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ive gotten 8 skill boxes in the past 4 days hunting nothing but hurton huntresses,howlers ,stalkers and fierce piket protectors on dantooine. i need 2 more skill boex until master.

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Klum wrote:
ive gotten 8 skill boxes in the past 4 days hunting nothing but hurton huntresses,howlers ,stalkers and fierce piket protectors on dantooine. i need 2 more skill boex until master.

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Dantooine rocks. Only if wouldn't be so laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagy.

do NOT, NEVER, EVER EVER EVER do savage quenkers, they now spit and kite you, waste of time, do normal quenkers or even better Huurton stalkers.

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Akimb0 wrote:
do NOT, NEVER, EVER EVER EVER do savage quenkers, they now spit and kite you, waste of time, do normal quenkers or even better Huurton stalkers.

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Message Edited by TheStarWarsKid on 08-23-2004 11:32 AM

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Akimb0 wrote:
do NOT, NEVER, EVER EVER EVER do savage quenkers, they now spit and kite you, waste of time, do normal quenkers or even better Huurton stalkers.

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also, out of a group of 5, only 3 will kite you...kill the two closest, and the others will move in when they are dead...

but I personally like quenker ravagers, just watch the poison.

Guys,

I saved pikeman for one of my last holo profs thinking it tough because of how much folks complained about it. Actually it's one of the easier professions. When I did most of the other brawler professions, I stayed on Dant because pickets where dropping very high OQ herb meat. I came upon this thread wondering what I would level on for this prof.

So I've hunted gurks on Lok, Quenkers on Dant and Gurrecks on Endor. Gurrecks are best. They are vulnerable to electricity and have low kinetic resists. The drop wooly hide which sells well. They spawn in bunches and they are SO easy to kill. Honestly it's the best exp of the bunch.

--Thummp

I found that decked out in 80% kinetic, using an LVA and Spin attack on Sharnaff lairs works a treat.

At first it was about 50-60k exp every 20 mins but now I'm 4,0,2,3 and have Spin Attack II it's more like every 10 mins.

Easy to get solo groups and plenty of 'em spawn from each layer at 3-4k a pop.

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Genn-great-Genn wrote:

I have to disagree about using a lance or a metal staff for leveling from 3 to novice.

I find that berserking with a speed sliced lva gave me way better dps though sometimes i would miss 5 times in a row...

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That's actually what I did, I just said use a lance or metal staff for the people who hate missing all the time

I used a lance until novice pike. I found a nice 30-280 2.6 speed lance, worked rather well. Low ham costs on it allowed me to just spin attack the crap out of quenker lairs, gaining mucho xp in no time flat. At novice pike I had a bit of surplus combat xp, so I got 1 box and 1/2 the next. Then I used my VL again with quenkers mostly to get to the second box for accuracy. BTW, tip for those seeking mucho combat xp. Get a case of c12 frag nades. Everyone has the cert for them. Kill monsters are normal with your pike, pitch the grenades at the lair. What will happen is instead of weapon xp + combat xp for the lair kill, you get combat xp + combat xp. I was getting around 3600 combat xp + 360 combat xp for each lair kill.

I then had +100 accuracy, and a decent player crafted LVA that was only like -17 or -21 accuracy, so I hit very very frequently.

Some other pike tips.

level like this.

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Reason the first thing you'll want to do is get speed and accuracy. Pikes are slow and inaccurate. Then once you get those first set of speed and accuracy bonuses, spend some xp for you first set of devensive bonuses. I'm going to go

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I'll finish speed, accuracy, and defense before working the specials tree. Then on to master pike!

I tried using C12's when I was going for the Doc/CM combo. (They might've fixed them since I tried that, it's beena few months)

Message Edited by TheStarWarsKid on 01-12-2005 03:29 PM