Scout Archive

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DeltaXi65 wrote:

Squid,

That sounds weird to me - perhaps something got inverted. I'll put this to the top of my list.

Can any of the novice Scouts confirm that they aren't having any problems?

B

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Seems fine to me. 3/4/3/3 novice scout human. I was hunting hermit spiders on Rori last night - aggressive critter, white con with rifle, blue with pistol. 24? scouting points when I crossed the picket lines - around 65m and again around 44m. They did break the MS on a couple of occasions and immediately charged me - once when I was prone and got within 40m and again when I was up and running around 55m.

I did notice something odd with a red, red mammoth jax. I got some scouting points when I crossed the first picket 65m - pretty sure it was the same exp as for the hermit spiders, 24. I didn't think anything of it and continued on my way - heading toward the spider lair. Watching my radar, I saw the jax blip from where it was back to the location about where I had received the scouting exp. I turned to make sure the red blip behind me was the jax and not something new. It was only 15/20m or so away. I immediately went prone (still having MS up) and the jax blipped back to its original location nearly 70m away. Very odd stuff.

Oh - and on my return trip, my MS did break against the jax and caused him to chase me down. Fortunately, I was close enough to the outpost that I didn't die.

Well Im a 4/3/4/3 scout and maskscent works lovely on difficult planets and not much on simpler planets. Ive never used the skill very much until I was exploring Dathomir and had to try to survive that place. Only to my surprise that my maskscent was giving loads of XP. I ended up receiving a nice chunk of scout XP by just hanging around near those giant beasts. I have seen wierd glitches when creatures even without maskscent cannot detect me even at point blank range.

-Ahnu

I've found that it is working now. I'm even getting xp for it which I haven't gotten in weeks. I think it is working great!

I believe that when a Master Scout uses MS it should rarely break against high CL aggros, never break against non-aggros and award zero XP.Like terrain negotiation,it should just work andbe abenefit of being a Master Scout. Ditto for Master Rangers using Conceal.

Easy way to solve this debate,

original poster...

Go to Endor, tons of argo monsters there, you don't enven need to leave town verey far....

DO NOT turn on mask scent and run around real close to argo dots and see waht happens...

(once you get rid of your HAM damage)

do the Same thing, this time using Mask scent, no garuntees you wont get attacked, BUT not every argo Mob will want to hump your leg....

this tells me that mask scent is alive and well

Next!!!

Glad I found this thread, since the last patch I have noticed that my Mask Scent is breaking far to often. Before it never broke at all which was perhaps wrong but there I was lying prone not moving and lost my Mask Scent about 5 times in the space of 10 minutesto that to what I would class as low level creatures, i.e. Tabages, Krahbu, Murra

Do we think this is right or have they broke something you think?

Tetengo

Master Scout

Last night I got my first seriousXP ever from mask scent, and have had at least novice scout since beta.

Admittedly I don't use it much, my past experience was that the main effect was to make yellow mobs agro on me, and it seemed to slightly increase the chance of agro from reds. I had gotten a few points twice in the past (one of themin beta) but in the low teens then.

Last night my harvesters were right next to a big spawn of red nastys, yellow to me. My rock-beetle was out, so I decided to try sneaking to my harvesters with mask scent. I promptly got 2 Exp messages for 46 points each! I serviced one harvester, but got a broken msg and agro while working the next. I kept trying MS and got one more pair of messages, but also kept getting agro while focused on harvesters.

I was really suprised by the exp! I have done this kind of thing before every so often, but never got exp.

Of course I got many times as much scout exp from harvesting the nastys that attacked me, but got incapped a couple of times. By the time I was done, I was out of mind to heal and both our bars were mostly black and white.