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Thread: What traps do you folks use?
Just got to ask, as I always do... as Scouts and Rangers are the only ones who can use the stuff, and we all can harvest most of the materials to make them, what market is there? The only parts we can't harvest are the metal and the poly, and I for one have harvestors for that stuff. I think at best there is a minor market for the truly lazy among us. I am proudly truly lazy, and even I would not buy traps that I can make.
Just a thought.
JB
Oh yeah, pdarts and glow wire, once in a while ad mesh, sometimes sonic pulses.
If I am trying to take down a MOB as quickly as possible, those are two that get tossed right after they start bleeding. Glow Wire will lower their Melee and Ranged defenses, which is useful when hunting over a pet. If I am not using a pet, then Glow Juice will do just Ranged defense and its less expensive to make.
Lep Dart doesn't do much, but if you are grinding trap XP, its a cheap one to use.
I find Ad Mesh to not work half the time, or even it does, the MOBs I am fighting typically work themselves free in just a few seconds. Kind of a waste of resources, but they work great on things like Banthas, Rontos and Bolle Bols.
A good combo is Stink Bomb/Noise Maker. Two cheap traps and Stink Bomb makes the MOB susceptible to Stun which is what the Noise Maker does. I try to work this in from time to time.
If you are doing a Mind Pool attack with a rifle, Bone Spur and Noise Maker are your friends.
If you are doing an Action Pool attack I think Lep Dart hits there.
But as I said in the beginning, cost vs. effectiveness... I think Glow Wire(or Glow Juice if no pet) and Phen Dart are the best.
Yes, the sonic pulse affects those around it.
A flash bomb, sonic pulse, (the long grey one that affects combat defense.. forgot name) too. Those are my most frequent. I used to use the stunning ones, but my bug usually does that.
I like the glow wire trap a lot too, especially when hunting with a group's pets.
The other thing that i like about the glow wire/glow juice traps is that since I'm kind of obsessive about trying to use up the very last bit of resources, I can usually get down to 2, 3 or 4 units of organic (nice that you can use any of the three types we harvest off of mobs) in a stack and use it in making the trap. Then I feel quite proud of myself that I've traded a trap for a stack of resources and not used a valuable inventory slot. Of course, if I end up using *two* last bits of different resource stacks up, it makes my moment, as I've actually increased my inventory slot by one!
Needless to say, I'm easily amused...
My favorites are Phecnacine darts and Adhesive Mesh.
I really wish our Ranger traps worked better 
phen darts (limited mob control)
glow-wire traps (when grouping against tough creatures. makes a big difference)
wire mesh traps (when soloing. makes a big difference)
That's about it. I've tried bone spurs but dont like the fact that the mind dmg it does takes away from exp.
Phen dart
Adhesive Mesh
Sonic Pulse (just because it looks cool and people who aren't used to rangers always ask "hey..what was that?!")
sonic pulse makes the target dizzy right? i am almost there but not yet.... if it makes them dizzy then i can kd dizzy them and keep them down... that would be very useful, but for now i use pheo darts adhesive mesh and wire mesh.
Xerses
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