Part 4. Shopping, Swunting and Healing - second to fourth week Goals
Part 4. Shopping, Swunting and Healing - second to fourth week Goals
- Buy a set of Pixie or Goblin Armor.
- Swunt till you max out the Sollomate Opalo.
- Max out the Vivo T1.
- Scan people, animals, robots and mutants.
- Complete all missions in Port Atlantis.
Ok next step involves ped.
Now you are going to buy things to go hunting.
I recommend buying a full set of Goblin or Pixie armor. This is a good time to become familiar with the auction. You want to purchase with the lowest markup. If you right click on an item, and select Market Value, you will get the current sales data for that item, and you can buy wisely, perhaps getting it below current prices.
You may have to wait a couple of days for the sale on the auction, while you do something else like sweating, and just check back from time to time on your bids. It should cost you less than 25 ped to purchase a full set of Pixie and repair it if it is not fully repaired, or 45 ped for Goblin.
Goblin offers better protection if you are hunting Snablesnots. But both are good starter sets. And when you can afford it you should upgrade to Shogun armor. A full set of Shogun costs about 155 ped fully repaired.
These are "Unlimited" armors, so you need to repair them every day you use them. Also with Unlimited armor there is a charge for putting it on, so leave it on all the time if you can. Some people prefer Limited (L) armor because they don't have that charge to put it back on.
Sometimes I hunt without armor, and save ped that way, but you should carry a
healing tool with you if you do that. And never wear armor if you are just
sweating, it is a waste of ped.
VERY IMPORTANT: Pull up your inventory, and right click on your weapon, and
select Item Info, and then select the Show Detailed Information button. Do this often. When you see that BOTH the "Hit ability" and "Critical hit ability" are at 10/10 you have MAXED OUT that weapon.
Next you need to choose whether you are skilling economically or quickly.To maximise economy: don't switch to the next weapon till it has 10/10 in both hit abilities. A weapon is most efficient to use at 10/10.
To maximise skilling speed: watch the "Learning period damage" and "Learning period hit" instead and when they say “Not anymore” you have maxed out your Skill Increase Bonus {SIB} on that weapon, and it is time to upgrade to the next model that gives you a SIB. You will skill quickest on weapons that you
get a SIB.
Possibly you maxed out the Sollomate Kiwio Mk.II (L) in the Gateway area. If not, stick with it till it is maxed out. If it wears out you can purchase another at a Trade Terminal {TT}.
When it is maxed out, then you need to go to the TT and purchase a Sollomate Opalo rifle and Weapon Cells for ammo. You should never sell this rifle! Keep it forever, and always repair it when it wears out at a Repair Terminal. There are even several player run events that only use this rifle.
Later on in this guide, I will recommend using several weapons while hunting, but for now you should stick to just one weapon at a time till you max it out and get a feel for how to use it efficently.
Ignore the messages that your weapon or armor has gone up in "tier" level and all the bells and whistles. Tiers are unimportant for now.
Finally the hunt.
The first animals you should hunt are the Puny Berycled Caudatergus and Tripudion around Port Atlantis till you max out your Opalo. When you are able to kill Puny mobs with one or two hits easily, you should
hunt Snablesnot-Male Young next. You can also hunt Sabakuma and Diakiba in that area after you are proficient with Snablesnots.
Always try to sweat an animal first, and then kill it when it starts attacking. That way you get extra sweating skills from it, and it is more profitable. It's called "swunting".
Take my advice, hunt small things that you can quickly kill, sweat them first, use a weapon that you are maxed out on, and then sell your loot at the going markup (don't TT it), you should be able to get by with just small deposits and possibly break even. You waste money when you start hunting outside of your skill level.
You should buy the Vivo T1 from the TT, and use it to restore your health. To save ped you can always just wait in between killing each animal for your health to come back up. Doing that is free, but that makes for very slow going. Besides, you will get useful healing skills from using the Vivo T1. But be careful, you shouldn't waste 10 points of healing when you only need 5 or 6 points to top off your health.
You can also get skills from scanning using a scanner purchased from the TT, and they come fast and cheap. But scanning can be boring, and it takes ped. So if you are short ped, do it later. Just pick mobs in each category with low agression to scan, and stay outside of their agression range, and "auto use" your scanner.
If you want to speed up skilling in hunting or mining concentrate on just that activity and skip sweating or scanning for now.
And don't forget to have fun.
Author: Fuega
Source: PCF
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