Scout Archive

Im trying to advance through the marksman and scout professions, but i seem to be having trouble figuring out how to get scout XP besides harvesting corpses.. Maybe im just retarded or something, but is that the only thing i can do to get xp as a novice scout? How do i set up traps? How do i set up camps? or is that not until later?

I guess my main concern is that i dont know whether or not just harvesting corpses is all i need to do in order to gain access to my other skills.
All help is greatly appreciated

For the exploration and hunting lines, at the beginning all you can do is harvest corpses for exp. Basically, the most productive thing to do is to grinf out straight to ExploreII to get mask scent, then run around Tattoine maskscenting against kreetles until ExploreIII. Then go to Lok to get awesome ammounts of exp the same way.

Traps and Camps are craftable through the General Crafting Tool, which you should have recieved through your trainer if this was your first profession. If, like me, you chose Marksman first, you will have to buy the Tool from the bazaar.

also...traps arent set up, they are thrown at a target once you are already in combat. One example is a mesh trap that you throw on a target to make it more vunarable to meelee attacks (recalling from memory).

Like stated in the post above, you make them with the general crafting tool. All traps that i've found(so far) use hide and bones to make the traps. So when you are out attacking animals, harvest the hides and bones only, craft some traps, then you can just keep going in a contious circle of harvesting and traps.

Also exp gained from camps is done by some kinda equation that im not quite sure how it works but...simplified it is - The more people in your camp over a longer period of time = more survival exp. So if you set up a camp and sit in it by yourself for only 5 mins, the exp will be nowhere close to how much you would get if you set up a camp with 10 people in it for 20 mins. Camps too are made from hides and bones.

So as you can see, a scout really doesnt use meat too much (actually no GOOD uses that i know of). So set up some macros the harvest strictly hide and bones.

Meat is can be used in Stink Bomb traps . . .

You will need some Metal for the Lvl 3 Dart trap . . .

I am not sure about the higher level camps yet but I can see needing a componenet of Metal since the higher level traps needed it. Just a thought.

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So as you can see, a scout really doesnt use meat too much (actually no GOOD uses that i know of). So set up some macros the harvest strictly hide and bones.

Not any good uses I've seen for scouts, but Chefs need our harvested meats for selling. I generally only harvest meats from insect types as they don't have bones, and scaly hides are terrible compared to leathery hides. Starting off though sticking to hides and bones is good advice until you're looking to make a profit

Meat is considered organic material and can be used in teas and food items that are crafted.

I'm pretty new to the scout but have found it to be pretty darn cool and versitile.

Scaley Hides are mcuh better than Leather Hide. Leather Hide is the most basic Hide in the game (at least on tatooine) Look at the stats of the 2 Hides. Scaley's stats are much closer or even higher than Bristley HIde. (Unless of course Im reading the stats wrong)