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I've read around the board, and it seems like everyone is saying that their /mask scent ability is breaking almost all the time. This is far from my situation.

I trained Wayfaring 3 the other day, and haven't played much since. I logged on today with 20 Scout XP.

I was already on Dathomir so I figured I would run around, and checkout the new examine etc. I had my Mask Scent on and wow, "You received 103 Scout experience"all the time.

I though, ok..lucky I guess. So just for the fun of it, I went auto-run, alt-tabed outand read some news on the inet. When I came back I had nested 7346 Scout XP. We're talking 10 minutes here.

lol I'm not complaining though, but this feels too easy

Sorry, breaking all the time. I'd say a good 20% as I walk, crawl or otherwise the moment I'm within 64m. I was hunting Violent Krahbu again and I never had one attack me first before I could get a shot off, and then I had to kill it with a sword on this one.

This is annoying me no end...

It's a serious blow to my "monkey making" (opologies to Delta) opportunities. I could make say... 8k a day if I was full on hunting and running missions (give or take a few k). Now, all things considered, I'm lucky to crack a few k.

Please don't make me hunt Durni and Guber again...

Hold me *shiver*...

I'd rather run around a group of reds than resort to walking or crawling past them... just seems like more of an effort.

I used maskscent for 2 hours straight last night on Naboo. It broke once and I was aggroed by a plains hunter. None of the yellows I was hunting or running by broke it (chubas, nunas, fanned rawl, kaadu, bolle bol, etc.) and I got xp off of aggro shaupauts, greater shaupauts, spiders, and a rogue fambaa. That cat was the only time it broke. I'm at 1/3/3/2. Maskscent worked for me.

I'm a Master Ranger, and it's broke a couple of times on me. I was using it on Rori early this morning, and it broke once or twice. No big deal, really...I was prepared. Plus the downtime is much faster now...I think I had to wait 10 seconds to /maskscent again.

Gaaryca

Last week I walked around Yavin for three days, and only the anglers and the occasional choku noticed me. I even scratched the kliknik dark queen on the back, and she and her minions ignored me.

Now, Corellia's diseased vrelts and crazed durnis are breaking my maskscent. It's really annoying, and I have no faith that I can successfully return to Yavin for a visit without dying every time I try and leave the outpost.

Further, I don't like the fact that maskscent is now tested against every individual red dot, or that it's now maskscent points rather than camo points, and that Bothans no longer benefit from it, and that Rangers gain no additional benefit from it. I don't like the stupid camo kits. I don't like the Artisan requirement we've been given. I don't like having to acquire per-planet resources for an ability which benefits people other than myself, especially when I solo most of the time. The only time I group is to take out Imperials. I hunt on my own.

Further, I don't like that I was only 2,000 points away from Wayfaring IV before the patch, and am now 32,000 points away. Sigh.

Update:

I'm getting: 105 Scout XP per Baz - 120 Scout XP per Rancor Youth - 150 Scout XP per Rancor - and 210 Scout XP per Mutant Rancor.

1/5 times the mob aggro me after Mask Scent break, and 1/15 mask scent itself breaks.

There's a thread in SWG Discussion where people are speculating it's borked on some servers but not others. Some folks are having great success, while I'm seeing it break all the time. I haven't seen any other Kettemoor posts about it, so I don't have any additional data for my own server.

I had mask scent break from a Kreetle last night on Tatooine. Seriously.

I am a 4-4-4-3 so I wouldn't think that a Kreetle could manage to detect me... But hey, now that they have the 'Overkreetles' we should all watch out when we get near a Kreetle!

I also tested a Tatooine Camo kit last night... I got 27m away from a Mountain Squill then it aggro'd me.

I was a little disappointed that the Camo only seems to last about 10 minutes as I found out later when I went hunting with a friend.

Jabourn.

Denebo,

You're lucky if you are sprinting all the time. However, my /maskscent hardly breaks even when I run and I get mad XP. I've asked this question in a couple of other strings...but are you running all the time? Or do you slow down when you encounter agro creatures and walk or crawl by them? I can walk and then crawl up to mountain squills and pet them on Tat using /maskscent. When I run, my /maskscent is broken once in a while. This tells me the skill is working like the devs intended. Walking and crawling was suppose to make /maskscent more reliable.

This is INSANE!

Rancors, Mutant Rancors, Bull Rancors, Enraged Bull Rancors, Youth Rancors, Gnarled Rancors..lol!

The area I'm on spawn more and more = More and More Scout XP. We're talking 200 XP per and up.

I'm running all the time.

Read what its breaking against... I'm 4/2/4/4 and it was broken frequently by weak mobs on Naboo like hermit spiders..... THIS is the problem.... The high level running around not breaking would make sense for someone with Wayfaring 3-4, but its not breaking for ANYONE, and its granting insane exp...

And they let the Ranger programmer go on vacation before assessing the updates... isn't that likepaying the plumberbeforechecking his work???He's cashing your check by the time you turn on the water and your house floods.