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atimes

Thu Mar 04, 2004 2:21 pm

I guess it comes down to an issue of time.

Can you clear out 6 Baz Nitches faster than you can clear out 9 pikets. If you can then the overall mission time is reduced and that means you may get the same amount of xp (or more) if you can run through missions faster.

I guess it's about the trade-off's

ArkMindSpear

Thu Mar 04, 2004 2:54 pm

#2

people will just have to try each for themselves. Figure out what they can do with their resources. I don't know if longhorns are better than baz nitches, but they are frickin awesome, and you should all give them a shot.

My vision for TKAs....
http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=68040

ChFry

Thu Mar 04, 2004 4:20 pm

#3

yup just make sure you have some varasian brandy and muon for emergencies

Merc of the Burning Legion

Keapoe-BOU

Thu Mar 04, 2004 10:32 pm

#4

Not everyone has the advantage of grouping with an AT-ST either.

OutbackWookiee

Thu Mar 04, 2004 10:38 pm

#5

Keapoe-BOU wrote:
Not everyone has the advantage of grouping with an AT-ST either.

Make some friends loser.

If you can't make friends, beg some people at the outpost to group with you until you get your missions.

LegwandLongfellow
MasterPikeman/Brawler
TKA/Fencer/HeavySwordsman
There'sabigblackholegonnaeatmeupsomeday
Somedayfadesaway,likeamemory

ArkMindSpear

Fri Mar 05, 2004 1:30 am

#6

Do the math....

6 creatures per spawn.

average of 4 females and 2 males

Females are worth a few less than 4K exp when grouped,

and males are worth about 4500-4900 when grouped it isn't quite 5K but it is high....

And the base is worth almost 5K when grouped

4 females per spawn = 4000x4= 16K

3 spawns= 16000X3 = 48K

2 males per spawn = 4500X2= 9K

3 spawns= 9000X3= 27K

1 lair = 4500

all togather......48+27+4.5 = 79.5K Exp Per lair.

The beautifull thing about Piket long horns is that the females(usually the majority of the group) DO NOT group aggro...

You do not need to be a high level pikeman to beat them.

For high level pikeman baz nitches MAY be the way to go.

You do not need to be buffed or use spices either.

The only trouble that MAY occur is when the group scout is a male.....

Here are the situations you may run into...

Longhorn

Female(scout)

Female

This is about the best cenario here. You can fight them all one at a time. Kill the long horn first(becouse he will agro you if you attack another one). Then do all the females saving the scout for last, so when it calls for help, no one will be there to help.

Longhorn

Female(scout)

Female

This is a harder situation, and withought reasonably good kinetic armor, you won't be able to do well, becouse all three males will attack you at once, you may need to delete the mission and re-roll it.

Absolute WORST scenario...fairly rare though

longhorn(scout)

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This sucks becouse you HAVE to kill the scout before he gets back to the base and alerts the others. Males or females, withought good armor, and maybe a buff, you can't fight all 6 at once. ANd unlike the female scouts, the males will group aggro, so you can't just save him for last, unless he has wondered for from the group. You may want to re-role here.

If you have good kinetic armor 70+, you cna actually auto attck them to death with little risk....

They are on dantooine, and are 12.5K missions. I have to group with my At St just to get them.
Piket longhorns male or female, will not deathblow. So not really any rick involved here.

I highly recomend these.

I have been working on swordsman and have done about 6-10 of these missions(they are slower when you are first starting off and suck, couse you don't swing fast and miss.)

And i am nearly 0/4/0/0 JUST from that.....i am able to do a mission in about the length of 1-2 sunburns now that i have gotten speed bonuses it is ALOT faster.....also i am 0/3/0/3 in swordsman, but i din't mention the 0/0/0/3 beocuse that is combat EXP and i had that within about 10 seconds of getting novice

Good luck, hope this helps.

Maybe i can post this in the TKA forums so they won't hate me so much.

My vision for TKAs....
http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=68040

PaxRomana

Fri Mar 05, 2004 2:44 pm

#7

The only reason you would use Piket missions to level Pikeman is becasue:

1.) You cant wear or cant afford armor.
2.) You cant afford doctor buffs.
3.) You like to waste your time.

The fastest way to level pikeman is to use the spin attacks to your advantage. Why would you want to attack one creature per strike when you can attack 5+?

Endor is a great place to find suitable lairs for this tactic. It is helpful that almost all fo the ceatures there assist. If you take missions to get lairs xp gain will be slower. You do not get as many creatures from a mission lair as you do from a natural one. If you dont need to make money while leveling pikeman I would suggest riding your speeder till you find a good natural lair.

What is a good lair? A lair in which you can approach, hit, and then keep targeted while spaming spin attacks. till all the creatures and the lair itself lay in ruins around you. Once oyu atack the lair all the creatures surounding it will aggro as well as all the ones that pop out of the lair.There is no need torun all overcreation toattack each mob.Make them come you you buy hitting their lair. NOTE: Prerequisite is being buffed with armor. A little Vasarian Brandywill also be of value.

You will be able to kill lairs with little/no downtime. You will also not spend hours driving back and forth from the outpost to your mission lairs.

Hints: Don't attack lairs that poison/disease. Barkmite burrowers, high level mereks, and archanes are a no no until you are higher level. They will casue you to haveto rest/heal and healing does not equal polearm xp.

Enjoy.

Pax Romana, M.D.

Mystic_Squirrel

Fri Mar 05, 2004 4:19 pm

#8

You're forgetting quenkers. They're like Baz nitches, but have hte insane advantage of not being on dathomir. Savage quenkers are exactly the same as regular quenkers but give more xp.

Also, Huurton Stalkers have no armour and are vuln to electricity. They give 5k xp a pop.

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OutbackWookiee

Sat Mar 06, 2004 12:14 am

#9

PaxRomana wrote:

The only reason you would use Piket missions to level Pikeman is becasue:

1.) You cant wear or cant afford armor.
2.) You cant afford doctor buffs.
3.) You like to waste your time.

The reasons lots of people use pikets to level is because

1) Not every person can afford armor on their server (try spending 900k for a set as a noob)

2) There isn't a doctor buffing at every corner (sometimes you have to go to 3 or 4 planets to find a buff)

3) Some noobs can't handle 5+ critters at the same time and pikets are good xp with low risk

LegwandLongfellow
MasterPikeman/Brawler
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