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Thread: I can not trap
Husko wrote:
HI. i have every lvl for scout skills EXCEPT trapping. I am a lvl 54 player and i need to start trapping skills to work on master ranger. Problem is, i can not trap anything above lvl 38. all my traps fail to trap the creatures.... Everything below lvl 38 i can trap successfully but i only get one XP point in trapping for it.
Ive tried using dweezel to help with my trapping skills, but that doesnt do anything for me either.
Please help.
As much as you may hate to hear it... get in a group of CL 80's and hit high level creatures. Just sit back and chuck traps, letting others take the beating. Trap experience will go pretty quickly.
If you need to go solo... ehm, just keep trying.
He won't be able to stick traps on Cl 80 creatures at his trapping level. Buy some dweezel (trapping bonus food), and try trapping creatures at your level again.
al-djinn'i
Master Ranger
Temujin23 wrote:
He won't be able to stick traps on Cl 80 creatures at his trapping level. Buy some dweezel (trapping bonus food), and try trapping creatures at your level again.
al-djinn'i
Master Ranger
Glad I kept my Master Ranger tag then.
I didn't even know about Dweezel
That's not true... isn't he Frank Zappa's son?
I had this problem too but at a much lower level...I had to drop almost all of my combat skills to be able to stick traps and get good xp for them...I just made master scout last night after about a week and a half of working with traps...it is the only way I know of right now when your CL is so much higher than your trapping skill. Unless someone else out there knows of a way.
Dweezil is Frank's kid. So is Moon Unit.
Dweezel also helps with trapping.
Bad news here, you shoulda used traps coming up. You be hosed now.
JB
If you're managing to stick traps on CL 38 creatures, dropping one line of your Elite Master should be enough ... and you can recover it once you're done the Scout trapping line.
Phenix1050 wrote:
or do it the easy way- wait for publish 18, get your token respec and use it to fill up all your trapping.
I'll probably have to do that, I'm CL60 and my traps won't work on 80 mobs even though I'm grouped with a bunch of 80's. I got like 800 XP for using a Dart on something a level lower than me. Too bad it's 175k to my first box.
ThreeTimesOneMinusOne wrote:
Phenix1050 wrote:
or do it the easy way- wait for publish 18, get your token respec and use it to fill up all your trapping.
I'll probably have to do that, I'm CL60 and my traps won't work on 80 mobs even though I'm grouped with a bunch of 80's. I got like 800 XP for using a Dart on something a level lower than me. Too bad it's 175k to my first box.
You do know you can toss multiple traps, right? Lob several glow wires, darts, and sonic pulses to get thousands of xp per critter.
al-djinn'i
Master Ranger
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. )