Scout Archive

Guys,

I think it's safe to say that the community has voted NO on this topic.

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NO

I do pretty well with scout xp. My approach is pretty simple. Never use the planetary shuttle. If I'm in Coronet and I want to go to Kar Vella I hoof it. Once you get out of town and away from the crush of people there's lots to hunt and do.

One thing that also helped me was upgrading my rifle. A better gun means you can hunt bigger game and get bigger xp for harvesting and combat. Plus it was just such a thrill the first time I took down that carrion sprat after they had killed me so many times.

On maskscent, I heard all the complaining about it being nerfed so I was curious. When I got explore 2 I tried it out and it NEVER worked. When I got to Explore 3 I saw the bonus mod so I tried again. Now it actually works sometimes. The only weird part is, it seems to work on aggro(red) mobs, but never on the placid (yellow) ones.

Megact Cour

Corellia, Naritus galaxy

NO.

I have 2 different scout using characters, and Hunting and Exploration were the first to things they got up to 4 in. No thanks. Make it harder even.

The skill doesnt take WORK to do, it's basically passive, so it SHOULD be harder to gain in.

my vote: NO

scout XP isn't that hard. get explore 2, and go to tatooine and fight kreetles. they'll give 106xp from maskscent, plus another 20-30 from harvesting.

take kreetle missions, and get your mask xp, then kill, tap the nest, and wait for more xp.

once you get explore 3, kreetles don't give but 40 xp from /mask, so find something harder.

DO NOT go to Lok for /mask xp unless you have a larger hunting group. i made 2k scout xp in about 30 mins there with 2 other peeps. harvesting for 139xp, maskscent was above 50xp per creature.

No. I think things are fine the way they are. As for /maskscent, I was never able to use this with any effectiveness until I got explore 3, now I get lots of XP from it. Go prone and crawl past aggro mobs at 50-60 meters. Slow going but it works. Another thing I've found useful (you guys probably already know this) is to lay at extreme range, take cover (if you have this skill), use /maskscent and /mindshot. Most of the time you can kill things before they can find you and charge. If you use a trap, though, they seem to know where you are sooner. I can't prove this with any concrete knowledge about how the AI is written or anything, just my experiences.

NO.

All I need are the Apprentiship points and I'm a Master Scout. I play a grand total of 10 hours a week. I've played sense day 2. I'm quite the loner... so I didn't really talk to anyone... all of my skills were picked up by trial-and-error. While I have been left in the dust by others (I have seen WAY to many Master (insert elite profession here)), I feel that I have learned more, earned more, and am generally more happy with my character. The only thing I have done to grind XP is play at the Pokemon Center (aka Tusken Camp) on Tattooine, and that was strictly for weapon XP. Scout XP is cake. Earn it.

I also have to say "No" to this petition.

I have never had the chance to use Maskscent Pre-nerf, but I do use it now. I am at explore 4 and hunting 2, and I got this all while only bringing my pistol up three levels (ALMOST to the fourth, but not quite).

I found that hunting bigger things got me more scouting exp from the harvest, and I can take bigger things now. Also I found that I could net quite a bit of exp from Mask scent, but it isn't endless. Perhaps easing the mask scent restrictions would be good, but I don't think doubling the scout exp from harvesting is the answer!

Very well thought out plan however, and an excellent post!

--BigStinkinWave

No no and again no

No - but not because I think scouting xp is easy to get - its not easy to get, but its not hard to get either.

No - because you don't care aboutSCOUTS - you just want to get to Creature Handlerfaster and in my opinion there's already too **edit** many of you as it is *mutter* bloody Creature Handlers *mutter*

No - because mask scent shouldn't be the only way or even the primary way a scoutgets experience - now I wouldn't mind seeing the refresh on mask scent be a tad shorter, say 30 seconds instead of 60, but other than that getting scout xp is simple if you are hunting creatures that are of a reasonably high level.

Learn to work a little bit to get where you are going.

NO!!!!

Right now I have 30k of scouting exp. I simply do missions and harvest. It isn't really that hard.

Sorry Riptide, but I'm in the opposite camp. I feel that Scout XP is way too fast. I had exploration 4 and hunting 4 long before the other skills in the scout tree, and now I'm gaining wayfaring and advanced hunting in Ranger far faster than my other Elite profession skills. I don't know what you are hunting that gives so little XP, but even the 40k scout XP you need for wayfaring 4 comes pretty quickly if you mow down blues/whites and quickly snatch up hides and bone with a harvest alias. (/alias harvest hide hh, then just type /hh after each kill while the corpse is still targeted)

Nivab La'Tah
Scylla

just one question left. .

is there any hide left on this rotting equine corpse?

<you gain 3 scouting exp for harvisting off the dead horse>

next thread please

NO - reason: Ive never used masked scent and already have maxed out everything in scout minus the last 3k of survival XP i am working on as we speak. sounds like you need to start hunting harder mobs than scavenger rats. Try parepolopes or whatever they are called, maybe some gurrcats. Get a decent probot and let him tank for you. the idea of masking scent and running around getting tons of xp was a bad idea. It was nerfed a lil too much, but there is no way you should become a master scout or even close to being a creature handler just for masking your scent and running around, you have to kill something, dont you think?