Ranger Archive

Hey NRaas and Delta, I know right now you guys are working on maskscent and conceal comparisons vs. how they are right now on live. When you are done with your current round of testing, can I suggest comething else you guys try? This might give us some useful numbers:

1) First, if the correspondant terminals can give you specifically all the experience you want over and over, this will make things simpler. What we need is a Master Ranger, A ranger with Wayfaring I, A Master Scout, a scout with Explore II, and someone with no Scouting/Ranger skills at all.

2) Pick something easy to test this with...I suggest a low level agressive mob.

3) Have the Master Ranger conceal the Master Scout then himself, then run back and forth through the batch of creatures and see who breaks first. Repeat about 10 to 20times, then try Master Ranger with a Explore II scout, etc.

What this will do is give us some pretty hard numbers on Conceal's effectiveness when applied to others vs being applied to ourselves. It'll also determine if conceal is based on the applier or the person its being applied to. Furthermore, if its based on the person being applied to, it'll determine if maskscent is a factor or not.

Finally, if you can somehow find another Ranger on TC that isn't a Master yet, and it turns out its based on the person being applied to, you can confirm this by trying it out on a Ranger with less than master wayfaring skills and seeing if the person's cammo mod actually effects the application of conceal, or if, no matter what, conceal always has a certain base effectiviness no matter what the other person's skills.

I know this is probably some boring, pain in the butt testing...and I'm not saying its something you guys should try and do in one sitting, I just think the numbers would be useful....unless, of course, my whole suggesstion is moot and you already know the answer from GreenMarine