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I think it is pretty obvious that something is screwy with trapping experience gain. I am seeing a lot of posts like this:

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Isueg wrote:
Since the levelled thing came in, I can't seem to hit any critters with traps. I have scout trapping at 3, but everything fails to affect my target. Anyone else noticed this, or am I just being unlucky?

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But then some contradictory posts like this one:

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Rolfie wrote:

I have been hunting Rancors Cl50-95 and Kimos Cl80-? for the last few days.

I average from 2000-10,000XP for trapping per kill.

Yesterday hunting enraged Kimos I think they were CL83 I was getting upwards to 10,000 Rifle, 2-8000 trapping and 1000-2000 scouting so they were not bad.

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If you have had weird experiences (bad pun intended) with traps please feel free to post them here. THere are a few pieces of information that it is important to include with your post (though if you cannot remember, don't worry, post anyway!):

1. What level trapping were you?
2. What was your combat level?
3. What was the combat level of the creature you were fighting?
4. What kind of trap were you using?

I have been collecting info from the following threads, in case you want to take a look, or if you think there are some I have overlooked:

Trapping by Isueg

Trouble with trapping xp by Mettler

Trouble with trapping? by Gray03

My craaaaazy theory copied from the Ranger forum:

WARNING! Unproven Theory Ahead...

Let's say a novice Ranger is trying to level trapping and has a combat level of 50. He can't trap level 50 critters, because his mod is too low, and if he traps a grey con mob, he only gets 1 xp. Therefore, it is impossible to level in trapping.

Alternatively, if said novice Ranger is in a group, it is even worse, becuase his CL will almost certainly become 80 meaning that level 50 mobs are now grey cons for him, AND/OR he can't get a trap to stick on a level 80 critter becuase his mod is too low. It's a vicious cycle.

I am Kelao on the Scylla server and I am currently trying to master Scout on my way to Mastering Ranger for harvesting purposes.

This is what I 've been noticing while trying to get Trapping xp:

1.Using novice scout traps, the lepananine Dart and the wire mesh, I can't trap creatures over level 4. That means anything that is level 5 or over either fails.

2.One time I was trying to trap a level 5 creature, a sevvort, and the game stated,"You can only trap creatures"!

3.I receive xp for what the level of the creature is, i.e, if I trap and then KILL the creature, say a level 1 Kreetle I get no more than 2 points of trapping xp and sometimes just one point.

4.I only receive the xp upon the death of the creature;not during the trappingprocess.

5.Please notice that it took be around 20 hours play time to get the FIRST box of the Trapping line in Scout. This is ridiculous.

I hope this clears up the problems with Trapping xp as I really want to grind up to Master Ranger with as few problems as possible!

Kelao Of Scylla

Please note:

Kelao of Scylla again, i was doing this solo and not grouping with anything.

Kelao of Scylla

Kelao,

What combat level were you at this point?

I am CL 20 and Novice Scout. The only skill boxI lack is Trapping IV but I seem to be having trouble getting Experience points. Here lately I have been grouping with other players ranging from CL 50-80 taking missions with them and trying to use my traps because I am a ranged player (Novice Rifleman 1/0/1/0). None of my traps have been sticking. I have tried everything that i can currently make but to no avail. I am still learning and will admit that I am not a very good solo-er since the CU. I have tried solo-ing MoBs close to my level and my traps usually stick but the time lost in throwing each one seriously hurts my HAM bar because I need to be attacking and throwing traps at the same time. As it may seem to me that trapps do not actually decrease a targets HAM the just create some kind of "state". Even if i try to "snare" them first with my rifleman commands first I still usually wind up getting incapped before the fight is over. I finally successfully killed a level 17 dune lizard last night after getting incapped twice and it still took me like 10 minutes of almost straight fighting.

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Aedicuus wrote:

2.One time I was trying to trap a level 5 creature, a sevvort, and the game stated,"You can only trap creatures"!

Kelao Of Scylla

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Same thing happened to me on Naboo. I was attacked by a Diseased Nuna, and when I tried to damage it the little ****ard wasn't taking any damage! And, when I tried to trap it in an attempt to undo the no-damage bug it said "you can only trap creatures."

It is the Nuna from Hell!!!!!

Part Nuna, part machine. We can rebuild him. We have the technology.

Message Edited by Rolfie on 05-10-2005 07:26 AM

hrm, back when double xp was still in place I was using all kinds of traps on ~CL80 critters with a group that had someone CL80 in it. I was somewhere in the 70s with trapping 4, and I had no problem wtih the traps. I didn't need the trapping xp, but I was getting xp.

This is scout trapping 4 pappi or ranger? (I am assuming scout but I thought I would check!)

I've had this problem but it seems to be sporadic. Most of the time I get good trapping exp but after playing for awhile (after an hour or two), the exp stops. If I logout and then back in, I usually get exp again.

It seems to go hand in hand with another bug I've been experiencing. After playing for awhile, I can't hit anything. Traps fail and my weapons will miss 90% of the time.

My CL level is 73, im a ranger 4/0/4/0 the creatures i was throwing at were 81's. I was in a group that night with Iseult. None of my glow-wires would stick. Iseult was throwing a bunch of traps to but i don't know his success rate.

That was with glow wires. I havent tried with adhesive mesh's since technically they are a hire level trap

Sorry if this is explained in a previous post, i did not read all of them.

This is the problem: I, for example, am CL 47. (I created this alt post-CU so i can't respec up the trapping tree). I would like now to train up the scout trapping tree. Being CL 47 yet with no previous trapping skills except for those given at novice scout means any creature that my low level traps can actually trap (CL 1 to about 20) will earn me only 1 trapping xp per kill. This is absurd to level trapping 1 xp at a time. Now, if i try any creature higher than 20, my traps fail 100% of the time becuase the difficulty of the creature is too high for the trap. So, i'm stuck. Any level trap needs to be able to work on any level creature. That or soe needs to fix their leveling system cuz the way it is now is absurd in this situation.

Anyone have any work arounds for this problem in the meantime?

Thanks.