Posted by RafFink on August 16, 2000 at 09:17:07:
In Reply to: As far as I've seen... posted by Malaglen on August 16, 2000 at 05:58:34:
> Perfecting creep has absolutely nothing to do with it, other than you don't "realize you ruined your camoflage." Time in wilderness areas seems to be the determining factor, 100%. > In addition, I moved faster creeping than non ranger/druid/sylvan chars did walking in forest areas (due to pathfinding). > So, Cloud Ranger, my guess is you went levelling somewhere that wasn't wilderness and it kicked your ass (arial city, maybe?) > I got really tired of seeing sylvan applicant rangers who were like level 30 and didn't have fastcamo and fastcreep. It was like "you love the forests, but can't be bothered to find a levelling spot within them?" I understand your feelings, however, I am a 30+ level ranger. Of the 71 hours my character has been alive, 67 hours has been in a "wilderness" area. At 30+ there is only one area that might be considered wilderness that I've found to rank in. And you can't camo there. I hadn't failed creep or had lagged camo/creep since level 19 and yet 2 hours, that's 2 out of 71 spent in a citified area caused lagged camo and creep failures. So another 67 hours spent sitting on my ass in the woods to get it back watching all of the "citified" folks bashing away at trollocs while your response to a request to travel is "Sorry, my ass fell asleep on this stump". Bottom line; consider fastcreep and non-lagged camo a sylvan bonus or be prepared to sit alone on your ass in the woods for 94% of you character's life to maintain it.