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I am having the same problem although I haven't hit Sampling 1 yet. Was hoping for a higher success rate when I hit Sampling 1 so am pretty discouraged to hear about your trouble at a higher level sampling the same stuff. I am sticking to the trash outside Coronet and seem to fail a ton. Does coming up from behind really work for some? It seems to not make much difference. Sometimes the creatures stop, run off, or just stand therelike they were doing. It doesn'tseem to matter whether I have mask scent on, come frombehind, in front or the side. I'm about 9k into sampling so I've done it awhile.

Also,does the success rate go up when you level? If not, I cannot imagine how long the remaining three blocks will take.

Mask Scent helps. If you don't have it, the vreature gets the "?" then the "!" above their heads. I have found that they are harder to sample when agitated like this.

The success rate seems to depend both on the sampling skill as well as the creature level, but from all reports it sounds like on the low end of the scale BE's really get the shaft. Fear not though, it does get much much better. I would say that on CL 60+ level stuff I succeed about 50% of the time, and on anything below like CL 40 or so, success is damn near 100%. If I'm sampling something like a voritor dasher, it's usually like: success success success success success and then it either dies of aggros.

Message Edited by ArthurDentOnBria on 02-18-2004 04:21 PM