Smuggler Archive
Thread: Where did you grind your pistol XP?
fishbrains
Mon Feb 28, 2005 4:08 pm
#14
JonPalpatine wrote:Another Quenker killer here. Man do I hate the sight of them now...
You know what I can't stand the site of even today? Freaking Squills. Unless I'm in the middle of PvP I will kill every squill I come across. /shudders at being a noob on Tattoine on launch day.
ana-mo-cara
Mon Feb 28, 2005 5:09 pm
#15
My favorite grind location especially for novice ranged xp is the blueleaf temple on yavin especially since they amped up the spawn. Its simple and easy even with modest weapons skills.
Here is how you do it get to the dungeon sneak along a wall to the front entrance. If you have any scout make use of maskscent makes this a whole lot easier. Go through the front door and break to the right and then left through the next door. Now promptly run down the ramp. Odds are one of them will have aggroed on you relax. Eventually it will stop following you and you can pick it off at a distance. Now go to midway up the ramp, and pick off all the ones you can see uptop. Do not worry they cannot hit you. Next go up to where they were. Pop the two on the far wall. Do not worry about the ones in the first chamber they will never come in unless you go there. Now pick off all the ones at the bottom at your leasure. Its pretty simple. The spawn is now every fifteen minutes or so in this dungeon.
What is so great about doing it here.
1. Each kliknik dark defender is worth 3500 points, and the dungeon has 20 or so of them inside
2. You will only need buffs once per each grinding session. Infact you can logout on the ramp and log back in safely.
3. When you kill off the ones on the bottom you have some treasure chests to loot.
4. No wounds no armor decay.
My second favorite place is fort tusken almost constant victims. and they pay up good xp and great loot. You will need some heavy armor and alot of buffs canape brandy and doc buffs.
Robren911
Mon Feb 28, 2005 5:38 pm
#16
I plan on trying every planet mentioned. Thanks for the input guys. I started today with Quenkers on Dantooine. Here's what I had and how i did. I took 3 pistols. A DX-2, and Republic Blasters (one modified for bleeding DoT). I would attack the lair (about 40k pistol XP per mission with mission difficulty 99) And after a few mobs spawned who spam a few PointBlankArea1's to land the bleeding dot, then switch to the DX because the quenkers only have 10% resist to acid. After that I'd spam HealthShot2's to finish each one off fast. Staying to kill the layer I used DoubleTap1 and the lairs went down pretty fast.
Of course I was Doc Buffed, drank 2 shots of brandy ate both ahrisa and canapes. And my mind bar stayed full basically at all times.
Now on to Lok, Endor Yavin and the rest to explore and have some fun. Thanks guys!
EnderUK
Mon Feb 28, 2005 5:57 pm
#17
Lok rules for grinding. It's so barren and empty with no one around and it makes such a change from grinding on dant. Gurks for fast xp, mercs and Nym's for money and semi okay loot 
zazo
Tue Mar 01, 2005 1:44 am
#18
seething bol missions on dantooine but that was eons ago
ah nothing like stackin a bleed and feigning death in emergencies. the good ole days when buffs were rare and groups meant something.
camps were needed and you had to "run" to jabbas from bestine.
armor and weapons were weak but still if you didnt get them off your corpse in time you were done for.
/sigh
I wanna play that game again where did it go?
Jaguarrr
Tue Mar 01, 2005 2:20 am
#19
DrevenStrobe wrote:
SpinningCloud wrote:
quenkers on Dantoonie
Ditto...
Spamming healthshot1 and healthshot2 like a mad man with my FWG. Plus, ungrouped and unsliced, the missions pay 11k or so per mission. I did all of DF in 3-4 buff sessions.
The new loot stims (Pistol speed and Pistol accuracy) camein very handy for someone with ONLY Novice Pistoleer on top of Pistols 4.
And another one here. It got called quenking, got some sort of sport...
I overheared a conversation about quenkers sometime... "Those freakish accident between a crocodile and a chicken."
01201986
Tue Mar 01, 2005 2:42 am
#20
I have done grinding on both dantooine and lok, and can without a doubt say that lok is the better of the two. It's easy to find wild gurk lairs, and after u kill the 5 or so that are lying around the lair, equip your dx2shoot the lair for a second (no special) and then /peace. gurks will start spawning faster than you can kill them. I get tons of xp this way, regrinding pistoleer atm as a matter of fact. and since most of the gurks are vul to acid and stun, it makes it that much easier killing them with the dx2, then switching to the geo when u get the cert. remember to use both /healthshot1 and /healthshot2 because they stack.
Message Edited by 01201986 on 03-01-2005 11:39 AM
Skysco
Tue Mar 01, 2005 5:22 am
#21
For smuggler i did Perleks on Lok... They don't give much XP a piece, but they drop a lot faster then quenkers, so overall they give pretty nice XP..
Indy106
Tue Mar 01, 2005 9:42 am
#23
Quenkers and Picket lairs on dantooine, pretty good money on the pickets and you can harvest their hides and sell em cheap on the bazaar.
Axe-Do Gibet
Master Smuggler
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davelope
Tue Mar 01, 2005 12:16 pm
#24
Dantoonie Piket missions...they pay off about 9,000 a piece(which easily pays off the buff), they bring in about 3500xp pistol xp per kill(with a minimum 5 per lair)and you never have to worry about being incapped.
NickHeel
Tue Mar 01, 2005 12:19 pm
#25
On an ancient, forgottenplace long ago called Rori with massive ninjitsu wielding creatures called Tortons.
Obono
Tue Mar 01, 2005 2:03 pm
#26
I think i just killed random monsters around the galaxy, not concentrating on one type. But i did grind on quenkers for a bit, but it grinded them more while doing commando.