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You will want to look for Rasps (really small), carrion spats, giant spats, and gulginaws. As for missions, I really don't know. I usually don't bother looking for missions to hunt stuff. I just wander around in the wild until I find what I want. If I'm running missions, they are almost certainly factioned (as it's the only real way for me to get any FP: I can't kill a squad of STs, I can't do anysignificant damagecompared to a group,and I can't really hurt anyone in PvP).

ok, thanks Lythender...

i been tryin for 30+ minits . cant seem to find a mission for GIANT spats ! .. maybe non-existent

/sigh

I don't think there are missions for giant spats, BUT regular spat missions tend to spawn Giants (1 or 2 per mission) if you get a high enough mission. The best way to raise a mission's difficulty is to have a master wilte combat profession, or get a group going.

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VeriBeri wrote:
Does that mean that there are missions for the same MOB at different payout rates? E.g., 1.3k carrion spat mission if alone, 1.7k carrion spat mission if grouped, etc.?

I did not notice this when hunting vors on Dant with ad hoc groups that ranged from 4-5 plp to close to 20. I vaguely remember that the missions tend to be 24k regardless of size of the group.

Yes, there are differnent payouts for the same type of creatures depending on a lot for factors. Proficciency with the weapon you have equipped, group size and group constituancy all affect the mission difficulty level which, in turn, affect which spawns are associated with a given lair (both type and quantity). This is less noticeable on the more advanced planets (price change is null is some cases) where the mision difficulty is higher than what you can affect.

For the record, I got about 6 carrion spat missions last night at 1.2-1.3k grouped with my combat droid, but without an equipped weapon. Other combinations pulled missions that are too low or too high. No random carrion spat spawns spotted during this time despite using areatrack at every opportunity (yet another evidence of the limited usefulness of this skill). None of the mission spawns included giants, and they only spawned 6 spats each (2 initial, 2 waves of 2 defenders) even though I tried to kill the lair to quickly. Harvested about 550 meat over 25 mins (i had to log after that). At 50-100 cpu expected price, a 4 hr session should bring in about 300k or more if I can find some giants or random lairs on my way to and from missions. The mission rewards should be enough to cover my consumables (in this case just wear and tear on weapon and bike, as spats are too low level to bother with powerups, traps or armor).

Ahazi rangers/scouts please dont price this spawn too low. Since reasonable quality avian meat usually goes for 50 cpu in the baazar, 100 for this one seems reasonable (buddies, newbies and regular customers excepted, of course).

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Does that mean that there are missions for the same MOB at different payout rates? E.g., 1.3k carrion spat mission if alone, 1.7k carrion spat mission if grouped, etc.?

I did not notice this when hunting vors on Dant with ad hoc groups that ranged from 4-5 plp to close to 20. I vaguely remember that the missions tend to be 24k regardless of size of the group.

For the record, I got about 6 carrion spat missions last night at 1.2-1.3k grouped with my combat droid, but without an equipped weapon. Other combinations pulled missions that are too low or too high. No random carrion spat spawns spotted during this time despite using areatrack at every opportunity (yet another evidence of the limited usefulness of this skill). None of the mission spawns included giants, and they only spawned 6 spats each (2 initial, 2 waves of 2 defenders) even though I tried to kill the lair to quickly. Harvested about 550 meat over 25 mins (i had to log after that). At 50-100 cpu expected price, a 4 hr session should bring in about 300k or more if I can find some giants or random lairs on my way to and from missions. The mission rewards should be enough to cover my consumables (in this case just wear and tear on weapon and bike, as spats are too low level to bother with powerups, traps or armor).

Ahazi rangers/scouts please dont price this spawn too low. Since reasonable quality avian meat usually goes for 50 cpu in the baazar, 100 for this one seems reasonable (buddies, newbies and regular customers excepted, of course).