How Good Is Prowling?

Juz how good is prowling? Can someone like prowl and "disappear" during a battle if prowl is at master degree and how common will one archieve the desired result? I am playing a fighter/thief/mage right now. I am wondering if I could prowl at the end of my pharse in a turn-base combat and forced the enemy to skip its turn for it cannot find me?

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<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: KaMiKaZe on 2001-12-28 10:48 ]</font>

 

Prowling is good with backstab. If a target doesnt know you're there, you will deal more damage in backstab. Same for pickpocket. If your opponent doesnt know ur there, you'll have an increased chance of suscess for pickpocket. Also, prowling can get you pass monsters, and people undetected.

 

There is a particular thieve's quest in Caladon where prowling is necessary too; but I have yet to train it up. Perhaps on my next character.:smile:

 

also there is the quest of obtainig some perfect ruby (or something like that)
and you can get pass the monsters(that appear if youmake noise)only with [m]mastery[/m] in prowling!
but I perfer to fight!

 

IMHO, Prowling is one of several worthless skills in this game. Don't waste CP's on it.

 

I am now have a master in prowl and I use it in combat with backstab and it is a very good skill esp in turn-base mode. Enemy can't attack u at all if you run to the back of them. That is much better then adding cps into dodge and invisablity. Plus it does not cost fatigue anyway allowing you to mantain other spells. Try it. Thanx anyway guys!

 

If it were useless the guys at Troika wont add it into the game. IT HAS A USE DAMNIT ARE YOU A NEWBIE OR SOMETHING? Opps. Sorry I freaked out.

 

The only way prowl is useful is if you have no followers. Otherwise you're forever telling them to wait so you can sneak up on someone.
You spend all that time maneuvering when you could more easily have run straight up to an enemy and bashed his head in.

 

That's the way you cute little fur ball! Claw their eyes out until they BLEED!! Make 'em pay bounce on their heads!! Give 'em hell! What's invisable and smells like carrots? Bunny Farts! make 'em smell 'em you rule Fluffy! :bunny:

 

The ruby quest is much easier solved by triggering the deamons and killing them. Less hassle, more experience points.

 

Prowling is very useful. I have a thief with no followers (who needs them with a thief anyways) who uses a firearm with prowling mastery. I prowl and just shoot at will while my enemies just stand there. They don't even bother trying to run as I would if something was shooting at me and I couldn't see it. Yeah it does take a while before you go and get prowling mastery but have followers until then if you must. Prowling is not at all a useless skill. It is most fun to pick locks while standing right next to guards and them not noticing. Yeah this path may not be as easy as a magic user but magic users are too easy in this game.