Rifleman Archive

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Sotaudi wrote:

BabyRancor,

It may be that the AE effect does not hit the lair if you are targeting something else, but it is not true that specials do not harm lairs.

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This is correct, the way AoE attack works, if something/someoneis not aggroed on you, or a member of your group, (or you attack it/them)they will not take damagefrom an AoE attack. This holds true for lairs as well. Combat windows spam will indicate that the nest is being hit, and mob will social agro on you if you do hit the nest, but the nest will not take damage. I've tested this many times.

My favorite method is two maulers on a nest, wait for the first spawn, target the nest, AoE until everything's dead, peace, wait for 3rd spawn. I leveled using Picket longhorn, and Voritior mission on Dantooine.

The way you're doing it is pretty much the same way I did it with flushingshot2. However, I used a DLT20a for the faster speed and MUCH lower mind cost. I tried it with a T21 at first, but kept running out of mind too fast.Once I hadovercome the problem with the mind drain, I noticed that my action and HAM would eventually drain out over time, and that was solved by drinking a Tatooine sunburn.Once I did that, I could spam FS2 for 10 minutes straight without worrying about running out of pool points.Unless your T21 has some ungodly low speed and low HAM costs, I'd reccomend this method. The DLT20a's I used were around 2-2.4 speed after a speed slice and 30% speed powerup.

Gurks were a brilliant idea. I take 4 of those missions and I am seeing about 400k rifle exp per hour.

I did hit a couple of snorbal lairs in the process as well. Those things spawn in much greater numbers than I recall in the old kiting days.

Finding random lairs with non deathblow creatures on Lok is much easier than I thought.

I took my guild on a hunt on Dantooine and played around with head shot 3. Ridiculous mind cost and really not that much damage.