I stopped playing SWG in December of '04 just because, and I started again a few days ago. I headed to Mos Krayt, where I used to be able to find groups that would take me in, and we'd all head out to get ourselves some Krayt Dragon action. Well I got there, and realized that I was devastatingly alone. I said, "Oh well. Maybe there's a group out hunting. I'll go find out where the Krayts are and check around there." Little did I know that I was walking into suicide.
I used to be an official tanker for Krayts. I gave up TKM though, and switched to Swordsman. I was a little more on the offensive than on the tanking side of things, but I could still tank rather well. So I find some Krayts; three of them; a Juvi, a Canyon, and a Giant Canyon. No groups, no fighting. I move in to the Giant one for a closer look (bad idea). He starts coming after me. I head away from him on my swoop, but the swoop just didn't have the necessary HP (I should have gotten the V-12, 650 HP model), and before long, he caught up to me. A fraction of a second later, he stood there, looking down into my eyes.... my dead eyes, for by this time, I was already slain.
I dusted myself off at the cloning center with minimal scars, but made a firm decision not to go looking for Krayts till I was a Jedi, and had a large, powerful army.
Anyone else experience this? Does anyone go Krayt hunting anymore? If you know anyone on Shadowfire that still does it, please give me their name; I really want to go re-live my old days of Krayt hunting glory...with an emphasis on the "live" part.