Teras Kasi Archive

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Pitri wrote:

It goes FAST once you have novice. Congrats on grinding through the unarmed portion. I would suggest Dant MO. MrBubbles is a buff bot and would be happy to help a new person with a buff. Grab huurton and quenker missions as novice. You could try pikets if you can get them one at a time but due to your armor and the pikets ham you might get chewed up.

Remember to clone and insure prior to beginning the grind at your location wherever you decide.

I did the speed/damage tree first which allowed me to solo ravengers/howlers/dashers. These are 12-13k missions if i remember right so you can get a 200k credits in a buff set if you have the energy to go back and forth if not just travel around finding mobs that have around 6k-8k ham.

Also a big key especially for pikets is to have a center of being macro running while fighting. If you need the macro send me a tell in game and I can send it to you.

I know I am going off the subject but make sure you take Brandy and Canope/Ahrisa or else you will be meditating for mind regen after every kill.

As you progress and can take on pikets they are 9300 credit mission which can pull you 300-400k if you dont have to regen or stop for any reason. Good luck and hope my post helped you out.

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One thing to keep in mind about pickets, though, is that they apply all sorts of states to you and chew through your armor like there's no tomorrow. They also tend to have fairly high kinetic resists, so I typically avoid them unless confronted by a fierce picket protector or something.

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Pitri wrote:

Well I was able to get rid of some with my center macro. And they gave 4900 exp with me and my droid grouped so it was worth the little bit of damage to my armor.

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Does COB clear currently applied states, or just make you get hit less often?

Pickets are good XP, but they don't go down as easily as, say, a nest of huurtons, particularly close to the novice level. I'd rather take down 10 huurtons in 10 minutes for 20-30k XP than 10 pickets in 15-20 minutes for 40-50k XP, but that's just me.

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ReeloBanks wrote:

im novice tk and need cash to get a new suit of armor. My current armor is from 45%-53% resist kinetic and i only have enough cash for 1 more buff

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Someone mentioned solo groups. Since cash is a factor for you, suggest grouping only with your own pet or droid, if you have one. The cash payouts get divided among everyone in the group. Solo groups=high xp, med to low $$. Pet/Droid group=somewhat higher xp, but you get to keep all the dough! Happy carving.

Once you get some better armor, use the droid thing and then find an improved job market town on Dant, you can start in on Dantari and Janta missions in the 20k a pop range that arn't hard at all. Just have your COB macro going and spin attack against the "lair", you can go through two missions in about ten-fifteen minutes. While the xp won't be as good as doing monster lairs the payouts are much higher. Once you get through one branch (I suggest power first before all others, ymmv though) move onto Mokk shaman camps at 30k a pop. Keep this up and just put your nose to the grindstone and you can make a mil in a buff session give or take a bit. Then at master, well onto those wonderful 39k rancor missions on Dath..best money I've found so far and I can cap my unarmed and combat xp in a couple buff sessions. That and the rancor teeth can be looted and sold/given to any WS you know for some extray cash.

Solo groups (that is, when you join with a big group for the higher-paying missions but don't fight with them) are a good way to make easy money, but the difficulty of the mobs you fight increases dramatically. With your low kinetic resist armor, I wouldn't go fighting voritor hunters on your own, particularly if you're just a novice TKA.

Quenker (savage or regular) and various huurtons (howler, huntress, etc.) are accessible to you by yourself on Dant, and they provide little risk for decent money (6-7k apiece). There's no way you'll be able to afford a whole new set of good Ubese or Composite on the proceeds from one buff's hunt, and I wouldn't recommend taking the higher-paying but harder missions with the armor you have now. At the very least, you can make back the cost of the buff and earn enough for one or two more. You only need to do two missions at that payout to make the rest pure profit. Last night by myself I earned about 150k (at least, I wasn't really paying attention) on one buff's hunt, but I was cutting through the mobs like a hot knife through butter.

It's kind of a catch-22. You need better armor to do the bigger hunts, but you get the better armor without the proceeds from the bigger hunts.