Author Topic: How vital is darkstalker for anyone who wants to sneak in any capacity?  (Read 2006 times)

Offline Masakan

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and by capacity i mean regardless of whether they wanna do it primarily or secondary or in or out of combat.

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Re: How vital is darkstalker for anyone who wants to sneak in any capacity?
« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2016, 02:01:55 AM »
Yes.

You'll just waste your entire build if you don't if you're speccing for sneaking.

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Re: How vital is darkstalker for anyone who wants to sneak in any capacity?
« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2016, 02:06:58 AM »
Yes.

You'll just waste your entire build if you don't if you're speccing for sneaking.

So if i wanna sneak at all i need it ok good to know.

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Re: How vital is darkstalker for anyone who wants to sneak in any capacity?
« Reply #3 on: October 08, 2016, 03:05:13 AM »
Only if sneaking is your "thing".  If you just want to sneak around on occasion, just ranks in H/MS will probably suffice.  Most Blindsight/Blindsense/Tremorsense are in the 30'-120' range, so if you stay far away then you're fine.  You're only screwed if you want to do "combat scale" sneakery.
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Re: How vital is darkstalker for anyone who wants to sneak in any capacity?
« Reply #4 on: October 08, 2016, 09:50:04 PM »
It's a bit campaign dependent, honestly.  If you're primarily facing humanoids or giants, it's probably skippable.  Same if you are primarily facing creatures with Mindsight (mind flayers and aboleths).

In most cases though, you want it.  If you are facing any good variety of enemy types, you want it.
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