Pistoleer Archive
Thread: Is pistol xp supposed to go so slow?
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Immoral
Fri Jan 23, 2004 3:27 pm
#1
I have only been a Novice -0-0-1-1 pistoleer for one day now and I must say I am shocked by my miniscule damage output. I was hunting out on Dant last night with a group and just could not get any decent xp coming in. I was using three different weapons-all speed sliced DX2/SB/FGW5. I made sure to examine tagets and use best weapon for situation and still couldn't get more than 300-600xp per voritor. :sad:
I though maybe it's just the group? Maybe it's the mobs? Switched to other profession (TKA) and the xp came flying in atthe normalrate of 1k to 2.5k per mob.
My weapons are not the best, but they aren't too bad 1.3 69-174 93 dps (without ranged upgrade). I just can't understand it. Could it be the limited specials I have at my disposal? At this point my best dmg special is bodyShot2 - usually about 500-600dmg.
Just please tell me it gets better.... a lot better ... soon. Or I am going to have to give up pistols. I am just not accustomed to 300xp per mob when I get 1k-2.5k per mob with the other professions I have tried. If this IS the llife of a pistoleer/smuggler/bountyhunter -pistol user, then I feel for all of you. Your profession really needs a boost. It must be a LONG road to master.
Oh well, here's hoping for some positive replies...
Immoral
Fri Jan 23, 2004 3:28 pm
#2
I have only been a Novice -0-0-1-1 pistoleer and Novice Smuggler for one day now and I must say I am shocked by my miniscule damage output. I was hunting out on Dant last night with a group and just could not get any decent xp coming in. I was using three different weapons-all speed sliced DX2/SB/FGW5. I made sure to examine tagets and use best weapon for situation and still couldn't get more than 300-600xp per voritor. :sad:
I though maybe it's just the group? Maybe it's the mobs? Switched to other profession (TKA) and the xp came flying in atthe normalrate of 1k to 2.5k per mob.
My weapons are not the best, but they aren't too bad 1.3 69-174 93 dps (without ranged upgrade). I just can't understand it. Could it be the limited specials I have at my disposal? At this point my best dmg special is bodyShot2 - usually about 500-600dmg.
Just please tell me it gets better.... a lot better ... soon. Or I am going to have to give up pistols. I am just not accustomed to 300xp per mob when I get 1k-2.5k per mob with the other professions I have tried. If this IS the llife of a pistoleer/smuggler/bountyhunter -pistol user, then I feel for all of you. Your profession really needs a boost. It must be a LONG road to master.
Oh well, here's hoping for some positive replies...
Draygox
Fri Jan 23, 2004 3:43 pm
#3
Get buffed go to dant and get savage quenker missions. If you group with a pet you can get close to 4k a pop.
Immoral
Fri Jan 23, 2004 3:49 pm
#4
I understand the concept here, but with the damage output that I do, it would take me 5 minutes to kill 1-let alone 3 at a time-which is usually how I seem to get em out on Dant. I would be dead long before the would-even with a doc buff.
JVtec
Fri Jan 23, 2004 3:53 pm
#5
Ok let me see if I can help you. Now comming from a rifleman/TKA/Doc template to a Pistoleer/Doc I can tell you this, going hunting with groups and using pistol, yep your xp is going to be ALOT lower than what you are used to using TKA why? because I bet the other members of your party are outdamaging you. However that being said, if you are looking for a good way to level, find a master doc and some good armor, (I own a set of composite 80% kinetic/71% energy, but kinetic is most what you are looking for on dant) and go hunting hurtons solo. I can garantee you'll be back to 1-3k a pop.I find with those tools I can solo almost anything, and it's a good way to level to a point where you are able to can get some decent xp again in groups, with a couple of good solid hunts you will be back in no time. I hope this helps. sorry at work
macedin
Fri Jan 23, 2004 4:03 pm
#6
Ditto..what my buddy, Sturm..just said. I'm a Master Pistoleer and Master Doc. ..as well
Buffs + Great Armor +Food +DX2-w/Power Up + savage quenkers or hurtons, on dantooine = 2-3k pistol xp.
