Rifleman Archive
Thread: Looking to do a little dragon hunting
Branchini wrote:
conceal shot will allow you to pull just one. (most the time)
cool....thanks!
A lot of people say to alternate critical and headshot, but I find that runs me out of action quick, even when I'm using my 82 sac rifle. I hunt a lot of krayt looking for pearls and tissue and I never eat any food or use powerups.
If you alternate headshot (or in your case critical shot) and ranged shot (the marksman shot that takes no action) you should be able to keep your action from going down at all, and your dps is pretty good.
Some other tips are start out with an aim and then a snipershot, followe by a root as you are getting up. From what I found on my server is the krayts tend to not react right away and then to make up for it they almost warp right on top of you. The root at the start seems to make the krayt's walking a little more predictable.
Once the root wears down hit it with a snare and kite in your circle. After the snare fails you should be almost ready to root again. Just let it catch up a little, root it again and if you are still 40+ away go for a snipershot again. If not, use the root to gain some distance.
Save your knockdown for if you miss a snare or root. Knockdowns tend to make the krayts warp around when they get up and can cause you problems. The misses are why I like using ranged shot to keep my action around 30%. If I get to low just use a couple ranged shots in a row and then go back to alternating ranged and crit. Make sure you can shoot at least 3 specials in a row without running out of action in case you have a bad luck miss streak.
My last advice is to stick to canyon and juvis. The bigger ones don't seem to drop anything better and the small ones go down really fast and don't hurt so bad (I don't even hunt with armor). This way you also avoid the thieves. If it takes you 20 min to kill something, chances are someone will drive by and try to steal it. If it takes you 2 minutes to kill a juvi, chances are even if someone comes by you will have done enough dmg to get loot rights.
Ok, my real last advice. Hunt with a melee character that has armor break (jedi work good for this since they want pearls and you want tissue) Make sure you start the combat and keep agro and your kite circle going and they can run along side the krayt and stab it in the legs and the krayt doesn't seem to care 1 bit. I do this with 2 other jedi and we can take down ancients in no time. There are plenty of krayt out there so remember your painful experience and if you see some poor kid out there working on a krayt and making slow progress, don't go stealing the kill, find your own. Now if you get there at the same time, all bets are off 
evetsleep wrote:
One thing that I have noticed is the juvies tend to spawn with other dragons. How do you all break them up\pull them?
also, if you do manage to aggro both, make sure you snare the other one too. I've done this a few times and they just give up after a few seconds. Most of the time, though, we (my group) carries on business as usual when it happens. They will always give up as long as you don't shoot em
Use an Accuracy PUP not a SAC PUP.
+60 to accuracy will allow your roots to land everytime, and the little bit you lose to speed isn't that noticeable. Also eat criscpics and that should boost your accuracy to +100 throughout the whole time.
Eat the following
-Spiced Tea - Mind Regen (For healing temps)
-Bofa Treats - Health Regen
-Blob Candy - Action Regen
-Booster Blue for Spice
-Vegesparine for +100 Melee Defense
-Pikatta Pie +50 dodge (Krayts miss more)
-Synthsteak or Exo protein when krayts get too close
-Have parwan at the ready (low fill important)
Add in doc buffs and you should be good to go.
Oh also get a droid, that little 100 point DOT over time does add up.
if your SAC is 77 pupped you eitehr have a bad rifle r very bad pups 
my rifle is sac 82 (capped) without a pup, and it goes down to 66 or something with a stock on it
Iceovekan wrote:
Use an Accuracy PUP not a SAC PUP.
+60 to accuracy will allow your roots to land everytime, and the little bit you lose to speed isn't that noticeable. Also eat criscpics and that should boost your accuracy to +100 throughout the whole time.
Eat the following
-Spiced Tea - Mind Regen (For healing temps)
-Bofa Treats - Health Regen
-Blob Candy - Action Regen
-Booster Blue for Spice
-Vegesparine for +100 Melee Defense
-Pikatta Pie +50 dodge (Krayts miss more)
-Synthsteak or Exo protein when krayts get too close
-Have parwan at the ready (low fill important)
Add in doc buffs and you should be good to go.
Oh also get a droid, that little 100 point DOT over time does add up.
Awesome suggestions..thanks!
Marssk wrote:
if your SAC is 77 pupped you eitehr have a bad rifle r very bad pups
my rifle is sac 82 (capped) without a pup, and it goes down to 66 or something with a stock on it
Actually the PuP's are the best on the server at the moment from what I can tell. I am not, however using a capped SAC rifle...yet. I am having one made with some awesome enhanced power cells that will be however so my action issues should be a thing of the past if that WS will login to give me my rifle :-) so I can slice it and ADK it.
