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Thread: This is INSANE!!!! I am so doing something wrong.

Jansem
Fri Mar 05, 2004 12:07 pm
#1

Let me start this post by letting you know that I'm a holo grinder. Plain and Simple. Finished Dancer in 3 days. I'm attempting to take on musician now. I got novice after a whole day of playing and used my capped healing experience from Dancer on 3 boxes of musician wound healing. I played for 12 hours last night and did not get a single box of music xp. I was in a large group 12-20 people and was getting about 10-30xp per tick. I'm flourisihing every 9 seconds and I'm using a trazz. Is this wrong? I know that I should go find the FAQ or search the posts but I'm at work and just need to figure out what's wrong so I can PC Anywhere to my home and fix the problem. I cannot believe how slow this is going. Would it be faster to use my master dancer to get the healing xp, then just craft out the musician line? Does anyone know how much resources I'd need to craft it out? What to craft etc? Thank you so much for helping out a FSCS hopeful. I really appeciate it.



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Tralmek
Fri Mar 05, 2004 12:13 pm
#2


No offense, but I want to hurry you through the profession as quickly as possible.


Here are my suggestions--first of all, forget about your dancing macros. They won't work because they are based on max xp for 1 flo every 10 seconds. For the maximum music xp you need to flo 2x every 10 seconds. If you are in a huge group, and have lots of people watching (probably on Dathomir or in Coronet) then you should be raking in the xp like nothing else. Since you are already a master dancer, I would say YES, you should go ahead and grind through the healing xp by dancing, it will come much faster for you that way.


Also, make sure you're using either your highest-level instrumentOR your best song.


-Lilo--Novice Pistoleer =(

Message Edited by Tralmek on 03-05-2004 01:11 PM




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Jansem
Fri Mar 05, 2004 2:09 pm
#3

How much resources did you need to finish it all off?



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Shlomo_P
Fri Mar 05, 2004 2:23 pm
#4

I am doing the same thing. To craft ALL the Music XP is VERY expensive, so you may wnat to mix it up--do a little crafting when you are at your PC, AFK music playing when you are gone, etc.


Anyway, here's the list--I think this is accurate, but with calculations like this and having done it while I was at work and rushing I may have made a mistake, so don't shoot me:


MUSICIAN:
Novice Entertainer to Novice Musician (114000XP needed)<--this one may be off cause I calculated based in what I had left and I think I had 2000 XP already:
Slitherhorn: 45 Metal=90XP each
1267 needed=57K Metal (get whatever's cheapest)

Novice Musician to Music Tech 2 (212500XP needed):
Fanfar:55 Metal-110XP each
1932 needed=107K Metal (cheapest)

Music Tech 2 to Music Tech 3 (175000XP needed):
Traz:45 Non-ferrous metal (Aluminum)
1458 needed=66K non-ferrous (Aluminum)
15 Metal (cheapest) =22K Metal (cheapest)
Music Tech 3 to Music Tech 4 (225000XP needed):
Bandfill:50 Ferrous metal (Steel)
1500 needed=75K Ferrous metal (Steel or Iron)
25 Aluminum =38K Aluminum
Music Tech 4 to Master (612500XP needed):
Nalargon:150 Ferrous metal (Steel)
1361 needed=205K Ferrous metal (Steel or Iron)
75 Aluminum =102K Aluminum


TOTALS:
186K Metal (cheapest)
66K Non-ferrous (Aluminum or Copper)
280K Ferrous (Steel or Iron)
140K Aluminum


TOTAL RESOURCES (ALL):
672K @ 3cpu= 2,016,000
@ 2cpu= 1,344,000


Excuse the formatting--it didn't paste well from the TXT file



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Shlomo_P
Fri Mar 05, 2004 2:27 pm
#5

BTW, the instruments chosen were chosen based on anticipated XP gained based on resources (usually you get 2x resources used) so these were the ones that give you the highest XP at each level.



Major Shlomo von Pimmpenhymann IV
...has Mastered the Empty Vendor Shopper profession
...was banned once from the forums for verbally slapping a whining Jedi.
Xystus Syzygy: Master Smuggler, finder of things...
VENDOR: Misc & Smuggler items -- and coming soon -- Armor: Naboo, Lake Retreat -5835 -149 371
NecEvil
Sat Mar 06, 2004 1:02 am
#6

If you want to do Musician the cheap way:
Make sure you have the latest instrument (the higher level instruments give you higher xp). I just finished it this way and have 450k extra healing xp so I wouldnt bother using dancer to gain healing xp.


If you want to do musician the quick way:
Use dancer to grind out your healing xp, then craft-grind slitherhorns until you are master. Slitherhorns take 45 metal and give 93xp. If you run a loop of 4-6 crafting tools you should be done in no time. In hind sight I am VERY sorry I did not utilize this method myself musician was the longest of all of my 15 grinds so far.


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