Bio Engineer Archive

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Blu_Haze wrote:

And I'm starting to wonder, what's up with sampling and mask scent? Once again the mob aggroed me before the sample even had time to fail. Press the sample hotkey, a second or two later and BAM, the combat queue window pops up, music starts playing and I'm on my back looking up at the stars wondering if it even failed at all or if the creature was just hungry and thought I looked tasty for a mid day snack.

Same thing going on with mask scent. I'll be crawling ever so slowly up to a aggresive creature and before the mask even fails I'm in combat mode getting attacked. Now, I don't mind if it fails frequently, that's just the way it goes. We get paid enough for our creatures to live (or die) through a few sample fails and mask scent breaking frequently, but at least give it a chance to break.

Anyone know what's up with sampling and mask scent? I'm new to BE but I know that mask scent definately wasn't like this a couple patches ago.

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Same thing happens to me as happens to Meroc , very annoying . Even hade yellow mobs attacking me before even starting taking samples these days.

Dolomaz Mbe

Sampling for Sissies:

I just mastered BE, and I gotta say I'm the biggest sissy there is. This was as a complement to my tailoring, so as it was, I didn't have a whole lot of points to devote to combat - hence I did the sampling line first and then proceeded to drop exploration 4 and pistols 4 when I needed the points for the other 3 lines of BE.

I wouldn't leave my car until I made sure the mask was holding. I would ride directly through the herd on my bike. If I didn't get a "a creature has spotted you" message, I knew I was good to dismount andsample. If you run through the herd smelling like teen spirit, they come after you or scatter or whatnot - but if you drive through on a loud machine, they don't blink if your maskscent holds. /sigh.

Another tip: while you're sampling the creature, you can shift target to your bike. That way when you start hearing the music, you can start spamming your /mount macro and running toward the safety of your vehicle.

And finally: to exit your bike without warping make this your dismount macro. /wave; /pause 1; /dismount. The visual emote causes a "sync" with the server, and it dumps you in place every time. Go ahead, try it.

Heyas NJ62

Nice tip on the /wave. I will have to add that in my macro!!! It's oh so not cool to surveying on my defenseless alt only to be warped into a red aggro mob hehe

You can use the command /mount speederbike (I think this is for the swoop speeder...not sure about the others) to mount your bike without having to target it...

Now I will say some days this works flawless and some days I gets the "I'm too far to mount" even when I'm standing right on it... then i have to manually target and hit my mount macro.

Only thing I'm a little confused about is you dropping explor under scout... if memory serves right you need explor to have mask scent.. /shrugs

Though if you're only interested in tailor tissues that wouldnt be too important hehe

Interesting combo

Let me know how it works. I use TKM. When they aggro I just kill em