Ranger Archive

I'm a Master Ranger and Master CH. At my level, mask scent has always bewildered me because I would still get attacked by creatures despite my mask scent being active. I thought maybe it was a bug and was looking forward to this latest patch for a fix. But instead, I got a new command called/conceal. So now, I got two commands that I can use to pretend that I'm hard to detect, but from all the critters' point-of-view, I am simply a confident-looking lunch.

Going to more specifics, I still get attacked by creatures around a lair during missions. I would tell my pet to attack one target creature, and more often than not, one of the creatures around would attack me. I would check my mask scent, and it would still be on. And now, this would also happen when I use /conceal!

I think /conceal is a worse joke though, because I had to spend almost an hour just trying to get a hold of all the ingredients for my Camo Kit. I guess that's why they call it Camo and not Camouflage, because it does a half-baked job.

I'm not trying to be unsympathetic here. I'm a software developer, too, and I can understand how bugs can occur. I sympathize with the guy who has to figure out the pathfinding logic of pets across server boundaries. I sympathize with the guy who has to deal with the occasionally flakey pet AI; in both cases, I can see how they can be overlooked during testing as they are intermittent. But this mask scent problem has been around since the beginning and occurs 80% of thetime or more to me, has been brought up numerous times by other people, and instead of getting it fixed, a new command was added that fails in the exact same way.

DUH!