Scout Archive

Hello all, I never really tried maskscent in beta but now I am wanting to use it to supliment my scouting exp. The problem is, no matter what creature I test it on, I get no exp. I have tried all manner of "radar red" supposedly agressive creatures, including some I know for a fact are agressive. Often I get a failure message, other times I get no message at all.

I expect I should see a success and exp message if I enter the 64m radius and I do not get detected, but this doesnt happen for me. If it doesnt fail when I enter the 64m I keep going... testing it..I got to 30m and still no exp message, and no agro from the creature.

What am I doing wrong here? Im on Naboo, tried Rabid Shaupat, Greater Shaupat, Narglatch, Plains Hunter, and Hermit Spider (shows red but doesnt agro)

thanks all.

This works for me. First you need a pretty low level aggro creature, and quite a few of them. The only creature I found that would work was the kressles(?) on tatooine. They were light blue to me at the time.

Next, set your radar to 128m.

Find the kressles, run to where they are just out of radar. Put on maskscent. Run towards them, any time maskscent drops, put it back up. When you get to the point where the red dots are about half way between the edge and the center of the radar, turn around and run back.

Once they are off of the radar, turn off maskscent, then turn it on again and repeat.

I was getting 106 exp at a time. Sometimes I would get several 'hits', sometimes just one, sometimes none.

Eventually I got boared and killed all the kressels and went to find a new group.

Now that I have Exp III, kressels only give 13 exp woth maskscent, so I am looking for a new mob.

Basically, it works, but considering the stories I used to hear from the Beta forum, they must have toned it way down.

Tmk it's not really toned down. If you find deep red cons and the skill works successfully, you can get quite a bit of Scout xp. To my knowledge, the skill gets checked twice. Once when you go within 64, and once on the way out of that range. There are these mobs on Tatooine that are quite red to me and they give me 210 scout xp coming in and going out of range. It fails a lot more on red mobs, and that's still a drop in the bucket, but it helps.