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oh well..

I hope this is a bug...otherwisethis change will make it that much harder to get Scout Exp. Seeing as getting a chance to harvest ANYTHING in a group is just about impossible with all of the nija harvesting going on.

I'm not happy.

Vidmo

I pray somewhere in the very near future they will fix the ninja looting by implementing the multi-scout harvest when grouped. I ready it every 5th time I log in that scouts that are grouped are each supposed to be able to get a harvest from the corpse, but of course that doesn't work right now. As far as no xp from Maskscent, yeah it sucks, but it wasn't like it really worked that well to begin with and you didn't get very much if anything worth complaining about. Most I have ever gotten was 115xp and then the next creature detected me so, I am not to worried. I would be upset if maskscent had actually kept me from getting attacked and that was broken.

Spikey Headed'Kid

Master Marksman and Scout, Novice Ranger, Creature Handler, and Pistoleer

Flurry

bah, let is stay like this. its worthless to use for scout xp once you hit wayfaring 3 anyway. I was only getting like 25 - 50 xp anyway when it worked....

If MaskScent is "Working as intended" now, fine whatever, but the messages about a creature detecting me need to be added back in.

Vidmo

I have walked by at least 100-200 aggro creatures here on Yavin today...

I may as well be invisible...nothing has aggro'ed me all day.

Please everyone shhhh!

Keep it on this forum and keep it quiet!

Or we will get the thing that rhymes with Smurf Cat!

Maskscent doesnt work at all now, kind of...

I was seeminghave a high sucess of not being detected by aggro creature mobs...

Then I realized I was receiving NO XP for sucessful maskscenting...

Then I was attacked by an aggro mob WITHOUT getting the "A Creature Has Detected You Despite Your Attempts At Camoflague"

My maskscent remained unbroken and the maskscent icon still appeared by my name.

I have yet to see the familiarsucess or failure messages...

My maskscent technically can't be broken (according to the icon next to my name and the lack of a failure message)

and yet it is technically not working either (I'm gettingdetected by aggro mobs andI am not receiving any sucess message or XP reward)

The aggro mob guarded my corpse and re-killed me, then eventually moved on.

I think I heard one of them say, "I still want my f'ing 15 dollars at the end of the month,sucker."

I could care less about the meager exp gained from maskscent.....just as long as it works as it should!

I got the same problems with agro mobs and maskscent. I was on Naboo killing shaupaunt, no prob, when all the sudden a greater shaupaunt attacked me (he was there from the start) and incapacitated me then wait for me to get back up and killed me. All that with maskscent still active.

PS: I was not shooting at him at all, he was at 75 m when he decided to attack.

no xp from maskscent fine, but when I activate it i have only a message in the Spatial chat, not on my screen anymore

anyone who thinks XP from maskscent was near useless is nuts! I got at least 1/3 of my scout xp per skill with mask scent. example, im on Dathomir hunting Baz Nitches, while im weaving in and out of the hostile place i get 78 scout xp almost 3 per second, i dang near flipped out...i got scout XPspam for days. when my scent wore off i added up the xp and it was a total of 2000ish points. in a matter of minutes. mask scent worked...now its just plain broke...

Maskscent has been working fine for me too. There is a chance a creature can detect you while masked and then attack you no matter what your skill level is so it isn't 100%, The detection message may just be screwed up. As your skills improve so does maskscent, don't expect to be totally un-detectable at Novice.

Foxglove Q'tosh

Master Ranger, Intrepid

I get attacked by anything and everything aggressive, now.

The thing is, some aggressives have a really small range. You could be 10m from them, and they don't attack you. So it may seem like maskscent is working, but it's really not. You can weave around mobs quite effectively if you keep the right amount of distance. I managed to weave a group around the red-speckled map of the new Dathomir without getting any of them attacked. Just need to watch your radar (I use overhead map - Ctrl+M), and know when to keep your distance. Pause every once in a while to let the mobs around you load, if you're on a slow system.

As for exp, I got to Wayfaring IV and Field Bioscience IV without ever depending on maskscent exp. You get tons of exp from harvesting, you just need to go out there and actually kill things. It'll go alot faster than you think.

However, I did use the maskscent exp as an indication of the types of mobs around me, since I'm normally in 3rd person view, and just looking down and forward. When I was on Dathomir, I'd get a bunch of 23's-38's, and know it was just fliers. When I got a 96, I immediately stopped and backtracked - rancor!

Also allows me to know when to not care if there's kreetles or somesuch ahead, or any other low level aggressive mobs. I know my maskscent will hold as I run through them, so really there's no worries.

But I'm completely fine with maskscent not giving exp - but really, they need to fix it so that it actually masks your scent.

~Casslyn

I think its working as intended. I was wandering all through lil red aggros today, and no attacks. My running buddy would be attacked, we would both return fire, and I was never touched. He was not a happy camper, but smugglers seldom are wandering away from civilization. Alone I initiated an attack, first with traps (by golly, the adhesive did work this time) then from the prone at range with rifle fire. The hambaba had no clue where I was, was rooted, then wandered aimlessly as I took him out. Does maskscent work, prolly... DoI use it almost continuously, yes... Do I miss the xp, not really.... Am I checking out aggros and reporting what they are, you betcha...

JB

Master Scout, wanna be Master Ranger

(I am not lost dammit, we passed that rock on the way out... oh rats, the rock just moved....)