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With the Bagerasets. I have killed one while standing beside another one without gaining notice, so don't put too much weight on their ignorance.

Vectinn

People are having different experiences with mask scent.

There are aggresive mobs that will not agg on you. With the patch these mobs will have a chance to agg because of the mask scent.

Mask scent is broke. You may like the way it works now but if something attacks because it saw through mask scent then it is supposed to drop. It doesent drop.

I can see no proof that mask scent is working now. If I am on a dead run without mask scent and aggressive mobs spawn on top of me I rarely get agged. If mask scent is up I almost always get agged.

So if mask scent works for some but not others then it is broke.

What is happening is you're using your camouflage skill and they're not aggroing. They changed mask scent so if you lose a scent roll and creature detects you there is a chance the creature will attack you EVEN IF it's not an aggro creature.

This is a BAD idea. This makes mask scent more of a liability than anything. If you know you can just use your camoflauge skill to sneak around you don't want a totally random chance of something aggro'ing you.

I don't think someone thought this through when they made it so creatures can aggro on you. Now I don't even want to use mask scent because the risks outweigh the rewards.

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Ypiana wrote:

I don't think someone thought this through when they made it so creatures can aggro on you.

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So tempting....

And yes, my experience is that it's broken. Which annoys me to no end, as I'm trying to replace a pet that was lost to another bug and dying on Rori sux because you have to go to Naboo to get yer BF healed (no entertainers on Rori on Eclipse)

Log in today (Friday 8/15) after the hot-fix or patch...

Step outside my house onto the porch, throw my Mask Scent on (3/2/3/4) Ranger...

Set waypoint to my harvester about 200m from the house across the river... Notice a pack of Red Aggressive Tusk Cat's camping out around my harvester (about 40m from it).

Thinking to myself, ahh np, I got mask scent, I make a wide berth and come around the opposite side...

WHAM! Insta ghost jumping Female Tusk Cats on me (two of them)... WTH??

Mask Scent is still up, yet they still detect me??

Burst run away and warning shot...

Come back couple min later, Mask Scent (fresh) back up and this time come around the other side to "TEST" it on the lone male tusk cat... 60m out, WHAM! insta aggro on me again... So I kill him and mosey on back home tending my wounds...

While I am not so worried about the Exp on Mask Scent, it seems Fridays patch "broke" MS??

Anyone else noticing Reds detecting you right through MS and it not even breaking??

Mas Scent works great for me right now. I have level 3 and working on 4. I can go really long distances and pretty much run straight through red creature mobs (not humanoids).

What is broken, that I have seen, and I have submitted a /bug on it is I get no experience for it. It doesn't even say I do which is different from 3 days ago.

I ran around Endor last night unmolested for about 2 hours. Nothing broke through my maskscent. It was a nice change from putting the /maskscent on and within 10 seconds something cut right through it.

Later that night, I was running to help a bud clear his harvester of wrix, and ran right past a rogue bageraset (within 15m). It didn't break my maskscent, it just attacked me.

I did not notice this effect from 60m out tho. Then again, some creatures ignore you 'til you're pretty close even though they're aggro.

Codak

Ranger / Carbineer

Naritus

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ive noticed a few wierd things also.

....every now and then a mob will sprint to where i was when it started running and linger there.

....i had some level 50 cat go out of his way (60m) to come over and check me out, after i had taken a pop shot at some creature he was fighting.(the creature wasone of the critters for my hunting mission so i wasnt going to let it get all the glory lol)..

It wasnt a walking over to me thing, it was that wierd warp look, where there is no animation and it seems like a god is pushing them around. As soon as said mob was dead, the cat warped over to me, seemed to sniff at me for about 5 seconds (i was like DOH!! whats it doing...i sat there frozen.. -cat was lev 50, killer, and vicious-). Then it just warped back to where it started its journey (the 60m away), and wandered off.

....and i have had a few critters trail me too, but only a hand full of times.

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quoting myself from another thread....

Quite broken in my opinion.

Agreed, broken. Pre-patch worked fine. Now Masked Scent is up, not broken, and I'm frequently hit by the only Mob within 128m.