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I think the camo kits are working a lot better, although I think thee are some issues still.

I was playing today on tat and things were copacetic; until those darn desert demons attacked me!(hate those guys) Well after the slaughter comenced (of them :smileyhappy I figured I would conceal to avoid further annoyance. Immediately after I run across another group of them and my camo immediately breaks! At this point I wasn't even near them really and they still agro'd on me! I was curious so I checked my faction points and sure enough I had -5k. I think this is why they agro'd me. To test the theory I decided to play withsome tusken warriors and there cheif. I was able to take a seat at they're campfire and pets they're banthas! No one seemed to care. My faction with them is only 1.9k.

So in conclusion I beleive there is a faction bug goin around with this. Let me know if anyone else has this problem, andmaybe we could add it to the list of issues.

I dont know if it works because i cant make a camo kit. Im a Master Ranger living on LOK. Since the patch I havent seen and domesticated anything, and yes that includes the Gurks.

Also, a domesticated gurk carries a 1000 negative Nym faction hit for every kill. This is rediculous. You cant live on Lok and have negative Nym faction, it is a total pain. Every other planet is avion, carnivorous blah blah blah easy to get meat. Even Dathimor has easy meat to get.

/bump

Again, I have no problem with how Mask scent is working now. Seems pretty reliable and as designed now. Not sure if conceal is as designed. I still strongly feel that conceal should not break for other creatures when in combat. A ranger is elite profession, and camo kits cost us resources. On some planets, rather hard to get, especailly if you are solo.

We see so many posts on ranger forum that we cant hunt and kill as well or as fast as a BH or CH. This is true. The best a ranger can do is get pistoleer or rifleman. I'm working both and have several skill leves in pistoleer now, but I can't solo things on advanced planets, even with my traps. Remember, conceal is only for agro animals. Now this brings me to my second thought.

Make conceal for rangers keep us concealed against ALL creatures. Anyone use the /concealshot from rifleman. This is what I'm talking about. Our camo kits should be able to do that. That would make ranger a viable hunting class, instead a "SUPPOSED" hunter by title only. Conceal need to not break in combat, and what if it hid us from all cretures, including non agro's, such as assistive ones. The one we are attacking will fight back and knows where we are, so it's not exactly like /concealshot, but at least we dont need to worry about other attacking us. Even the non agros. This would make camo kits more useful, and make the ranger a formidable, if not unique, hunter.

And I don't see how this would unbalance us. The creatures still have to check against us. It's not any more unbalancing then a CH with three Graul or Rancors, taking out 50 lvel lairs, with out even taking a hit themselves. That is unbalancing.