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what is the best place/creature to get rifle xp if you are already a rifleman?

I have been hunting quite a few things in the past few days you might want to try. Each of these creatures gives close to or above 3k exp.

Bull Tortur - Talus - 3100 exp

Baz Nitch - Dathomir - 3700 exp

Fambaa - Naboo - forget the exp ammt... sorry.

These are all SERIOUS creatures. They are heavy hitters, and hence you have to be careful.

Salomon Orange

Rifleman (Expert Sniper)

Gorath Server

You may also want to try Snorbals on Lok

Salomon Orange

Rifleman (Expert Sniper)

Gorath Server

I'd suggest making big $$ while cranking in MAJOR xp by going to Dathomir. Go to the trade outpost and search for missions that are between 9k-10k. Those missions are to destroy bas nitch lairs. While destroying just the liar itself nets you over 3k rifle xp and over 300 combat xp........if you chose to kill the mobs also you are looking at anywhere from over 1k to over 3k PER creature rifle xp and upwards of 300 to 400 combat xp per creature. Not to mention that once you kill the lair you have 10k credits on top of your loads of xp. These creatures are non-aggro, but if you tangle with them beware they do have 10k hp and are fairly agile and hit hard. 9 out of 10 times they will only incap you, so the payoff is worth the risks.

Kill easier reds (reds give you more exp, easier = less downtime since they almost never reach you to do damage). Don't attack creatures that consistently reach melee range (unless you are working on 2-handed sword as well) as these we'll eat up your HAM and force you to rest.

Get a pet (groups give you a 25% weapons exp bonus and even if your pet does 90% of the damage, you still get full weapons exp).

When running through the wilderness take potshots at creatures you can 1-shot. A durni put me over the top for a skill box last night. 70, 110, 90 exp a pop do add up and really don't slow you down at all (just a very quick pause for that headshot) as long as you don't harvest (and if they are where you're running anyway, you can hit your harvest/loot macro as you run by). Rarely a couple of misses will make this counter-productive (you actually have to stop to fight), but this is rare.

Get the best rifle (highest damage per second combined with low enough special costs so you don't have to rest after spamming headshots) you can. The faster you kill stuff, the faster you will get exp.

Migrate your stats to emphasize the 3 mind stats. The idea is you don't want mobs to reach you anyway, so health and action are overrated. Plus, you need to regen mind quickly to keep spamming headshots. You can always migrate your stats back to something more sensible for other activities.

Stay away from bring-a-friend mobs (unless they are really easy). Mobs at melee distance (receurring theme here) = downtime for resting.

ya that baz nitch thing worked GREAT. it turns out that they ARE aggro, after all, and have clost to 20k ham and not 10. also spent about 5k planet hopping and now i can't get back!

The Baz Nitch missionswere wonderful experience and credits, however I don't like kiting and prefer to use a pet to keep the critters busy. The problem with Dathomir is most Baz Nitch lairs were almost always in the forrest, and I would continually loose line of sight as my pet and the critter danced around. Could anyone recommend someplace where I can obtainBaz Nitch-like missions without having to deal with a forrest?

Thank you,

S.

That's really odd. What species are you? Maybe they are aggro to some species like womp rats aggro triadoshans. Honestly I have been hitting those liars for 3 days now and the nitches are always yellow non-aggro mods. And 10k a mission, you should have enough to go anywhere you want after just 1 mission. Sorry to hear you are having troubles. I always shot mind pool, they have barely 10k mind points. Unless there was a patch today and all that has changed???????? Guess I'll have to see when I logon tonight.

They have been nerfed today