Swordsman Archive

I had despaired after they recently nerfed the heck out of Lok, but I found a higher level XP spot that is probably better. I earned about 900k XP doing this yesterday... enough to get me to Master Heavy Swordsman... running Giant Baz Nitch missions on Darothmir.

You need a decent group, 3-4 people halfway up master tree will do, and it is vital to have someone with Knockdown or Pistol Whip (or both), and a healer. At one point yesterday we had me, a BH, and a Combat Medic, and we could roll through the missions (we had some novices with us too, and they got uber scouting and combat xp). Giant Baz Nitches give as much XP as Lok Droideka's and are easier to kill.

Also, just as an FYI,after I hit Master Heavy Swordsman, I decided to try a few Baz Nitches solo. I was self-buffed with the first level of Doctor enhance buffs, was using my nice new Powerhammer, and had 3 pieces of advanced composite on. I was able to easily solo up to 2 yellow-con Baz Nitches using 2 mind bleeds on each, then just chilling until they died (with the occasional self heal). Didn't take long and the XP was 4,200 each. Didn't try more than 2, but could probably handle more too.

Spam any of the Area Attack styles and you can take the lair on yourself if you have decent healing abilities.

If you have a dedicated healer it's even easier. The posture lower has a few second delay that when chained causes the monsters in range to be unable to attack you. The only damage you take is that which you do through style costs.

Humanoid opponents are a joke with this attack as the dizzy of the third one will put them out of action in one or two swings. I especially enjoy charging into the midst of closely positioned humans (such as the Nym camps on Lok or some stormtrooper camps) and blasting them with a few of those to wipe them all out alone.

-Shi

All you need is a doctor...nothing more...if you have a doctor you can easily self do it......

After getting the exp needed for master ( had to learn finesse) i decided to suicide with my friend who also needed to learn it.. so we went to a baz natch herd lair and just attacked it....and spammed area3.....expecting to die we took out like 10 baz just us as the 10 man group we reluctantly joined watched in disbelief

Heh, I will have to try Area3 with my doctor buffs on the lair. Sounds fun.

I also forgot to mention... after I got Master Heavy Swordsman yesterday, I was helping guildmates XP on the Baz Nitch lairs. I found an interesting technique to pass along.

I would bonk each of the incoming Baz Nitches once with my Powerhammer to get and hold agro. Then I would Peace and just stand there. With my melee defense bonuses and toughness, they were barely hitting me, and when they did, it really did not hurt. My other group members were able to blast away at their heart's content, and only rarely would a Baz switch agro to anyone but me.

This reduced my XP from around 2-3K per Baz to around 800 per Baz, with the balance of the XP going to my group members. They were really appreciative, and I was glad to do it... even though it was kind of boring to stand there getting wailed on

I hope they do put in the patch soon.

I do wish they'd reconsider the delay/timer on the posture change but even so we will still be a menace, just have to change our tactics (and no more solo baz lairs but that's as it should be).

-Shi

go to TUSKEN!!

u will get many XP