Ranger Archive

I haven't seen anyone talking about this, so I figured I might as well share. (Note this doesn't solve the CL vs Trapping skill problem)

Sick of trying to level trapping 200-300 xp at a time? Well worry no more.

Basically, whenever you kill a critter the exp total from it is split amongst whatever combat skill you used, trapping (if you used any) and medic (if you healed any). So a normal even con might be worth 1500xp total, in a normal solo fight using traps you'd get 1200 weapon exp and 300 trapping or so.

Guess what happens if you unequip your weapon and never fire a shot? Thats right - 1500 trapping exp. If all you do is apply traps (and it doesn't seem to matter how many either - one or ten) while the rest of the group does the damage then you get the full exp value of the critter as trapping exp.

(Of course the critter has to be worth exp to the group in the first place and you trapping score has to be close to the CL of critter to actually stick any traps...but...)