Bio Engineer Archive
Thread: can we DNA sample Mutant Rancors?
Now that they've done for a while. I always liked whenI could find mutants near something else because I knew I could run through the other spawn and they'd attack the mutant. Mutants don't seem well-liked on Dath
ArthurDentOnBria wrote:
They do however attack other things that you "run them through" like backerasets, which is kinda cool, hehe.
Kevm wrote:
ScoutMastr wrote:
IMPORTANT NOTE: when sampling mutant rancors, always store you vehicle before attempting approach--they will find and destroy your vehicle--they did it to me twice in just 2 days.
I always leave my bike out. That way if they agro I just hop on it and race away
seriously.... it's the ultimate escape plan
also conceal seems to work more for NPC's than creatures but HELPS mask scent.... but that's just from what i've read and gathered, so i may be wrong
exploration IV +25 mask scent clothes and jawa beer works fine with me so a ranger shouldn't have too much trouble sampling them
Kevie wrote:
Kevm wrote:
ScoutMastr wrote:
IMPORTANT NOTE: when sampling mutant rancors, always store you vehicle before attempting approach--they will find and destroy your vehicle--they did it to me twice in just 2 days.
I always leave my bike out. That way if they agro I just hop on it and race away
seriously.... it's the ultimate escape plan
also conceal seems to work more for NPC's than creatures but HELPS mask scent.... but that's just from what i've read and gathered, so i may be wrong
exploration IV +25 mask scent clothes and jawa beer works fine with me so a ranger shouldn't have too much trouble sampling them
I used the same get away tactic for a while now, the problem comes when your bike is left a little out of reach, and like I said--once you hear the music sometimes you are already dead...before I could clone I saw my bikes ripped apart in 2 hits...oh well, now I just get there by bike and pull out my mount to go exploring--no fast get away, but my mount is CL61 and can take aggro for me til I have a head start and then I call'm back.
As for the mask scent breaking, you guys are right to a certain extent, you can stop and remask hopefully, but if you try every approach angle and still it breaks and you get aggroed, then it becomes clear to me that that particular spawn will not be undone by mask scent--I've worked some spawns for hours without even achieving a sampling attempt. It happens, I move on to the next spawn, or for revenge I find some jedi and give'm the coordinates to the spawn...good bye rancors!
As for the mask scent breaking, you guys are right to a certain extent, you can stop and remask hopefully, but if you try every approach angle and still it breaks and you get aggroed, then it becomes clear to me that that particular spawn will not be undone by mask scent--I've worked some spawns for hours without even achieving a sampling attempt. It happens, I move on to the next spawn, or for revenge I find some jedi and give'm the coordinates to the spawn...good bye rancors!
In my experience, groups larger than three are not worh the effort, to many chances of agro, unless you can lure one away, maybe, but even then I have never gotten a sample... I think these groups may be bugged, becuase it seems that three is the correct spawn, at lease more prevalant.
When I get agroed, I just use my lvl 35 & 24 to take it down, blind, intimidate and stun make easy work of most anything under lvl 80/ 20k ham
BMB is great, but nah, not close. You can find mutants that have well over 14k of HAM, and that's 2k-3k above BMB. The other thing about BMB is that it is relatively low in the damage (dps) department, and it has a lot of vulnerabilities.
Devero wrote:
I have stalked a few mutants so far, but only sampled two. I find Bark Mite Burrowers just about as good. Better HAM too.
Message Edited by ArthurDentOnBria on 06-24-2004 08:12 AM
ScoutMastr wrote:
when you get at 65m they "detect you despite maskscent"--THAT'S IT....do not waste your time on that spawn
I'm gonna do the naked thing next...after my old set of maskscent clothes reach zero--tired of insuring and wasting money.