Bio Engineer Archive
Thread: Mutant Rancor Sampling Harder Now?
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Argarell
Wed Feb 18, 2004 11:56 am
#1
I haven't had a great deal of time to play since the last patch came out, so what I'm seeing may be a statistical fluke. But it seems to me that sampling DNA from Mutant Rancors has gotten harder. I spent several hours on Dathomir trying every trick I knew to bag a sample. About three hours of effort netted three samples. My ratio of success to failure on samples attempted was way down, and they seemed to break my maskscent with appaling regularity (and I'm a Master Scout with +25 maskscent clothing). And in each case when I got a sample to poor beast died immediately. Anybody else notice a reduction in sampling success?
Oh, and to add to my misery, when I combined the three samples with my one other Mutant Rancor sample and a Rancor Youth sample, I got a critical failure on the initial combine. Maybe I'll take up fishing...
timmy_az
Wed Feb 18, 2004 2:42 pm
#2
Since the update, I've had my maskscent break a lot more often (even on critters as low as CL 25). It seems like every time I go by any kind of rancor, it breaks my maskscent. Before the update, I could reliably drive by all but enraged rancors and enraged bull rancors without it breaking. I have Wayfaring IV at +25 mask/camo clothing.
As for sampling mutant rancors, it seems a ton harder for me now. I use to be able to get 10-15 samples every couple of hours. Now I'm lucky to get five in the same amount of time.
Funny enough, I did take up fishing...
As for sampling mutant rancors, it seems a ton harder for me now. I use to be able to get 10-15 samples every couple of hours. Now I'm lucky to get five in the same amount of time.
Funny enough, I did take up fishing...
Blueblooded
Wed Feb 18, 2004 3:01 pm
#3
I spent 3 hours sampling them last weekend.
I crawled from 65 m out, if my MS broke I stopped dead still, reapplied and went on.
To be honest I had no problems whatsoever, I got about 15 samples and didnt get DB'd once. I just put my bike away and took it nice and slow.
(I had +25 mask scent clothing on, but Im only scouting 4..not a Master scout)
vegaz
Wed Feb 18, 2004 5:17 pm
#4
i never got any DNA from them before the patch,but i must say it's hard work. i had 2 trips getting it. im a master scout and use a +15 maskscent bandolier and +7 maskscent shoulderpad, but still they would detect me 
AND they went agro all the time and i had a lot of failiures while sampling them.
so i see why powerpets with mutant rancor DNA are expensive. i got 6 very high Q samples in a few hours.
Dapadast
Wed Feb 18, 2004 5:29 pm
#5
Hiya,
Since the patch I've noticed no significant change in the break mask/Aggro/Sample-success,fail.
Last night in fact was a great night for samples, a new all time high for me- on/off for 3 hours I pulled in 27 Mutant Rancor samples!
I even got upto 4 samples from a couple.
Nikkoli Walksfar
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