How ya been, Sturm?
JVtec
Fri Jan 23, 2004 4:05 pm
#7
Good Bro 
been awhile (and in order not to hijack this guys post, I'll send you a pm)
been awhile (and in order not to hijack this guys post, I'll send you a pm)
Klay
Fri Jan 23, 2004 10:37 pm
#8
I found it was pretty low in a group too. I was out hunting on Yavin with some PA members, in six hours, I got about 60k pistol xp, okay going to be a long road to get master smuggler I thought. Then I tried the buff thing again, some gold, decent kinetic armor and off to dant. There I can get about 70-100k xp an hour if I work at it. Though this is also after I got the dirty fighting line of smuggler, but it is still a good way to get xp. Also I hunted on Rori a fair bit to go up the dirty fighting line in smuggler when I wasn't buffed or armored. Currently 0-0-0-2 pistoleer and master smuggler to give you an idea of where my pistoleer skills were.
dimmu-borgir
Sat Jan 24, 2004 12:26 am
#9
the other day, i got 27k pistol xp in an hour, on corellia of all places... id kill to make rifle xp that fast 
dimmu-borgir
Sat Jan 24, 2004 2:15 am
#10
The-OnlyAcid-Christ wrote:
My advice, go to corellia try to find some static spawns of Giant Carrion Spats, Humbabas and Grondos. Make sure you are at least at medic 0020 so you can use a good stim B put the stims in your bar ready to hit if you need it.Try to get some good kinetic armor and you are set to go. These creatures give you up to 2.9k in xp. I can take out full lairs with this template and no buffs. Also keep in mind that these creatures group agro so bleed each one of them and dont forget to spam your area point blank shot when needed.
yeah, plenty of humbaba in agrialt, and can normally find groonda in the middle of the map, also, try the drall cave in agrilat
llllMaverickllll
Sat Jan 24, 2004 5:34 am
#11
Go to dathomir and kill baz nitch. 3.7k per w/ heat vuln (hope you got a prepatch fwg5). I racked up about 300k xp per hour doing this (i was master CH as well, that always helps)
EvilMustache
Sat Jan 24, 2004 5:44 am
#12
Here is what I did:
Dant Savage Quenkers missions.
Good Composit Armor. I can heal (you'll need to, they hit mostly health).
I open with stacked bleeds (I hear this will not work anymore, but I might be misinterpreting it) /healthshot1;/healthshot2
Then I close and use my 'Get Down Macro':
/pistolmeleedefence1; /stopingshot ;/stopingshot ; /healdamage self
Then I load up body shots till dead.
Rinse, repeat.
Sometimes I need a bit of Fishak, Glazed Glucose Pate, or Moun Gold for my mind, but not often.
If your a novice, this is will be hard without a pet. However, once you move up the pistoleer tree, this will be much easier (get your dodge first).
lightspeed07
Sat Jan 24, 2004 7:43 am
#13
I started doing the Savage Quenker missions yesterday. I had 0-0-1-3. I could kill them with just a muon and no armour although I had to use a stim B occasionally and it was risky because they seem to be able to land a quick series of 200 damage attacks sometimes which usually incapped me before I could heal. With buffs you can be more risky and take them all on at once without much of a care. I had a pet grouped and sitting by the mission terminal though. On average over 3 hours of playing with buffs I was getting 140k pistol xp an hour, without buffs closer to 100k.
What I would do was maskscent,eat a muon gold andrun up to 64m of one of the savage quenkers hit it with healthshot 2, peace, and run away to about 100m. When the bleed first ticks it will start to run towards you and leave all it's buddies behind. Once it was inside 64m I would spam bodyshot2 untill it is inside 10m then use pistol melee defense 1 and spam bodyshot untill it was dead. The savage quenkers only have 4-5k HAM and I was hitting it for about 200-600 damage and sometimes as much as 1k when it was knocked down.
I only had about 800 health 850 action and 900 mind when I was unbuffed (I am eventually going to put all my health and action stats as low as possible with my mind as high as possible)
Hope this helps
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