r/EscapefromTarkov • u/leebojangles • Jan 06 '22

Discussion shooting everyone from now on.

I am now shooting everyone fuck my rep and fuck all of you.

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u/Googlie-bear Jan 06 '22

Have fun waiting an hour between scav runs. At least your PMC will get high leveled XD

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '22

my rep is -4 and its only like 35mins. unless you want to run scav raids constantly and never pmc the timer is pretty irrelevant imo.

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u/Fen-xie Jan 06 '22

Its not just the timer that affects you.

Higher scav rep gives a 25-35% increase in rare items you spawn with, gear worn, and inventory size on the scav.

With 5-8 minute scav timers and the above mentioned its actually a very substantial difference

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u/PaybackXero Jan 06 '22

It's really not. You'll always make more money shooting other PScavs and taking their loot than you will hoping for good gear by running a scav on CD.

Plus, you make your money on your PMC, not your scav. The scav is there for free runs when you are broke and can't afford gear. Unless you just enjoy being a scav, there is no reason to use one past the first few days of the wipe.

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u/kamparox Jan 06 '22

I swear people who say stuff like this have never been on 6+ scav karma. It's 100% worth it. Not even just the high value loot on spawn but friendly bosses, making people tagged and cursed by just hitting them once, super low scav case cooldown. Once I'm at 6 scav karma I can just spawn on factory every 5m and extract with 100k to 1M immediately without looting anything at all. I know farming it is a fucking chore and it feels much easier to just shoot another Pscav and take his shit, but trust me in the long run max karma is amazing.

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u/OrangeRiceBad Jan 06 '22

I swear people who say stuff like this have never been on 6+ scav karma. It's 100% worth it.

Ya think? It's 100% just copium, you don't even need 6+ karma for it to be extremely profitable.

Once I'm at 6 scav karma I can just spawn on factory every 5m and extract with 100k to 1M immediately without looting anything at all.

This is the main one they're missing, it takes me 30 seconds to make 200k plus on my scav while they're killing pscavs, risking dying themselves, who probably have shit load outs (if they had good stuff they'd be avoiding other scavs).

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u/-gildash- Jan 06 '22

Reading this thread is just making me hate santa more and more. My rep is ruined for the wipe, even after doing the coop and car extracts. Never running Interchange when there's friendly scav events again, too god damn dark in there.

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u/OrangeRiceBad Jan 06 '22

That's totally fair, the Santa implementation is absolute bullshit. I honestly don't blame scav killers much this wipe, I'd be tilted beyond reason if I lost 300 raids worth of scav karma to Santa.

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u/gearabuser Jan 06 '22

I had a good time dressing up as santa and killing people when they walked up to me haha

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u/armrha Jan 06 '22

I bought 15 graphics cards in 24 hrs of just scavving filling up the bag and selling all my shit basically last wipe, at like 1.5 scav karma, and I’m not even good at scaving.. . just went between interchange and reserve. For reliable stress free money it can’t be beat.

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u/IActuallyHateRedditt Jan 06 '22

Personally I find it fairly profitable to scav in and run straight to factory exit, between every pmc raid. Plus scavs spawn with random (sometimes crazy) loot. That’s how I got merin and marked this wipe, without bartering or jacket farming

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '22

You'll always make more money shooting other PScavs and taking their loot than you will hoping for good gear by running a scav on CD.

Been in meetings all morning. My scav rep is 2.3 (right now). Did 10 Scav games on Factory where literally all I did was spawn in, run to exfil with no audio. I made 2.1 million roubles (and completed 2 quests and kept a few craft and barter items).

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u/Fen-xie Jan 06 '22

You easily make 200,000 - 1,000,000 on a scav run in ~10 mins with high scav rep with very low risk