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I'm MCH/MBE with 0/0/4/0 in Pistoleer. Having a high level pet on guard when I've been sampling has saved my behind many times when the pet has scrapped aggro off of me.

have ranger 4/2/4/4 artisan 0/0/3/0 allows me to sample and track alot easier, and a place to sell what I make

Kadore Damadred ~ Eclipse

For awhile I was MBE/MRanger/Medic 4/3/0/4 , The Dath Cammo was the best in life!

Then I made the mistake of wanting to use some of the pets I've made and Slowly Dropped Ranger to 4/4/0/4 as I climb the CH tree.

Mask Scent blows goats compaired to Dath Cammo, used to get upclose and sample 96% of the time and no agro till the Mutants got tired of the needle or I could get 1 or 2 samples from each before they were dead from the needle.

Now that it's 100/122 Mask Scent ( have to use as I no longer have access to Dath Cammo ) getting close to theMutants to get a sample is 1 in 10 ( 10% ) that I don't upset them into a brawl amongest themselves.

NikkoliWalksfar

Corbantis

Master BE/CE with some Rifle is probably ideal. I figure I'm boned when I fail DNA sampling on a Mutant Rancor, so I might as well gear up for other situations. With CH/Rifle, you can just sit back and watch the tanks while you pop in headshots.

"With CH/Rifle, you can just sit back and watch the tanks while you pop in headshots. "

Precisely! In my vcase, since I am a wookie, there really is not other choice of weapon skill for me. Without the ability to wear armor the 2.5 melee modifier for holdinga rifle is meaning less since I pretty much go down in 2 hits anyway. At least with Rifle I am 60m away and fairly safe from taking those 2 hits. I only get in trouble when something else nasty sneaks up behing me while I am blasting away. I swear if I get incapped by ONE MORE FRELLING gaping spider while I am shooting at a Bull Rancor! Sheesh how embarassing to be hndling a CL65 beast and get knocked on my furry buttoks by a goofy sooking fat bellied spider!

I am a Master Dancer and have 1 0 2 (but need trained for 3) 0 in BE so far heading towards master

I was on dath and saw some of those enraged bull rancor things (I know they were some type of enranged rancor) and I masked scent (I have exploration 3 atm) and walked right up to 10m of it... sampled once...failed... sampled twice...failed then ran for my life lol...gotta love the speeder bike ihad parked about 64m away hehe

It took me like 4 tries to get near them before they let me walk right up to them (notice i said walk...not run.) I parked the bike far enuf away so as to not disturb them and tried to sample hehe and when it did attack i would lead it right into a herd of malclok (or whatever they are) and then the rancor would get distracted killing those things and forget about me

ButI plan on being a master dancer and a master BE prolly with the extra points in exploration

Definately the most popular secondary professions for a Master BE are Ranger or Creature Handler. Everyone needs some combat skills, be it Rifleman, Pistoleer, Pikeman, or TKA. You need something comabt related becuase sometimes you just need to hunt your own creature resources for tissues and pet stims.

Mine is Master BE, Master CH, Sniper (4-0-0-0 Rifleman)

MCH/MBE here.

So true about the combat skillls though. I've been up and down the Pistoleer trees in trade for the Ranger trees so many times. I've realized I'm fine without combat as long as there's a good supply of creature resources out on the market. Right now there is a decent supplyon my server..so Ranger is looking good again. Its an endless cycle. The pets just dont dish out enough damage for efficient use hunting time.

Also, someone posted about needing "conceal" on Dath. I do believe you need to be Master Ranger to use the kit there, and anywhere else, your Explore IV with some MS mods should be fine. So its a huge decision if you want Ranger just for Dathomir sampling. I cant bite that bullet since I'd need to drop MCH to do it.

I'd love to here from a BE who's sampled Dathomir from Explore IV, Master Scout, Wayfaring IV, and Master Ranger levels to see how much different the Mutant Rancor game is from each perspective without playing the games we have to play now to sample those guys. I mean, is there a level of Mask Scent/Camo that allows us to get up on them like any other mob in the game? Maybe this is a post all on its own for the Ranger forum. Time to go sound like a noob. Wish me luck.

You dont need to be a Ranger to get Dath camo skills. You just need to have a Master Ranger apply the camo kit to you. Dath is the last camo kit they learn to make, and undoubtedly the most necessary. Seems everything on Dath has super olfactory abilities.

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DataOutlaw wrote:
"With CH/Rifle, you can just sit back and watch the tanks while you pop in headshots. "

Precisely! In my vcase, since I am a wookie, there really is not other choice of weapon skill for me. Without the ability to wear armor the 2.5 melee modifier for holdinga rifle is meaning less since I pretty much go down in 2 hits anyway. At least with Rifle I am 60m away and fairly safe from taking those 2 hits. I only get in trouble when something else nasty sneaks up behing me while I am blasting away. I swear if I get incapped by ONE MORE FRELLING gaping spider while I am shooting at a Bull Rancor! Sheesh how embarassing to be hndling a CL65 beast and get knocked on my furry buttoks by a goofy sooking fat bellied spider!

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LoL, my friend has the same problem. We'll be out on dath, i sample, he...kills the aggro creature, and harvests. I can kill bull rancors, rancors, rancor youth, but he dies on "ga gaping spider"

I just hit Master BE last Friday and am now working my way up to Master CH. I'm also a Master Pistoleer which is obviously going to have to give way to CH. Pistol whip is nice when you get aggro'd for making a getaway.

A little clarification on the camo kits, I was once a Master Ranger for my first cron and I believe that the camo kits only work on NPCs. Maskscent is what's important for critters. So I guess this would be useful for sneaking up on Nightsister Rancors while the tamers are lurking about but it's not going to help you get any closer to mutant Rancors.

-Grishnaar

I was a master ranger also and I can agree with this. I found camo kits to work with npc and not critters.

Fortunately, I have the best of many worlds. I am Master BE, going up Master Tailor. My other character is MCH/Master Pistoleer/Ranger0030. That way, I don't need any combat on my BE character. AND I get to use the pets I make!