Lynxchi's Sweating guide

Guide to sweating for beginners (reposted from Jaguar Spirit Forum)
Lynxhi Lynx on Fri Mar 04, 2011 10:12 pm

I am not exactly highly experienced, but I have picked up a few tips whilst playing, so I thought I would share them....

SWEATING ON YOUR OWN...

I would suggest for beginners who are sweating on their own to stick to the areas immediately around Port Atlantis and the North & South Swamp Camps. Also only go for certain creatures, namely the Berycled Puny and Tripudion Puny. This is because these animals only have small attack rates, and thus you will get killed less often.

Both Tripudion Puny and Berycled Puny dish out 20 attacks per minute, however the Berycled Puny has a lower damage rate and is a lower threat than the Tripudion Puny. Gathering sweat from these animals is however slow, as you will only get a maximum of 10 sweat per animal.

TEAM SWEATING...

If possible it is always better to team sweat because you get more sweat than doing it on your own and hopefully have a good chat too.
I have found two easy ways to do this.

Firstly, If someone is organizing a team sweat & hunt (called a swunt) then follow join the group and hopefully you will do well. Usually these swunts are organised by experienced players, so just follow there lead.

Secondly, you can often go to Nea's Place (you will need Nea's Place TP to go there) but it is only worth it if there is a group of people sweating. The animals there do provide a lot of sweat, but they also can kill you with two or three hits so the more people there is the better.

Also Limnadian District is a good alternative to Neas Place as pointed out by Daenerys (thank you for the input)

There are however a couple points you should take note of for all team sweating.

1. The team needs to surround the animal being sweat-ed and get close, as close as possible. By doing this the animal can't run and sweating is easy. Also damage is shared out by the team as the animal keeps attacking different members.

2. If the animal attacks you DON'T RUN as this will cause the animal to follow you and breaks down the benefits of the team. Also if there is a healer in the group it is easier to heal someone who is stationary.

Plus a couple general sweating tips...

Learn to setup the 'auto use tool' button which allows you to sweat without clicking any buttons, just aim and turn on auto use and thats it.

If you prefer not to use the auto sweat button, then I suggest holding down the mouse button constantly instead of clicking. This is because when you get hit by the animal and it says 'concentration lost', if you keep the button held down, sometimes it carries on sweating as if you never got hit.

Sweating is also a great way of building up your other skills such as evade and athletics, so take the hits and try not to run.

If anyone else has any tips, then please feel free to add them, Thanks.

Good post. Might I suggest adding "Limnadian District" to the list of places for sweating in big groups. I think it might even be better than Nea's. It's certainly almost constantly populated - and not that far away. Saw many people willing to take newbies to LD for free from PA.

Thank you for your input, LD wasn't being used as a sweating location when I originally made the post, but I have added the info.

Thank again.

Also might add:
1) It is good to be as close as possible not only because the mob wont run around like crazy, but because it will make life easier for healers (if there are any) since they will else get in your way, and AoE heals will not affect you if you're too far away.
2) If someone is healing, do not demand to be healed or jump in front of the person hoping to make them heal you. The healer will most likely just get annoyed at you and avoid you when continuing to heal.

Lynxchi said:

If you prefer not to use the auto sweat button, then I suggest holding down the mouse button constantly instead of clicking. This is because when you get hit by the animal and it says 'concentration lost', if you keep the button held down, sometimes it carries on sweating as if you never got hit.
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Thats not true, it just starts a new sweating attempt cause the tool was rdy again

theres only the possibility that u get the sweat because you were exactly hit in the moment it finished, but that happens without holding down button too

I understand your disbelief, however I have found that when holding the button down and you get hit more often than not you get another chance. Its not a made up comment, but an opinion gained from trying it out.

How this works i dont know, but i have found this method more successful than clicking.

Anyway, it cant hurt as you dont get an RSI as you are not clicking. Also i dont like the auto use tool method as sometimes it has a mind of its own, so that leaves either clicking or holding the button down.

Anyone reading this, i suggest trying it for yourself, I have had a greater success with this, and I hope you would as well.

If you're solo-sweating and or even in a small team:
1) there're some mobs in the vicinity that you avoid because they hit too hard
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2) there're few mobs or none at all that you can sweat easily in the vicinity
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3) there's a quick way to kill them nearby: turret, water

Then sweat the tougher mobs until they start to attack. Then run to the water or turret. This kills them so they can recycle and possibly respawn as an easier mob. This may or may not be the case where you sweat.

The reason I point this is out is because you usually get several free sweats before they attack.

And when they start to move, disable auto-tool until they stop. Otherwise you're just wasting free sweats.

If there're a lot of mobs, try sweating 2 or at most 3 times per mob. On average, they won't attack.

In any case, team sweating is always better unless it's not available for whatever reason.