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Thread: Scouting XP for novice
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J-J
Wed Oct 20, 2004 8:26 pm
#1
Hi,
I am a new novice ranger on Corbantis and intends to become a master.
Knowing that there must be some sort of guide to getting xp fast but not knowing where is fustrating, can a kind soul point me to the right direction pls?
Thanks in advance,
Message Edited by J-J on 10-20-2004 08:27 PM
Phenix1050
Wed Oct 20, 2004 9:44 pm
#2
Well, the threads at the top are a good place to start. Here is the Ranger's answer page .Any and all questions should be answered.
Message Edited by Phenix1050 on 10-21-2004 12:45 AM
BigStinkinWave
Wed Oct 20, 2004 11:47 pm
#3
I have found the best way to get scouting xp is working on a combat skill at the same time.
Go to a dangerous planet, and mask scent.
Now take missions, run to the place and kill what you were sent to kill, harvest the critters, mask scent again, and repeat.
You will get the scouting XP in no time.
Throw some traps at each critter you kill, and you will master trapping quickly. You can get about 500 xp per trap thrown pretty easy.
Build each of those traps, you will get wilderness XP.
And once this is all done, make a camp, and sit in it to heal you wounds.
You will master in no time.
I don't play a lot, but in 6 months I am just a few traps away from Master!
Piroa
Thu Oct 21, 2004 5:18 am
#4
I know a way to make huge amounts of scouting xp, very quickly.
However, I think it's much more fulfilling to do it the way BigStink was talking about, the "honest" way.
FultonMeigs
Thu Oct 21, 2004 5:36 am
#5
I completely agree with good Ranger Piroa, don't hurry through the process. The best thing about being a Ranger is how much texture and enjoyment actually working your way up to Master really adds to the game. In my case, still fifty-two field base camping experiences from Master, the journey really has been the destination.
Fulton Meigs
Novice Ranger (4344)
Antarian Ranger Council, Kauri
RunningRoutes
Thu Oct 21, 2004 6:30 am
#6
The way I burned through my scouting and trapping XP was to have a guild mate (TKM melee stacker) and I get into a solo group (you'll prolly want to be buffed to be on the safe side) and let him pick up aggro and do all the killing for you. Throw traps at the monsters while he beats on them. After they die, harvest the creatures. Rinse and repeat. The only reason I didn't do this by myself is that I was a novice Rifleman at the time... can't take rancors by myself. Try and get an order of some sort (look on your Galaxy's Trade forum) and go after high challenge level creatures that fill your requirements. Did this for just any old wooly hide, hit Endor. Tons of trap XP, tons of scouting XP, and made a nice chunk of change on the side.
That takes care of three of the four trees. For that wonderful wilderness survival tree: just sit in camps and craft; I suggest doing this just outside of C-net, Mos Eisley, Anchorhead, anywhere where newbies tend to be. Why? Because they go gah-gah over your leet tents. I'll never forget how many visitors I got when I dropped a Field Base outside of Mos Eisley. I still have people who were newbs back then ask me to drop the high-tech field base so they can drool on it.
Or set up a camp near water and use your high quality fishing pool to do some fishing. If you use this method, I suggest checking swgcraft.com and see where the fish meat is high quality. That way you can sell the stuff you bring in. Money and XP, can't beat that.
That takes care of three of the four trees. For that wonderful wilderness survival tree: just sit in camps and craft; I suggest doing this just outside of C-net, Mos Eisley, Anchorhead, anywhere where newbies tend to be. Why? Because they go gah-gah over your leet tents. I'll never forget how many visitors I got when I dropped a Field Base outside of Mos Eisley. I still have people who were newbs back then ask me to drop the high-tech field base so they can drool on it.
Or set up a camp near water and use your high quality fishing pool to do some fishing. If you use this method, I suggest checking swgcraft.com and see where the fish meat is high quality. That way you can sell the stuff you bring in. Money and XP, can't beat that.
Nomorenerfs
Fri Oct 22, 2004 10:11 am
#7
I went to Mining/Dantooine yesterday and got all the scout exp for Tracking 1-4 and Wafaring 1 in about3 hours. I drove 1k from the outpost, found a nest of reds (voritors, quenkers, fierce pocket protectors, etc.) and each time I found a nest, I'd makea waypoint on it. Then I would drive around to each of the 6 or so waypoints I made, with maskscent up, and the exp just flies in. Try to get the radius of the waypoints about 400m apart, so the lairs have a chance to "depop" so when they repop when you get close, they're "new" so you get exp again. If they don't depop you usually can't get exp for them again.
