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Hey, all!

Novice Ranger here. I know the /conceal aka camo kits are a top issue and no need to get into all that again: except I will add that I find them prohibitive in costs and generally not worth the effort or expense. Nuff said.

My issue is with maskscent as a Young Ranger. I've seen this posted once before, albeit on the Scout bboards: maskscent as a Ranger in a group and you can expect to be the only one who constantly breaks it and draws aggro to the group. It's more than annoying, it's embarrassing and completely illogical. I can't tell if it's deliberate or a bug. Someone tell me, please.

Ex: on Lok:

Doing all missions to the North, level 50 with a group of 5---I'm the only Ranger. Everyone else has the basic maskscent. Running madly between redspawns, time after time, every single time, I'M the one who breaks maskscent and gets the party ambushed.

What is up??? I'm a Ranger heh. I'm the master of high end maskscent---er, aren't I? If not, then who/what is?

thanks

Kirk2

Kirk,

That was weird.

Anyway, as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted by the return key, you max out your Mask Scent modifier as a Master Scout. Being a Ranger has nothing to do with it anymore.

You get /conceal, which is supposed to be better than Mask Scent. Hopefully, this will be fixed so that it is.

NRaas and I are working hard to get this addressed. Thanks for hanging in there.

B

You know....I hear what you are saying, Brisc, but I just don't know....

I've got friends who I regularly run with and they aren't even at Exploration IV yet, and I've got Wayfaring II, but my mask scent seems to break probably 5-10 times to their one, at leaston Lok. I understand what you are saying about the mask scent supposedly maxing out at Master Scout and that the Ranger skills shouldn't even have a factor in it, but it almost seems like they DO have a factor, albeit a negative factor, because Scouts aren't having the same problem I'm having.

Just my .02 creds.

Malborka

Tarquinas Server

Mal,

The problem is simply that we don't know for sure. Perhaps what I should have said is that being a Ranger shouldn't have any impact on your success rate with mask scent.

I am well aware of some weirdness going on, and I'm trying to get some Dev attention. But we're not at the front of the line anymore, so we've got to be patient.

B

After a bit of experimentation over the weekend, I have concluded that I am *safer* running around without Maskscent. I get agro much less than when I have it on. The problem is that if Maskscent "breaks" then the mob will agro. I have had much less occurance of agro'ing when I don't use mask scent.

It seemed to work better before they added "cameo", but cameo is pretty much worthless too. sigh...

"After a bit of experimentation over the weekend, I have concluded that I am *safer* running around without Maskscent. I get agro much less than when I have it on. The problem is that if Maskscent "breaks" then the mob will agro. I have had much less occurance of agro'ing when I don't use mask scent."

I have done the same experimentation over the last two days now, and I've come to the exact same conclusion. Therefore, I wholeheartedly concur with this statement.

It's really strange. Right after they made the first set of fixes for mask scent, I used it a lot and was ecstatic with the results. It got to the point that I became VERY conscious of when I was, and when I wasn't, using the skill. I made sure to remind others in my groups to always mask their scent as well. It worked like a charm. And the bonus part was that we were actually getting scouting xp's as well. It was awesome.

Now however, I find myself actually having to stop myself from my natural instinct to use mask scent. I still do it when I'm running through areas that aren't so dangerous, just because I'm not as concerned if those creatures aggro on me, and I like the extra little bits of scouting xp, just for a goof. But, if I'm somewhere where I don't really want to fight the creatures, and I'd rather just run past them, I'm probably safer without it.

Just my .02 creds.

Malborka