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Just playing around with this yesterday I tried to see what the distance was that it worked at.

Here is what I observed,

1) To get maskscent xp from a creature you must be more than 85M away from it when you apply it.

2) The xp is awarded at 60M from a creature.

3) Once you are within the 60M and you leave the area the system does another check at 85M which does not give xp, but can break the maskscent.

4) There is a delay of about 3 minutes before you can get xp from the same creature a second time, however I can't quite figure out the actual time

5) Conceal seems to have the same distance and effect as maskedscent.

6) Conceal will break against pets. - I applied conceal at Theed bank and ran 10 steps and I was detected - no yellow or red dots on my 128M radar.

7) NPC will sometimes see you even if you have conceal on, without breaking it. I crawled up to 2 red conned Thieves (light blue difficulty) at 65M they both saw me and attacked. but Conceal was still on as evident by the nose icon on my stat bar.

8) the xp for masking against a creature is the same for both maskscent and conceal.

1more thing

- Maskscent and conceal both seem to wear off after 10Min

Wow! Thanks! Awesome post! I'm glad to know the 85m thing especially. You can get xp from the same creature twice??? Sweet!

- Paks, Talus, Radiant Ranger

it appears you can get xp from teh same creature, but there is a time limit. here is how I found that out.

I went looking for some wood on Naboo to make my kits from and found a great spot of 95%. So i mined up enough to make my first kit and then built a camo kit. Then I decided to stay for an hour or so and mine up a few hundred more since I was there.

I dropped down a camp so I could regen faster as I mined. While I was mining a couple of those monkey creatures (sharrpots??) spawned just out side my camp. one at 110M and one at 82M So i decided to crawl towards the first one to see if i got xp. I crawled to 55M and got nothing so i crawled back to camp and crawled to 87M then back toward the creature and this time got xp.

I then crawled back to 87M and back again but got no xp.

I sat in camp to regen my stats from mining and about 5 min later tried to crawl back out and in to 65M I again got xp.

SO I am pretty sure there is a timer on a creature that would allow for xp more than once but after it expires.

I had a destroy mission last night next to a lair of ravenous tortons. Maskscent failed once in about 20 minutes worth of time trying to destroy the lair and its NPC's (even tho rav. tortons are huge, very powerful, and BAF). The only time one attacked me was while I was in combat and therefore running around like a retard. In that 20 minutes i was standing between the tortons legs many times.

So I decided I would test maskscent some more. I ran to the borgle cave, applied maskscent and walked all the way through it withouta bat aggroing me once. They occasionally broke maskscent,but if i stood still long enough I could reapply it. So once i got to the matriarch at the bottom of the cave i turned around and ran out. I got aggroed numerous times while "running" and incapped the 3 times before I cloned.

So maskscent worked well for me as long as I wasn't running. (I have found this to bea problem if I am running a long distance and a group of reds spawn on me before I can slow down...)

Can't wait till I have the flora so I can try conceal

-Drache- Wanderhome