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Thread: Interesting Mutant Rancor Strategy
I was running around dath just sampling whatever after hitting master be I wanted to play with some higher quality samples. about 2k from dath outpost north west I find a group of 5 mutant rancors in an open field. As I approache dthem they aggored on me and started fighting each other so I peaced out and remasked. After a few minutes 3 MR's ran different directions due to low health and bleeds. So I followed one it eventually stopped being aggro. So I sampled him due to his low health he never aggro'd on me 
I had ofcourse removed my weapon so I didn't accidently kill him. I got 40 mutant samples tonight in about 2 hours.
I think the key is to get it really low health with a bleed and they run away. peace out run off a little bit and come back and sample till dead.
I have experienced the same thing in the rancor caves as well. I get the MR to aggro on the Rancor Youth and Gnarled Rancor - (Mutant wins most of the time) and then creep up on the HAM challenged MR and stick a needle in his a$$. Seems that two things happen with these injured beasts compared with the full HAM boyz - The wounded guys dont aggro as much on me and they produce more samples before I suck the life out of them. The full HAM guys aggro 40-50% of the time (maskscent 125 - here) on approach and die on about 30-40% of the samples. Could be just luck on the 4 times I have been there - but it seems to be a pattern similar to what you have encountered.
I believe that this situation arises due to the aggroing critter using an AE attack. It hits all the creatures in the area and gets them fighting. It also happens at the Merek/King Merek location on Endor. When they run, you act the vulture and get a few samples before the runner gets enough Health back to go back into the fight.
I actually have a few SS of myself in the middle of the Mother of all Battles. This situation happened to me on Dathomir with Enranged Rancors, Youths, and Rancors...with a spawn of Malklocs thrown in. After about 1/2 hour of fighting and running and respawning there were approximately 50 Rancors battling about 30 Malklocs and each other. I was in the middle of it getting samples and hitthing the runners to be able to harvest resources from when they dropped over dead.
Hmm, got 13 mutant samples in an hour or solast night, used my mask scent and 3 +14 maskscent items worn.
Just rode up on my swoop bike holding shift(walk) key down, stopped and hopped off to remask if it broke, and once up within range ofthem just hit sample and hop on bike. If they aggro just speed away.
Still ended up dying twice and being incapped several times.
I've been an MCH for a long time, I've never been able to show that crawling works any better than walking to tame or sample. Running OTOH definately breaks mask scent more.
And forget the cave, much better to find em in the wild.
You wouldn't have a waypoint for this location, would you?
Doordolt wrote:
...It also happens at the Merek/King Merek location on Endor....