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Can someone give me tipson mastering smuggler?

Get those containers fast, get slicing I, stand at mission terminals slicing every two minutes while mass producing spices with three craft kits going at once and you should have your spice tree pretty quick.

Then at slicing II, buy many crates of Clamps, slicing knives, survival knives (for slicing) and weapon improvement kits. It goes much faster once you get Slicing II IF you have the cash to keep buying materials to slice and slice with.

After Slicing and Spicing are done, get out there and kill with the pistol. If you can't solo well, get in groups.
This is my last leg of Master and i solo big dinos but that's using Master braler and TK skills to help me.

It may depend on how much money you have to start with.
Here is my two cents worth:

For Spices tree: I had between 200-300K creditswhen I started, and I already had tons of Piket meat from Rifleman. So for Spices, I bought 1500 metal and crafted nothing but ShadowPaw. Over and over. Boring, but I got through spices in just 2-3 hours (I dont remember exactly). I had two crafting tools I kept running continuously.

For Slicing 1, I paid 2-3Kto slice containers. Stood outside Bestine starport. Took me about 3-4 hours of yelling. Could go much quicker at Coronet or Theed... dont know.

For Slicing 2, I stood by mission terminal at starport and sliced terminal while asking for containers. Made most of my slicing 2 xp on containers again, not terminals.

For Slicing 3 and 4 I bought lots of moleclamps, knives, and weapon upgrade kits and sliced crates of knives and CDEFs. I think I finished this in a couple of hours. You have to slice 100 weapons for Slicing 3 and 200 weapons for slicing 4, so you'll need 12 crates of weapons + moleclamps + weapon upgrade kits. It was expensive, but it went fast.

For Pistol XP, I bought some republic blasters and FWG5 pistols and sliced for damage. The FWG5 is really nice because it has 1.2 speed and does Heat damage (and might have AP1).
ThenI always go get doctor buffs and go find mobs who are the highest XP I can stand there and shoot without moving and can kill without getting incapped. Bocatts on Tat worked for me (about 2300 XP each). With Stims and mind buffs, I can kill Mountain Squill which are 3300 XP I believe.

If you have the Skill Points available, go get Pistoleer and a couple of boxes in the 4th tree so your pistol accuracy and speed are much better. Also gives you a second stackable Health Shot 2 (bleed). This seems to make a big difference. (I am still grinding the pistol xp).

Those were some handy tips. I found bleeding pikets on dant and killing them gives me around 3k xp per piket. Thanks for the tips guys