Quote: "Not sure what smuggler brings to combat as such, but must be okay to be getting 200k per buff I don't really keep track, just make sure I pay my costs and get a bit on top. I could get higher missions I am sure now, but for CH xp no point."
To combat smuggler brings almost nothing, it has a pistol line, however that pistol line has no bonuses and a few crowd control pistol abilities which I don't use. What it brings to missions however is well worth it, smuggler x1xx allows you to slice mission terminals, this means the next mission you take will pay out considerably more than normal, usually about 30% I think going by what I have seen, you can slice a terminal every two minutes.
What I do when I'm farming credits:
1. Get buffed up (tip about 10k).
2. Head to Paradox: This is a city in the South East, it's an improved job market. so all the missions pay about 20% more than other terminals, it also has a terminal at the north, south, east, and west edge to save travelling time between missions, make a waypoint for each of these to make it easier to find.
3. Slice the terminal: This usually gives me mission that reward between 9k and 11k.
4. Take two NPC missions in the same direction (first one will be bigger reward due to slice).
5. Go Kill the NPC's and blow up their bases (I do NPC missions because there is only one spawn of NPC's per base, so you can burn the missions down quick, whereas you get three spawns of creature in creature missions and they take three times as long to complete).
6. Return to closest mission terminal and repeat.
For me with my skill level, these missions take about 2 minutes each, plus three to 5 minutes travelling time, and with the sliced payouts upward of 9k, and normal payouts of 5k to 6k, I can easily make between 50k and 75k an hour depending on how distracted by vendors I get and traveling times, a buff lasts just over 3hrs, so around 200k per session. If I was to really push myself and not get distracted by shinnies, I could probably push that to 300k per buff session.
and my skills so far aren't that great either, I have brawler 4xxx, Marksman x4x4, Scout 3x4x, Novice BE, Novice Pistoleer, and x11x smuggler. I also only really use two abilities, /rolldShot and /bodyShot2, roll shot puts you into a kneeling position to give you better defence and accuracy, and body shot target just the health bar, they go down in seconds.
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