 Hello, this is Buona from Buona.tv and today I want to talk about getting combat rank in Elite Dangerous by killing Thargoid's scouts. Now if you're familiar with Elite Dangerous, you know that we have various ways of measuring progress. We have a rank called Elite which you can get in trade, you can get in combat, you can get in exploration. Most recently I've been trying to get Elite in my combat and you know it's been kind of tough and I recently learned that if you had if you use a ship launch fighter and the ships that supported it You actually got 50% less XP. So that was kind of this heartening. So recently I've been looking into ways of gaining more and more combat rank I'm sitting on deadly right now and trying to get even more. So I was given a tip by some people in my chat I believe it was DBRN who hooked me up with the info. He said Buona, you know those combat You know those Thargoid scouts out there They give you just as much XP as an elite pilot an NPC pilot or even more and I was like, oh All right, well, I guess I'm doing that So I've been doing that for like the last three or four live streams on my Twitch stream at twitch.tv slash one to come I visited the avatars And I've been doing that for like the last three or four streams and I've gotten about 10% through deadly Now that doesn't sound like a lot. I'm talking zero to a hundred percent. It doesn't sound like a lot But man. Oh my goodness. It is Took me almost a year to get that before So this method I'm talking about You know, I'm gonna be using the chieftain you can use any ship you want There are some anti-zeno weapons out there that are you know and classified by Multi-canon and you have the Gauss weapons the the Guardian weapons You also have the remote flash Flashy flash launchers you have those as well so I opted to go with the with the chieftain because I like how it maneuvers and I can keep my My eyes on the scout very very easily and I can you know Position very very easily so I'm going with that and I decided to go with three anti-zeno weapons all multi-canons And then the rest of my slots. I'm gonna go with small multi-canons now You can choose to do whatever you want You know, you can take four anti-zeno weapons max on any ship so you can imagine you got a lot of choice And I'm gonna put my fit in the description so you can check that out if you want to But by all means, you know, don't take this as the de facto best build because it's probably not So as you can see i'm fighting zenos and i'm doing very well That the anti-zeno weapons tend to chunk damage quite a bit now if you're good with fixed weapons I highly recommend you use the guardian gauss cannon and you also use the The plasmas because when I use the plasmas I was taking them out in like two volleys But the thing with fixed weapons is that you got to hit your shots And the longer I do this the more shots I miss and I plan on kill killing thousands of these because I need about I need about 40 percent I think i'm sitting at about 58 59 percent. I need about 40 percent And according to the wiki according to some data people told me I think Debarian told me 10 to 15 scouts give you about 1 percent and I was like, oh, okay That's actually not that bad. I mean you might say man, boy, no, that's that's crazy But let me tell you before you had to kill a lot of elite pilots and deadly pilots that were NPCs And they're not that easy to find. Okay. They're not that easy to find So I also fit it with some decontamination limpets because they occasionally shoot They occasionally shoot those uh Those missiles the caustic caustic missiles which they get on your hull and they'll eat away your hull And normally if you don't have the decontamination limpets, you'll have to burn the caustic Substance off of your hull by overheating your ship. That's right. You'll have to purposely overheat your ship to do it But recently they came out with some caustic Or some decontamination limpets, so I fit those And that's pretty much the only thing that I think is required in your in your optional You know, I went with a hull reinforcement and I got decent stats You know, I have decent armor not that much shield a bi-weave shield Bi-weave shield is definitely recommended for this So get yourself to a system get yourself to a system that has a lot of thargoid scouts You're probably asking bueno. How do you know what the thargoid scouts are? Well There's a handy dandy little group called ages and they have this handy dandy tool which tells you Where the scouts are going to spawn In this case, I'm in mentor mentor is the current system that I'm in But the the the ages Ship or whatever you want to call it. I don't know what that thing is called It'll probably change as the as the as the servers flip over on thursday morning Uh, so, yeah, I just wanted to share what you guys this method if you're grinding combat in the league dangerous bio means please Please consider using this method if you just want to get ranked you're going to get a lot Especially if you're not already deadly You're going to fly through ranks killing these thargoid scouts and they're not that difficult trust me Uh, even if you don't have an engineer's ship, they're not going to wreck you now I do recommend you only go into the grade four five and six Us s's or i'm sorry Non-human us s's or nh s s I go three four and five I don't go anything above that if you see a signal source. That's above six I'm sorry above five Carefully consider going in even if you got a big ship because you can get swarmed you can get swarmed by a lot of these things Uh, so I take three four and five And uh, those are those are the ones I take and again if even if you're not engineer You can take the threes and fours. I think pretty easily, but the fives may give you some difficulty I do recommend you engineer your hull recommend your you engineer your shield and engineer your drives Especially if you're not going to be using something as nimble as the the lines chieftain that i'm using here All right guys, this is wonderful born.tv I just wanted to throw up a quick video talking about this method and I highly encourage you to do it If you need elite combat rank so you can get yourself access to founders world It's pretty awesome. All right guys. Take care. Have a great night day morning times on appropriate exit right here. Bye