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Pick up two destroy missions in the same area for animals, they always point you to fresh camps that will spawn a lot of mobs before your finished. I love Ipoki Destroy missions, tons of xp and scout xp from those.

What planet are those on?

Ikopi can be found on Rori and Naboo.

i found two great ways to get scout xp today. too bad it took me 2 weeks!!!

i was hunting on Talus, and did a few destroy missions. paralopes and vrelts. 1 shot from my rifle and the die. each creature gave me like 7 hides and 20 xp per harvest. if you pick them off 1 at a time and draw each one out of the lair, this only takes about 10 minutes to clear the lair. each lair had about 20 creatures in it if you work it real slow and let em spawn. i see too many people just going right for the lair kill. TAKE YOUR TIME scouts! so 1 paralope lair could net you 400 scout XP per lair. not too bad.

then i met up with another guy. he was a creature handler and i have a probot. we went after the BIG stuff. we found a huf dun lair and totur lair.
the huf dun's gave 278 per trap, 1502 xp, and around 100 scout xp for the harvest.
the torturs gave about the same for traps, 2180 xp and about the same scout xp for the harvest.

they are both hard, but if you have 2 players each with a droid or pet, you can take them out pretty easily. i got 3/4ths of my Trapping IV from them and 1/2 of my Explore IV. not too bad if you ask me.

True, I just started today but I was in beta so I mostly knew what to do. I take two destroy missions in the same direction. Kill/harvest critters along the way, milk the lair/nest/etc. and it adds up fairly decently. I'm just having fun right now so it seems to be going ok. I think people get in a big hurry and all they think about is the XP. It's like the old saying "a watched pot never boils". If you keep checking xp after each kill, it'll never seem like it's going up much at all. I take krettle destroy missions. I've never seen so many critters come out or one nest. There had to be 20 of them. I just kill, draw out another one, kill, rinse, repeat. I actually lost some harvesting xp just because there were so many I couldn't harvest all of them before the corpses dissappeared. LOL

BTW, how are you getting 100xp per harvest off rills, I've never gotten 100xp for anything I've harvested and I've harvested some sykc's (sp?) and some womp rats.

The best I've gotten is the 50 xp scout and 7-8 bones/hide off of sevorrts on Tatooine as far as destroy missions go...you can usually get 10 sevorrts per lair. I never get hurt and the xp is good. It's a grind but what isn't these days!

Ok,

For a solo harvester, where is the best place to get Scout EXP? I am talking exp per units of time. That means, if killing 10 easy kills nets more scout exp per time than does one TOUGH kill, so be it.

So, which creatures are good for this? Creatures that spawn frequently, in a relatively small area, and in masses? Let me know what you think!

i like Rills in tatooine--they seem to give about 100xp per harvest, and they are easy kills. Problem is, I can never find enough of em in a small area.... Anyone know a rill-rich area?

Dean

On Talus,paralopes are pretty good.As was said,I can usually milk a nest for about 20 paralops.They don't hurt me much,and I also use them to work on my trapping skill.I can usually set off about 3 traps (at 42 trapping xp each,not too bad considering how easy they are) before the poor paralope falls.but to take them out fast,hit'em with a bone spur trap,which drops their mind pool to almost nothing.After that, it just takes a few regular shots from my carbine,and the lil' fella bite it.
The worst destroy missions on Talus at least are the **edit** birds.They like to swarm you and incap.And usually on the third incap,they'll usually deliver the death blow.Who'd a thunk that friggin birds could be so tuff?What,does Alfred Hitchcock work on the dev team?

On Corellia the best quick kills I've seen are Paralopes and Durni's and there are a lot of them. They are extremely vulnerable to Mind pool attacks and the Level 1 Rifle special attack Headshot and the Level 1 Sharp Bone Spur Trap are devastating against them. Go to the prone at about 50 meters (use Rifle Take Cover and Maskscent as you get them), then snipe with nothing but Headshots until the creature is at half it's mind pool or it starts to charge you. Go to the kneeling position throw a Bone Spur and they usually only have one last Point in the Mind pool to finish it off.

The most Scouting exp. I've gotten from a creature was 200 xp for harvesting a Bocatt that had shown up on Corellia (must have been a glitch in the spawning system, I also saw a Famba one time as well). It was already at about 40% of it's health when I wandered too near and, when I ran (screaming like a little girl at a boy band concert) to a nearby Rebel encampment, it still took a pistoleer and Teras Kai artist a minute or so to kill it with the Teras Kai artist down to 20% of his health. I hung around taking shots at the critter too so I was able to Harvest it when they were done. I got 27 hides with Level 1 Hunting Skill.

Probably the best way to get a lot of harvesting exp fast though would be to join a group where you're the only dedicated scout. Even if other people have taken novice scout as a second trade, ask if you can do all the harvesting (obviously splitting the hides and bones once you've got the exp). Likewise you should let the dedicated Medic in a group do the healing.

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What's good to do on Naboo? I've heard that the Night Spiders are good to use, but I want as many opinions as I can get. Also, am I understanding right that there is a certain number of creatures in each lair? Maybe that is why I can't ever seem to stop the spawns.

I just thought I would throw my bits in...on Tatooine nunas and gorgs seem to spawn about 30-40 creatures per lair. I have at times gotten about 1000scouting xp off of one of these lairs!!

You need to skin bigger things if you want more XP. Feral Banthas, for instance, give 113 per harvest. The bigger the critter, the better the XP.

Xenthacca

If you can one shot or two shot something that gives you 42 scout xp, then it is better to do 10 of those for 420 than it is to do 2 or 3 that give 50xp in the same time. You just have to see what you can kill easily and what takes you too much time to be worth it. A lot depends on your weapon and your style of fighting.

If you are going for hides and bones, though, you want to kill the larger beasties, but again, if all you want is quantity, then many times a few hides can be more than a few times many hides. Usually, you can kill dark blues without resting. Whites usually take me enough longer as to not be worth it unless they have hides or bone I want.