Mid to Low Level Hunting... and taming...
I'm a bit all over the place... eccentric if you want to call it that....
As you may know if you read this forum much I have a small
Zoo that I'm working on taming up. When they are not hunting helpers much some of them used to be or will be eventually. (I used to own an Oratan Axe with the largest range of auto-loot in game but ended up selling it, in part so I could buy
Shop 22 on Foma. - If you hjunt long range and have the peds to blow get the Oratan Axe if you can find one. They are nice to have for long range auto loot.
Currently I'm mainly using 3 (possibly what you might call 4-5) sets of Armor.
Lowbie Hunting Armor:
Adjusted Harrier Assault (Webshop's finest armor with the speed buff)
+ Imperium Armor Plating I
Mainly used for low HP mobs and Puny Mobs...
Mid Level Mob Hunting Armor:
Gremlin Armor Set
Mk.5B Plate Set
Mid Level Bot Hunting Armor:
Vigilante Adjusted Set
Mk.6A Plate Set
(this is my most recent acquisition on the armor sets)
Sometimes I also use the non-adjusted (slow) Harrier since I have a set I bought in another package from the webshop from when I bought the Kong Set there as I just thought it was cool to have a Tommy Gun... I also have the Musca Adjusted set but don't use it much.
When I'm in the mood to tame I use 4 UL whips:
Adjusted Boiga - biggest damage whip, nice little buff for taming.
Cobra - Little bit lower damage than the Boiga but still ok for mid-level tames, or when TT on the Boiga wears out
Moccasin - Low TT weapon but decent for low-mid low level taming
Viper - Extremely Low Damage Whip that is nice for very low taming or to finish off mid level tames without overkilling too much to force yourself in to the 'attempt tame' phase... i.e. the 'taming finisher'
When I hunt I use a variety of weapons... The Tommy gun mentioned above (same stats as webshop barbarella) is used... when tt on that wears out I switch to the barbarella til I can get to a repair terminal...
For amps I use the webshop amps and scope that came with the webshop stuff or alternatively the A101 until it runs out of TT value...
I have the full set of cyrene ul tt stuff that I use to hunt from time to time to just buff on different things I don't normally do like blp and fisting.
I also carry around some big guys for advanced hunting:
Embra C1 Adjusted
Embra C1
Katsuichi Determination
Philosopher Sword
Greek Axes and swords
I don't typically (yet) keep the Embra C1 and Adjusted at full TT since they require such high TT value. I eventually may keep them at full tt and use them as main weapons. For now I'm upping melee skill options for anything in the codex I get... it sounds weird but I like want to focus on melee end of things higher up, but am using the lower end codex stuff to help ramp that up instead of just constantly tanking with melee everything in sight. I do use tommy gun to pull mobs out on first shot since it has a decent range on it that won't aggro most other critters sitting around the one I'm aiming at.
For just upping strength, etc. I use a set of 9 maze hammers (weapon you get for doing the maze missions on Cyrene)... Recently I talked the devs over on Cyrene forum to massively lower the weight of these hammers from 10 lbs to just a little over 1 lb each... which makes a massive difference in not going heavy all the time. These hammers (basically a big axe) have a nice little speed buff as well...
For rings I have augmented athenic and aegelic on most of the time, but sometimes swap over to augmented hermetic or augmented artemic. I like the augmented rings since they are not as pricey as the perfected in markup but offer close to the same level of buff... which all is sadly way overkill with the capped buff system we have in place currently.... Really kind of annoying to be maxed in the 20s or so when your real buff level is in the 40s...
I also have an
extensive set of blueprints for a lot of different weapons and sometimes craft them to put in my shop or just for the hell of it and burn through the tt value on the UL crafted stuff before throwing it in the shop.
Instead of just chasing one mob type I'm sort of starting at low end and slowly working way up from time to time.
Most of my pets in the zoo aren't up to level 7 yet, but will be in a few more levels. Once they get there I'll probably hop over to the ark moon to live on the free 2 ped a day you get just doing the hazmat suit mission over and over...
Not really hunting related, but I have quite a few deeds too that pay out some, but not nearly enough...
Also use chon from time to time, and a few other weapons I loot, etc.
I do swap level 1 melee amp from hammer to hammer when I cycle through the 9 maze hammers.
A101 mainly stays on the tommy gun since I forget to swap it out to other weapons... it only lasts through about half of the tommy gun's tt so it usually dies before I'm done on long hunts.
I recently bought a level 4 melee amp that I plan to use on the higher end weapons eventually.
I do like planet hopping, but am trying to currently mainly stay on Calypso til all Caly-based pets that cannot be exported til level 7 are there at level 7. After that I'll cycle through the other planets to up levels on pets to required level 7 as well... It's taking a while, but it makes hunting a hell of a lot less boring when constantly swapping pets and tricking each a few times down to 90% focus before swapping to other pet as I hunt. I don't think this gets paid back in loot but sometimes it seems like it doesn't hurt?... I don't know that I"ll ever raise every pet to unlock buff level required, but long term, may potentially do that? We'll see.
Boxer pet definitely will be next one to go up to the passive buff unlock stage...
Loot 2.0 made not being maxed on weapons not hurt so much, so just randomly using crafted UL stuff is kind of fun.
I've not discovered what the primary focus of the shop is, but am playing around with things a bit from time to time to try different ideas... eventually if I have enough resources it may become the place in game to get items needed to do upgrades.
For faps I use the cyrene epic upgraded one most of the time, greek herb box some of the time, and the low level stuff you get from the icarus instance or webshop when other stuff is low on tt. Also sometimes craft up a 2500 or something just for the hell of it, or grab one off auction if auction is at tt+0, etc.