Pistoleer Archive
Thread: Just started....need tips, please!!!
Wow I had my rant-stick out and ready to swing when I saw your post title.
I thought you were a n00b asking for money on the forums.
Tips...
To get novice...
Use either a scout blaster or an FWG5. Giant Baz Nitch on Dathomir are sensitive to heat so you might use your FWG5 there... but they are still tough and Dath is very dangerous. But the Giant Baz Nitch missions will pay for your buffs more than once over. Once you hit Nov Pistoleer, bust out the DX2 or Republic Blaster, since they have AP1. You may want to consider sticking with your Scout until you have decent speed mods though. Go up Techniques tree first. Hunt Savage Quenkers on Dantooine for mucho xp in short amount of time.
What I find works: Find a crate or two of good pistol powerups (e.g., something that increases speed and min or max damage, or chance to hit). Then, buy a few brandys. These two should run you about 20k tops.
Get yourself some transport, such as a landspeeder or swoop (about 20k).
Find a decent DX2 pistol (about 10k), an MSE mouse droid (about 500 credits), a few droid batteries (cheap), and hop a shuttle to Dantooine.
Find a Master Doctor and have him buff you (about 10k).
Find a mission terminal. Call your droid, tell it to group, then tell it to stay (you may have to train it if you haven't yet). Find two Quenker missions in the same direction. Drink two shots of brandy, and go do the missions.
Be sure to store your transport before starting to attack things; creatures like to attack your transport when you're not watching. You'll also want to /maskscent if you can before attacking. Spamming /healthshot1 tends to give you the highest DPS until you get /fanshot.
Grouped with your droid, you should be able to solo two Quenker missions in about 10 minutes, for about 12k credits and about 40k pistol XP. Add in travel time, and time to find new missions, and you'll average about 250k XP and 80k credits an hour (I did this myself today).
I've been doing this for the past two days, and have gone from 0/0/1/1 to 0/0/3/2 after playing for about 5 hours, and that includes downtime in the cantina working on my medic skills (now at 2/3/0/2, up from 2/1/0/1), and time running back to Corellia to buy a new DX2 (I've worn mine out), and more crates of powerups.
wibkee wrote:
I hate to be a noob, but where do you get powerups and how do you use them and same questions for a mouse droid. Already have a speeder bike.
For powerups, check the bazaar terminals in a big city (e.g., Coronet on Corellia). Better yet, find a player vendor (use CTRL-V and pull up the world map, then click "vendors" in the right-hand column to highlight vendor locations). Find a weapons vendor -- they usually sell powerups, too. Buy them in crates of 10 or 25 if you can.
For an MSE "mouse" droid, you can do the same thing -- check the bazaar terminals, but you'll have better luck visiting a droid engineer's vendor. Don't forget to stock up on a few droid batteries, too! Your droid will run out of juice in roughly the same time your buffs last, so you'll want to recharge it regularly (use its radial menu).
To use powerups, you simply drag it over the weapon you want to add it to. As long as it's a ranged weapon powerup, it should work just fine. To use the mouse droid, when you first get it, it'll be a deed. You'll need to use the deed's radial menu to generate the droid. Then open your datapad (CTRL-D), and use the droid's radial menu in the datapad to call it. Once it's called, target it and use it's radial menu to train it to group and stay. You'll select the command you want to train, then you'll see "?" in the spatial chat. Type whatever you want to say to make the droid follow that command. You should then see "!" in the spatial chat from the droid. That means it's learned that command.
To use it, call it somewhere near the mission terminal you'll be using regularly to run your missions, tell it to group, then tell it to stay. Go run your missions, and when you're done for the day, use your datapad to store the droid. While running missions, check the droid periodically by visiting it and targeting it. If its title ever says, "*Low Power*", you'll need to use a droid battery and the droid's radial menu to recharge it. Otherwise, it'll auto-ungroup and auto-store, which means you won't be hunting in a group any more, and will lose the bonuses granted to hunting groups.
