Scout Archive
Thread: Could we please address mask scent????
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Wahini
Mon Apr 11, 2005 8:56 pm
#1
I have been a scout since forever.....Master and otherwise.....mask scent has always been a joke even with mod clothing, jawa beer and other nonsense........BE's and Master CH NEEEEEED mask scent.....IF we have earned this skill why the blue blazes doesn't it WORK????????? It should NOT disappear...and we should NOT have to stop/ get off bike/ remask/get suss'd/
rinse/repeat..............
players who do not have the skill don't seem to have this problem...so what is the point of having mask scent at all????????????
guess nobody really cares about scout anyway....just thought I'd bring this up as if drives me Nuts.....
Caliet
Mon Apr 11, 2005 9:57 pm
#2
Masked scent works excellent. I spent 2 and a half hours exploring Yavin using only Mask Scent. Was able to sneak into crystal snake dens, kliknik dens, angler dens. Ended the time with 2848 eggs,Half a tier 4 ranger box worth of scouting XP, saw lots of non-poi scenery like the deathstar debris fields, and never killed a creature. I would say /mask works very well.
JBMat
Tue Apr 12, 2005 3:54 am
#3
Maskscent works, after a fashion.
If you ride/run around higher level creatures, of course it is going to break and break at a considerable range and you will be eaten unless you run like a screaming school girl. Having said that, try crawling up to your potential donors. Crawling. Works ok, and if I could find the screenies of me playing tag with Ancient Enraged Rancors I will post them.
Re: Getting on and off a vehicle. Hmm... common sense dictates that being on a fairly noisy and ,I imagine, smelly swoop or speeder sort of negates the purpose of mask. Yes, the artisans get to sample while mounted and we can't mask while mounted. And of course the people without this skill don't realize what a pain this is (that statement in and of itself is sorta dumb after all).
If you really don't like maskscent, don't use it. Get ate, a lot, and never get any DNA. Or get a Ranger to camo you. And when it breaks realize that the Master Ranger has a much higher chance of staying camo'd/maskscented than you do, and you are working off his skill if he camo's you, and that kreetle at 63.5 meters breaks his stuff as easily as it breaks yours.
As to no one really caring about Scout... unfortunately you are correct. We are being ignored and the game is about to suffer. The percentage of people who have any Scout will drop as it doesn't add to health. No dabblers. But no health means no way to hunt the bigger game, which means smaller harvests for the people staying around. Yeah, I foresee a real price increase in anything that involves organic resources.
JB
Almagill
Wed Apr 13, 2005 7:29 pm
#4
Getting on and off your vehicle takes what? 3s?
Try this macro and assign it to a hotkey.
maskup
/dismo; /pause 0.5;
/mask; /pause 0.5;
/mount speeder;
It's simple, it works.
The pauses are there just to give the commands time to complete in case you hit a bit of lag.
If you drive a different vehicle from a speederbike swoop, just change the name.
If you ride a creature mount then lose the speeder name altogether.
Try this macro and assign it to a hotkey.
maskup
/dismo; /pause 0.5;
/mask; /pause 0.5;
/mount speeder;
It's simple, it works.
The pauses are there just to give the commands time to complete in case you hit a bit of lag.
If you drive a different vehicle from a speederbike swoop, just change the name.
If you ride a creature mount then lose the speeder name altogether.
DoMakk
Wed Apr 13, 2005 8:29 pm
#5
I'm thinking of dropping scout because of the skill points I'm going to need to keep my combat professions.
Yasha
Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:30 pm
#6
JBMat wrote:Maskscent works, after a fashion.If you ride/run around higher level creatures, of course it is going to break and break at a considerable range and you will be eaten unless you run like a screaming school girl. Having said that, try crawling up to your potential donors.JB
Afraid I'd have to disagree alittle there, it breaks on me all the time, as well as conceal. A great deal of the time to low level creatures, walking, as a Master Ranger. While I don't agree that it's totally worthless, it really does need work at some point in the future IMO.
Owen-Lars
Thu Apr 28, 2005 6:14 pm
#7
Its being adressing in regards to buff icon and camo/mask skills. Not sure what this means but changes are on their way to mask and conceal.
X-Rebel
Fri Apr 29, 2005 8:28 pm
#8
ok is it me or what i use to be able to goa good safe distance form a red creature and get xp. Now after the cu i have to be ontop of them. Is this normal or is it bugged. Not very useful to me if i am masked and all i am doing is going from point a to b and it breaks. The lag i get sometimes since the cu is ill be cruiseing with mask scent on and then boom i am dead because a creature that wasnt there but is now killed me because mask scent broke on something not even there and i didnt know until it was to late to aviod it and die.
X-Rebel
Sat Apr 30, 2005 1:07 pm
#9
yes in the combat window.
so some strange reason all the info we use to get above the char or on screen has moved to the combat window. so i do know when i am masked and when i am not.
by the way is there a way to get the info of damage back on top of the char. so i know if i am hitting them hard or not.
lastnight i was using a special move that was only hitting for 115 when just hitting them normal gave me 345. That to me is stupid specials should always do better.
Eikmms
Sat Apr 30, 2005 1:55 pm
#10
So we have to scoll through everything that shows up in the combat window? Another great upgrade feature.........
X-Rebel
Sat Apr 30, 2005 2:15 pm
#11
yup i had to make another window that i just put combat into so i can see whats going on.
Owen-Lars
Sat Apr 30, 2005 2:54 pm
#12
You should be able to see who is camo'd or who mask with the changes coming our way. It will most likely be in the form of a buff icon below our HAM bar (like when it shows weapon hinderance, nutrient buffs etc) and there is no reason why we shouldnt be able to see if others are camo'd or mask'd too.
Not sure when the changes will go live, im hoping in tonight's publish to TC but i could be wrong.
This should allow us to see when we are mask'd and who we (in regards to rangers) have camo'd.
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