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I am seeing all these people talking about maxing scout xp in one night and how "easy" it is thus the nerf. What the heck are you doing? Because I just am not seeing this xp come easy at all. In fact it comes SO SLOW that if they increase all the lines by 10k I may just say screw this altogether.

I hate feeling like I am level grinding and right now that is exactly what I feel like.

Its pretty easy compared to combat xp, weapon specific xp, etc. Three recommendations for you:

1) If solo, kill everthing blue you encounter. Its small xp, but it will build pretty fast.

2) Group with one other person, or if a CH, use a pet as a tank, then take down stuff like Rontos, Banthas, stuff along that level difficulty. You'll earn xp pretty good.

3) If you can find a large group with only a few people in need of harvesting(and no ninjas) you can build it really fast on the harder planets.

Basically, if you solo, then it will take a bit, but its still a lot less than most other elite profs in terms of xp gain over time.

Anyway, those are some non-buggy/exploitive suggestions. Using number 1 and 2, I pulled 25k scouting xp yesterday.

Just posted some replies to your concerns in another thread, but I'll add a few comments here as well.

First off, I'd like to say that while I have found scouting xp boxes much faster to earn than my rifle xp boxes, maxing a whole Ranger branch in one night does seem very fast, much faster than what I've been able to do. So for what that's worth, that's my experience. I'm ok with the xp changes, but you're not alone in being a little amazed at people being able to do it all THAT fast.

The key principle is just xp earned over time. Whatever gives you the best rate is what you should do, within your own personal tolerance level for repetition. I personally find that for the time spent, easier mobs give more scout xp. I might kill 5 kreetles near a lair on Tatooine with one pistol shot each, and get 40 scout xp from harvesting each one. That's 200 xp in under a minute. In that same minute, I could take out ONE yellow con desert eopie (getting in position, multiple shots, bleeds, etc.), and get 100 scout xp from harvesting it. I've found that almost always, when a higher level creature takes twice as long to kill as a lower level one, it does not give twice the scout xp (200%), more likely 125-150%.

That's soloing, though. If, as others have suggested, you can get into a group killing harder creatures and get the group to give you all harvesting rights, your scout xp over time will probably be better with those harder creatures than with the kreetles.