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The important part is hitting peace immediately after the first tap so that they don't aggro you (unless you want them to which sometimes I do). That's the hardest thing I find that people don't seem to grasp when they don't know what they are doing. They shoot two or three times until something pops out, then it aggros them and before they know it I'm fighting like mad to get the beasts off of them before they are eaten alive. I've noticed also that if you aggro the first one that spawns by hitting the lair, the other ones to follow will aggro you as well, even if you are out of range for the first one to call for help.

Ehh....sorry...I am new to these boards. But why wouldnt you want to agro them if they are "milking creatures" as you say? I kill everything, and then milk the corpses. I get a ton of milk that way, and there is not need to mes around with that ridiculous milking ritual with mask scent.

Sooo.....

Basically I ride up, kill everything there, get the milk, tap the lair until mor show up, kill those, milk the corpses.

Rinse, repeat.

Do you get more milk from them when they are alive or something? I havent found that to be the case myself. I get about 80-90 units of milk per Dant Picket with Hunting IV (I am working towards Ranger). So on a mission lair I get about 600-700 units per milk and it only takes a couple minutes per lair. Before when I milked them BEFORE killing them, it would take ages to do it.

Am I wrong about something? Please let me know. I am working towards Ranger and am not an expert, but I do know that milking them while they are alive take WAY too long for my tastes.

uhhh, correct me if I'm wrong fellow rangers as I haven't milked anything since the day the milking feature came out, but I don't think your supposed to be able to milk anything once it is dead. If you are in fact getting the milk resource from a corpse I think it's a bug. Now, if you are saying milking the corpse but meaning skinning it (ie getting meat/bone/hide) then that's the confusion.

I can assure you that you CAN milk a dead animal (as long as it can be milked while its ALIVE of course.......). And instead of having to mess around with all that waiting and standing right by the creature and trying not to spook it, you just kill it and get the milk instantly. There is no wait. It is exactly like getting meat off an animal.

I really dont think this is a bug. I think there are two ways to milk. If you are a chef/BE with no skill points to acquire any really dangerous combat professions, you can still easily pick up the exploration tree of scout for mask scent (you get the hunting tree with BE) and go out and get the milk that you depserately need as a Chef. You just have to use the slow, gimped way of acquiring milk.

BUT.....if you DO have combat skills, you have the option of just killing the creatures and grabbing the milk after the fact. This is realistic, as was already pointed out by another poster, since any milk in the belly of a recently killed creature doesnt GO anywhere. If you can take the meat and hides and bones, you sure as heck can get the milk. If I have truly mentioned something here that was not intended by the devs....well...I will shut up right now since this is the greatest way in the world to get milk. Simple, easy, quick.