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Oh my God man. RUN WHILE YOU CAN!!!!!

No.

I can't.


Polite answer. BUY hide and bone?? If I was on chimera I'd sell you some. But, really, you're a RANGER now, kill some critters, use their hide, use the bones. They're free, think of it as a perk of the job...



OK, am off to lie down in a darkened HTFB.

OK, am rested. I had to go get myself a drink of camomile tea and look at the little sheepies out in the field back of the house...


Darkfather, you deserve a reasoned response to your perfectly legitimate enquiry. You are, after all, a reformed character, having walked the path of BH and realised that the true destiny of the scout it to achieve rangerliness... or something. (AWFULLY good tea that...)

Okay. Camping. Gaining wilderness experience.

First of all, there is no need to grind. In fact, unless you are willing to sit in camps all day and all night for, oh, I dunno, a fortnight? More? Less? Doesn't matter, for a MIND NUMBINGLY INSANE amount of time, there is no 'grinding' wilderness experience. There are, it's true, a few ways to speed the process up, but it's not quite as simple as, for example, needing weapons XP so you go after higher level critters. Don't matter where you camp, you get the same amount of xp. Eventually.

Materials. They are, literally, all around you. Kill stuff, harvest it. You don't need a huge stack of stuff, you can only make one camp at a time', and you can only occupy one camp at a time. No point using uber resources either, makes not a jot of difference. Sad, but true.

As you progress up the skill tree the type of camps available to you increases and the amount of XP required before maxing the camps also goes up. I don't have figures here, but trust me, it does.

You CAN improve the rate the XP comes in by a number of activities in camp. Healing. Crafting camps or traps. Fishing. Having a bunch of folk over to visit. The more individual visitors who go through your camp the faster it will reach its max XP. Pitching your camp near a starter town, on a busy transit route, or near a major city will attract more visitors... you WILL get to love hearing people say "Wow, this is a neat camp..." and knowing that the next level gets you an even better one.

There is, as is often mentioned in these parts, no 'right' way to do this part of the job, but here's one way.

Drop a camp,
craft a camp. (to replace the one you just dropped)
craft some traps.
Heal your wounds. Better still, unless you need the medic xp get a friend to heal your wounds.
!!! Bring a friend. Their presence in camp is already gaining you xp at a higher rate than just you on your lonely.
!!!!!! Bring LOTS of friends. The more the merrier. It's called a Hunt Party. It's even better if they've got some wounds
After a period of time that'll vary from 15 minutes DOWN depending on how many of the above you've done, it'll be time to

Disband your camp. If its not at the max level, and that'll vary with the type of camp, leave it up longer next time. You'll get the hang of it.

(If you pull your bike / mount / droid before disbanding you'll save 15s. Keep a couple of the basic scout camps in your inventory. Use them to pull pet/bikes, etc. It's ALL xp, even if its only double figures)

Most of all, it's going to take a fair bit of time, that's just how it is. Have as much fun as you can and make camping just one of the things you do while being a ranger, not the only thing you're doing.

Worst case scenario? You have no friends and nobody has wounds. Fine. Good time to read your mail, chat on RIN, spam your auctions....



Have fun,

oh, and read the stickies, all this has been said 1000 times more eloquently by folk up there...





Go kill some stuff.





' OK OK You can make more than one camp at a time, with a pile of crafting tools and do it in practise mode... but if you're going to do that, I hear tailor is a really good profession for button mashing.

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Vorpaks wrote:
Oh my God man. RUN WHILE YOU CAN!!!!!

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Omg... roflmao.... That is so so so so funny.. lol

My advice would be to adverstise on the planetary chat tab that you are being a tumbling monkey in your camp and that will bring out some people to sit there. Healing gets better xp.

Message Edited by KaiRaene on 12-12-2004 07:02 PM

Grinding Ranger..... now what part of that statement makes no sense?

Honestly. I found little difference in Novice Ranger than I did in Master Ranger. You get more camps and traps. You can track more things and harvest a little more(tho it's a debate if the difference between Master Scout and Master Ranger is worth the SP's). But it's a profession where you enjoy your "grind". If you try to grind, you'll drop Ranger before you even get close.

Go to Dath and kill rancors. Collect bone and hide. Now you have your materials.

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The-Dark-Father wrote:

help, i've just dropped BH and am now grinding the ranger camping skills, i need a large amount (9k+ ?) of hide for this but can only find small amounts on the bazzar and cannot find any on player vendors.

can anyone help me out please and mail me the wp for a vendor, i'm based on naboo on the chimeara server.

thanks

broa jace

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I play on Chimaera.

I don't have a wp handy, as I am at work, but near Bestine is Oasis Mall, do CTRL-V and search for vendors with OASIS in the name around bestine, there is a organic resources vendor there, last time I checked it did have lower quality hide on it @ 10cpu.

As other's have said, get a buff and go kill Rancors, infact anything on Dathomir or Endor, that has hide, you will get alot very quickly.