Skill Selling and Melee vs. Ranged

[Lorkciee]

Originally Posted by slither

ML35 v bots isn't gonna give u much dodge

VAT, AS, Isis CB, GeoTrek

there are more options then ML ;P

[Immortal]

Originally Posted by Lorkciee

VAT, AS, Isis CB, GeoTrek

there are more options then ML ;P

I can hunt bots troy drones.wargens, for an hour and not get a single gain ^^ with p5. That's why we have falx.


...right?

[GoNi]

Choice a cheap way, use Emik S50 on small Bristlehoggs or Tezlapod and you get the skills you want

Edit:
Go naked and FAP a lot and you gain some nice markup skills from fapping, too (FA and Diag sell real good)

[JohnCapital]

Guys, keep in mind his strategy. He's basically planning to hit a certain level where he can hunt semi-efficient, likely w/ (L) weapons, and then siphon off the excess skills as he goes.

I'd say ML35s are a bit high up the ladder for that strategy. (Unless you're already doing this ) Although I gotta believe Slither was honestly joking.

I recommend:

• maxed cb19+beast (so lvl 17 blp sniper)
• lvl 15 dodge
• kobold/shogun
• 6A
• 6B
• sk-20(L) (maxes @ lvl 11 paramedic)/fap-5 (slow but cheap healing between mobs)

This is the highest he'll need to go, and he'll be able to camp mid-sized bots and electric mobs for a long time to come, while yanking out any excess skills and selling them to all of us.

[Karmic]

personally if you are planning on staying at a certain low level and sell skills I'd go with the shortblades and use Kesmek Slo. They are readily available at a low enough markup to be efficient, easy to max, and can kill the skilling mobs just fine. Shortblade skills are also worth a little extra right now due to all the high level shortblades dropping.

[JohnCapital]

Originally Posted by Karmic

personally if you are planning on staying at a certain low level and sell skills I'd go with the shortblades and use Kesmek Slo. They are readily available at a low enough markup to be efficient, easy to max, and can kill the skilling mobs just fine. Shortblade skills are also worth a little extra right now due to all the high level shortblades dropping.

He has a good point. Also shortblade hunting would insure a fast increase of defensive and paramedic skills, likely faster than rifle.

Then again, the question you must ask is, will overall shortblade skilling be worth more than BLP in the long run?

Or perhaps you simply switch you hunting method when prices veer in another direction.

[Immortal]

Originally Posted by JohnCapital

[*]lvl 15 dodge

So he should chip in 3400ped to make 6ped an hour on dodge. Assuming he breaks even on ammo+armor+fap

[Konve]

Originally Posted by GoNi

Edit:
Go naked and FAP a lot and you gain some nice markup skills from fapping, too (FA and Diag sell real good)

The cost for getting medical skills is greater then what you can possibly get back from healing, though, so I wouldn't recomend it unless you want to skill faster.

[JohnCapital]

Originally Posted by Immortal

So he should chip in 3400ped to make 6ped an hour on dodge. Assuming he breaks even on ammo+armor+fap

Not at all. I'm saying he should skill up to around that lvl then start selling any dodge skills above that. Same w/ the other stuff. He has to skill up to be able to hunt at a lvl that he can comfortably maintain.

[Immortal]

Originally Posted by JohnCapital

Not at all. I'm saying he should skill up to around that lvl then start selling any dodge skills above that. Same w/ the other stuff. He has to skill up to be able to hunt at a lvl that he can comfortably maintain.

Do you know how long it takes to skill dodge naturally to level 15?