Bio Engineer Archive

OK,

After many, MANY deaths I think I have a good DNA sampling system going. Here's what I do:

1. Wear at least +25 maskscent clothing.

2. Maskscent and hop on the speeder bike.

3. Drive RIGHT up to the mob and hope maskscent doesn't break. Put the mob right under you and look down at it (that way a single tab hit will reaquire the target without having to cycle through a bunch of targets you don't want.)

4. If it doesn't break (wait a second or two to account for server lag), jump off speeder, sample DNA, jump back on the speeder, hit tab to reaquire the mob, rinse/repeat.

5. Here's the macro I use to do it: /dismount;/pause 1;/sampledna;/target speederbike (or swoopbike or landspeeder);/pause 1;/mount. Just tab to reaquire the target after this.

This lets you stay on the bike the whole time you sample.

Enjoy!

Tobywan Kenobite

Bloodfin

No need to mess about with the target part in that macro, this works just as well and leave the sampled creature as the target:

/dismount;
/pause 1;
/sampledna;
/pause 1;
/mount Speederbike {or whatever your vehicle is}

The macro can also be used for reapplying maskscent if it drops by just replacing the sample line with /maskscent;

You can even avoid the targeting of the creature as long asyour facing the closest one to you by doing this:

/dismount;
/pause 1;
/ui action targetSelf;
/ui action cycleTargetOutward;
/sampledna;
/pause 1;
/mount Speederbike {or whatever your vehicle is}

The only true problem is, when your bike got hung up on the landscape, and you never noticed.

Nothing quite like getting off to maskscent, and the vehicle zooming off into infinity.

I am deeply in your debt. The macro '/target speederbike' is exactly what I'd been looking for!

Does anyone know a macro for targeting self? With that, my life will be complete.