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Thread: hunting NS
gorillajin wrote:
i'm LS3444 Heal2000 Enhan0002 and CL 80.
Am i strong enough to hunt NS?
if i hunt NS, do i get vis?
any advices will help me to soloing NS. i don't think i will go down to cave though.
thank you
gorillajin wrote:
i'm LS3444 Heal2000 Enhan0002 and CL 80.
Am i strong enough to hunt NS?
if i hunt NS, do i get vis?
any advices will help me to soloing NS. i don't think i will go down to cave though.
thank you
If you take them on 1-vs-1 you should be able to handle them, that can take some maneuvering though as they like to stand around close together. The problem you will run into is that you don't have any defenses at all. You have no defender (which means no force aura) and you have no enhancer (no force speed and no force armor). Then to top it off, you only have 1000 healing and even though it can keep you alive, you will be out of force and mind pretty quick if you fight anything over CL80. The protectors, Stalkers, Spellweavers and Rangers are all CL80 - 84. Actually if I remember correctly the stalkers are CL85, could be CL84 though, but they will give you a pretty good match. Also most of them have very high HAM's as well, something like 25k and up....so don't expect a 30 second fight. The elders are only CL82 but they do a lot more damage than all the other nightsisters, plus they always have protectors nearby.
If you really want to hunt them, I'd say do it with a friend or with a pet as you don't not have good defenses and no abilities to help you escape. You'll need force run or terrain negotiation foods / clothes because with your template, the hills of dath won't let you get away from them....plus the last time I fought them, they used force run also but only rarely.It's been a while since I've fought them, but I was 4040 defender and CL78 with force run, suppression and forcewave......I didn't have much of a problem with them 2-vs-1 but it drained my force pretty good. Considering if your looking for good loot drops you'll probably have to camp them all day, then I'd say don't hunt them with your current level. it will take forever. If your doing it for the challenge, well since your not finished with your temp yet, the vis ain't worth it.
Just for the record, if you want to know if anything will give you vis, just hover your mouse of the dot on the radar. If it says entity, it won't give you vis. If it says character it will give you vis. It's rumored that droids will give you vis also.
The key to doing high level content is to have good defenses....Offense is a given in CU, even a 0202 saberist can kill stuff if their defense is high enough. The main issue is surviving the damage the mobs dish out. This is what makes any elite mob (which nightsisters are) hard to defeat. IF you can't take the damage, your better off doing something else.
Im a full temp and can absolutely say ns suck to hunt, they take way too long to kill ( my saber is 709 max 698 mod dps 10 fc) and there drop rate for is not that good.
I would suggest getting in a solo group (impossibleto find now I know but ask a couple friends to join a group w/ ya, like 4 peeps is cool and then go get missions by yourself.) and go get canyon cosairs missions onlok, they drop better stuff and drop damage crystals at a good rate and are easy to kill. Or do them solo but it might take a bit longer.
but yeah I believe you get vis from all npc's
Message Edited by imhigh2 on 09-29-2005 09:17 PM
gorillajin wrote:
i heard they drop crystals...
NS drop rate is awful tbh. If your looking for crystals run Canyon Corsair missions on Lok they drop the same quality as NS but alot more frequent.
ah, thank you for very nice information guys.
i will try lok instead of darth. maybe i will try lok after i get more useful skills.
gorillajin wrote:
ah, thank you for very nice information guys.
i will try lok instead of darth. maybe i will try lok after i get more useful skills.
Dath does have a convenient amount of aggro mobs that DB though. This is convenient in your position where a MBH will kill you. Get caught on Lok hunting NPC's and you're done for. On Dath you can still spin a rancor base, or attack an NS to avoid the debt. Of course, on the flipside of this, I can't tell you how many fights I won cuz I ran the MBH though a rancor base allowing HIM to get aggro =-) When you saber sucks, allow random aggro to dps for you.
One of the first adventures I had when templated was soloing the whole Labor Camp POI on dathomir.
It was fun but not easy. Down the side to the Elder was quite fast, the other side of the cave was a nightmare as I had several of them on me at some points.
There's a bad point to pass where 3 sentinels lev85 are there for you and you need to pay attention to aggro other groups of rangers. When I reached the 3 stalkers and the protector I felt like to the top of a mountain. The way out was just a quick run. The whole adventure lasted over 3h.
Funny you can see on the map the BHs coming to you, looking around and drop the mission quite fast when they realize where you are 
I got just 1 good crystal but 5-6 very good pikes. Not worth it. Yes they give you visibility
Opith