Well,i rarely hunt since i started mining; but i think some tips can come in handy for those who are in dry periods and maybe those who cant decide what to hunt sometimes. My experiences have helped my friends very much.
I am a 7 month-old hunter i must say, with serendipity-marksmanship and RDA unlocked, and i use mainly opalo,korss380,and 400.
i have a MK2 for panic weapon and when my handguns are broken.
Armor: shogun,vigi,gnome,goblin,ghost,gremlin(no gloves :p)
plates: 6a,6b,3a.
Usage of armor and plates against mob: Allo,cersumon,tezlapod,tantardion=gnome or ghost+6b
All low-lvl mobs(caudas,exa,argo(young-guardian),etc.)=gnome+3a
Atrox-Atrax(both to provider)=shogun+3a
bots(all drone-warrior)=vigi or shogun+6a No encounter on SEGs yet.:laugh:
To summarize instead of writing all mobs here; i use gnome+3a or 6b for nearly all low and mid lvl mobs up to provider.You can see me running around with my gnome(not pixie,confused?) all the time.
Hunting patterns:This is my way which i mostly break even, to make the loss minimum for each hunt. first, know yourself and what you are capable of. If you know what mob you can take down easily with your gear,you will take the first step of not wasting peds, because maybe i can take down a neconu for ex.,with reviving 3 times, but this will be a great waste of peds and will ruin my speed and efficiency of hunt. But hunting them in teams can be very eco for you and relax you for a while since hunting same mobs eveyday can be boring.
There are 2 types of mob areas. a)High spawn b) low and medium spawn
Like Bots E of Jason,or Allo-Esto in Limnadian or molisks S-SE Medusa. High-spawn areas are mostly full of other avatars,so u have to be quick and also lucky to break even. But most HOFs are also made in those areas which is very important and i will explain this further below.
I started with snables, then after maxing out opalo,moved on to exa,berry,daik. I don’t like daikibas much and they dont give anything useful imo. Also only profitable Exas are in LA over Billton, so i waited for a while to buy me a 3a set of plates.Then it is a piece of cake to take them down. Anyway, i liked berry and molisk pattern the most from my experiences. Because they give items always in loot and global windows.This means if u hit for example 3k ammo on a molisk,it is enough to break even with only 1 half value shogun harness or a lvl2 focus chip.Same with a berry, a shogun thigh will save the hunt anyday. But this is with a max. 3k ammo. This part is important. Never ever go at them with no more than 3k ammo. This a key. Because then you will need 2 items or a global to break even. Lets say u hunt with 5k ammo= 50 ped+18 ped Amp101+armor decay(around 3-5 peds with gnome+3a)
I started to hunt them with 2-3k ammo runs each day for several weeks. Also if you hunt a mob in regular basis, you begin to see the difference in loot cycles more easily and you keep an eye on the global chat about them. Young-Provider Berrys dont give too many globals,believe me. You can see 2-3 of them each day more or less. But like every low-lvl mob,they give a 1k-6k bonus sometimes. You can predict those, maybe not exactly,but you can understand that they will HOF when they give very good results for all-day,or all-week. This means they are hot(:p) atm. Anyway,to my runs again: i checked the molisk S-SE-SW of Fort Medusa since they have a high-spawn there with young-gatherers, sometimes 1 guardian. Molisk adults are special creatures of their kind, since u get globals from there more easily than young and scouts. Scouts can be more dry than youngs,but this is my proven fact after 100k s of ammo. First i look at the red dots on the radar. Are they crowded? If i see 2-3 red dots on the radar near town, i dont shoot yet and proceed further S. Their territory lies far S to Limnadian District, so must see the average number of mobs at that time for some 300-500 meters S ahead. Oh,red dots are becoming more like 20-30-50 in the radar? Shoot like hell,there is a guaranteed 30 pedder there if not global. But you will only see them more than 40 in a radar screen 1-2 times a day.Mostly they are hunted to extinction.You can also find your good mob spot where there rae more mobs around and very few or no avatars. But first check the adults,then youngs.Maybe try a scout,but i dont recommend it,they are bad looters mostly,and since they are tough, may kill u if u use an opalo.Better kill them with a korss or mk2 if they come close.Mostly you will break even in tt and sometimes profit here with this method,but be cautious since there are many hunters here 24/7. You must be real quick. I use the drag-mob-name method with left mouse button and shoot at these boxes. It makes my hunt speed faster. There u go, remember you have also the molisk teeth in your pocket,these ones come in handy with their high markup for breaking even.
As for berrys; Find yourself a high-spawn area. I tried N Zeus. Bery youngs are very bad looters. Berycled Old is the most profitable among their kind,since they give the most items and mostly you global on them more easy. This region holds Berycled young-provider. I also hate providers they are like molisk scouts.Tough and very bad looters.They will see u from 50m. range and run at ya,no option you will have to burn some of your ammo on them. I checked this place like the same method with molisks, see if they are crowded:if u see very few of them in the area like 2-3 spawns,the loot is not there atm. Because this area is a high-spawn one;very few mob means %99no loot. But generally i shoot 1 of them to check it anyway:). You can ask:“How can i undrstand the mob number is high enough?” You will understand that when u hunt there a few times.
You see, generally i wait for a reasonable mob crowd in an area. But this is ofc not a guarantee that loot is fine,but chance of success is very high. The key of success is WHEN to hunt. Otherwise if you insist on hunting them all the time even their dry periods,you will surely lose. A good hunter must know when to retreat or push forward. If you get good results with 3k ammo, grab some more and run there again till you start to get many no loot messages. Check 1 area,if it is not fine,check the other. This is my method and i some weeks later added big exas to this list and this made my mob-triangle Always 1 among 3 were good to me. You can make your mob list with any mob you like, but be sure they aren’t too tough for you.
After hunting those for a long time, i got hell bored.And wanted to see new mobs because whenever i saw a molisk or berry my stomach felt ill:silly2:
Then i found out another triangle which made me not depositing for 4 months and bought my mining gear. Because mining has been my favourite profession from the first day of this game. Nowadays i only hunt when i am bored, but this makes me lose peds %50 of the time,since i dont have time to check mobs or loot or follow any pattern. Because my time is precious since i am married and i have to return to mining.
Hunting is a very fast way to lose peds and very hard to do,it has much more decaying parts than mining(as i dont use amps when mining).It requires dedication and good will,and patience.You will always need luck, dont listen to anybody who is telling the opposite,luck is very important. But this kind of systems can help you raise your chance of success against a newbie hunter who deposits and buys skills,guns,armors and shoot evertything around.Believe me. I saw that type with wrong plates and armor,overkilling every mob on their way and wasting peds,and first they laughed at my gear,hunted with them in the same region,and made them take back their words,all are in my friend list now.
God Bless all EU hunters and light their path to ATH.
