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Ranger is a lot better than BH.

We are smarter. Our missions almost (90%) work, and you don't have to travel from planet A to B to do them. If you take destroy missions, you get paid twice, once for the mission, and than again when you sell the harvest. Smart Rangers take missions for good harvest. If we are willing to wait, we never pay for healing, our camps do that for us. Docs, BEs, Armorsmiths and Tailors all love us, so we often can trade for stuff with them. We laugh at grinders, and overcharge them for crappy stuff so they can happily grind away.

Some of our stuff is broke, but not so badly we can't do our profession and make money and have fun.

Just my opinion

JB

and ranger kicks butt when it come to combat...just sit there and trap the creature, then kill it. And we will be even better with /hide, /combatconceal, and /ambush...*thinks of all the fun he will have playing tricks on his friends with /hide*

JBMat wrote:

Ranger is a lot better than BH.

We are smarter.

OK but I didn't come to these forums to bash Ranger..so hmm. OK

Umm, I'll answer your question

Yes, the "You are being stalked by..." is specific to Ranger. I noticed that too when I got Ranger. Scared the hell out of me the first time

It's kindof a useless, but cool if it meant something skill. Some creatures are supposed to follow you for some time and spring on you when you least suspect it. Right now they just head in your direction for about 5m and then loose interest. so the "you are being stalked by . . ." message is supposed to be a warning that if you don't do something about it you may be attacked. It means nothing realy, but if they make the ai in creatures better, it will be a cool skill indeed.

Whenever that day comes I hope we will have some nice new static traps to go along with it. For instance: decoy! You get the being stalked message.... you crouch down to place a nice decoy of yourself and crawl away.... and the creature pounces on the decoy and triggers the trap, releasing a variety of possible effects (modular traping system anyone?) maybe root, stun or defense down, or maybe even a nice damage effect for once. Ah but we rangers can dream, can't we?

Hey about that decoy idea.. I have been doing the following: once I know I am being stalked and followed, I head off 20 or so meters then Maskscent immediately change course/direction and the stalking critter follows to the spot where i masked scent and it loses my trail.

Dunno if anyone else is doing this but its fun to watch em bimble about at your last pre-maskscent location hehe

hmmm. I'll have to try that.

i often find the stalk message comes up shortly after my Mask scent drops and its a timely reminder to Mask up again hehe.

As mentioned before all you do is re mask and move away a bit and the stalkers will lose your trail. It will also allow you to prepare in advance, for any attacks by the stalkers, if they are the creature type your hunting which is usefull.

In some places its easier to hunt by Stalking message than to use tracking )

It's actually useful if you have the patience to try to lure a creature away from its lair and fellow creatures. You can separate it from the herd, useful for us carbineers with borked specials that aggro mobs by mistake.

Pay attention when stalked by swamp tusk cats on Rori!Theystalk forlong distancesin groups of 2-3 and speed in for the attackwhen you think they're long gone. Usually when you're engaging another lair.

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Eklectrick wrote:
It's kindof a useless, but cool if it meant something skill. Some creatures are supposed to follow you for some time and spring on you when you least suspect it. Right now they just head in your direction for about 5m and then loose interest. so the "you are being stalked by . . ." message is supposed to be a warning that if you don't do something about it you may be attacked. It means nothing realy, but if they make the ai in creatures better, it will be a cool skill indeed.

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Good point, but if something is stalking me, throw on a mask scent and tell everyone else in group to get the hell out of there.... i conceal as many people as I can while getting far far away

Nothing was crazier than when popped up: "It seems you are being stalked by a Blurrg Raptor"

/peepants