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Thread: I wonder.. maskscent are for animals, camo kits are for NPCs?
I know Holocron said otherwise in the correspondant report but lets looks at the facts here a second...
- Maskscent is clearly working very well and is slowly becoming more powerful as you gain more camoflage skills despite the fact it's supposed to reach its peak at master scout.
- Camoflage kits are terrible against animals yet they work quite well against NPCs
- Dathomir kits require master, Endor kits require Wayfaring 4. While endor has higher CL rated animals than Dathomir it has alot weaker NPCs.
- Animals outnumber NPCs by around 5/1 on most planets and in many cases are more dangerous as there is less low level ones in the game
All of these points seem to point to one thing, that maskscent is designed for animals and camo is designed for avoiding NPCs. Indeed that makes logical sense too as most animals hunt by scent and a camo kit doesn't mask your scent but does provide (fictionally at least) visual camoflage. There is of course a loophole in my reasoning, the components for making a camoflage kit say that one is an animal musk component which suggest it is supposed to work for animals. However it has been proven many times that the devs have changed their minds mid-development and not corrected the fictional side of things due to lack of polishing.
Something to think about at least.
Well my mask scent work pretty well. I have bad experience of it breaking a lot when Im with novice scouts, thus there mask scent skill is less then 100. Mine will break all the time when grouped with scouts, but their's almost never breaks. This is against same creatures.
My conceal work OK against animals and npc a like. I have had more npc break it then animals. But then I dont run around with conceal on all the time, like I do with mask scent. The kits cost to much, and my mask scent is better. As you said planets are majority animals. I think the comceal/camo kits are working more or less as planned. I question whether or not mask scent works as if you were only master scout, once you gain ranger.