Ranger Archive
Thread: Does anyone else think their maskscent has gotten worse?
Except for the stinking rasps, who break my maskscent with amazing regularity, I have had no problems with mine. I was and have been wandering into groups of giant dalyrake and guf drolg with no breaks.
As to the no points to be an uber combat guy... Huh?
I triple mastered, Scout, Ranger, Pistoleer, had 19 SP left. Novice medic and Pharm 1 killed 18, I have one left.
No, I am not uber, but nor do I back down from anything, PvE or PvP. Just gotta know your limitations.
Anyhow, try walking thru the herds of reds, it helps. This from the guy who crawled up to the Krayt to get his screenie.
JB
Ok, maybe I misspoke when I said I didn't have the points to be a combat super-baddie. I'm also a pistoleer, but I guess I could have been a swordsman or TKA or something tougher, but being a ranger, I'm in it for the roleplay and my vision of my character.
Don't go riding right up to a Kimogila to try to figure out why you didn't get any scouting xp for riding past him with maskscent on
Don't ask me how I know, I just know ok
however with a good Bio-engineered shirt/ pants/ whatever....you can raise your maskscent ability fairly high and when I wore that shirt, my maskscent almost never broke
Umm, why would we loose mask scent? If this is the case, the Dev's have some serious `splainin' to do.......
Conceal is better than maskscent, yes, but you can only use it if you have the skill to use the camo kit for the planet you are on....and sometimes you run out of kits and resources to make them and when I do, I fall back on mask scent until I get what I need.
I shouldn't loose the ability just because I have something better, and it shouldn't get worse. Mask scent as a Master Scout should be the same as Mask Scent as a Novice Ranger and if it isn't it needs to be fixed.
Okay, I mis-worded it. I didn't realize someone might actually take it as me saying you actually LOSE the ability to Mask Scent.
Correction: You no longer GAIN any more bonuses to Mask Scent. You instead gain bonuses in Conceal, though you can still use your Mask Scent.
--Something that actually happened with me and a friend in a grocery store--
Lady(asking a price with the price in front of her face in BIIIG red letters): "Excuse me, do you work here?"
My Friend(in jeans and a trench coat, looking at her like she's nuts):"Yes I do."
Lady: "Do you know how much this apple juice is?"
My Friend(who loves to poke fun at people's stupidity, looking at the sign): "It's 99 cents. But there's a trick. If you look at the sign upside down then it's really 66 cents."
Lady: "Oh thank you that was helpful!"
Casheir: "The total is 1.03."
Lady: "But the stockboy over there said that if I looked at the sign upside down that it would only cost me 66 cents."
There aren't. That's because asa Ranger you lose the Mask Scent skill and graduate to the grown-up Conceal ability. 
As far as Mask Scent becoming worse, yeh it has with me, but only with Kreetles!!! Those bugs will disrupt my Mask Scent every time. Grrrrr.