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Decided to fool with it tonight after a dismal showing last night. Don't know if the server had to reset, but today everything seems to be working well.

Kreetles are no longer super sensitive - I can run by them and maskscent won't break anymore (neither will conceal) - 6XP per kreetle, check occurs at 60m. Ditto for other aggro mobs (diseased bocats, Greater Womp Rats, scyks, lesser swarming dewbacks) - all check at 60m and ignore you if you pass. Didn't get too close often, but I'm pretty sure a LSD that I'd already passed against checked again when I got closer to set up an attack and broke my maskscent.

Posture and speed didn't seem to have too much effect - I was running by most of the critters I mention above. In several hours running around tonight I was detected and aggro'd less than 5 times. No yellow mobs broke my mask or conceal.

Here's the real sweet spot though - I popped up a conceal when I saw an NPC next to a Tusken Raider. I crawled up to the NPC - and when I got within 60m of the Tusken I got a message that I earned 60 Scouting XP!

That's right folks - conceal works against NPCs properly. I was pretty jazzed about it. Seems to only work against non-KOS mobs though. Or perhaps my level is too low to rely on it too much (Wayfare I) - I was picked up by thugs and Valarians several times (-5000 faction with both). In fact the Tuskan was the only success I had - but I am sure it was him as there was no other red on my radar before or after the message.

All in all I was very happy with how it all seems to be working out.

I think it's been fixed on Eclipse too. Only one break, when I first logged in and yellow 'dar blips don't break it now (at least so far)

I think they snuck one in on us

Tried fishing and I caught 4! I never could get that to work before YEEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAAA! Largest was .7m

Both maskscent and conceal are working better on Lowca today. It still breaks at what I would consider the wrong times and I seem to have less of a chance being detected while running past aggroes than I do if I am prone or walking. It's not working perfectly but it is alot better than the first day of the patch. I tested both the maskscent and conceal on both talus and corellia. I am still experiencing a problem with conceal where an NPC will not break my conceal but will aggro on me anyway..I can just run away from him and as long as I am within range of him I still accumilate scout xp as if I wasn't detected. This was in a spot in the mountians where there was no other creatures around that I could have gotten the xp from..it's getting better though.

Jebus -Lowca-

Master Ranger