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I have found an excellent way to gain sword XP after hitting master two-handed (the 4th tier in brawler). After hitting novice swordsman, I did this to make over 100k two-handed xp in about 2 hours.

Go to Lok, and get two flit missions in the same direction. You can find these for 2500 and up. When you get to the lair, ping it two or three times with a ranged weapon, then switch to sword. They will swarm you. Use your spin attack 1, and you will find that you will kill most of them in 1-3 spins. On average, you will quickly take out about 6 of them, at 350 xp each, for a total of 2000 xp in less than a minute. After the easy ones go down, there will still be one or two giants on you. When you take those down, you get 1200+ each. (If you find that you are having trouble with the giants, then pull them with traps or ranged before hitting the lair.)

Using this technique you get nearly 5k two-handed xp in a matter of minutes, and it can usually be repeated several times on each lair. After a while they won't spawn as quickly, so take it out, collect your reward, and move on to the next one. You will often run across several flit lairs while travelling between your missions, so do the same to those.

A word of caution: Lok is a dangerous place with aggros everywhere, but with practice you learn how to stay out of range of the nasties. In some cases, red NPCs will be right by your mission. When that happens, you have no chance. Cancel it and look elsewhere.

Also, since this special eats action, you really need to have some basic medical skills and a supply of decent stim B's.

I'm sure there are other great MOBs to use this technique on. They key is to find ones that are difficult enough that you can get good xp, but are still manageable in swarms. Hitting 8 semi-weak MOBs at once is way better xp than one tough one.

Anyone else have any tips on other MOBs where this technique works well? Please include the recommended skill level.