Scout Archive

Devs please take a look at mask scent. I know it was giving way too much xp In beta but now it seems with lvl 3 explore I am detected way too much by mobs that con even to lower then me. I've been playing on rori, narmle.

Well I was a master scout in beta. acually made it 1/2 way to ranger. And even in beta mask scent was pretty inaffective till explore4. But at novice Ranger it was awesome. So it is probally working the way they want it too. Just keep with it. In the end it is well worth it.

The +15 to Camouflage you get at Exploration IV will make a huge difference. That was when I saw /maskscent really kicking in and succeeding a lot in beta.

IMHO, the boosts to Camouflage do need to be flattened. Currently you get +5, +10, and +15 at Exploration II, III, & IV. Changing it to +10, +10, +10 would make the ability more useful prior to Exploration IV.

That's good to hear. I'm playing a scout profession, and wasn't sure if mask scent would be used later in the ranger tree.

I have explore 4 now and I STILL find lots of mobs that totally ignore mask scent. I can run through groups of reds and not get xp and not have to re apply Mask scent. I think I will start /bugging mobs i find like this. I think we all should. Just remember they HAVE to be aggresive mobs to get xp from them. Vir Virs on Narmle give no xp, hermit spiders give no XP. I will keep looking.

oh yeah. mask scent give me no xp now. and im detected almost instantly.

OK guys... a couple of things about mask scent.

#1: You really need to have explore 3 for it to start working. Don't even bother at explore 2.

#2: The mobs you use it on have to be agressive or you get no exp/noticed.

#3: I can tell you from beta that masked scent scout exp is easy to get when you find the right group of mobs. In beta I found the right group (on endor I think - they were GREEN) and ran back and forth between 70-65 meters constantly for 35 exp a pop. This got me from explore 3 (and no hunting) to CH in like 4 hours.

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