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Profession Overview

Scout is one of the basic starting professions. It branches off into the elite professions Ranger, Squad Leader, Creature Handler, Bio-Engineer, and Bounty Hunter. Scout abilities are designed around trapping, harvesting materials from dead animals and various survival techniques. The abilities include using traps, using camps, harvesting materials from animals and masking your scent among other things.

This profession requires 77 skill points to master.

Experience requirements to master:

• Scouting: 62,000 (granted by harvesting and other scout activities)
• Trapping: 31,000 (granted by successfully trapping creatures)
• Wilderness Survival: 36,000 (granted by setting up and maintaining camps)

AP Experience: 0

Game Mechanics

1. Scout
2. Scout Crafting
3. Scout Trap Projectile Unit Module Usage

Abilities

Scouts get abilities to help in both solo and group game play. Scouts can receive the ability to run longer when burst running, reduce the chance of being attacked by an aggressive creature and can avoid terrain run speed penalties. They can also help groups (or just themselves) recover from health and action wounds through the use of camps. Scouts are also the only profession which can harvest resources off the bodies of fallen creatures.

The four Scout skill lines are: Exploration, Trapping, Hunting and Survival. Let's look at each of these in detail.

Trapping

Trapping is a special ability which allows you to debuff enemies. There are a number of different traps available and your chance to succeed with the trap varies with your ability. Traps cannot kill, they can only help reduce the capacity of the enemy to fight. They also only work on creatures, not human or alien types. Here is the list of traps you can acquire:

• Lecepanine Dart: Causes target to become dizzy and damages the Mind and Action Pools. (Novice Scout)
• Wire Mesh Trap: Reduces targets Kinetic defense making them more vulnerable to Melee attacks. (Novice Scout)
• Sharp Bone Spur: This target blind the enemy and reduces their Health pool. (Trapping I)
• Glow-Juice Trap: This bomb gives people using range weapons an increased chance to hit the target. (Trapping I)
• Noise Maker: This bomb stuns the enemy and damages their Mind pool. (Trapping II)
• Stink Bomb: (Trapping II)
• Phecnacine Dart: This is a snare trap. It will slow the targets movement making them much easier to maneuver around or escape from if necessary. (Trapping III)
• Glow-Wire Trap: This trap will reduce the targets melee and ranged defense. It is more effective than the Wire Mesh or Glow Juice traps. (Trapping III)
• Adhesive Mesh: This trap immobilizes the target making them unable to move. This is excellent when used with a range weapon or if you need to escape. (Trapping IV)

Hunting

Hunting improves the scouts ability to gather resources from creatures. It also improves the players knowledge of creatures making the player able to make more informed combat decisions. Players can also receive a bonus to hit against creatures. Hunting provides 3 benefits:

• Creature Knowledge: By using the examine option on the radial menu you can determine what resources the creature will give and what it's weakness or strengths are.
• Creature Harvesting: Increasing this ability yields more resources off creatures you harvest.
• Creature Combat Bonus: Increases your chance to hit a creature in combat.

Survival

Survival is an important tool, especially when grouping. Survival gives the Scout the ability to forage for their own food and organics and also gives important abilities for camping. There are three different basic camps available to Scouts:

• Basic Camp: Allows a basic camp with no protection to be established.
• Multiple Person Camp: A camp with a larger radius to support more people. Also repels some creatures.
• Improved Camp: A very large camp which repels almost all creatures.

Master Scouts

Master Scouts (who have all the scout abilities and have obtained Master status) can move on to become Rangers which specialize all of the existing scout skills even further, or Bounty Hunters which are a hybrid between a Marksmen and a Scout.

If you choose not to become a master you can also become Creature Handlers, Bio Engineers or Squad Handlers with mastering specific skill trees.

Getting Started

You can find an Scout trainer in one of the following locations: