Rake's

[djbrock4life]

Anyone have any suggestions on how to "level" them up?
It seems even after performing missions with them they don't seem to get very many traits or followers.

Just wondering what people have been doing with their Rake's?

[Dead Guy]

I actually mainly use them to watch enemy troop movements in their territory... very rarely I sabotage something but usually it fails, though with little consequence. Once I had a gentleman show up and try to duel my rake. Mostly I just don't care about the small benefit of removing some useless agent to bother myself with moving the little buggers around. Maybe sabotaging ports is worth it?

I agree with the observation that they level really slowly.

[Ardri]

I'll just camp them outside of a college and keep assassinating gentlemen whenever I remember to do it. Rake's don't seem to be connected to their % of success in the longterm as I had 1 rake kill probably 25 out of 30 gentlemen as he travelled from university to university. Ended up in all that killing that he only leveled up once.

[The historian]

They can be very useful i used them versus my Spanish allies by sabotaging happiness buildings in Italy i actually managed to get both the Italian states and Naples to revolt and swiftly took them, I don't know how to level them up though.

[Major Robert Dump]

kill kill kill, thats all they are good for. And since gentlemen can't duel priests (lol could u imagine) i try to send rakes in at the same time as my missionaries.

[Feanaro]

I've never gotten a Rake beyond 4 stars, no matter how much I used him. I'm guessing there's either a bug with their progression or they aren't meant to progress very far. The only way I get the 4th star is to sabotage lots of stuff.

I also find the percentages rather odd. 30% means never, except for assassination... where it means more like 50-75%.