Operative Alien Archive exploit question

[Kalderaan]

At 2nd level, the Operative can select Alien Archive as an exploit:

Alien Archive (Ex)
Your vast experience makes identifying new creatures
easier for you. Double your operative’s edge bonus to your
skill checks when identifying a creature and its abilities.

If you successfully identify a creature, you gain a +2
enhancement bonus to your skill check when you make a
trick attack against that creature.

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So my question is this - can I use this for EVERY trick attack? Meaning, can I identify a creature that I already know, like a human or vesk, and get the +2 bonus?

[MagicA]

as long as you pass the skill check to identify them, then yeah I'd say so

[The_Defiant]

It looks pretty hefty at first glance, but given how you auto-succeed at trick attack pretty quickly regardless, it's just a nice bonus on identifying creatures, something that usually wouldn't be in your wheelhouse as an operative.

Still, before level 7 that potential +2 on trick attack could be just what you need.

[Deadmanwalking]

It's potentially an additional +6 on identifying stuff, which is great. Of course, neither Life Science nor Mysticism are Class Skills...but Skill Synergy fixes that all by itself, and it thus allows something quite neat. That's the big bonus here.

But yeah, the +2 on trick attack is mostly meaningless most of the time.