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At what point do you start seeing Small, Medium, and Large prey trails?

At what point do you start seeing Small, Medium, and Large prey trails?
Posted 2024-02-19 13:25:48 (edited)
#1158510

Wisdom & Smarts... or Proficiency?


This is mainly a point of curiosity. I've done a small bit of data gathering on my own, but haven't seen this asked before and I'm curious what actually does it.

What determines when you start seeing trails other than Critter? Is it the stalker's wisdom and smarts, or their stalking proficiency?

How high does that stat need to be to see, for example, a Large trail in a Medium difficulty biome?

Any data is appreciated. I'm curious, but also want the data to adjust my personal nuzlocke rules to be more balanced.


Data I have gathered so far:


Easy Biomes
Saw a small trail with 97 combined Wisdom and Smarts, and 0 Proficiency.
Saw a large trail with 132 combined Wisdom and Smarts, and 23 Proficiency.

Medium Biomes
Saw a small trail with 114 combined Wisdom and Smarts, and 6 Proficiency.

Difficult Biomes
Have NOT yet seen even a small trail with 132 combined Wisdom and Smarts, and 22 Proficiency.

Challenging Biomes
[Untested, no data] 		Runic_Raptor
#129960
Posted 2024-02-20 12:05:44
#1158916
iirc, it's based mainly on both individual proficiency & party synergy, but stats still play a significant role.

A new player, for example, can get a hunting party full of NBWs to eventually find and successfully hunt large trails by building their proficiency, but higher stats = more success in harder biomes and finding large trails sooner.

A hunting party can still be successful if they have high proficiency but low stats, but they will not be successful if they have high stats but low proficiency/synergy, if that makes sense!


Good luck with gathering data!
Meg [Azavea]
#58194
Posted 2024-02-20 14:08:06
#1159000
Grouse House has done a lot of research on this kind of thing in the game. If you search through their guides, you may find what you're looking for.
spotpc
#9204
Posted 2024-02-20 14:09:46 (edited)
#1159004
This is from the Grouse house discord, it should help.  This is combined total for your stalker (wisdom & smarts)
Aleutian
#747
Posted 2024-02-20 16:47:44
#1159110
That data from the discord is excellent! Exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for! I can cross reference that with my data later!

I hadn't seen anything in my forum searches about it, but I completely forgot they had a discord. 		Runic_Raptor
#129960
Posted 2024-02-20 17:55:31
#1159146
Happy to help. I can confirm the minimum stats for the large trails in extreme biomes as accurate, a recently retired stalker of mine had to clear that to see large trails.
Aleutian
#747
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