Scout Archive

So I finally noticed that exploration and hunting exp are really the same thing. When you train in one it takes all the exp form the other to train. Why is this, I haven't noticed any other professions that have 2 lines using the same exp pool. Is this a bug? If not why are scouts the only ones in this situation?

It's not a bug. And other professions do have lines that share xp from the same pool. I'm actually glad that Exploration and Hunting share an xp pool. Otherwise there would be no way to get past Exploration I since you don't get any xp generating abilities with Exploration I. You have to use Harvesting to gain xp to raise Exploration. You get the Mask Scent ability with Exploration II, but as far as I can tell it's useless. I hear it's useful in gaining scout xp once you reach Exploration III, though.

Just because they can't think of anything else for the scout to do for exp isn't a good reason to have 2 lines that use the same exp pool. They should just givethe scout 3 lines and call it Hunting/Exploration. I guess once you get mask scent working that gives you 2 ways to get exp for the same pool so it's a little better off once you get Expore III. But up till that point the scout only has 1 way to get exp, harvesting, and that one source of exp has to fill out 2 lines. What other professions share an exp pool for multiple lines? I can't figure out any that do. All the others that I know of have different sources of exp for each line, and each line has it's own pool.

I don't know,perhaps this is some how an advantage for scouts but from my limited experience (wasn't in beta) I would rather have more abilities and seperate exp pools for each line.

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Ageous wrote:

What other professions share an exp pool for multiple lines? I can't figure out any that do.

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Artistians share the same pool for 3 different lines.
Medics share the same pool for 3 different lines.
Entertainers share the same pool for 2 different lines.
and as you know Scouts share the same pool for 2 different lines.

Which mean os the 6 starting professions, only 2 have different pools for all four lines.

And all of the advanced and elite professions except Bounty Hunter share xp between 2-4 lines. So out of 32 professions, only 3 do not share xp between lines. You didn't look very hard did you?

Where did you get this information from? As I have not noticed the sharing of exp between lines with medic or entertainer. But as I said, I was not in betaso I don't have a lot of exp to have noticed it with. I'm curisous, is there a web site that details this? Or do you just know from personal experience?

You can look it up in-game by hovering your mouse over skill boxes for each profession. Also, you can use online SWG skill calculator here:beafraid.com/swgcb/swg-cb.php. It provides all of the functionality of the in-game skill trees in a web page.