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I found these explorer missions could be put to use in levelling my friends quite easily. All it takes is a group of 2 with each of you taking 2 explorer missions on different creatures that will be in a given area. Youcan power level your combat class without having to run back to town and make a few bucks while you are at it.

Yes, but they're not really intended to level upa combat class.. They're supposed to be for rangers to be able to make some sort of living with.. and at the current payouts you can't do that. If new players or combat classes benefit, that's great.. but if the main target class thinks it's worthless then there's a problem.

"Has this been covered before?"

Aye, this issue is quite long standing indeed, here is a past thread:

Explorer Missions: A poll...

I see.. well, too bad they're still the same Actually they weren't bad when you could kill Flesh Eating Chubas.. It's easy enough to find 45 of those to make it worth your while.. but I think they took those out... plus it's not much fun to kill something so weak.

These missions are really good actully, you just get 1 then find a normal S&D with the same creature typemission wich should spawn about 5-10 do about 4-5 of those for 5k ea. and then at the end of the hour that it took you you get an extra 10k thats an EASY 35+k an hour.

Gotta agree with the Capn, explorer missions rate right up there with getting a wisdom tooth removed, long and painful.

Kill 45 mutated krahmurra for 8k... dayum, a single mission pays 5k and I kill maybe 6.... the pay rate is insanely low. Yeah yeah, 3 people, 1 explorer mission and 5 KM missions, play the cards right and maybe we do 45 in two sets. Still, by not taking 2 KM missions I lost 10k to earn 8k. Even my math says that sucks.

I run tons and tons of regular destroy missions, to level novice scouts up, to level others up in weapons, or CH, or whatever they need. Y'all can keep explore missions, not worth my time and/or effort

JB

Has this been covered before? Even with area track I don't think it's worth my time to embark on these hunter missions.. kill 45 things of this really specific animal, and get .. at the most 10k. How long does it take someone to find 45 of the same animal.. even with area track? I personaly am discovering that it takes me way to long to justify only 10k.

PS: have flesh eating chubas been removed from the Hunter mission?

I've never found Explorer missions to be anything but a waste of time. Maybe in big groups, they could be worthwhile, if you're lucky enough to stumble on a motherlode, but otherwise, no.

Well, I don't know about insulting, but I agree it's not worth it for the time involved, considering you can runseveral regular missions in the same amount of time, and make more money that way. However,this may be better for a newer player ora person withfew combat skills; if the animal isn't too tough to kill in the first place (like your missing chubas).

In any case, it adds some variety to missions, which is what I suspect the devs were aiming for. And if you happen to be hunting for a resource dropped by the target animal--even better!

The only explorer mission I took was back in my newbie days... I went hunting for 45 womp rats out of Mos Taike. I took mission after mission after mission from the regular mission terminals, in order to hunt down those miserable things. When I hit 45 I was so sick of hunting womp rats that I've hardly killed any since. My reward? 7k. Needless to say I haven't taken another...

Yeah, they're a waste of time for the amount of money they offer. I suppose they are intended for newer players, much like the Artisan, Entertainer, and even regular Mission terminals. If only there were some NPC quests that were worth anything available to the more experienced players. I think they need to pick up where they left off on this.

So I'm not asking for higher paying Explorer missions as much as more interesting content as you go along.

Kyyran Evagg'orr
Bothan Master Scout/ Ranger/ Rifleman/ A bunch of other stuff
Chilastra

A tip:

If you are in a group one or more take the same exploration missions (same type of creature) then go to the normal Mission Terminal and accept some lair missions which spawn the creature you need to hunt for the exploration mission.

This goes quick.