111 npcsthey stop spawning after the second kill no matter what. In fact if I find say 1 DJK and 1 Dark Adept, I have to kill one and wait for it to respawn before moving onto the other because if I kill them both at the same timethe spawn will simply die.
Maybe there is some super secret that I'm missing... I would love to know how you accomplished this.
Beware of the "Forum Legends" (dude I took on 40 Krayts and 10 DJM and beat them all solo. Whoo hoooooo Blob candy ftw)
Message Edited by Skurr on 09-20-2005 10:01 AM
Skurr, you are off your rocker bro, because it is fully acceptable that a group can take out DJK's and DJM's. Instead of ragging on them for doing something you might not be able to do, you might wanna consider their templates first. The lvl 111 NPC's on Dant do spawn, in some spots quite regularly, and as a Pistoleer/BH I can solo these. A grp of 4 or 5 can take a DJK or DJM if even 3 of them have snare/roots. 3 characters constantly cycling through their root attacks will keep an NPC in place the entire fight. Kind of hard to hit for 5k if the **edit** can't reach them...
Skurr wrote:
I call bs. The best stuff drops for BH marks. There are no "spawns" of elite mobs that this guy is speaking of. And I seriously doubt that he and a group took out a DJM when they hit for 5k damage a pop. Not 8 times unless it was a sploit. Outide of BH missions you have very rare, very random drops. Full Combats are limited to armor/weapon componets to make decent money. At least untill the expansion.
Beware of the "Forum Legends" (dude I took on 40 Krayts and 10 DJM and beat them all solo. Whoo hoooooo Blob candy ftw)
Message Edited by Skurr on 09-20-2005 10:01 AM
Skurr wrote:
I call bs. The best stuff drops for BH marks. There are no "spawns" of elite mobs that this guy is speaking of. And I seriously doubt that he and a group took out a DJM when they hit for 5k damage a pop. Not 8 times unless it was a sploit. Outide of BH missions you have very rare, very random drops. Full Combats are limited to armor/weapon componets to make decent money. At least untill the expansion.
Beware of the "Forum Legends" (dude I took on 40 Krayts and 10 DJM and beat them all solo. Whoo hoooooo Blob candy ftw)
Message Edited by Skurr on 09-20-200510:01 AM
I hate to break it to all you moaning loot masters, but its still a very very very rare drop from a BH mission. Its not a case of get mission travel to mark- kill and reciecve nice +20 CA. As a MBH i say i get a CA once every 25-30 marks but only about 1 in 4 CAs are any good. I have got a +8 CA of a level 56 Nym Pirate at outpost- i could farm this for a few hours and end up with more CAs than in 1 week of doing BH missions.
The only thing i dont agree with is MBH been the only ones able to loot the new weapon enhancements, having something drop for only one type of proffession is totaly wrong and unfair.
And on a whole, the loot in SWG sucks anyway!
and they are uber easy to kill, just like every other melee thing in the game, snare and kite run around in a circle. if you have dots and debuffs, all the better.
ive yet to loot a tape from 50-70 that ive killed since the last major patch. all loot seems to have dried up at that point.
when the last patch hit, i was bh 0444, im now at 3444, about 5 marks from mbh, and i have not looted one tape. ive been cl 80 the whole time, fought nothing but hte highest paying missions, lots of silver bar guys, etc...
I did over 100 BH missions and it only dropped 2 CAs.
that's a 2% drop rate.
Also the 1st one was cure eff +12, BF healing +11 (Worthless.)
The 2nd one was better at force acc +13, dance enhancement +11.(Not nearly good as other jedi CA but least i got something.)
And i did loot a enhanced power cell, which was pretty good.
Frankly, the droprate are not good as people say it is, it's pretty 'balanced'. (Because it drops at all.)
Out of all options BH missions are the best, but it's not a sure bet.