Swordsman Archive

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Ahernia wrote:

Sorry, but ^that guy^ is right. While I was interested in whether it would work, I would never do it. It's also sorta lame. I know the cave on chimeara is camped by rifleman most of the time, lvling using strafeshot. It makes me a saaaad panda

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Hehe just a quick FYI adv strafe is a master RM skill! so they weren't using it to level rifleman of that you can be assured!

The thing about the Geonosians is their ranged weapons are stun based which means they rip through composite, so get in close and engage them in melee combat, you'll last a lot longer than you will at range. Watch out for the AoE bug though (area damage that should be applied to every target gets added up and applied only to you), I've been killed by that a few times, extremely sucky, you can also kill lots of geonosians with it, but it's a cheap tactic, is technically exploiting and can get you banned (I only resort to area hits in dire emergencies).

I found that piket plains walker missions were the best source of xp for me - group with a pet or droid and leave it in the city, you'll get 4100xp or so per plains walker and a good 3800xp for a regular piket. I made about half a million xp last night in about 2 hours.

Although admittedly I was buffed up the wazoo and out of my tree on BE Brandy and Glazed Glucose Pate so your mileage my vary.

Yes the geonosen caves are great for xp i went in buffed aoe 2 and got 200k xp with in 20min it was pretty good and the loot is great as well it is a very good place for xp but watch out for those geonosesn with there stun pistols crazy dam i got hit for 4999 dam at one time

I duno about you guys but i could solo the 4 geo's at the enterance at 0/0/0/3 Swordsman, and since have gotten to 2/1/1/3 in no time at all, only 77% kin armor, no stun, using a speed sliced scythe, buffs, double brandy.

The trick is when the first one spawns get him to follow you, then get them all to follow but charging them when they spawn, that way they will all go melee on you and skip thier stun damage kill shots.

If Jedi afk tef'd leveling isnt an exploit, then this sure as hell isn't.

4 ? There's only 4 there on your server ? On FarStar every time one spawns there's about 5 of them in each spot, we're talking maybe 15-20 Geonosians at the entrance at any one time.

It's very interesting that there's 4 on your server, it might well mean our spawn is bugged.

Not that this is a bad thing, means plenty of loot for everyone.

Come to think of it, the mercenaries in the anteroom within the dungeon also spawn multiples in one spot, that's interesting, makes me think something isn't working as intended (besides the AoE attack bug).

yes i make it intresting when you run in to see 4 red trun into 15 abit hard at times

AoE bug? I haven't yet been to the Geonosian cave, but apparently there are 2 forms of the AoE bug? one adds up the damage, and applies it to you, the swordsman. The other form, somehow sums up the damage, and applies it to a target. (as per WarFerret's post above)

How does one do this, or more appropriately, not do this? I don't think NOT using areaattack is an option. I find it a useful special for gaining xp. But would be hard to keep track if I'm getting attacked by a group of Geonosians. So, if anyone wants to share about this AoE bug that I've heard about, and how to avoid it, but still be able to use it, that would be great. A PM would be nice too, if people don't want to share, afraid that people would exploit.

I don't want to exploit, I just want to hit all the baddies that are attacking me in one swing, w/out killin myself.