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Thread: To all those whining about trapping exp
Yeah, I was wondering about this. I took the Respec to get out of my nade grinding Template and over to Master Rifleman, Ranger 0040 and ran out of respec points. Figured on picking up the traps again for Rescue, to see if that would be at all useful in group hunting in the CU. I can make plenty of traps, but I have found that creatures green to me work out best for getting the traps to stick (btw, only Clvl 62, FS Boxes bork that up plenty). XP's not great, but it's better than 1.
Now if I could just figure out how to help a guildy make the climb up the scout trapping line, he at clvl 80.
Edit: Figure I should preface this with my pre-nade grind template was Master Ranger, Master Swordsman
Message Edited by murphy7 on 06-13-2005 07:01 AM
Ok, so I am not sure this will help you guys, but this is what I had to do.
Currently I am a ranger 4040, and am working on trapping (Yes I respeced to ranger because scouting trapping at CL 80 was HORRIBLE)... but like the bonehead I am , i thought that trapping would be easier now that I am a ranger so I did not respec the whole thing. DOH! Ok, I have tryed droids,........not sure why, but they do not work at all right now. Must be a CU thing. My trapping skill is 50, and my droid has a bonus of 79, and it cant hit the broad side of a barn from 3 feet away. I just grinded (solo) 82k of trapping XP and this is how I did it. First off, I dropped my CL level down to 70. Then I bought Dweezl. This gives you a plus 20 to your trapping skill for about 14 minutes. Now with 70 in trapping, I got missions from CL 68 - 72 creatures. (Yes, I know how to track, but the WP arrow just makes it that much easier. (On a side note, I think we should be allowed to see CL level when tracking too.....maybe add that to Master Ranger)......
with Dweezl I am hitting CL 72 creatures 90% of the time. I think that the skill is parallel to the CL level. Not sure though. First time I killed the beast I got a wopping 593 trap XP. I am like oh hell.....LLLLOOONNNNGGG grind. But then I started hitting beast number 2 with a second trap when first wore off. Got more XP. Beast number three I decided to root (I am pistoleer) and used my tranquilizer on him....he didnt move after that, so I started throwing every trap I could make.... Long story short, I hit him 6 times with 6 different traps, and got 2500 trap XP.
Another side note (Phecnacine Dart is a snare trap, but after I use it with my camo on, I can sit there and fire all day long and he is perm root. Not sure if this is a bug, but for now it helps. )