Age of Conan

Just wondering, now that Open Beta is wrapping up, what does everything think of Hide being able to be used by every class?

In my opinion... I don't really like it. It just doesn't seem right. Warriors and Casters shouldn't be able to randomly be invisible (especially since perception is broken at the moment :P) in the middle of broad daylight.

What do you guys think?

Originally posted by ParkCarsHere

Just wondering, now that Open Beta is wrapping up, what does everything think of Hide being able to be used by every class?

In my opinion... I don't really like it. It just doesn't seem right. Warriors and Casters shouldn't be able to randomly be invisible (especially since perception is broken at the moment :P) in the middle of broad daylight.

What do you guys think?

Perhaps when perception is working properly it will seem not so bad?

fine by me, I didn't know perception was broken maybe making it hard for those campers?

I don't like it in rangers, all of the sudden one slows you down and there's nothing you can do about it, if at least I knew where they are, I could run and try to charge before I get stunned for 10 seconds.

Other than that, it helps a lot against gank squads

Originally posted by Ephimero

I don't like it in rangers, all of the sudden one slows you down and there's nothing you can do about it, if at least I knew where they are, I could run and try to charge before I get stunned for 10 seconds.

Other than that, it helps a lot against gank squads

Anyways, I guess Hide is a good idea... but it kinda takes away from the Rogue classes who are designed to be the sneaky ones... doesn't quite make sense when a huge Guardian suddenly appears behind you out of stealth :P.

Never was a fan of stealth myself. Well, I should say I never was a fan of the ways that every game until now has done stealth. Stealth is too much like magical invisibility and not sneaking. Yes perception 'helps' but its still a key you can hit and just vanish like a ninja. I don't have any ideas of how it can be made better... i just know I'm not a fan of it :)

So, because of that, there are only two implementations for stealth I tend to like. Either nobody gets stealth, or everybody gets it. This is the latter, so it works for me.

I guess the other option is an extremely limited version of stealth for a few classes, ala WAR. Won't know how I feel about that until it releases and I experience it for a while. But it seems to address a lot of the problems I had with other versions of stealth - auto win, auto escape, ganking.

Stealth was a core mechanic of REH's Conan stories, and almost every iteration of a Conan story features stealth at some point.  If it were not in the game, it would be a blatant disregard for the source material.  It'd be akin to taking orcs or humans out of WOW.

Age of Gank

If you had no stealth you would not be able to walk 1 minute out of the city

That probally is there answer to Ganking on the PvP servers. It does work to get out of those areas.

I like it.  Perception and stealth are a nice balance.  It is also a nice way to deal with the problem when someone is blocking a door or something since in stealth you can walk through people.  Very nice.