Rifleman Archive
Thread: leveling FS combat XP quickly
WayneInAustin wrote:
Thanks, Barb. Sounds like good advice.
That 25 minutes is pretty impressive! 900K is 180 5K critters. Thats 7.2 critters a minute or one 5K critter every 8 seconds! DAMM!
Question: Nothing in the game gives much more than 5K XP, right? (Most I ever remember gettingwas from a Karamuth on Dath the other night - 5099 xp).
heh yeah i was amazed i only came across such a situation once but it was a hella lot of fun. but that isnt the norm so dont take it as such its just the fastest i ever capped while doing FS xp runs.
i had previously cleared a small area that had 3 CG spawns andfew squall spawns and on the next trip they had all become merek spawns and all were within about 150mof each other and i went from lair to lair tapping each one and killing the initial spawns got all 900k off those 6-7 lairs.
just a testament to killing everything in your path when you know your coming back through later.
Barb-Wire wrote:
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when looking for a good spawn area look for routes that large numbers of peopel take every day. there is almost always now ancient bulls on dath between and aroudn the village and blurrg raptors between the DWB and smuggler outpost on endor to the amount of traffic in each of those areas.
rancor valley and the NS stronghold have dried up because there just isnt the traffic there used to be in those areas. at least that is true on bria right now.
WayneInAustin wrote:
Barb-Wire wrote:
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when looking for a good spawn area look for routes that large numbers of peopel take every day. there is almost always now ancient bulls on dath between and aroudn the village and blurrg raptors between the DWB and smuggler outpost on endor to the amount of traffic in each of those areas.
rancor valley and the NS stronghold have dried up because there just isnt the traffic there used to be in those areas. at least that is true on bria right now.
Yeah... I have been doing most of my FS hunting on Dath because I like being close to the Village when I max. But it seems to be either feast or famine. I had a situation the other evening similar to the one you hadon Yavin. I ended up in the middle of three natural nests and got about 650 XP in maybe 20 minutes. But last night was really strange... because of the Phase 3 quests, there was a LOT of traffic to the Village but I couldn't find a decent nest of anything anywhere between the SOP and the Village. Weird.
yeah it comes and goes. thats why if i didnt have at least 450k weapons or so by the time i got to the SO i just went on back to endor and finished off the cap. and usually by the time it was time to return tot he SO after dropping off XP the spawns would be better.
nothing like having 25+ mereks after ya all at once using a strafe2 on them all and watching the damage fly and the XP roll in!!
Barb-Wire wrote:
...C22 grenades...
Hi!
Nice post. Just a friendly correction: if you are talking about grinding combat XP, the grenades used are C12s:
Thamik wrote:
Whats DWB?
Death Watch Bunker
its a very very nasty dungeon on endor. there is a lot of player traffic of late going to the DWB so there is a lot of good spawns in there area between the DWB and the smuggler outpost. at least on bria. dunno about your shard. mileage may vary.
Thamik wrote:
Whats DWB?
MrTopi wrote:
Barb-Wire wrote:
...C22 grenades...
Hi!
Nice post. Just a friendly correction: if you are talking about grinding combat XP, the grenades used are C12s:
Using C-12 grenades for FS XP
yes if your not a commando you dont have a cert for C22. C12 at less than commando 4000 is just not worhtwhile in my opinion. takes longer as a non-commando to get 300k combat than it does to make two runs of weapon XP at 120kFS for two runs. capping combat via grenades for a noncommando takes far more than 2 hours. its also cost prohibitive since the exchange rate of damage to creds used is just insane. you just cant toss a grenade fast enough at non-commando speed to make this a viable tactic.
at commando 1000 i beleive you get the cert for C22. C22 takes the same components as C12 and are a bit more powerful. with commando 4000 you have the speed and accuracy to use them efficiently and if you want you can even go a bit higher up the weaponsmith grenade tree for other grenades.
one kill with a grenade on a max critter yields on average 1667FSxp. takes almost 5 minutes to generate that XP. one kill with on a 5k critter with a weapon generates 333FS xp. this is a basic 5 to one ration. takes about 5 seconds or so to kill that one critter. i can a hell of a lot more critters in that 5 minutes of taking out 6 creatures with grenades by going from nest to nest and killing things with a weapon that i am a master in.
as the most critters that can attack you at one time is 6. the rest will wander around till the ones currently fighting are dead and a spott opens. greandes are only efficient if your a commando then they can be used to maximum effect like any other mastery and only then do grenades become a better option than any other weapon mastery.
just do a basic time vs effort study and you will see easily that C12 grenades are a waste of time but look oh so good when that 5k starts rolling in. but its just a pipe dream and your actually wasting valuable grind time by using grenades at less than commando 4000...