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Thread: Rangers of old, please educate me...
Message Edited by Creaturetaimer on 02-17-2005 07:29 AM
Caramina wrote:
What is the best way to learn the lay of the land? i scoot around on my bike and i see things, spawns, locations, but i still find it hard to know "how" to get back there rather than just having a waypoint marker...
how do you get to just "know" where to find stuff?
Caramina,
As a scout, ranger, and now a stacker harvester, for me the most important part of pve and creature hunting is in the mastery of several tools at your command.
1. Radar
2. using a /examine-/con
3 waypoints
So many ppl have no idea of what awsome powerful tool radar is for pve and pvp. Most rl friends I have the play swg are amazed when they see my set up, my radar takes up a good 1/3 to 1/4 of my whole screen. Just using radar and tab targeting and scanning radar at different ranges will make sure you wont get a unpleasant surprise at least 75% of the time.
I recommend you have a examine-con macro set next to target hotkey, so you can tell at a glance what weakness and strengths are of target.
Waypoints are your friend, learn how to use them. You can use them to track important static spawns, for things like quests, and getting the rare uber loot/resources drops. Each planet has several spots that some important rare thing spawns at. For creature hunting, for my own method, I try and survey herb/avain meat asap after every spawn cycle. That way you have the drop on the gangs of idiots that will soon swarm an area and kill off all the good static spawns and steal mission lairs.
You can also use the /who command to identify important geographical locations on planets topinpoint good hunting locations, e.g good static spawns of carrion spats are often found along rivers.
Hope this helps,
C
I think walking of Creature Mounts ar definitely the best way to really see and appreciate everything around you.
Ehope wrote:
*smiles*
Friend tells you: Ehope where are you?
/reply On Endor
Friend tells you: Where on Endor?
*looks around*
/reply by some cats and a really nice lake.
Map...what map?
I usually give them a landmark...
"where are you drak?"
"on yavin"
"where on yavin"
"do you know the giant head statues with a pile of skulls nearby? I am about 1000 meters northwest of that"
"huh?"
"type /findfriend"
Half the fun of being a ranger imo is the ability to be a vehicle yourself (albeit a slow vehicle).Now of course this isn't very fun on Lok or Dathomir, but if you are a master ranger your camo/maskscent will be plenty to get you by most creature mobs (barring Gorax/Krayt). Look on the planetary map and head for places that look like an interesting landscape, basically just explore. After awhile you'll start to know each planet very well as far as usual spawn areas for certain types of creatures. Here's a few places/mobs I remember...
...Little island Southeast of Labor Outpost on Yavin4 is usually full of Mamiens that drop wooly hide and wild meat
...Southwest Dathomir is home to literally tons of Malklocs that drop herbivore meat(if you've never seen a Plainswalker go check them out
)...the Northern plain of Naboo is a good spot to find plenty of Gualamas for wooly hide
...Grauls usually stick to the Northwest quadrant of Dantooine
...Bordoks and Hanadaks seem to really enjoy the mountains of Northeast Endor
ps- check the BioEngineer forum as well, a lot of those folks put Rangers to shame when it comes to knowing spawn areas
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AgonThalia wrote:lol Calc...you remind me of the scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade...."He still gets lost in his own museum"hehe...
He does that too.
Vorpaks wrote:
AgonThalia wrote:
lol Calc...
you remind me of the scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade....
"He still gets lost in his own museum"
hehe...
He does that too.
HEY! It was just that on time!!! Large houses are the worst, though. i try not to log out inside one as I will get lost when I log in the next day!
Message Edited by Calculus_Entropy on 02-17-2005 10:52 AM