Cavestalker: Underdark Affinity

[Medoe]

h'lo - thx for BGTSCC - cpl of observations to pass along:

- the 'green bottle' potion for Negative Energy Protection has no activation tab

- in Cavestalker class there's a useful Feat called Underdark Affinty, which allows a Ranger to use many 'wild area' class Feats equally well deep underground - expect there's no overt sign that most of them work, & Camouflage doesn't work underground at any point.

- also for Cavestalker: no apparent sign any of the notable Feats are working: ie: Hide of Stone - no character sheet stats ever change - kinda just run around hoping i'm tougher.

thx

[Druchii]

Did you relog to apply the cavestalker PRC upon lvl up?

Hide of stone should bump your ac as you walk into Sshamath and out again. Easy way to test is use the portal to the Passage.

Same should apply to your stealth and listen scores.

I can't cast spells on my cavestalker so cannot comment about the other stuff.

[Medoe]

thx, not sure i relogged at lvl-up...but have never seen a stat change on char sheet, so likely not...

at least HIPS is working...tho Camouflage & Hide of Stone wld also be invaluable

so some Feats are working & others apparently not

[KOPOJIbPAKOB]

Hide of Stone is a passsive persistent natural AC bonus. It's permanently added to your ac and works all the time, not only in the caves. Other CS abilities, well, they're buggy, especially ranger set. For example, mixing Long strider and movespeed bonus from Woodland stride sometimes results in your character remaining ultra-fast until rest/reset after Long strider expires. Ranger's Camouflage works, it's just cranky and adds small movespeed bonus instead of actual full-speed stealth movement (and you've seen above what do those speed bonuses turn into). Feat selection is bugged as well and allows you to select feats such as CE / ICE which is a a minor exploit. There was also a weird bug when I got Vermin shape as a ranger, but I wasn't able to reproduce it.

Skill bonuses seem to work fine, though.

[Medoe]

thx

do get a noticeable 10% speed boost while stealthing underground...but thot that was a separate bonus...guess Camouflage sort of works

unless i missed the obvious, haven't seen Hide of Stone add anything...so i may have fumbled a re-log on lvl up

Cavestalker was worth a shot, but don't know if i'd build it again

[yyj]

Bumping this old thread to note that the Cavestalker abilities for Ranger are still bugged, mainly Camouflage.