Squad Leader Archive

Some background...

I just recently gave up Pistoleer for Carbinier[seems more befitting of a squad leader to be not up at the front, pistol whipping everyone]. I had already gotten pretty far up the pistoleer tree, so, I want to get somewhere up Carbinier quickly. Let's go to Mos Taike and hunt feral banthas!

Well, at first, I was only getting around 950 weapons exp per each bantha. Pretty good, huh? "I should be getting SL exp while i'm out here!". go to datapad, call my pet Jax, group him... "You receive 1193 points of Carbine Weapons experience"

Now, maybe i'm missing something about this whole experience algorithim[which is possible, I tend to overlook things a lot], but.... where does it say that having more people in a group yields more exp per critter?

It also seems that this pretty much means, pets generate more experience... I can't test beyond me and my jax, in fact in 15k more exp i hope to never see another bantha ever again, but, it seems that if each group member generate 20% more weapons experience, this generates 20% more combat exp... and obviously, means more SL experience above the normal modifier another group member adds anyways...

am I wrong?

Maybe I'll go test this out on diseased bocatts later...

the more group members there are, the more total experience a mob is worth. the largest bonus is given with the first group-member. if you solo a mob with a group of 2, you do get about 20% more exp, used to be more though. with 3, its around 25%, and a decreasing value of increased exp the larger the group. i haven't been able to test this effectively with more than a group of 6, though.

That's not the way I notice it. I do get 20% bonus for having 1 pet in group, but if I group my other 4 pets it does not increase any more. So I get same bonus whether it's 2 person group or 6 person group.

BTW make sure not to train until you reach cap. I was getting 1120 exp for feral banthas at first and I managed to make about 100k an hour there. Then when I trained it dropped down to 700 exp each. I can't even find em anymore anyway.Last like 8 times I ran out there I searched all over and couldn't find any so I've given up on them.

Anyone know any other mobs that have low HAM and give good exp even when you're nearly master carbineer?

Sorry for the tangent.

at master pistoleer i earned very little exp on most of the easy creatures (understandable) but when i started releasing a lot of these skills the exp started to climb, until now i get quite a good chuck of exp for most anything. very nice for leveling up squad leader. (read as: faster squad leader xp at lower weapon skills)

Group has always had an exp bonus. There is a tactic lots of people use these days called "Solo Grouping" they group up, then go out and solo. They get group xp bonus, but are soloing.

Same has been true for pets.