Scout Tips

[Aja]

Mask Scent: sure, it has been nerfed. But just the other day I was running cross country on Yavin 4--about 15 mintues to and from my destination. During the hike, just my continually masking my scent, i continually recieved scouting experience (at LEAST 3K total) just for running past many Red Dots that I couldn't possibly fight anyway.

(NOTE: will only be worthwhile in areas with lots of tough red dots)

[Aja]

TIP #2 / Set up a macro for looting and collecting hides and bones. I use the space bar to activate the macro for convenience sake. Since the corpse is already targetted when u kill the critter, the absolute most you would have to do is walk up a little closer to the critter and hit space.

My macro for (Space) is as follows...

/loot all;
/harvest bone;


if you were to put harvest hide in there, it would actually never collect hides. those insect creatures that don't have bones for some reason will error out and become "unharvestable" if you try to harvest bone... so i have a separate macro for hides. Any key near the other one is a good idea, and its even a simpler macro:

/havest hide

another good macro to have, is for throwing traps... i hate cluttering my toolbars up with stuff, and since i use 3 different weapon types, i'd have to have traps on all 3 toolbars, which was starting to get annoying. lets not even think about the different kinds.

soooo, lets say i put my trap of choice in toolbar one slot 13 (if all you are interested in is the xp, then put a trap that has the most quantity so you won't have to replenish that toolbar slot that often--damn i wish you could stack traps) right now i use noise makers because they come 8 to a stack:

/ui action toolbarPane00;
/ui action toolbarSlot12

notice that toolbar 1 starts at 0, and slot 13 also is one less. that's just the way it is, so always keep that in mind. And of course, i have that assigned to something easy to remember, in this case the "T" key.

hope that gives someone some ideas.