Ranger Sneak Ability ???Follow

Hide, when sucessful, makes you invisable to creatures that don't see invis. You can't judge if hide is suceed or failed by looking at yourself; you always vanish even if hide failed. One way to tell if hide is sucessful is to con mobs that normally do not con indifferent to you. Assuming the mob or npc doesn't see invis, and they con indifferent, hide suceed.

Sneak, when sucessful, lets you move pass behind of the mobs without them noticing you. One easy way to tell if sneak is succeed is if you run slower than normal, sneak is sucessful. You can sneak pass behind the mobs who see invis. You can also sneak up to behind of NPCs who normally wouldn't deal with you (faction reason etc) and make them become indifferent, thus trade or bank with you.

The main difference between invis (camoflage) and sneak is, you can sneak pass behind mobs even if they see invis, but mobs will see you sneaking if you are within their visual angle. You can often get pass dangerous areas with the combination of camo and sneak.

Edited, Tue May 11 05:52:58 2004 by Assailant

The nice advantage rogues get over other classes is that they get success/failure messages for sneak and hide.

If you try to use hide while moving you get a message that says you must be still. You can hide and hit sneak button, but if you move you will lose hide.

Right, only class that can use Sneak and Hide successfully is a Rogue. Though I believe that creatures that can see invisible will still see a rogue even when he is in Stealth Mode.

Why this is I don't know...guess Verant does not want us to be able to go everywhere with impunity.

Also I think lvl of mob might have some bearing on the Stealth Mode of a Rogue, as I have had high con mobs see me, even in a successful Stealth Mode.

Edited, Tue May 11 13:33:49 2004 by Assailant