Scout Archive
Thread: From Novice to Master How to Become a Master Scout 5.0 (Post-CU Updated, 27 June 2005)
Uber,
There's no direct way to get the camp to disband. You have to wait the 50 minutes for the autodisband or find some sneaky way of having the camp poof (like get into combat).
You still get the XP when it poofs.
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Another note about selling harvested meat / hide / bone. Doctors need Avian meat and Herbivore meat with high OQ and PE in that order. Combat Medics need Insect meat with high OQ and PE in that order. With my main character being a Master Doctor and retired Combat Medic I know these can be hard to find in large quantities.
- Wrebo
but one problem i cant get the trapping macros to work. Is this just me or is it bogus? Good work. I am on Farstar server normally on tatooine or naboo
I got traps set up on toolbar F9 F10 F11 F12.
i did the macros exactly as typed here
/ui action toolbarSlot 09
/ui action toolbarSlot 10
/ui action toolbarSlot 11
/uiaction toolbarSlot 12
wot didi do wrong? Brilliant guide printed it off s i could keep it handy. Thx for replyin quickly. Cant wait for your next update with vehicles mentioned. Merry Christmas.
P.S. i hope u reply to his before xmas
Reb,
You gotta put semi-colons after each one, so that the macro thingie knows that there's another command to do.
This is what it should look like:
/ui action toolbarSlot09;
/ui action toolbarSlot10;
/ui action toolbarSlot11;
/ui action toolbarSlot12;
Try that and lemme know if you're still having trouble!
B
EDITED: So that I don't look like that much more of an idiot.
Message Edited by DeltaXi65 on 12-23-2003 03:41 PM
Great guide. I was doing things the looong way. Wanted to add a few tips of my own too.
1: You can do two destroy missions at a time. First get a Hunt mission from the Explorer terminal. Try to get the highest paying one. If they're all low hit refresh until some high payers come up. Now the thing about explorer hunting missions is that they want you to kill very hard to find mobs and give no waypoint to find them. So now go to the regular mission terminal and look for a destroy lair mission of the same animal as your hunting mission. You will now have a waypoint to find the critters for your explorer mission and they're usually pretty close to the terminal. Go to the lair and shoot it once. Several critters will pop out. Kill them to wrack up the kills for your explorer mission. Keep doing that till no more pop out and then destroy the lair. You won't have killed all you need, so go back and get another destroy lair mission for the same animal. Takes about 2 lair destroys for a 15 kill mission and 6 lair destroys for a 45 kill mission. I usually go with 45 since they pay the most (about 6k at my skill level).
2: I don't know anyone who buys the eggs I forage, but they make great ingredients for some traps. Very high potential energy on some.
I have gotten LOADS of scouting xp, it was the easiest xp to get, and you also can get major ranged weapon xp also. What you do is go to dathomir or dantooine, but dathomir is better. So go to the science outpost on dathomir, and start shouting "Any groups going out." "Any hunting groups forming." Usually if you play during peak hours you will find one in 5 minutes. Remember, the bigger the better, and the stronger the better. Next, equip the weapon you want to get xp with. It doesn't work to well with melee because you do not want to get hit.
Now that your in a group listen to the leader. He will probobly tell you to get missions to a certain direction of a certain type. The best are rancors and kams. Anyways, just listen to him, ask him questions about were to go and what to do, it varys with every group. Just make sure you are going to hunt animals, not Nightsisters. Now, you should be out there, and at someone's missions. Let everyone else do the killing, you can attack if you feel comfortable, this is why ranged weapons do better. These creatures you are hunting will be extremely hard and take you down in 1-5 hits. Usually there will either be a melee person or creature handler who can "tank" for you. Remember let them do all the work.
Now that the creatures begin to die, start harvesting. i suggest harvesting only bone and hide for now,don't sell any of it for now, just get enough for personal use. I suggest always having about 100 bone and 500 hide for camps and traps and stuff. For right now your just power leveling scouting xp though so hide and money don't matter. If you follow this plan and stick to it, you will get exploration and hunting full, and cap yourself on scouting xp if your going to be a ranger. The order I went in was this, exploration then hunting, exploration then hunting, and so on. It doesn't matter though because you should get all the scouting xp you'll ever need in at most 6 hours. As long as you follow this exactly, and let the other group members do the killing (they won't care if your not doing much because it doesn't hurt them at all.) you should get major scouting xp and FAST!!! Ask any of the power levelers or elite players and they will tell you this...
Good guide, and I don't want to sound like I'm bashing it, but it is kinda for new players and doesn't tell you the best tricks on how to power level scout.
My history with scout is that it isn't a fun proffesion to get, it just helps A LOT with other proffesions.
Reb,
I'm an idiot. I just realized that you gotta drop the space between toolbarSlot and the number.
Sorry. Lemme fix that in the guide right now.
B
Reb,
You're welcome.
I don't think many people used it, but it's there in case someone needs it.
And yeah - I spend too much time here. Luckily, work is slow. No Congress til Jan 19. 
B