Bio Engineer Archive

I've made at least 60 CL 10 pets since the patch, using VD/VD/HP/HP/HP (and a lot where I substituted capper spineflap or diseased nuna DNA for the HP). I only hit CL 11 5 times out of that said 60 or so, 3 hit CL 9... the rest were dead on CL 10.

And for the record, I always experimented 1 point in physique, 1 in mental, in all of the combines... well, except for the few times I hit an experimentation failure, and had to re-experiment. And sample quality didn't seem to matter for me, I got the same results using Average and VHQ samples, oddly enough.

I would like to thank Jaofos & Vraell for posting about my problem. Now that i see others still using this recipe, I'm going to go try again and see if i get the same results as i got before or not. BTW what servers are you 2 on, just curious?

Thanks again

Zah-Ma Egu/Starsider

I have also noticed Mask scent breaking that's why i've started using Jawa Beer. it's a simple drink but it allows me to pump my mask scent up. it's not even a chef food. just ask any master artisian to make you one, provide a Micronutrient supliment and your laughin.

With +18 BE mask scent clothing, +16 mask scent Jawa beer and level 4 in the scout tree for mask scent, CL 8 or so hermit spiders are breaking mask scent at a walking pace.

Does anyone else think SOE needs version number checking on their code segments for rollbacks, so when they "fix" the crafting system back to the prior one they do not also replace the working code for mask scent or something equally as unrelated with old, non-functioning code at the same time?

LLan

LLan and I were talking about this last night. The first day patch 7 went in I noticed mask scent worked much better than it did before. Where kreetles used to break my mask they didn't anymore.

Yesterday, after the crafting system was rolled back mask scent breaks just as often as it did before the patch. Kreetles break my mask again.

Seemingly mask scent is tied to crafting

I think mask scent is tied to crafting in a very different way - if they think we smell like a BE, our pets get nerfed.. That's why the validity check seems so uneven; we forgot to mask while crafting...



LLan

FOFLMAO

so BE stands for Butt Engineers! Explains why since I spend most of my time looking at critter butts, if I show them mine as I approach it works better!

...adds that to my list of scientific superstitions. Thanks Llan

I noticed similar.

Sampling Mottled Wrix the other night they repeatedly "saw" me through masked scent. My masked scent modifier is 115. Mottled Wrix is CL 18, I should have been able to do a jig on its back without it "seeing" me.

Findywen Tanaburs

Wrix Scratching post, Aspiring BE

LOL, Llan,

OK, call me superstitious, but here is what works for me.

• Always open and close your Craft Tool 3 times, then turnaround, jump, and kneel to prevent dreaded first try Crit Fails.


• Maskscent gets tested at 61m and 41m. If you slow to a walk at those points, you get undetected most times. In the case of rancors, crawl.


• Never craft with ANY Battle Fatigue. Craft station senses your fatigue and penalizes you.


• While crafting, eat canapes and drink brandy, just as tho you were sampling. Craft Stations like smart scientists.

LOL! That's it. Mask scent is tied to crafting. Make sure and mask scent before crafting.....

I haven't tried DNA sampling "extreme agro" stuff since they added the new Publish. I have +25 Mask Scent/Camoflage clothing and Exploration 4 in the Scout tree. I ran across Kreetles last night when sampling Womp Rats for a quick CL10 Cu Pa Mount and Bantha Mount.....nothing special...the players just wanted it now so, I obliged them. Anyway, the Kreetles didn't detect mewhen I ran up on them. This may have changed since theyrolled the crafting system back. I'm just rolling with the punches and hoping it doesn't become completely unplayable. I have Dancing to work on for awhile and I find it to be a nice break from all the killing and pet making.

Funny to think about how the code of each system might be entertwined. Very funny.

Devs......I hope you guys get it all figured out soon. All I have to say is WoW is on it's way!

I checked the scout forum and some are reporting nerfed "maskscent". I'm testing tonight and will post results tomorrow.