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Ever since the last big patch was installed, my trapping efficiency has gone way down. For example, I make a trap to use against a Ronto but when I throw it, it fails. I'm trying to reach Trapping IV but this will take forever because my traps fail so much. I also have a problem whith the fact that when I'm making a trap, the efficiency is 0%. Any of you have this same problem?

Diango
Master Marksman/ Novice Scout/ Creature Handler.

Traps seem to fail frequently regardless of creature size, in my experience. I've mostly been trying to trap smaller and medium sized creatures lately, and encounter the fail result probably 50% of the time.

I think crafting of traps has problems, since experimentation doesn't seem to do anything either (the 0% efficiency doesn't even change with experimenting).

I'm having the same problem, ever since the patch update the frequency of my traps having no effect is greater than them having effect.

Kalan-Nor

Guys,

Are you throwing every kind of trap you can make at the creatures? Or just one kind?

That does affect whether you hit or not. Spamming Wire Meshes over and over is good for use against a gnort, but that won't cut it with a Ronto, Snorbal or Kimo.

Let me know so I can check this out.

B

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Diango wrote:

Ever since the last big patch was installed, my trapping efficiency has gone way down. For example, I make a trap to use against a Ronto but when I throw it, it fails. I'm trying to reach Trapping IV but this will take forever because my traps fail so much. I also have a problem whith the fact that when I'm making a trap, the efficiency is 0%. Any of you have this same problem?

Diango
Master Marksman/ Novice Scout/ Creature Handler.

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Before I made Trapping IV and Master Scout I couldn't trap tougher creatures at all. Now I can trap just about everything from a fambaa to a narglatch, rarely missing. You'll need to grind on smaller creatures. Trapping is probably the easiest line to powerlevel, since you can throw one of every kind of trap at a single creature. Its probably more efficient to trap lower level creatures because you can let them sit there and hit you while you throw 4-6 traps at them. A fambaa or narglatch will kill you before you get the second trap to hit.

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DeltaXi65 wrote:

Guys,

Are you throwing every kind of trap you can make at the creatures? Or just one kind?

That does affect whether you hit or not. Spamming Wire Meshes over and over is good for use against a gnort, but that won't cut it with a Ronto, Snorbal or Kimo.

Let me know so I can check this out.

B

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Delta

did notice today that traps were more effective against creatures but; stillthe majority of the time it is the same old problem. All my other XP are climbing but Trapping is always way down. On one mission alone I threw 15 different traps and still did not get an abundance of XP.

However to answer your question more directly,i am throwing and experimenting with all my different traps against different creatures and not always throwing the same one a million times at 'em.

Kalan-Nor

Kalan,

Good - that's generally the way to do it.

Also, if you are hitting creatures that don't hit you to hard back, you may want to unequip your weapon, so you can keep throwing the traps and not accidently kill the critter. One other tip.

B

Thanks for the tip Delta

Here's an update

This a.m. I threw a total of 9 traps at nightspiders. Of the nine traps 5 were effective and 4 were not.

Of the 4 that were not 2 did not even register on the screen.

I would like to ask about XP for traps too. If i keep getting between 39-50 trapping points when i throwit is going to take me a long time to receive lvl3(ya know need 10,000)trapping. I know bigger game gets bigger XP but at lvl2 Scouting you can get incapped(or worse killed)pretty quick taking on largergame. Most of the missions i take our about lvl 8, I tried two lvl12 and got my ass kicked. Fortunately i ran across some people who helped me out.

As a scout thought i do prefer to do my missions alone. I just wish the points were higher for throwing traps, sounds like i'm whining i guess.

Anyway just wanted to give you an idea of what is happening when throwing traps.

Kalan-Nor

If your whining, I have the same whine. I stopped up at the Krayt Graveyard to check it out, (never been there before) and decided to do some trapping while hopeing for a glance at a Krayt Dragon, (which I never did see) but yes, I ran into the EXACT same problem, even alternating between traps. Butah well, just planned on trying till I made it,wouldn't be the first grind Ihave had to do in the game having fun just building my survival skills right now, I'll finish trapping next week probably.

Could it be the quality of the components? I haven't done a scientific study of it, but I noticed that my traps that are marginally acceptable or acceptable fail more than those that are successes (marginal, good or great). Just a thought.

I just made trapping 3-4 within an hour on tatooine fighting giant sand beetles. I Brought my ranger friend so he could use track to find them. I then had my GSP tank for me while I threw traps. I was getting 371 xp per trap and hardly resisted at tapping 2. Also FYI, you can throw 5 of most traps at the same creature.

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Kalan-Nor wrote:

Thanks for the tip Delta

Here's an update

This a.m. I threw a total of 9 traps at nightspiders. Of the nine traps 5 were effective and 4 were not.

Of the 4 that were not 2 did not even register on the screen.

I would like to ask about XP for traps too. If i keep getting between 39-50 trapping points when i throwit is going to take me a long time to receive lvl3(ya know need 10,000)trapping. I know bigger game gets bigger XP but at lvl2 Scouting you can get incapped(or worse killed)pretty quick taking on largergame. Most of the missions i take our about lvl 8, I tried two lvl12 and got my ass kicked. Fortunately i ran across some people who helped me out.

As a scout thought i do prefer to do my missions alone. I just wish the points were higher for throwing traps, sounds like i'm whining i guess.

Anyway just wanted to give you an idea of what is happening when throwing traps.

Kalan-Nor

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On the spider trapping, the 2 traps that you didn't get messaging - what sort of traps were they? Just making sure you know that some traps won't overlap - once the trap hits, you have to wait until the effect wears off?

I've been on Endor this weekend to hunt Mereks - *all* of my traps (sharp bone spur, noise maker, glow wire, phecnacine dart [I hold Trapping III]) failed to hit the target! And I used a lot of them...

CU
Mille