Rifleman Archive
Thread: have krayts been nerfed?
Ok... In all my time in the game, I've only gone to hunt Krayts twice. Helped a large group take down a couple. I dont remember what kind, but pretty sure they weren't Ancient.
I wouldn't mind getting a group of friends together to go, but my question is..
How does a group divide up the loot? Do you decide who will loot it ahead of time?
WayneInAustin wrote:Ok... In all my time in the game, I've only gone to hunt Krayts twice. Helped a large group take down a couple. I dont remember what kind, but pretty sure they weren't Ancient.
I wouldn't mind getting a group of friends together to go, but my question is..
How does a group divide up the loot? Do you decide who will loot it ahead of time?
yes.
we do guild hunts for them, and determine the distribution before we start. First pearl goes to so-and-so.. tissues go to so-and-so, etc. Then, one guy, and one guy only loots. God bless the devs for adding system messages to show who loots, and what they got.
FYI: every day I pray the DEVS will get their collective cranial-rectal inversions fixed and figure out that requiring pearls and crystals for next gen sabers, and then making them rare loot drops, IS A BAD IDEA! Pearls on kauri go for a MINIMUM of 3 million, and good ones hit 5 million creds or more. Even crystals are 250K+, and most of those are junk.
anyway... a good group squares away loot division before it EVER starts hunting. Any other way is just asking for trouble.
WayneInAustin wrote:Well, since I inadvertently hijacked thisinto a "Krayt Hunting for Idiots"thread, let me ask the following:
1. Besides Rifleman, what professionsare good for a Krayt Hunting group?
( I would guess a Doctor that can rez would be useful. )
2. Are there any combatprofessions that are pretty worthless hunting them?
Swordsman tend to solo 'em pretty well Wayne. Rifle/Swordsman is even better
If you have a CM to heal allies/poison krayt, that's a good thing too. If a Master Brawler sticks Warcry2 on it, you all can get 20 seconds to sit and heal. 
Plus their Intimidate2 will halve its damage done to you (yay!).
Thanks, Kez!
Appreciate the info. It's so nice to have you back on the forums.
aj1varg wrote:
Ancient in 10 mins? lol sure. An ancient has 95% res to everything accept cold and has 450k-ish HAM and TKAs don't dont much dmg to a krayt to begin with, a CM can out dmg them with bleeds basically. The fastest way to kill anancient is with bleeds and setting it on fire, which to say the least takes a while. So unless you know something everyone else doesn't I think you're just trying to sound cool
Hmm... I am a master CM, and I haven't found my /bleedshot1 button...
OR! Maybe *I* too am sounding "cool."
Hah!
j/k
we got a total of 7 pearls and 1 set of armor segmnets, and 2 sets of scales (one very nice, from one of the ancients).
0 tissues, which surprised me.
the guy up there who said a master rifle and tkm can kill an ancient is 10 mins is full of **edit**. as a master rifle, master doc-- my total contribution to killing the ancients was healing damage and states on my partner. I have a 500 damage T21, and +95 rifle speed. Ancients have AR3 and 95% resists, so my 3k average strafe was doing 150 pts of damage to a 450K ham mob. TKM's with light AP only basically can't hurt an ancient, as a 2k attack would do 25 pts of damage.
killing a 450k ham target 175 pts at a time would take 2500+ attacks. Shooting once per sec (speed cap), that's roughly 43 mins of non-stop firing/hitting once per sec. Oh, this is assuming headshots by the rifleman and TKA--- i.e. entirely single pool directed damage. spread the damage out in a normal distribution, and it takes much longer. Note I used strafe damage up there... actually, HS3 is no where near a 3k average, but I think i've proven the point.
Message Edited by BlasterForHire on 04-27-2004 10:19 AM