Ranger Archive
Thread: Rangers in PVP
I have a question about what the Rangers roll is going to be in PvP. The Conceal ability that is coming with the no ETA update will be great if it helps in PvP. In theory when you have conceal on it would keep NPC mobs from detecting you, but what does it do to players? I would like to see this have an effect for PvP. I don't want to make players invisible, or even have the stealth abilites from games like DAOC, but even something as simple as if when you have conceal on and you are Overt, that other Overts either don't see you on their radar, or you show up as a blue dot instead of a red dot. This could give a ranger/group a distinct advantage in PvP that would make the rangers roll that much better and wanted. This would also be a must for setting traps to lure other players into for PvP battles. If anyone has heard about something along these lines being discussed please post a link, or if you have any feelings about this idea maybe we should bring this up to the Devs.
Master Squad Leader/Master Ranger
Drac,
These are all good ideas that have been discussed before.
Right now, I think it is best if we wait and determine exactly how the new changes affect the dynamics of our profession before we start asking for more. 
I'm very interested to field test conceal on the live server.
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Vlardin wrote:
i ran the math you can only get master ranger and novice cm so thats no biggy but true stealth would be ridiculous anyway...what is sensible for a concealed ranger to be able to do is dissappear off radar
That makes it possible to do a client hack. If the client knows you are there then the stealth can be hacked. That means the Devs are unlikely to implement it.
True stealth can be given enough restrictions to make it useful but not overpowering. That is what we are hoping for (although it would be funny if the Devs screwed up and CSRs started getting detected when stealthed
).