miclen wrote:
With 'grinding' you mean 'kill mobs' till I'm lñvl 50-60?!?!? Thats insane
Edited, Jul 21st 2006 at 11:23pm EDT by miclen
Heh... you shoulda seen us back in the days of the Hidden Village Jedi grind, before there was ANY quest-based XP. It was ALL creature-killing. Everyone developed their favorite grinding targets: quenker-lair missions on Dantooine, Enraged Rancor missions on Dathomir, gurk missions on Lok, lobbing grenades for the combat XP at baz nitch lairs on Dath...
My favorite tactic was to circle the Blue Leaf Temple on Yavin-IV over and over, maxxing out my XP for three different weapons (light lightning cannon, scatter pistols, and carbines, plus combat XP and Creature Handling XP, along with a decent amount of Scout XP for harvesting resources from the corpses). The dark klikniks that lived there had zero resistance to acid and electricity-based weapons prior to the Combat Upgrade, and I could accumulate 900,000 XP for any one of my three weapons in about an hour, using my LLC, my scatter pistol, and a DXR-6 carbine. Then, I would make the long trip to Aurilia on Dathomir, and talk to Paemos to cash it in at a 30-to-1 ratio into Force-Sensitive XP (5:1 for the Scout XP, 3:1 for the Combat XP -- pre-nerf -- and 9:1 for the CH XP). Yup... that's THIRTY weapons XP for ONE point of FS XP... and we needed 200k of FS XP for each first-tier box in a line, 400k for 2nd, 800k for the 3rd, and 1.6
million for that fourth box. And we needed to fill a total of six lines, just to unlock our Jedi careers. And THEN came the Padawan grind... and Jedi XP for each kill was roughly one-fifth what non-Jedi toons received.
To put that into a time perspective, my main toon reached the "glowing with the Force" stage with my first visit from the Old Man (unlocking the Force Sensitive career path) the first weekend of September 2004. I was closing in on unlocking my Jedi career when the Combat Upgrade went live, and killed Mellichae about a week after the CU hit the live servers. I then leveled up my unlocked alt over the next couple of weeks and then went back to grinding my Jedi toon, and finished his template FIVE DAYS before the NGE took it all away.