Personally, I'd say for looter skills and evade/dodge skills and hp. The first one leads to profit longterm, the second and third open up endgame content and makes it easier and easier to do it. Though I suspect in JBK's case he just wants to be #1 out there and is very determined to go beyond even that. Since there's no limit.
Looter profs are definately usefull, sideskills are usefull for crossskilling and being able to use whichever weapontype mindark elevates next right from the start and not after 20 other people already have it.
Does higher cost per shot give more looter skill? How does looter skills gains work?Looter profs are definately usefull, sideskills are usefull for crossskilling and being able to use whichever weapontype mindark elevates next right from the start and not after 20 other people already have it.
Besides im a space player, at this point i still have spent about twice as much time and effort skilling in space as i have spent skilling planetside, it just turned out to be so unbalanced towards planet side hunting that once i was in my 70ties i had to go planetside to skill faster then i could possibly in space just by pushing sideskills.
Why did i try to skill in space hunting you may ask when gunner profs not actually make a difference on gun turrets anymore - its the sideskills again that contribute to the captain profession.
The captain profession is what enables me to dodge warp mines much more efficienctly and reliably then other players - even with a warp drive 1 against and warp mine 4 - the highest lvl warp mine however goes to lvl100 so i still need higher lvl drives for that or captain lvl 100+ which is one of my longterm goals behind most of my skilling.
Why bother you may ask, why all the effort if space is fucked and mindark doesnt ggive it any attention - all i can say is im in for the long run and a universe gotta have space there is just no way around it, with ue5 on the horizon there might come a total overhaul of space and may mindark will honor past promises made in regards to cargo missions which where to be access by highest lvl captain first.
However it may be i have played the game long enough to know that many things can change - but one thing doesnt: high skills are never bad and i might find opportunities in more then one area
So to sum up, you keep going with the pistol to make gains in the secondary and tertiary skills that effect other skills and professions and to be ready for whatever else might be released so you can be maxed on day 1 or take advantage of the new content in ways you couldn't if you were at a lower level.Looter profs are definately usefull, sideskills are usefull for crossskilling and being able to use whichever weapontype mindark elevates next right from the start and not after 20 other people already have it.
Besides im a space player, at this point i still have spent about twice as much time and effort skilling in space as i have spent skilling planetside, it just turned out to be so unbalanced towards planet side hunting that once i was in my 70ties i had to go planetside to skill faster then i could possibly in space just by pushing sideskills.
Why did i try to skill in space hunting you may ask when gunner profs not actually make a difference on gun turrets anymore - its the sideskills again that contribute to the captain profession.
The captain profession is what enables me to dodge warp mines much more efficienctly and reliably then other players - even with a warp drive 1 against and warp mine 4 - the highest lvl warp mine however goes to lvl100 so i still need higher lvl drives for that or captain lvl 100+ which is one of my longterm goals behind most of my skilling.
Why bother you may ask, why all the effort if space is fucked and mindark doesnt ggive it any attention - all i can say is im in for the long run and a universe gotta have space there is just no way around it, with ue5 on the horizon there might come a total overhaul of space and may mindark will honor past promises made in regards to cargo missions which where to be access by highest lvl captain first.
However it may be i have played the game long enough to know that many things can change - but one thing doesnt: high skills are never bad and i might find opportunities in more then one area
Yes. Looter skill gains (skinning, butchering, scavenging etc) are gained from ped turnover and are not related to level of the mob you are shooting (in contrast to combat/general skill gains). Cycle more, gain more.
Yes but is it based on cycle or cost per shot I mean.
Yes. Same skill gain. DPP doesn't matter, efficiency doesn't matter, only peds cycled. Just like with codex.
That doesn't seem right when I look at my data for 10k cycled on Longtooths versus 10k cycled on Flesh rippers. In the case of Longtooths they have significantly worse hp/lvl ratio and I gained 40.6464 Points(Butchering) in 10867.7092 PED cycled(using 50% skill pill), whereas with Flesh rippers I gained 40.7246 Points(Butchering) in 10249.9641 PED cycled(using 100% skill pill). There could be an argument that I did the flesh rippers a few days later so higher level = harder to gain pts but they're almost the same gains despite the massive difference in hp/lvl ratios (almost a 600% difference).
That feels weird indeed, more recently I've been alternating between longer runs and definitely noticed big differences. I.e. 14 hours of dasps were 0.03 of a looter level, whereas 14 hours of fleshrippers were 0.17 of a looter level (both with 50% skill pills). I don't track skill TT I track profession gains. While that's technically non-linear at a higher resolution, when you're considering levels 70-80, there will be minor differences in diminishing returns that can't account for the 600% increase in skill gains via fleshrippers.
It is primarily just from additional skilling of stuff like anatomy, perception, and serendipity. That's where you are noticing the increased gains.
GZ! Amazing skilling and ped cycling! I'm so jelly!
+1 for the attempt, I don't think that helped though
I want to make sure I'm not missing something other than the obvious here, I have Force Merge, entropiawiki shows it requires 800 levels for 1 hp increase , is this what you are referring to, or something else?
Not kidding, don't care who explains it, first time I've seen the spreadsheet, didn't quite understand how it's used to determine the right mob to select for max skill gain as was suggested.
Easy way: Go to cyrene, kill Flesh Rippers