Hope this answered your question.
TheUrbanPrimate
Fri Oct 22, 2004 1:14 pm
#8
That would likely be the fast and dirty method others have hinted at. Many scouts/rangers frown on the "drive by maskscent" approach. I wouldn't level an entire skill branch using it, but I've done it for a few quick passes now and again to get the last couple thousand points I need for a level up.
Nomorenerfs
Fri Oct 22, 2004 2:38 pm
#9
TheUrbanPrimate wrote:
Many scouts/rangers frown on the "drive by maskscent" approach.
Why is that? Using one of the few skills that actually WORK in this profession, as designed, makes me a bad person? Can't afk it, there is risk, there is experience earned using the skill - why is this "dishonorable"? I still kill stuff, still harvest, still sell the resources, but I'm frowned on for using my earned skills to the best of my ability? Thats like saying that architects that only buildharvesters are frowned upon because they won't make you a couch.
TheUrbanPrimate
Fri Oct 22, 2004 2:58 pm
#10
I think its the fact that its a "no risk" (because your on a vehicle and you can easily outpace the critters if yourmasked scent breaks) method of grinding the experience rather than just collecting it as your hunting. I don't know the whole argument though. Like I said... I've been known to grind out a little Scouting XP that way myself from time to time.
Nomorenerfs wrote:
Why is that? Using one of the few skills that actually WORK in this profession, as designed, makes me a bad person? Can't afk it, there is risk, there is experience earned using the skill - why is this "dishonorable"? I still kill stuff, still harvest, still sell the resources, but I'm frowned on for using my earned skills to the best of my ability? Thats like saying that architects that only buildharvesters are frowned upon because they won't make you a couch.
Rhyeal
Fri Oct 22, 2004 3:09 pm
#11
Two words: Squill Caves. The first time i mastered Ranger, I did it in 1 month. The honest, sitting-in-my-camp-for-5-bazillion-hours way. The second time, I macroed the front line, and just masked on my missions, and harvested a ton of corpses. Hit a max in no time. And now im just 1 trapping line from master...
Nomorenerfs
Fri Oct 22, 2004 3:15 pm
#12
TheUrbanPrimate wrote:
I think its the fact that its a "no risk" (because your on a vehicle and you can easily outpace the critters if yourmasked scent breaks) method of grinding the experience rather than just collecting it as your hunting.
As someone that buys vehicles by the crate, because I get knocked off and my vehicles get destroyed in 2 seconds - I think I can give a qualified BS to that statement. Maybe I'm not doing it right 
But there IS risk (usually can't tell if that red is a rancor or a nightsister til after you're on your back the way stuff takes forever to spawn anymore).
But there IS risk (usually can't tell if that red is a rancor or a nightsister til after you're on your back the way stuff takes forever to spawn anymore).
Almagill
Fri Oct 22, 2004 6:42 pm
#13
Nomorenerfs wrote:
TheUrbanPrimate wrote:
I think its the fact that its a "no risk" (because your on a vehicle and you can easily outpace the critters if your masked scent breaks) method of grinding the experience rather than just collecting it as your hunting.As someone that buys vehicles by the crate, because I get knocked off and my vehicles get destroyed in 2 seconds - I think I can give a qualified BS to that statement. Maybe I'm not doing it right
Dunno, I'm probably inviting the goblins inthe works to kill me badly next time I so much as drive past a kreetle, but if you're getting KD'd of the bike that often, you want to learn to keep a bigger gap between you and the aggroes.
I'd as soon spend an extra few seconds going round a cluster, close enough to get the XP (hey, am not running a charity here) but far enough out to avoid anything but the odd gobbet of green goo or a blaster bolt in the seat of the pants.
Still got the X34 I had in February and, apart from an embarrassing dismount 5m from where a Tusken warlord was trying to spawn, I've not lost a bike to hostiles in 3 maybe 4 months.
OK, back to the OP/s query. Kill as many large as you can critters, harvest as fast as you can. there really isn't a secret to doing it. Sure you can flyby a few red MoB lairs and clock a load up, I know a couple of folk have done it. Then spent a few days buffed to the gills leveling rifles... and dropped the lot after a week or three because "I can kill everything there is in the game now, there's no fun".
Enjoy the trip, you're rushing through it for??? What? A badge? /shrug
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