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Thread: pistol xp question
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Bliss2k
Tue Sep 02, 2003 4:04 am
#1
I have a novice smuggler and can't seem to find anything decent to kill for pistol xp. Was wondering what other smugglers were killing to grind out their pistol xp? The stuff I have been killing has been giving me like 300-500 pistol xp a pop, which seems to be quite low.
Which planet/city/monsters are good to kill for xp? Any info is greatly appreciated, thanks.
BBS950
Tue Sep 02, 2003 4:16 am
#2
300-500 sounds right in line for what I was doing at novice smuggler. Even at Dirty fighting 4, it's still a challenge to kill something solo that gives me 1000+ xp. I can make it so a single enemy can never hit me, but I lose quite a bit in HAM costs doing the low blows and last ditches to take down something large like a gronda or a humbaba.
It'll take a while to do, it's not supposed to be easy.
It'll take a while to do, it's not supposed to be easy.
-PheaR-
Tue Sep 02, 2003 4:22 am
#3
LoL You know there'sa delay on NPC's and PC's for stance changes right, and did you forget about that usefuls kill named "Health Shot 1"? Bleed supression fire supression fire run up on the guy supression fire and keep his butt on the ground, you can solo anything.. gg
-PheaR-
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-PheaR-
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dirkdouglas
Sat Jul 31, 2004 7:54 am
#4
i am 0304 Smuggler and i'm gonna start working on the Pistol xp.
I've decided getting novice pistoleer would be a good move, then fill up my smuggler pistol boxes.
I was going to head over to Dantooine and hunt Quenkers as this worked well for my rifle skills a few months ago.
My question is, out of the 2 weapons Novice Pistoleer allows me to use, which one would be best for hunting Quenkers ?
thanks for advice,
Tazo Salguod - Chimaera server
(future Master Smuggler) hehe...
Duedroth
Sat Jul 31, 2004 8:16 am
#5
i think the dx2 might be better because of the quenker's resists (or lack thereof) to acid. Remember, the rep blaster is nice, but it's energy damage. Just /examine a quenker and figure out what it's least resistant to.
Also, are you planning on finishing pistoleer, or just picking up some of it to help with smuggler?
If you plan to master pistoleer, or even just grab a few trees in it, I'd recommend going x/x/4/x in pistoleer before going up the smuggler trees. The underworld tree recquires the least amount of pistol xp of any non-starting profession's trees. And fanshot and stopping shot, plus the defenses you'd pick up, would be invaluable. You get accuracy in the 2nd pistols line, and speed in the 4th, which recquires combat xp.
But yeah, probably the DX2.
Also, are you planning on finishing pistoleer, or just picking up some of it to help with smuggler?
If you plan to master pistoleer, or even just grab a few trees in it, I'd recommend going x/x/4/x in pistoleer before going up the smuggler trees. The underworld tree recquires the least amount of pistol xp of any non-starting profession's trees. And fanshot and stopping shot, plus the defenses you'd pick up, would be invaluable. You get accuracy in the 2nd pistols line, and speed in the 4th, which recquires combat xp.
But yeah, probably the DX2.
dirkdouglas
Sat Jul 31, 2004 9:01 am
#6
thanks for the advice Duedroth,
i am still undecided about mastering Pistoleer, i currentlyhave Master Rifleman and i know this is'nt supposed to be paired with smuggler but i really like it 
i don't do muchPvP but i will be attempting a few faction missions when i have reached master smuggler, in order to raise my rank.
I want to be a Smuggler first and foremost, with the ability to take care of pesky NPC's that may trouble me on my travels.
Tazo Salguod
Velneth
Sat Jul 31, 2004 9:24 am
#7
dx2 is a great weapon... though, hefty HAM cost, you'll see your Action dropping fairly quickly, at least with most dx2's I've seen/used.
KefkaQ
Sat Jul 31, 2004 11:58 am
#8
I dunno. My dx2 has one of the lowest ham costs of all my weapons.
WolfgarddaImp
Sat Jul 31, 2004 10:53 pm
#9
DX2 is a decent weapon as is a geo blaster. I would strongly urge you to go up pistol techniques tree in pistoleer first, at least to level 2 (you get geo blaster cert there) once equiped with that head to endor and you can pull in 300k to 400k pistol xp there in about 3 or 4 hours.
Hope that helps
Soha
Sun Aug 01, 2004 4:16 am
#10
I'm currently grinding through Smuggler in a last ditch all out holo grind before pub 10. My 2 masters before Smuggler were TKA and Fencing, and man are those easy compared to this. In the time I kill one quenker with a pistol I would of killed all 5 with both of the melee professions, using the spin attack.
Before anyone flames me for not being a true smuggler, I will point out that I tried to be a Smuggler last summer/fall, but dropped it about halfway through because the trade bugs drove me nuts. Since I got slicing 4 yesterday, I got 4 or 5 tells yesterday from people who apparently searched me and wanted slices. The first person I offered to do it, after warning him that he would be better off using a master smuggler, and him still wanting me to do it. So I meet up with him, and sure enough the fricking trade bugs are still alive and well. Everytime we tried to trade the boxes kept closing themselves, and it ended up taking 40 minutes to finish because we both had to relog.
Needless to say I declined the latter slice requests, and then turned make my character searchable off, and set my title back to Master TKA. It's amazing that SOE still hasn't fixed these trade bugs. I can't imagine how you professional slicers deal with it...
JacobKell
Sun Aug 01, 2004 5:09 am
#11
I actually found grouping with some guildies and solo hunting fambaas on naboo is a quick route for good pistol xp. Over 4k in pistol xp per kill and a quick easey kill.Plus i can be bone idle and run missions from my city rather than waiting a week for the shuttles to an adventure planet
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