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Thread: grinding fs xp w/ pikeman
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film
Mon Sep 20, 2004 11:38 am
#1
lets help our fellow pikemans out.... which way do you find is the fastest way to grind out your fs xp with pikeman?
personally i get in a solo group in MO, then head to dath and do 39k rancor missions... on more than one occasion i was able to milk 85k+ pole xp from one lair, which didn't take to long with an average looted 651 max dmg lva and of course speed capped. it takes me approximetly 20 min or less to do 2 missions which includes the time of finding 2 missions in the same direction and traveling to the location round trip.
it calculates about like this to reach polearm cap with my strategy
about 5 1/2 runs
1 hour 50 min time average
about 429,000 credits
900,000 polearm xp
about 95,000 combat xp
rinse (convert to fs) and repeat for best results 
fi|m
Kryxal
Mon Sep 20, 2004 11:49 am
#2
I'm no pikeman, but it doesn't matter for this ... natural spawns work better, and it's better still if you find somewhere that they respawn without a lair. Consider fighting 3/4 of the time, the WHOLE time you're there (instead of being in transit) ... it would certainly go faster.
film
Tue Sep 21, 2004 12:04 am
#3
i've sat in geo-caves like everyone says to do waiting for them to statically spawn... didn't get neer the xp/time i do doing the rancor lairs... i to thought it was best to walk around in the wilderness killing whatever i saw untill i realized i could be making 490k creds and hit the polearm cap in neer the same amount of time
Nymphotweety
Tue Sep 21, 2004 3:52 am
#4
I have only been grinding for a few hours but natural spawns on Endor are great. Mereks, Gurreks, bolle bols are all good xp givers. I was getting 4-5k Weapons xp and 400-500 combat xp per kill. It can also be done solo without a group.
Khoivo
Tue Sep 21, 2004 3:56 am
#5
I go to Rancor Valley on Dath, and kill everything Rancor Lair I can find. Which is nice, since the lairs are all close together. I can get anywhere from 80 to 100K per lair, and I can max out between 2 and 21/2 hours.
Coreena
Tue Sep 21, 2004 5:34 am
#6
I managed to cap pike xp yesterday in about 1.5 to 2 hours.
Just drove around between Science Outpost and the Aurellia Village and killed about every wild lair I found. Was mainly Kwi lairs. They give 5k XP per kill and die pretty fast.
Think Rancor don't give more but take longer.
Wild lairs have an advantage that they spawn a lot more creatures than mission lairs.
I'm a Master Pikeman without any speed attachments (so still at 75 pole-speed), and used a 1.1 speed pike with 300 max damage 
So you should be considerable faster with a 500-600 dam pike if you're speedcapped.
So you should be considerable faster with a 500-600 dam pike if you're speedcapped.
Tyyylowyspetily
Wed Sep 22, 2004 5:18 am
#7
Surefoot Brackasets. Most people I've talked with have no idea these are even on the mission terminals on Dathomir, but they are there, at between 18k and 20k payout range. What are they? They are 4800 exp ea. when in a decent sized solo group, non aggressive, vulnerable to electricity, and yield around 80k expper lair. Speed capped pikemen with a damage sliced VL should be able to tear through a lair in about 5 minutes. Happy hunting fellas.
Message Edited by Tyyylowyspetily on 09-22-2004 05:47 AM
JediMasterZero
Thu Sep 23, 2004 11:14 am
#8
Ladies and Gentlemen....huurton stalkers on dant, mission lairs, about 10k reward. About 12 to 15 spawn per lair. 5020xp per kill w/502 combat xp per kill. No armor, 20% kinetic resists. LVA slices through 'em like a hot knife through butta. I beat the hell outta the lair so a ton of 'em aggro me, then I /polearmArea2 till they're all corpses. A lair takes *about* 5mins...on the LONG side....
Sum it up - that's 60k to 75k polearm xp and 6k to 7.5k combat xpin about 5mins.
Case closed.
You know where to find me.....
Coreena
Fri Sep 24, 2004 3:32 am
#9
Khoivo wrote:
I go to Rancor Valley on Dath, and kill everything Rancor Lair I can find. Which is nice, since the lairs are all close together. I can get anywhere from 80 to 100K per lair, and I can max out between 2 and 21/2 hours.
Where is thise Rancor Valley?
Imbatri
Fri Sep 24, 2004 5:50 am
#10
i have tried going to rancor valley and the geno caves..i found them to be very slow
the best i would say is killing the huurtons (stalkers/matrons/or howlers, regular ones only give 1.5k exp) they die in about 3-4 hits from area attack, giving 3.9k-4.7k exp and lots spawn per lair.
the best i would say is killing the huurtons (stalkers/matrons/or howlers, regular ones only give 1.5k exp) they die in about 3-4 hits from area attack, giving 3.9k-4.7k exp and lots spawn per lair.
Message Edited by Imbatri on 09-24-2004 08:52 AM
VacaXXX
Fri Sep 24, 2004 9:34 am
#11
lol, im trying to master on these, and it is working pretty well/.............
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