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Thread: A new (maybe) use for retreat
Hey, Retreat is obviously useless to actually retreat with, as all your HAM is gone and you cant fire it off. However, I have been grinding SL XP in the naboo imperial weapon research center (a place a lot of people go to hunt for holocrons) and have found that people are willing to group with me if I can guarentee that they will reach the spawns before the others in the dungeon do. So every time I see a mob spawn, I use retreat, giving my group a free burst run, allowing them to reach the mob first, and do the most damage. I get easy SL XP, and they get a better chance to loot the body, thus increasing their odds at getting a holocron drop.
Is anyone else using this concept for the retreat skill? Ive found its the best SL skill I have (im only 1-0-3-4 though)
Before mounts, I would use it to reach missions quicker. By the time we got there, a doc had healed my A bar, and my mind is uber enough to regen on its own.
No more, though. Pointless, it is. In PvP, some attack useage for melee it might have. Untested by me, it is.
NarCranor wrote:
Hey, Retreat is obviously useless to actually retreat with, as all your HAM is gone and you cant fire it off. However, I have been grinding SL XP in the naboo imperial weapon research center (a place a lot of people go to hunt for holocrons) and have found that people are willing to group with me if I can guarentee that they will reach the spawns before the others in the dungeon do. So every time I see a mob spawn, I use retreat, giving my group a free burst run, allowing them to reach the mob first, and do the most damage. I get easy SL XP, and they get a better chance to loot the body, thus increasing their odds at getting a holocron drop.
Is anyone else using this concept for the retreat skill? Ive found its the best SL skill I have (im only 1-0-3-4 though)
This is an old trick for a fairly worthless ability.