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I had mask scent through 3rd and up levels of explore and I turned it on constantly. It never once worked for me. Some creature always made it go off. I never once had it work or got exp from it. Did anyone else have this happen? Is there some trick in getting it to work or some item I need?

What race are you ?

Mine didn't work effectively, I'd say failure 75% of the time. It is no better at IV.

Yes, and it still does. Granted I'm a master scout so my camouflage is around +50, but last night I was able to successfully run about 45-50m to a greater womp rat camp to tame a womp rat that was following them around. At the time there were several camps of yellows around and they didn't cause a fail at all. You just have to keep working on the exploration line, camouflage level makes a HUGE difference.

Also just a suggestion, on tatooine at least, with your mask scent turn on only run near kreetles, bocatts, sevorrts. That way if it unexpectedly drops you'll be able to fight your way out. Running near the more deadly reds could prove to be a little too dangerous without being able to reapply it with only exploration III completed.

Just my two credits .

I'm human. And I have explore maxed out. Still never worked. not even on greens.

I had heard about using maskscent to get xp so focused on getting to explore 2. Once I got there, As a human, I ran around my starting planet the entire day, not once getting any XP of it.

Then I heard about the Kreetles and managed to try it out for a bit, just before the shutdown the server for the day. It worked, about 1 out of every 5 attempts I'd get 109 xp just running into and out of range. I was happy, much better the the 40 or 50 per critter skinned. I had big plans for the following night. I went to work saying to myself, I had better jump on this soon cause I bet the nerf bat is a coming.

Of course, that was the morning of the nerf.... Sob!

I have to agree with the Master Scout who posted. I just got Master Scout late last night and when I was out today it made an enormous difference in the number of times it failed. It can still happen but that plus 20 you get at Master level seems to be essential for non Bothans to use it reliably for something besides a quick way to make exp.

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I have explore 4, and it's working fine for me. It fails fairly often on yellow stuff, but on white/blue stuff it works great. I stood around slaughtering nests of agro creatures with it and got experience every time a new creature popped. I only had to run away a few times. =)