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Thread: Complete guide to soloing Nightsister Elders
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Rocacca
Wed Mar 03, 2004 8:15 pm
#1
Ok this is a detailed guide to soloing Nightsister Elders and getting a hold of some of the most valuable loot in the game (note: you need to be a Master Rifleman to do this)
Step 1: Get fully buffed, get Varasian brandy, a speederbike swoop, and a nice T21 Rifle
Step 2: Find a Nightsister Elder,one spawnsat the Nightsister Forced labor camp in a cave and 3 spawn at the Night sister stronghold
Step 3: Generally the Elders spawn with many other night sisters around them assuming you can handle them take them out (unless they are far enough away from the elder that they wont aggro when you attack the elder)
Step 4: Once there are no aggroable Nightsisters by the Elder get your speederbike out and have it by your side (a mounting macro helps)
Step 5: Use any attack to get the attenton of the Elder, hop on your speeder and lure him into the wild by kiting further than 60m lure it to a nice area with no aggroable mobs, obstacles, or other PC players can get in your way, because your gonna spend a lot of time in this spot.
Step 6: Once you find your spot fly away from it (like 200m so it will stop attacking you) and get off your speeder
Step 7: Lie prone in the range of 64-55m from itwith your speeder HANDY and ready to be driven
Step 8: Take a couple sips of brandy and spam Concealedshot with yout T21 rifle over and over repetitively. I do about 1000-2000 damage to her per hit with my powered up T21 rifle.
Assuming you fire once a second for 1000 damage on a random pooland she has about 350k hamgive or take 30k,it takes about 15 minutes of strait firing and about 900 shots to take this bad girl down. When you get her down to about 250k ham, she develops a random bleed on her that only ticks for about -2. This was a developed tactic by the developers so you can't solo things like this and they aggro and kill you. If you see her develop a bleed dot, hop on your speeder and go away from her aggro range (like 150m) untill the bleed passes. Don't go too far or its possible she may despawn. Once in a while she starts walking randomly in a random direction for about 10-50m if this happens peace out and follow her at the range of 60m untill she stops moving, then spam concealedshot. Ifyour lying prone you usuallynever miss, ive gone hundreds of shots without missing once. If you ever do miss and she aggros you hop on your speeder fast, fly away from her untill she stops attacking, andcontinue using concealedshot.It takes about 15min to take one down but it can be well worth it. When they do drop loot its usually very good. You can get lots of Legendary and exceptional weapons, components, and peices of armor from her. As well as Night sister vibro motors that can be used to make uber vibro knucklers.
Now get out there and grab yourselves some uber loot! 
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HARP00N
Wed Mar 03, 2004 8:43 pm
#2
random pool isnt really random pool, the shots usually hit health about 60% of the time, then 25% action and maybe 15% mind, its not an even 33/33/33 split (devs made it that way to simulate how the body is largest target, followed by extremities and then head) so it wont take that many shots i dont think...
Rocacca
Wed Mar 03, 2004 8:48 pm
#3
About 50% of your shots go to the health pool and it does take about 15 minutes to kill them. I have done it before and it takes this long. The time can vary depending on the stats of your t21 rifle and if your using powerups or not. Also its possible she aggros you once ina while (though rare)and that random bleed I talked about will take some time to pass too.
HARP00N
Wed Mar 03, 2004 9:08 pm
#4
do you face any competition? I would imagine there'd be groups camped there... but then again someone with that much HP would slaughter a group, attacking her directly is suicide even with pets, rigth?
Rocacca
Wed Mar 03, 2004 9:11 pm
#5
yup, the funny thing is that a whole group with 3 grauls, 2 kimos and a commando cant take the ns elder but a single person can solo it.
Robogrowl
Thu Mar 04, 2004 6:50 am
#6
Be wary of the random 1 point bleed that the T21 tends to drop while conceal shotting. Sometimes you get lucky and kill her without a bleed kicking in but be ready to get the heck outta there if you suddenly see that bleed icon pop up on her. I was killing one last night and i had to run away twice because of this.
bkdakiller
Thu Mar 04, 2004 3:40 pm
#7
o cool now i can solo them a second way... (im a master heavy swordsman also)
Rocacca
Thu Mar 04, 2004 4:49 pm
#8
Geddeo wrote:
You must have a lot of patients Rocacca. Personally I have a diferent approach that doesn't take quite as long, but your way sounds safer. Its always a good laugh to see those huge groups try to steal your loot though. On 3 diferent occasions I've had groups watching me solo a night sister elder and jump in. All 3 times the entire group died before they could even do 50k worth of dmg.
Quick question though. Have you ever seen a night sister force heal? I had one that kept refilling its action bar all the way to the top. Do they ever heal the health bar or is it always just the action?
Oh yea ive seen her force heal, its pretty damn good. I found a Night sister at half health stuck in a wall at the NS outpost. Since I didn't get it stuck myself, I figured I'd kill it since she was never going to do any damage to me anyway 
So instead of using concealshot, I used advanced strafeshot which enabled me to hit for like 4k damage but since she saw me and couldent do any attacks she spammed force heal as it was the only move she could do while stuck in the wall. Like once every 5-10 seconds she would heal herself for 5-10k health action and mind which made the kill end up taking almost as long as if I used concealshot.
So instead of using concealshot, I used advanced strafeshot which enabled me to hit for like 4k damage but since she saw me and couldent do any attacks she spammed force heal as it was the only move she could do while stuck in the wall. Like once every 5-10 seconds she would heal herself for 5-10k health action and mind which made the kill end up taking almost as long as if I used concealshot.
Jerele
Thu Mar 04, 2004 6:51 pm
#10
Whats some of th eloots you have gotten? Legendary weapons and exceptional.
Geddeo
Fri Mar 05, 2004 1:20 am
#11
You must have a lot of patients Rocacca. Personally I have a diferent approach that doesn't take quite as long, but your way sounds safer. Its always a good laugh to see those huge groups try to steal your loot though. On 3 diferent occasions I've had groups watching me solo a night sister elder and jump in. All 3 times the entire group died before they could even do 50k worth of dmg.
Quick question though. Have you ever seen a night sister force heal? I had one that kept refilling its action bar all the way to the top. Do they ever heal the health bar or is it always just the action?
Quick question though. Have you ever seen a night sister force heal? I had one that kept refilling its action bar all the way to the top. Do they ever heal the health bar or is it always just the action?
klawlegna
Thu Mar 18, 2004 9:21 am
#12
Jerele wrote:
Whats some of th eloots you have gotten? Legendary weapons and exceptional.
Tons of great drops from them after Pub 7!
Rocacca
Thu Mar 18, 2004 5:20 pm
#13
klawlegna wrote:
Jerele wrote:
Whats some of th eloots you have gotten? Legendary weapons and exceptional.
Tons of great drops from them after Pub 7!
What did you get? i'm kinda wondering what people have been able to get through the use of my guide.
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