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ok I'm having a hard time trying to get to master polearm... Its gonna be forever before i get novice pikemen... I don't see how people get the exp. I'm on tatooine and i just cann't get good exp. I've tryed groups but i get less exp in groups then i do solo, which is weird.


DOes anyone have some ideas of what i should kill and fight to get some exp faster. I need 23k exp for master polearm. I use a basic combat staff cause i cann't find a better weapon, ii use chitin armour which can cut the dmg pretty much in half from what i can tell which seems good. WHAT SHOULD I FIGHT!!

Fort Tusken. It is about 15-20 min north of Mos Espa. I am at work, so I don't have the exact coordinates, but I'm sure other people do.

My suggestion? Go to an advanced planet with a group of about 5 others. Endor, Dantioone, yavin... and just slaughter stuff... 1k exp or more usually. Nice Nice eh? I got about 50k exp on endor alone.

At Tusken caves about 1/3 done with master pikeman, I was doing 50k in a 20 minute run. Though that was when I was probably the highest hitter there, one night I pulled in 250k in just under 3 hours. Oh how those were the days...memories.

It's kind of a grind... and kind of embarassing...

My first 35K of Master Polearm just trickled in really slow over the course of about a week. At that point I was like, time to finish this skill off, this is getting ridiculous, so I decided to make a concerted effort at it.

I found a durni lair. Just a plain old durni lair. And it just kept spitting out durni after durni. I used my lance and hit each durni with PolearmHit1, which usually insta-kills them, though sometimes you'll miss or do a mind blow, but I never saw any durni go any longer than 3 hits. And you get 100+ exp for them, 117 or 113 or something like that. And there was ALWAYS another durni to run over to and kill, so I was killing about 10 durnis per minute, for 1000xp per minute.

If the durnis ever stopped coming out I'd go and hit their lair once and then make peace right away. About 50 more durnis would pop and and I could start over.

I got my final 35K of Master Polearm in about 45 minutes killing tiny, defenseless, blind, cute littlebunny rabbits.

Heres what I've done in my progression, almost exclusively soloing, never even seen the tusken camp or fort.

On the way to master polearm specialization:

Got a good reinforced combat staff, and kept taking destroy missions.

Master to Novice pikeman:

Attacked vrelt lairs with spin attack, usually an easy 1k exp and 80 hide.

Novice Pikeman:

Lots of crazed durny destroy missions( this was real slow, but I got lots of money ). And the Drall cave on corellia.

Novice Pikeman w/ Defensive 1:

Got a good sliced lance. Polearm sweep on Tortor bulls andGiant Dalyrakeson Talus, easily 2.6k exp in a couple minutes, plus more hides than you'll know what to do with.

if you're working on master polearm, get a reinforced combat staff, that should be your first objective. Try to get with groups of people who are good (this is easier typed than done.) The 70k for master polearm came MUCH MUCH slower than the time from apprentice to novice...and now that i'm novice the XP comes faster than it did previously (due to being able to solo rebel missions for 1k xp)(

I've seen you around tatoinee, i have a lance you can have give me a tell in game Riik Chico. I just got a Vibro Lance last night YEA!!!!

Diseased Bocats are good for 200 XP one blow from a lance usually does it. When you have Spin attack 1 you attack multiple targets with this move :-)

Eoipes are about 200 Xp as well Tuscans are 500 Xp

Still takes ages.

Walk up to a gorg or similar lair and attack with spin attack when you have it and as all the gorg surround you attack them all at the same time as attacking the lair :-)

What planet are durni on? I'm ready to grind out my last half as well. Been messing with the first 30k for two weeks!!!

-Fort Tusken on Tatooine
-Dathomir

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YodaJediMD wrote:

What planet are durni on? I'm ready to grind out my last half as well. Been messing with the first 30k for two weeks!!!

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The durni were on Corellia somewhere in the range of 1-2km East of Coronet. Good luck!

Durni are all over Corellia. There is also a savage cave near Kor Vella, 100-350 xp per kill, avg. HP425ish. Gets tricky when there is 4-5, but keep swinging!

I know if you go to Naboo there's a nightspider lair like place not far from Theed; a little west and south. For each spider I killed I was making 120 XP and when I was in a group I was making 150 XP pre kill, and there's no way to stop the spiders from coming out. You'll kill one group and a new group of 5 pop up; very cool.