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Please someone help me out here. I am a master smuggler and have recently taken up krayt hunting with some friends in game. The problem I face is that as a smuggler I have no special pistol certification. I do have novice pistoleer which gives me access to a DX2. However the best gun I have is an FWG5... not very ideal for killing a krayt since it has not AP and does heat damage to a creature that lives in a desert.

Here's what I'm asking, if anyone knows the different types of damage that certain pistols do and/or their AP value please post so I can decide what kind I want to assist me in my hunting for krayts. Some that I already know are... fwg5/heat/AP0, dx2/acid/AP1, scout blaster/energy/?, launcher pistol/blast/?, and tangle pistol/stun/?. Any help you give is much appreciated.

CDEF AR0 energy

D18 AR0 energy

Scout AR0 energy

DL44 (both variants) AR0 energy

DH17 AR0 energy

FWG5 AR0 heat

Striker AR0 kinetic

Power5 AR0 heat

Launcher AR0 blast

Scatter AR1 acid

SR Combat AR1 energy (48 max range)

DX2 AR1 acid

Tangle AR0 stun (48 max range)

Republic blaster AR1 energy (certification is broken, unusable)

Thanks for the reply jennai....

Bad news for me though
None of those would really be any better for krayt hunting but I guess it really depends on their damage and how good I slice them... unfortunately I seem to be impared when slicing my own guns and can't seem to get as good as when I slice others'. Fate is cruel. Oh well maybe a good SR Combat would be fun... but I'll have to seen one ingame first. You don't happen to know general damage stats for one do you? Also a weaponsmith friend of mine is using some +67 -.489 tissue we looted the other day to make me some guns of my choice that's really why I started this thread.

Thanks for the help

SR Combat has crappy stats because it uses plumbum iron and neutronium steel, both of which have low conductivity and usually low OQ. Also it uses two power handlers so you'd need three identical krayts to get one.

DX2 would work better than everything except a scatter if you can get close to the krayt without getting pulped. Accuracy at anything past 8m is horrible and even at master you miss a lot if you're not kneeling.

Best betwith krayts is to get the highest damage pistol you can (FWG5 in most cases), bleed it, then either feign or spam away with specials (which do tiny amounts of damage because of krayt heavy armor) until it bleeds out.

great more bad news for me

oh well looks like I stick with my fwg5. good pistol just want to feel like I'm actually doing something when I'm grouped killing krayts but guess that's why I'm picking up ch in order to get a mauler.