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Where's the fun in soloing a Krayt?

Master Rifleman/Smuggler takes me about 15 min-1 hour to kill an ancient

I just use a 300 DPS rifle....Concussion shot... prone, snipershot,snare, run and headshot thats basically what I do

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Nicolas_Frost wrote:
Where's the fun in soloing a Krayt?

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/agree....it's vastly over rated. In fact I've gotten to the point that I hate doing solo hunting. Grouping with friends is just 10x more fun.

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Shunyo wrote:

Master Rifleman/Smuggler takes me about 15 min-1 hour to kill an ancient

I just use a 300 DPS rifle....Concussion shot... prone, snipershot,snare, run and headshot thats basically what I do

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Yeah, if you want to solo them, you're going to waste time like this guy.

Bring a friend. Preferably one with some healing skills. You can take down a juvie canyon krayt in under a minute, and they drop the neat-o new smuggler components just as well as the tougher krayts. If you know a Jedi with some healing skill, that's ideal because you can make a deal to give him the pearls you find in exchange for you getting all the smuggler stuff.

And with our handy-dandy new Concussion Shot, if things get a little hairy or you aggro another krayt by accident, you can shut them down long enough to heal up, buff up, or run screaming like a little schoolgirl.

I'm a Master Smuggler/MBH/Novice Carbineer and I use a sliced Proton Carbine with a modified DPS of around 550. With the +10m raged cyberarm, I've got a 55m range with that bad boy, and the SAC is fairly low, too. Adding Novice Carbineer gives me a boost with accuracy and speed, as well. Critical Shot from BH is a nice little damage dealer, Underhand Shot for a good ranged KD, and our spiffy Smuggler specials to make the target sing and dance at my whim.

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Nicolas_Frost wrote:
Where's the fun in soloing a Krayt?

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QFE

Maybe it's just me but I think I'd be grouping more even without the CU. The solo factor is just so boring and I'm starved for content and interaction. Been having more fun doing anything with a group lately, even if it's just a pickup group I found hanging around one of the hunting choke points.

Solo no. I can but it takes to long. I can hunt them all day with my bud a Master CM Master Doc. With his D.O.T.s and our combinded roots we can fend off sevral if we have too. Just have to remember not to bring along any one who dies to fast. Puts the Dragons into a retreet mode and it heals completly up.

Message Edited by IpioPOW on 07-08-2005 07:28 AM

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AngusMacGregor wrote:

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Shunyo wrote:

Master Rifleman/Smuggler takes me about 15 min-1 hour to kill an ancient

I just use a 300 DPS rifle....Concussion shot... prone, snipershot,snare, run and headshot thats basically what I do

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Yeah, if you want to solo them, you're going to waste time like this guy.

Bring a friend. Preferably one with some healing skills. You can take down a juvie canyon krayt in under a minute, and they drop the neat-o new smuggler components just as well as the tougher krayts. If you know a Jedi with some healing skill, that's ideal because you can make a deal to give him the pearls you find in exchange for you getting all the smuggler stuff.

And with our handy-dandy new Concussion Shot, if things get a little hairy or you aggro another krayt by accident, you can shut them down long enough to heal up, buff up, or run screaming like a little schoolgirl.

I'm a Master Smuggler/MBH/Novice Carbineer and I use a sliced Proton Carbine with a modified DPS of around 550. With the +10m raged cyberarm, I've got a 55m range with that bad boy, and the SAC is fairly low, too. Adding Novice Carbineer gives me a boost with accuracy and speed, as well. Critical Shot from BH is a nice little damage dealer, Underhand Shot for a good ranged KD, and our spiffy Smuggler specials to make the target sing and dance at my whim.

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pffft I said I could solo not that I did, what do you think I am? crazy?

I had tremedous success soloing krayts as a smuggler/commando with enough pistoleer for stopping shot.

I soloed the katarn with Master Smuggler/Master Carbineer/4000 TKA. Not really an uber template but it does the trick. Carbines are huge for damage. Soloing Krayts is a lot faster than the katarn though, let me tell you!

For weapon I have a krayt elite carbine with over 1000 max damage sliced (forget the exact number.) The important thing is the SAC is 73. I have it ADK'd and I always keep SAC lowering pups on it. With all that even my sad Trando stats can fire Leg Shot + Rapid Fire constantly (with some food/spice usually.)

My technique is to simply hit the mob with Crippling Shot, the snare from Carbineer, then start strafing sideways and spamming leg shot + rapid fire. Keep circling and kiting. When snare runs out do Charge Shot and knock it down. Wait a few seconds and snare it again. If you miss or for some reason, the mob gets too close, or you need a break for your action bar just hit the Concussion Shot; its like a get out of jail free card. Of course if things really go bad use Feign Death.

Hope that helps ya.