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master scout (bounty hunter)

masked scent broken by everything even kreetles

Shouldn't it also be relevent if the player was running, walking or prone while detected? I thought that was part of it too. IMHO it doesn't matter how nice you smell, if you run right in front of a creature's face I would think there's a possibility it would notice!

It's been working great for me. Spent much of yesterday on Naboo. While hunting Narglatch cubs (level 8?), only one out of around 20 detected me. Maybe two or three of the nearby Durni's noticed me, but that was only when I ran right up to them before going prone. I snuck up on at least 10 Humbabas (level 17) and had 80% success rate. And I snuck into several packs of animals attempting to tame babies, and only a single Gurrcat (level 10) detected me. Others that didn't included Female Plains Tusk Cats and some Ikopi. These were all non-aggressive.

There were plenty of aggro's that I got by also, but it's hard to remember which they were. Those annoying Howling Rasp's often detect me, but I figured it's because they have such a high POV that it would be obvious they would notice me. As far as XP, I don't recall exact numbers, but maybe 8-12 for the lower creatures like Durnis and around 20 for the higher ones? I did notice the messages popping up a lot, but I didn't really take note of which numbers corresponded to which creatures... Maybe I'll try to keep better track of how it goes tonight, and give a more detailed reporting on creatures, XP and success rates.

I'm a Master Scout, and I got tons of exp from maskscent last night without even trying. On Naboo, I ran past some shaupaut hunters and got 63 each for 5 of them. On Corellia I was getting 51 and 54 for every giant carrion spat and mottled wrix I ran past. I got 35ish from several crazed durni. The only times mine broke last night was when I failed a tame on a durni baby after several attempts and then once on something I didn't stop to look at Too bad I don't need the scout exp.

On a quest last night, desperate to come up with some decent hides, and needing to cover about 2000 Scouting XP to get to Novice Ranger I decided to hike from Theed, through Keren, and upto Kadaara. The first leg of my journey was relatively slow going. It seemed as though there were few creatures worthy of hunting in between Theed and Keren, I did stumble across a few Rogue Falumpasets which (apart from their low yeild in hide) served me well as I worked my way around.

Keren to Kaadara, however, proved much more beneficial. As I traveled the relatively flat route I've mapped out these past few weeks I found it littered with aggroing beasties. Shaupauts (regular/rabid/babies/greater), Hermit spiders (sentries included),a few Plains Hunters (which are now conning yellow for me!), and some assorted spineflaps, thesered-baddies helped me rake in about 1500 Scout XP in about an hour of mostly walking (mixed with a few minutes of incap from the Plains hunter 'cause I had to try. THEY'RE SO FAST!!!)

All these critters netted about 40-50 points of XP for me meaning that moving in close to a lair netted me close to 200 right off the bat. The whole time Maskscent only broke twice.

Delta for you're purposes I'll map out my character below. I didn't run into anything that /con came up red. Of course all were aggro's.

Definitely made the trip worthwhile.

-WB

Brawler 0/1/0/0
Medic 1/0/0/2
Novice Entertainer
Marksman 4/0/0/4
Master Scout
Novice CH
Novice Rifleman

I'm a master scout and I was on Naboo last night testing mask scent out. I'm finally getting xp againfor usingit. However,my mask scent was broken 4 times in the a span of about 20 min by some very low lvl creatures. Each time it was broken by an aggressive creature, but I wasn't attacked as a result of the mask scent breaking. Here's a little more detail:

1st time - A female plains tusk cat. Aggro andlvl 16 (I think). Was standing still for several minutes when the mask scent broke. I was getting a lot of tells at the time, so I know I hadn't been moving for a while. I don't like to run in game when typing.

2nd time - A hermit spider. Aggro and lvl 7. I was standing near a spawn point. I had killed two while lying prone and then a third one broke the scent.

3rd time - A hermit spider. After killing all of the spiders around. I was just standing still for a bit reading an email when they started to spawn again. After a few of them has spawned, the scent was broken.

4th time - Yet another hermit spider. I was standing behind a building after killing all the spiders in the area. Again, I hadn't been moving for several minutes.

All four times I can confirm that was at a distance greater then 30m at the time the scent broke. I'm a carbineer, so I tend to not get much closer than that if I can help it.

I'm going to be heading to one of the tougher planets this weekend. Dath, Endor or Yavin. Not sure yet, but I'll be sure to see how things go with mask scent wherever I end up. I will say that I'm pretty nervous about going to a tougher planet based on my success last night. I'm also a CH, so my life and ability to tame things is very dependent on how well my mask scent works.

Angry Vader

I am a master scout, and mask scent breaks constantly now - even on lowlevel mobs like kreetles and non agro mobs likenunas.. And to add - the 1% of the times it doesnt break, I dont get exp. Not that I care much about it since I dont need the scout exp.

Isa'a, Shadowfire

Thiana,

Can you confirm that you had maskscent broken by a yellow? This is the first that I've heard of this happening - it's not supposed to. Are you sure there were no red nunas in that pack?

B

No real complaints thus far.

I'm master scout, Ranger 1,0,0,2 Bothan. I got xp from just about all the red radar blips I got near. For some feral bantha I was getting 49, for kreetles I was getting 9, for swarming dewbacks I was getting 51.

I had it break on me a few times, and I believe the things that broke it were dewback, or maybe swarmming dewbacks, and some dune lizards. Previously before the udpate, I never had it break on me with anything on Tatooine. Even though it broke on me though, I didn't have anything agro on me.

I am a Ranger and have Wayfaring three a diseased vrelt broke my scent at 30m. I used to be able to get past Mottled Wrix at 5m. This is sad.

I was on Dathomir all evening with some friends. My mask scent broke 40+ times (mostly toreptilian fliers and those littlemoney thingys)whilethe rest of the group membershad theirs broke 1 or 2 times each. I think one other was a master scout besides me. The rest have some exploration skills, but max skill 4. Strange bug indeed.

Isa'a

Delta, its hard to say what breaks my mask scent since I am not attacked every time it breaks and the message only says "some creature has detected you bla bla bla".

Maybe it wasnt a nuna, but something else. I will test further tomorrow.

Isa'a

And btw (I wish there was an edit button) - I dont get exp because I am capped, so ignorethe issue about thatfrom me

I am master scout with +100 Maskscent lvl 5 krettles are breaking maskscent at 50m's

Yea that's supposed to happen