Another possibility would be adding the "shock factor". If someone can't see you and you attack them they get stunned for a moment and their defences lowered and slowly coming back up as they regain their composure.

Re-implementation of sneak-bouncing would be nice too. Of course in a limited fashion. Previously it was too strong and now it's impossible and horribly annoying not to be able to sneak for ages after combat has been initiated (regardless of who initiated it).

Perhaps something changed then. I'm sure that hero thief was able to move unseen by myth RDA (if stats matter).

How? With superior professional awareness you can't see thieves. How do you want to see them with superior journeyman?

Hide is the problem and kuko. Sup journeyman is enough to see almost anyone hiding (except maybe RoN) without magical items. And then you have the problem that PoT and DAs attacked kenders on sight and if you couldn't fight them(militia jab was better then sling and no combat skills) and you couldn...

You get high blademaster title from sup master. Don't need guru for that. What hurt Kenders and other sneakers wasn't many guilds having high awareness (with sup craft awareness you have [numbers removed] chance of seeing someone with sup lay sneak/hide, if someone has sup craft sneak and hide this ...

gorboth wrote:Wow ... revival of a 16 month old thread, eh?

G.

It was quoted in newer thread but my answer wouldn't fit there so I put it here instead where it's relevant to the topic

Strider, one thing you seem to forget is that mobs might pose different challange for different guilds, thus arbitrarily setting their "challenge rating" or whatever being responsible for xp reward wouldn't work too well. What should be done is perhaps a system based on the damage the npc ...

Well, this list used to be much longer but it took some time to remember that you have to keep track of your inventory when fighting this guy in Holm (Nemur?)...

Rangers and Kenders prove otherwise. Dunno about SU with knives. Rangers and SS aren't fighter-type guilds though, which would justify their lower combat skills. I generally agree on awareness and would also like mercs to only be able to train skills up to sup master (jack of all trades - being goo...