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Mapai

Tue Mar 09, 2004 9:43 am

Ok I have the +25 mask scent clothes of course, It seems 99/100 times i get near them, even trying to crawl I get the dreaded "a creature has detected you" message. The only success I have had is letting them kill each other and remask scent as soon as the winner ends combat. Takes me 5 hours to get 6 samples and then crit fail on 3 *cry* lol. Any suggestions or tips for new master?

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Korlek

Tue Mar 09, 2004 9:56 am

#2

Go Ranger. Only solution I know of everyone has this problem that has just the basics for BE. The Mutant is our cap on sampling it seems so it being hard to get without being a Ranger with camo/mask +'s out the wazoo then yeah you will get spotted alot. I buy Camo clothes as well from a Master Ranger. It helps some but not alot.

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Spazzers

Tue Mar 09, 2004 10:31 am

#3

It takes a lot of patience. I crawl. If I'm detected I can often stay still long enough not draw aggro. If I do get attacked I run while spamming peace. Many times they will fight each other and leave me alone.

Don't bring a pet with you. If you bring a pet make the animal hang back. When a rancor attacks your pet its very difficult to get the pet to release aggro because of the area attacks.

Its hard but its a lot more exciting than just standing next to an animal, sample 5 times, then blam it in the head and take its meat.

Message Edited by Spazzers on 03-09-2004 11:22 AM

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EetaBeeta

Tue Mar 09, 2004 12:05 pm

#4

When you get detected freeze.... dont move at all, wait until you can mask scent again then continue to walk or crawl until you get withing 15m.... I have explor4 and +25 clothing and i have no problem getting samples from them, the only times i get agro its cos of sampling mostly.

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Mapai

Tue Mar 09, 2004 12:15 pm

#5

Cool, I think I have tried that, but maybe not. I'll test tonight. Thanks

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kalzaketh

Tue Mar 09, 2004 4:29 pm

#6

one more for the road, high end jawa beer,A guildy is working chef so we traded tissues for the beer+7 to scent might help.it takes good quality wooly hides also.

Meplorium

Tue Mar 09, 2004 4:33 pm

#7

My pet wookie uses jawa beer and he can now have a backpack. Use to need to wear a strap instead. So Jawa beer does help only with a shot of brandy. The shift key is your friend when you approach anything, so is your speeder.

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Pahbi

Tue Mar 09, 2004 5:15 pm

#8

I'ma master scout with +25 in clothes.

I take all my mutant samples on my speeder swoop bike. Try to think of yourself as the mosquito that won't go away.

Here are some tips:

1) Scope out the area, this is *VERY* important. Mutants very often times spawn near existing spawns of enraged or higher level rancors. Sometimes these other spawns won't even be on your radar, but enraged or higher rancors will sniff you out in a heart beat. Make sure you approach the mutant rancors in such a way as to minimize (if possible) the enraged rancors sniffing you out.

2) When you get detected, just stop. Wait a few seconds, if no rancors agro on you, remask scent, wait a few seconds and try to scoot in a little further.

3) If a mutant does agro and doesn't trigger its AE attack, let it chase you away from the others, make sure your on your bike. Eventually it will stop and return to the pack. Have a macro ready that makes you jump off your bike, re-maskscent and jump back on. Now zoom in under the mutant that just attacked you, if he doesn't reagro, hit your macro that makes you get off the bike, take a sample, and get back on the bike again.

4) Once you get inside a pack of mutants, single out the mutants that are lying down or sitting. (This is probably my supersticion) but I seem to have an easier time sampling from a mutant that is sitting or lying down.

5) If there are 5 mutants in the clump, cycle through the mutants with your sampling.

And never ever ever get off your swoop bike.

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ArthurDentOnBria

Tue Mar 09, 2004 5:38 pm

#9

owch! I have no engineering skills at all (in artisan) so my experimentation is horrible, and I used absolute crap in terms of ingredients, but even I'm able to make +12 beer, lol. Just give the guy some crappy micronutrient supplements. You're a BE after all! lol

kalzaketh wrote:

one more for the road, high end jawa beer,A guildy is working chef so we traded tissues for the beer+7 to scent might help.it takes good quality wooly hides also.

Message Edited by ArthurDentOnBria on 03-09-2004 04:39 PM

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caelfoth

Tue Mar 09, 2004 8:41 pm

#10

just out of curiosity... how much would MBE's pay for Very High quality Mutant Rancor Samples?

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XpNsVe

Tue Mar 09, 2004 10:23 pm

#11

caelfoth wrote:
just out of curiosity... how much would MBE's pay for Very High quality Mutant Rancor Samples?

hmm...

150k / 5 = 30k

I would pay.... 5k each!

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caelfoth

Wed Mar 10, 2004 12:41 am

#12

I guess somehow you have to take time and expenses into it when figuring out the cost... I just spent close to 8 hours total to get 32 MR samples. Thats a lot of running and dying

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Vash72

Wed Mar 10, 2004 8:00 am

#13

i let one aggro me and chase me while i spam peace as soon as it stops i mask scent and run (sometimes burst) to it and sample. works for me most of the time

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