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Thread: What's your favorite trap and why?
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Vorpaks
Mon Oct 04, 2004 7:00 am
#14
And mesh is a measly 2 per stack.
I like both of them - though I agree P-Dart is more reliable. I was using Adhesv. Mesh on some giant peko pekos and the person I was with was teasing me because they were actually working. (/tickle Zaw)
I read that shooting will break the root of an adhesive mesh. Is this true? It never seems to break for me - but then again, if it is so big that I need to use the adhesive mesh because I don't want it touching me, then I am also spamming specials in a desperate attempt to kill it before it becomes unrooted. Specials do not seem to break the mesh. I will try normal shooting later on and see what it does.
I like both of them - though I agree P-Dart is more reliable. I was using Adhesv. Mesh on some giant peko pekos and the person I was with was teasing me because they were actually working. (/tickle Zaw)
I read that shooting will break the root of an adhesive mesh. Is this true? It never seems to break for me - but then again, if it is so big that I need to use the adhesive mesh because I don't want it touching me, then I am also spamming specials in a desperate attempt to kill it before it becomes unrooted. Specials do not seem to break the mesh. I will try normal shooting later on and see what it does.
Odajja
Mon Oct 04, 2004 12:02 pm
#15
Agree with all. except the most fun is the sonic. exspecialy if you pals use head phones. yes im Evil.
DesktopSaki
Mon Oct 04, 2004 9:48 pm
#16
My thread LIVES! Yay!
I wound up making at least 5 crates of every type of trap. I think I need more Phen Darts and Wire Mesh, as I overlooked their usefulness/stackability (in that order).
I can't give you sales figures because I have yet to advertise, apart from my teeny tiny sig blurb. I'm a big pu....shover and keep second-guessing my prices, my stock, etc., and don't want to advertise until I feel "Ohmigod it's PERFECT."
Which might be 2006. 
hirosue
Fri Oct 08, 2004 9:41 am
#17
sonic pulse and flash bombs . gives nice xp against rancors , think its about 1400 , and if they are both effective 2800 per critter, almost always are, AND you get stun , dissy and blinded states on the unlucky critters . Also they are area effect so hit all critters in their radius , but you only get xp for the creature that its targetted on .
On dantoine when hunting for hides or bones i get in a solo group so that i can get voritar missions from the terminals,which pay about 25,000 ( dont take jungle ones as they poisen ).I attack the nest till theres lots of them spawned say 7 or 8 , then i run off a bit . Ends up with a nice circle of them surrounding me and i trap each one in turn going through the group . get 800 xp from each bomb , so 1600 per critter. Be real nice to group up with other ranger out hunting these resources for speed killing nests .
Using tka spin attack i can kill them all at roughly the same time , take vercupti , harvest , finish off the nest . go to the next mission and am usually able to repeat the process to clear out 2 nests from 1 vercupti use .
by converting the xp to fs xp i have 3 lvls of the ranger/scout skills from the combat conversions and over 280,000 fs xp converted from the traps . So by the time that i have completed the combat trees for fs i will have saved enought trapping fs xp to by all 4 boxes in one go i.ie 1 milllion fs xp from traps , yippe . Only problem is that traps xp maxes out at 180,000 so this is maxxed way before the combat 
( .Maybe the devs can change tis 180,000 limit ) .
( .Maybe the devs can change tis 180,000 limit ) .cheers
Message Edited by hirosue on 10-08-2004 09:42 AM
Ranger_Nizzle
Fri Oct 08, 2004 8:49 pm
#18
Flash bomb and adhesive mesh. The bomb is very nice for me as a meleer because it blinds them all and combined with the AE bleeds, dizzy, stun, and intimidates,crittersbarely hit me. Phecnacine doesn't help me much because I have no need to run to regain my composure, cause my composure is in their face! Adhesive mesh is unreliable and poorly stacked, but it helps me get away easily.
plus the flash bomb goes *BOOM* and makes a cool white explosion. it still mesmerizes my pals since dya 1. 
aswex
Fri Oct 08, 2004 9:40 pm
#19
I'm still experimenting, but I like loading up my droid with 24 adhesive mesh. If I had to hold them all myself, I probably wouldn't bother. P-darts are good too. I just needthe crittersfrozen and/or slowed down so I can /mindshot and /headshot them to death with my rifle. My trapping probot droid has 1 trapping mod and 4 autoheals, so it tanks pretty good if I can't get the mesh or p-dart to stick. Still wondering if I can get away with no traps though.
-Caji, Master Ranger, Decent Rifleman(Shadowfire)
Rebelcapt
Fri Oct 08, 2004 9:40 pm
#20
Id say the adhesive mesh, its fun to sit in front of a faction base, throw some mesh's at a slinking voritor and watch the turrets go at it. Also the explosion from them just looks really cool. They also give you a good way of making a run for it when your under attack from creatures able to run at high speeds.
Message Edited by Rebelcapt on 10-08-2004 09:42 PM
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